After seeing the obese girl in the doctor’s waiting room, Mr. Verma couldn’t shake his concern about junk food. First the couple approached state officials about banning junk food in New Delhi schools — to no avail. PhotoIn early 2015, the food authority in the health ministry finally recommended regulations to the court, including some limitations on the sale of junk food around schools. Last year, at a meeting in New Delhi, that committee proposed taxing junk food, prohibiting advertising of it during children’s television shows and requiring consumer labeling of processed food. But he said taxing junk food and banning it around schools were long term goals.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2017 05:03 UTC