The man behind transforming Aamir Khan in Dangal, Dr Nikhil Dhurandhar, thinks obesity is a disease. Here's why

Dr Nikhil Dhurandhar is a physician and an obesity researcher in the US.

Currently, he is a professor and the chairman of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Texas Tech University.

He is also the man responsible for Aamir Khan’s physical transformation in the Bollywood biopic movie Dangal.

In this edition of The Medicine Box, Ekta Batra talks to Dhurandhar on his book Fat-Loss Diet and why he thinks obesity is a disease and talks about his key philosophies towards health, wellness and obesity.

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