4 ms·
Just so people understand this doesn’t mean that indian food is healthy. This really should be paired with the fact that Soouth Asians (indians) are 4x more li
by keeptrying 6y ago
Just so people understand this doesn’t mean that indian food is healthy.
This really should be paired with the fact that Soouth Asians (indians) are 4x more likely to have a heart attack than any other population.
I am an indian and I did 2 nutrition startups.
Most South Indian food is unhealthy - heavy carbs laced with oils. Delicious but unhealthy.
A small part of North Indian food is healthy - roti, daals, veggies etc.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- darkwizard42 6y agoKind of depends on how you eat. I don't think daily food for North or South Indian is particularly unhealthy. North Indian - daal, roti, 1-2 vegetable sides, yogurt South Indian - sambar, idli (rice, urud daal), other urud daal based breads
- renewiltord 6y agoEither it's portion sizes, diet, or genetics. Or something else. But so many population risk factors are higher for South Asians at comparable stages of their life (same age, BMI - adjusted down, etc) that it would be a mistake to assume based on first principles. Empirically we know something is wrong somewhere.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoIt’s the diet, as always. Too many carbs, saturated fats, and sugars and overall too much food.
- vinni2 6y agoWhat are the “other urud daal based breads”?
- darkwizard42 6y agoRoti, paratha, bhatia come to mind. It is sometimes easy to think in South India urud daal is only used for idli / dosa but the south definitely consumes its fair share of other bread varieties
- vinni2 6y agoNever heard of urud daal rotis or parathas. What are the other bread varieties that are made of urud dal that I as a South Indian never heard of?
- darkwizard42 6y agoI just wrote them above. You can use various daal based flour for any breads.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoDo you have any examples of unhealthy South Indian menus. Wheat is not native to India and rice is considered a superior complex carb. Wheat has also been hybridized so many times while multiple varieties of ancient rice still exists in South India. One of the words for ‘outsider’ in Sanskrit is Mleccha. It also means..’wheat eater’. Rice growing countries like China, India, Japan and many Asian countries have a far healthier diet than countries with a wheat heavy(non vegetarian and hence grain heavy) cuisine.
- bagacrap 6y agoSouth Asians are at a higher risk genetically. I don't think diet can be blamed because CVD rates are much higher even when you control for BMI and age, and are higher among those living in America (which skews them towards western dietary habits) compared to other ethnic groups in America.
- st1ck 6y agoWhat does make roti healthy? Do you mean the kind which is made from wholewheat unleavened flour? Even that doesn't qualify as "healthy" for me, although it's better (and tastier!) than most others kinds of bread.