Mumbai - a "heavy"weight place

World's getting fitter, Mumbai fatter - The Times of India: MUMBAI: Team Anna's relay hunger strike is an aberration if one takes stock of the obesity march in Mumbai. The average Mumbaikar loves the choicest fast food, ignores physical activity and seems cavalier about approaching the XL size, a characteristic of the richer nations, such as the US. Ask Vile Parle-based endocrinologist Dr Rama Vaidya about the obesity march and she offers an illustrative tale: "The height has to be the day I got three patients within a short span of time, each weighing over 100 kg.''

In addition to the Mumbaikars' penchant for putting on weight-National Family Health Surveys say city-bred Indians are three times more likely to be overweight than rural folk-there is also the particularly Indian problem of accumulating fat against muscle mass. This, doctors say, is a genetic propensity.