Read the following passages and
answer the questions that follow :
By the time he was nine years old, Aftab Solanki
weighed 49 kilos, nearly twice the normal
weight for boys his age. His doting parents and
neighbours considered him “healthy”, often
describing or calling Aftab “cute”.
His sluggishness and increasing appetite, his
periodic breathlessness, occasional dizzy spells
and pain in the knees were all dismissed as
things that would disappear once he grew
up. “But as his weight kept increasing, we
became concerned and wanted to consult a
good doctor,” says Aftab’s father Mohammed
Ramzan Solanki.
Kids like Aftab are part of a fast-growing
national urban epidemic seen over the past few
decades. It’s an irony that despite there being
more undernourished children in India than
in any other country, we also have millions of
obese and overweight urban school children.
And experts say these obese children will
one day face severe medical consequences.
Compared to children of normal weight, obese
ones face several times the risk for developing
high blood pressure, respiratory complications,
Type-2 diabetes (the most common form of
disease), cardiovascular disease and cancer—
and, indeed, much reduced life-spans.
“The medical consequences of obesity are
seen at all ages, even among kids,” says
Dr. Vaman Khadilkar, consultant pediatric
endocrinologist at Jehangir Hospital, Pune.
“Our youngest Type-2 diabetic is six-year-old,
while a hypertensive patient is just eight. High
levels of cholesterol and triglycerides—both
of which increase the risk of cardiovascular
disease—are seen in children very frequently
nowadays, unlike in the past. And we routinely
see these high levels in obese children.”
A six-year-old Type-2 diabetic proves that
_______ at all ages.
A diabetes can attack
B diabetes can’t attack
C the medical consequences of obesity are seen
D None of these
How can the answer be B? I chose C but it's marking me as wrong.