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.
RE:Do or DIET!
by Mohd Azad on Sep 03, 2004 09:59 AM Permalink
Murli, you have written very right. This has become the trend in India that whatever US people do is right and they want to imitate them in every aspect of life, be it food, cloth, even the culture and traditions. We'll have stop it and retain our own culture.
Re: RE:Do or DIET!
by sheila somera on Mar 01, 2009 10:10 PM Permalink
yeah. retain ur culture but imitate them to remove poverty, slums , and advance in scientific research. as doctors we r only following the west whether we obtain degrees fr there or study only in our universities. but in practice , instruments , materials we use we follow them.it's to comment on them but see most of our diets in villages are rice , dal , achars , chutneys.
