From children to adults, no one is safe: UNICEF reveals alarming spike in obesity across India, & the urgent steps needed to fight it

For years, India has battled undernutrition and stunting among its children. But experts now warn that the country faces a new and equally worrying crisis: obesity. According to UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Global Report 2025, obesity has, for the first time, overtaken underweight as the most common form of malnutrition worldwide among school-aged children and adolescents, and India is no exception.