Synopsis
Investigating the obesity epidemic engulfing India's growing middle class. Anita Rani travels to Mumbai to meet some of India's overweight teenagers.
- Programme: This World
- Episode: India's Supersize Kids
- Channel: BBC News
- Broadcast year: 2013
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