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
Indonesia’s new front-of-pack nutrition labelling scheme has been welcomed by health advocates as a long-overdue measure to tackle excessive sugar, salt and fat intake. But experts said the labels were only a first step and would do little on their own to slow Indonesia’s growing burden of obesity, diabetes, hypertension and other diet-related diseases. A decree issued by the health ministry on April 14 requires ready-to-eat food and drink products to carry nutrition labels and health messages...