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. 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. 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. “At the home, children must be encouraged to eat home-cooked and undertake physical activity. At the school level, there should be a mandatory period for physical activity and at the government, schools should be asked to ensure that students allot one period for physical activity,” Ryan said.Ryan suggested that the Indian government should take steps to regulate junk food consumption in schools and educational institutes.The specialists said most people born before the 80s and 90s in India are developing central obesity by the age of 35 and then developing obesity-related health disorders by the time they turn 45. “The millennial generation would become centrally obese by the age of 25 years and correspondingly develop health issues at a much earlier age,” they said.Claudia Fox, associate professor at University of Minnesota, Lu Qi, epidemiology professor at Tulane University Louisiana, Rajaram Karne, practicing endocrinologist in Ohio, are the other international experts giving presentations at the conference.The event is affiliated with World Obesity Federation, International Conference on Diabetic and Cholesterol Metabolism 2018, Endocrine Society of India, Indian Medical Association, Physician Association of Aurangabad and Aurangabad Academy of Paediatrics. As part of the conference, a workshop on basics to clinical practice was held.

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