Bob Terwilliger > wrote:
>Heart disease and diabetes are rampant in India, both of which can be blamed
>on the Indian diet. It is *not* healthy. (Tasty, true, but not healthy.)

Every diet has the potential to be healthy or unhealthy depending on how much
of certain foods people eat. Not all Indians eat lots of fried food, ghee,
sweets, dairy or animal products. Some are vegans, while most do not prepare
meat at home in order to keep their living spaces "unpolluted". Most Indians
still subsist on staples such as rice and daal, hardly the catalysts for heart
disease or diabetes.

Orlando

Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:

> Every diet has the potential to be healthy or unhealthy depending on how much
> of certain foods people eat. Not all Indians eat lots of fried food, ghee,
> sweets, dairy or animal products. Some are vegans, while most do not prepare
> meat at home in order to keep their living spaces "unpolluted". Most Indians
> still subsist on staples such as rice and daal, hardly the catalysts for heart
> disease or diabetes.
>
> Orlando

Are you speaking from experience knowing Indians *in* India, or Indians
who live in the US?

Goomba > wrote:
>Are you speaking from experience knowing Indians *in* India, or Indians
>who live in the US?

Both. I've been around Indians for much of my life, given my musical passions.
I also spent ten months in India, studying Hindustani classical music on a
research grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Orlando