Indian Academy of Diabetes

Obesity and related lifestyle disorders like diabetes hypertension cardiac ailments dyslipidemia and joint related problems are not on the high rise but have already escalated in alarming proportions leading to poor quality of life physically and mentally. India is already facing the burden of communicable diseases and now we are further burdened with non – communicable diseases which is taking a heavy toll on the economy of the country. AI AARO now a large multi disciplinary body with common aims objectives and emphasis on as to how we can evolve new strategies and modalities to bring life style modification in the right direction to handle this big task of Obesity . One of the aims of AI AARO is to avoid quackery. The news papers magazines are flooded with advertisements of weight loss fat loss slim clinics which can mislead the common man.