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Stress is killing the state's tribals
Updated On: 11 December, 2011 01:13 AM IST | | Vinod Kumar Menon
Lifestyle diseases are no longer the preserve of white-collar corporates. The acutely poor tribals of Melghat, a hamlet 850 kilometres from Mumbai, are suffering from hypertension caused by anxiety over their one square meal it's neither enough, nor nutritious
Lifestyle diseases are no longer the preserve of white-collar corporates. The acutely poor tribals of Melghat, a hamlet 850 kilometres from Mumbai, are suffering from hypertension caused by anxiety over their one square meal it's neither enough, nor nutritious
While city slickers associate the term 'lifestyle disease' with white-collar affluence and an urban preoccupation with sedentary careers, 850 kilometres from Mumbai poverty-stricken tribals are discovering that their sorry lives are not immune to such diseases either.
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