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Reasons causing obesity

OBESITY AS A PROBLEM AND DEMOGRAPHICS

Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in India in the 21st century, with morbid obesity affecting 5% of the country's population.

This is a list of the states of India ranked in order of percentage of people who are overweight or obese, based on data from the 2007 National Family Health Survey, converted to a graph.

India has the third-highest number of obese and overweight people (11 % of adolescents, and 20 % of all adults) after US and China, a recent study mapping global malnutrition trends has revealed.

The Malnutrition Mapping Project launched by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in partnership with Amway has also found that half of pregnant women and 74% of children under the age of five are anaemic.

According to the study, a total of 56 per 1000 children die before their 5th birthday, and 47.9 % of children under the age of five are stunted.