The prevalence of obesity has been rising in India as well as in other countries (Balarajan & Villamor, 2009; Flegal, Carroll, Ogden, & John- son, 2002; Garg, Khan, Ansari, & Garg, 2010; Ogden et al., 2006; Wright & Aronne, 2012). In a systemic analysis of epidemiological studies from 199 countries, around 1.46 billion people worldwide were estimated to be overweight in 2008, and of these 502 million were obese (Finucane et al., 2011). Excess body weight is associated with adverse health outcomes on longevity, disability-free life years, quality of life, and productivity (Wang, McPherson, Marsh, Gortmaker, & Brown, 2011). Overweight and obesity has created an additional burden in correlation with several other diseases worldwide. The burden of obesity includes diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer, and osteoarthritis (Wang et al., 2011). For a country like India, Obesity has not yet become a priority on the policy front. India being the developing nation going through the dual burden of obesity on one side while the high under- nourishment on the other. According to the latest round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4, 2015–16), 20.7% percent women and 18.9 percent men are overweight or obese as compared to 12.6 percent women and 8.9 percent men in 2005–06 (NFHS-3) (IIPS, 2007; IIPS, 2016).
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