WHO predicts India will incur a loss of $236.6 bn by 2015 due to unhealthy lifestyle and faulty diet. Check out the girth curve YOU AREwhat you eat. I would say that's the long and the short of the rise in girth curve being seen in India. Here's why. World over, newer research is throwing up conclusive evidence that the alarming rise in chronic diseases is because of dietary indiscretion and physical inaction. Conversely, most of the treatments also revolve around how we change our eating habits and lifestyle. Now, this is a vicious pattern of cause and effect. But if you thought it's just about health and wellness, think again. Chronic diseases such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and respiratory infections, which are ailments of long duration and slow progression, will also severely affect people's earnings. In fact, India will incur an accumulated loss of $236.6 billion by 2015 on account of unhealthy lifestyles and faulty diet, according to the latest report jointly prepared by the World Health Organisation and the World Economic Forum. The income loss to Indians because of these diseases, which was $8.7 bn in 2005, is projected to rise to $54 bn in 2015. The report states that 60% of all deaths worldwide in 2005