In a small town in Punjab, India – doctors are concerned about an eight-month-old weighing about 17 kilo grams.
“She was born a normal child and only started gaining weight at the age of four months,” said Reena.
Apprehensive about her sudden increase in weight that was causing health problems including breathing and sleep troubles, Chahat’s parents reached out for medical help but were disappointed when the doctors could not manage to take out blood sample for tests due to heavy mass surrounding her veins.
“She gets hungrier than other children her age and demands milk and food often,” he said.
Her physician since birth, Dr Vasudev Sharma said “her weight is increasing excessively and it has to be controlled. She has to eat less. She eats like a 10-year-old kid.”
Another local study by Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research and Punjab government hospitals found 40 per cent of the entire of Punjab to be obese or over-weight.
