A government study has discovered that Punjab has the most obese women in India.

I, of course, had blogged about this more than four years ago, in what was the first instance of the phrase ‘two number aloo parathas’ making it to the web:

The average Punjabi believes that the full-fledged, genuine Punjabi peasant girl is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. In this matter I find myself in disagreement with the average Punjabi. The full-fledged, genuine Punjabi peasant girl, after a lifetime of tucking into “two numbers aloo paranthas” and very often even more for breakfast, is the possessor of several cubic metres of backside, and usually has more facial hair than the average Punjabi peasant boy.

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