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Aurangabad: Experts from across the globe are attending the national conference on obesity in the city from Friday.The All India Association for Advancing Research in Obesity has organised the 13th National Obesity Conference in the city. “At the home, children must be encouraged to eat home-cooked and undertake physical activity. Therefore, stress must be given on proper lifestyle to prevent obesity.Donna Ryan, professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Louisiana USA, said obesity in India needs to be dealt with at multiple levels. Health issues like diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis with relation to obesity are being discussed.While speaking to the press, the specialists expressed concerns that Indians tend to develop central obesity or the abdominal obesity. This, they claimed, is detrimental to health and leads to heart diseases, diabetes and liver disorders..