Much of Western diet is pure garbage.Oh yes,US,Europe and Australia,haul in almost all the gold and silver in Olympics.The diet part of the story therein is very short.It would be futile to argue on those lines.What is very significant for every Indian to know is that nearly 36% of US and 30% of European populations are grossly overweight.Another 30% are borderline, tottering with fluctuating waistline.Thus the normal girth is possessed by a minority in these societies.That is the measure of success of the Human-Engineered Food industry of the West which has permanently changed the human anatomy by letting out the genie of corpulance!Do we want to replicate that?Then go ahead and follow their wonder diets.Coming to Indian diet, the truth is much has already changed, for the worst, in urban middle-class homes.We can see its effects already by visiting big corporate hospitals in all major cities.It is only the urban poor and rural middle-class and poor who still follow the traditional Indian regional diets.And they are relatively unaffected by the scourge of the elite obesity-sedentary lifestyle induced diseases.But India is sitting on a health time bomb much as the West.
