Urban Indians Growing Fatter (AP via ABC News) (Also in The Seattle Times)

As India struggles to eliminate malnutrition among the rural poor, wealthy urbanites are packing on extra pounds due to sedentary lifestyles and the growing abundance of sugary, high-fat foods.

While city-dwellers account for only 5 percent of India's billion-plus population, they consume 40 percent of the country's fat intake.

Add the increasing popularity of PC games and all-day TV channels and Indians are getting fatter, younger. Playgrounds are hard to come by in the cities which makes the problem worse.

The government has signed on to a World Health Organization plan that promotes, among other strategies, healthier school lunches and standardized food labels. This is a good start but it can only go so far.