India’s capital faces what public health professionals call the Double Burden of Malnutrition, a condition in which children over-consume calories that lack essential nutrients. Combined with the lack of physical activity, the addictive nature of junk food, and parents unaware of nutritional realities, this early undernutrition is a risk factor for obesity later in life. A report on Delhi’s obesity-without-nutrition problem that needs immediate attention
According to the DMO, the child was being treated for congenital heart disease and pneumonia.