Anti Obesity Day

Anti-Obesity Day (AOD) is observed in various parts of the world on November 26, with several healthcare organizations and leading Media primarily in India and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries marking the day with activities to highlight how obesity is a public health hazard.

World Anti Obesity Day

In 2001, the Indian Wellness brand VLCC,^[1] founded by Mrs. Vandana Luthra, took the first step towards creating awareness about Obesity and its ill-effects through the creation of an anti-obesity initiative to address the global pandemic.

With the active involvement of the medical fraternity and other key stakeholders in all the countries where it has a presence, VLCC started observing November 26 as Anti-Obesity Day,^[2] as part of an annual campaign^[3] conducted in the months of November and December to promote the development of good lifestyle habits to stay healthy and fit.

VLCC’s anti-obesity campaign includes organizing health camps, mass counseling sessions, and talk-shows with health experts, besides extensive media interactions, and dissemination of special literature on obesity.^[4]

VLCC’s Anti-Obesity Day™ initiative has received wide coverage in the Media with articles on this appearing on this in several key mainstream and specialized media in India and the GCC countries, which include publications such as The Times of India, The Hindu,^[5] Muscat Daily^[6] etc.

In 2012, VLCC had tied up with the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP),^[7] to launch the nutrition availability imbalance awareness building initiative - the "Global Balance Program" - the public communication campaign which has been recognized as one of the best Corporate Social Responsibility awareness building campaigns in the world by the World Economic Forum (WEF).^[8]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO),^[9] Overweight and Obesity pose the fifth leading risk for global deaths.^[10] A person whose Body Mass Index (BMI) – the individual’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of his height in meters – is greater than or equal to 25 is Overweight. A person whose BMI is greater than or equal to 30 is considered Obese.

The WHO states that at least 2.8 million adults die every year on account of being overweight or obese. In addition, 44% of diabetes cases, 23% of ischaemic heart diseases and 7-41% of certain instances of cancer are attributable to overweight and obesity.

The WHO points out that the incidence of obesity worldwide has nearly doubled since 1980 and that 65% of the world’s population now lives in countries where more deaths are attributable to overweight and obesity than being underweight. In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults aged 20 and above were overweight. Of these, more than 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese. More than 40 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2011.

Some facts on world anti obesity day on Times of India^[11] & NDTV.^[12][13] Obesity must be allowed I have to support the obese; simply because @ If they will not eat much, where the food will go, to the hungers abdomen @ If the hungers are not remain, what will be the result, --No war/fight will be happen,

@ If the world be a planet without war, what will be the result,--people will be unemployed

@If the people will not any job what will be the effect—they will die without food @ If the starvation developed what will be the result, more books with famine will be written

1. No such Mr Amarta Sen will be born
2. All the people will start to fight within the country
3. All the human culture will be destroyed

So>> more you eat, more you gain weight (must taking the food of others), more you help the planet as remain as workfolk one.

Dr Ardhendu (www.wbhelth.gov.in) honoured with abbreviation “ cte “ in authors list of ‘Synthesis’ (Repertorium Homeopathicum Syntheticum) London UK ( www archibel.com ). He is a regular writer of Bengal and INDIAN Homoeo journals more particularly in The Homoeopathic Heritage Delhi ( Authors’ list Homoeopathic Heritage ; www Bjain.com). Some of his writings also published in The Homeopath U.K. (www.homeopathy-soh.org). He also worked as a regional editor of The Advent, Delhi, as an Examiner in ‘The Nagpoor University’.He had done a complete proving of Glycyrrhiza Glabra Linn with National and International recognization, thasnks from W.T. Hahnemann, Great Great Grand-Son of S.C.F. Hahnemann, founder of Homoeopathy. After passing D.M.S.(Council of Homoeopathic Medicine, West Bengal, under central Council of Homoeopathy- Delhi,1983), Ardhendu has done Doctorate of Homoeopathic Medicine ( H.M.D). in B.I.H. London(1997). Chosen as an one of the 88 number of research scholar of Homoeopathy including Hahnemann, Kent etc of the period of 200 (1810 – 2010) Years, also as an Reference author for VES by Dr Prof George Vithoulkas, International Academy Of Classical Homoeopathy, (www.vithoulkas.com).

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