India, Sept. 11 -- Indian fathers often spend years caring for everyone around them. They worry about their children's meals, their parents' medicines, household responsibilities and work commitments. At the same time, their own health quietly moves to the bottom of the list. The problem is rarely that they do not care about their health. More often, they have become used to ignoring their body's signals. People blame constant tiredness on work, consider acidity normal, overlook disturbed sleep, and accept increasing abdominal weight as a natural part of ageing.

One common dietary pattern is starting the day with only tea and biscuits, delaying breakfast, eating lunch hurriedly, and then having the largest meal late at night. "When the b...