India is one of world’s most obese countries, but few Indians want GLP-1s

Bloomberg: One concern has been cultural resistance in a place where a bit of chubbiness has long been considered a positive. The Hindu god of wealth Kubera is depicted with a potbelly, a sign of his well-being and good fortune. Weight is “a marker of affluence, like you’re well fed in a country that historically had severe poverty, drought and malnutrition,” says Vandita Morarka, founder of One Future Collective, a nonprofit that studies fatness in urban India. “You are rich enough to have excess in terms of food.”…