India Launches Multi-Panel Exercise To Develop First Obesity Guidelines

Key facts

• India’s apex medical research body, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), constituted multiple panels to draft and design scientific guidelines for obesity.
• Work on the project began in September.
• The plan will focus on creating evidence-based prevention and treatment guidelines for Indians across different phases of life, from childhood and adolescence to young adulthood, midlife, and old age.
• The objective is to release at least one set of guidelines by mid-2026.
• A policy group, consisting of five joint secretaries from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, will be set up to convert the guideline draft into simple, easy-to-understand language for the Indian population.