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India is dodging the obesity trend?

India has one of the fastest growing rated of diabetes and obesity, as observed with economies where incomes are rising across the board. Not to mention Indian food being extremely unhealthy in general across the board (save for some vegetarian cuisines).

China is also seeing an uptick in obesity rates and diabetes, etc as more folks move from rice carbs to sugars, and from veggies to pork.



Indian food is not all heavy greasy curries though, I imagine the day to day cuisine is much healthier than Chicken Tikka Masala.


It's more about what is cheap and readily available. Most indian fast food (like their western counterparts) is pretty bad.


Have Indian relatives and can confirm that lots of the home cooked stuff is greasy too. Fried sugar jalebis anyone.


> Not to mention Indian food being extremely unhealthy in general across the board (save for some vegetarian cuisines)

So, except for the majority of it? A lot of Indians are strict vegetarians and even among the meat eaters, they still generally eat a lot of non-meat dishes.


"Some" vegetarian cuisines. What I had in mind was specifically South Indian Udupi vegetarian cuisine, which you'd find at Saravana Bhavans the world over. The vast majority of North Indian vegetarian cuisine is still unhealthy fried food, server with dollops of ghee.




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