Battling the bulge: The overweight debate

From devising parameters to gauge your risk for metabolic disorders to identifying the virus that might be responsible for obesity, Dr Nikhil Dhurandhar, associate professor, Infections and Obesity Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Centre, Louisiana State University System, LA, has been in the forefront of the battle of the bulge. Here, Dr Dhurandhar, son of well-known weight-management guru Dr Vinod Dhurandhar, talks about the damage that obesity can inflict on the body and the need to look at the bigger picture, beyond the conventional BMI parameter to gauge metabolic disorders among Indians. Click here for full article.