Talking to husband about his all American diet

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Ashburn...an Indian Mecca. Over the years I've been invited to countless Diwali parties and to neighbors house for dinner cooked from scratch. I've always left so full of carbs and grease. If I ate that food in a daily basis, if have a man sized gut. I love the food, but But OMG, I don't need diabetes!

Except if you're going to parties and special dinners your hosts are serving you special occasion food. No one eats those things on a daily basis in any culture.

You missed it. In addition to Diwali, I go for a regular dinner as well. Same. Super greasy, very carb heavy, and all of the vegetables in a thick heavy sauce. This is not one Indian family, but quite a few.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried bread, but could not tolerate it on the regular and remain a size 6. All of the Indian women I know (with a few exceptions) have pot bellies.

How sad that they have you as a neighbor. They extend their hospitality to you and invite you into their home regularly to partake in meals and friendship yet you just complain about the food. Why do you keep going when they invite you?

Typical two faced white person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Ashburn...an Indian Mecca. Over the years I've been invited to countless Diwali parties and to neighbors house for dinner cooked from scratch. I've always left so full of carbs and grease. If I ate that food in a daily basis, if have a man sized gut. I love the food, but But OMG, I don't need diabetes!

Except if you're going to parties and special dinners your hosts are serving you special occasion food. No one eats those things on a daily basis in any culture.

You missed it. In addition to Diwali, I go for a regular dinner as well. Same. Super greasy, very carb heavy, and all of the vegetables in a thick heavy sauce. This is not one Indian family, but quite a few.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried bread, but could not tolerate it on the regular and remain a size 6. All of the Indian women I know (with a few exceptions) have pot bellies.

How sad that they have you as a neighbor. They extend their hospitality to you and invite you into their home regularly to partake in meals and friendship yet you just complain about the food. Why do you keep going when they invite you?

Typical two faced white person.

OP is Indian and insulting the country into which she was welcomed with sweeping generalizations about white men. If you can, well, dish it out, you have to take it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Ashburn...an Indian Mecca. Over the years I've been invited to countless Diwali parties and to neighbors house for dinner cooked from scratch. I've always left so full of carbs and grease. If I ate that food in a daily basis, if have a man sized gut. I love the food, but But OMG, I don't need diabetes!

Except if you're going to parties and special dinners your hosts are serving you special occasion food. No one eats those things on a daily basis in any culture.

You missed it. In addition to Diwali, I go for a regular dinner as well. Same. Super greasy, very carb heavy, and all of the vegetables in a thick heavy sauce. This is not one Indian family, but quite a few.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried bread, but could not tolerate it on the regular and remain a size 6. All of the Indian women I know (with a few exceptions) have pot bellies.

How sad that they have you as a neighbor. They extend their hospitality to you and invite you into their home regularly to partake in meals and friendship yet you just complain about the food. Why do you keep going when they invite you?

Typical two faced white person.

Cool it. Maybe the food is heavy and greasy. PP is just expressing an opinion on an anonymous board. Just because you are invited to someone’s house doesn’t mean you have to love everything they serve. You don’t have to all racist about it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm Indian too and you sound insufferable -- like the typical Indian who believes ALL Indian things are superior to ALL other cultures. Sure Indian food is theoretically healthy -- lots of vegetables. Now think about how much ghee the average household is dousing those vegetables in before cooking them to death; and I'm not talking the special desi party foods -- I'm talking regular Tues. night dinner.

And if Indian food is soooo superior, please explain to me the pot bellies that are so common in the culture. Have you been to a desi party and seen the bellies hanging out -- I mean it's super attractive to see a 40 yr old woman with a belly hanging over the sari, to say nothing of the men with guts. If Indian food is so superior, why is that an issue?

LOL. Most people in this country regardless of their ethnicity and race are obese.

Obesity is a growing problem in India, along with diabetes. Ironic, isn't it?

Or just go to Dubai or anywhere in the GCC that has a huge Indian expat population. Obesity left and right. Heavy men and women left and right. All of Indian heritage.

As a ethnic group they cannot stake any claims to being healthier or having a healthier diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Ashburn...an Indian Mecca. Over the years I've been invited to countless Diwali parties and to neighbors house for dinner cooked from scratch. I've always left so full of carbs and grease. If I ate that food in a daily basis, if have a man sized gut. I love the food, but But OMG, I don't need diabetes!

Except if you're going to parties and special dinners your hosts are serving you special occasion food. No one eats those things on a daily basis in any culture.

You missed it. In addition to Diwali, I go for a regular dinner as well. Same. Super greasy, very carb heavy, and all of the vegetables in a thick heavy sauce. This is not one Indian family, but quite a few.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried bread, but could not tolerate it on the regular and remain a size 6. All of the Indian women I know (with a few exceptions) have pot bellies.

How sad that they have you as a neighbor. They extend their hospitality to you and invite you into their home regularly to partake in meals and friendship yet you just complain about the food. Why do you keep going when they invite you?

Typical two faced white person.

I never said the food wasn't good. It is excellent. An Indian diet is simply not something I could eat on a daily basis and remain of normal weight. I see people posting on how incredibly healthy the food is and that had not been my experience.

Would you be happy if I lied?

[Anonymous]

I grew up eating a pretty typical middle American diet--which consisted of stuff like spaghetti and meat sauce, pot roasts, roasted chicken, grilled pork chops, Swiss steak, casseroles, etc. But we very rarely ate out, and there were vegetables with every meal. People just didn't eat out as much--there weren't fast casual places, just fast food and sit-down restaurants of various formality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Half Indian here. Indian food isn't necessarily healthiers. Lots of fried foods, and many of the curries are made with ghee (clarified butter). There are healthier options too.. just like there are healthier American food options.

Ghee is quite healthy. Indian food is quite healthy. No one eats cream-based curries at home every day. South Indian cuisine is probably one of the healthiest regional cuisines. Like any diet, it’s all in the preparation.

[Anonymous]

Indian food is theoretically pretty healthy -- lots of vegetables; lentils; spices that are good for you like ginger/garlic/turmeric. But the way MOST households cook makes it unhealthy. You cook the vegetables to death and cook all the nutrients right out of them and on top of that there's the ghee. Then there's the ghee for the fried breads -- when dry rotis would be just fine. To people saying ghee is so healthy -- it's butter. Sure it's a healthy fat for growing kids, but for 40 year olds??! You don't need tablespoon upon tablespoon of it in your diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half Indian here. Indian food isn't necessarily healthiers. Lots of fried foods, and many of the curries are made with ghee (clarified butter). There are healthier options too.. just like there are healthier American food options.

Ghee is quite healthy. Indian food is quite healthy. No one eats cream-based curries at home every day. South Indian cuisine is probably one of the healthiest regional cuisines. Like any diet, it’s all in the preparation.

Ghee is not healthy. Saturated fats are not healthy. Ghee can be eaten in moderation as part of a healthy diet.

[Anonymous]

You really cannot generalize. First, every cuisine has its healthy and not-so-healthy options. And every family interprets the cuisine differently. OP, American food can definitely be done with health in mind, you just have to find the way to do it so your DH likes it as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Ashburn...an Indian Mecca. Over the years I've been invited to countless Diwali parties and to neighbors house for dinner cooked from scratch. I've always left so full of carbs and grease. If I ate that food in a daily basis, if have a man sized gut. I love the food, but But OMG, I don't need diabetes!

Except if you're going to parties and special dinners your hosts are serving you special occasion food. No one eats those things on a daily basis in any culture.

You missed it. In addition to Diwali, I go for a regular dinner as well. Same. Super greasy, very carb heavy, and all of the vegetables in a thick heavy sauce. This is not one Indian family, but quite a few.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried bread, but could not tolerate it on the regular and remain a size 6. All of the Indian women I know (with a few exceptions) have pot bellies.

How sad that they have you as a neighbor. They extend their hospitality to you and invite you into their home regularly to partake in meals and friendship yet you just complain about the food. Why do you keep going when they invite you?

Typical two faced white person.

I never said the food wasn't good. It is excellent. An Indian diet is simply not something I could eat on a daily basis and remain of normal weight. I see people posting on how incredibly healthy the food is and that had not been my experience.

Would you be happy if I lied?

New poster here and I agree with you PP. Indian food is delicious but it’s not healthy. For some reason though most Indians i’ve met (I married an Indian American man so it’s quite a few) wax poetic about how healthy Indian food is and it’s superiority over American food. Home made Indian food is delicious but filled with vegetable oil or ghee and the vegetables are over cooked so as to lose most of the nutrients. It’s a shame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half Indian here. Indian food isn't necessarily healthiers. Lots of fried foods, and many of the curries are made with ghee (clarified butter). There are healthier options too.. just like there are healthier American food options.

Ghee is quite healthy. Indian food is quite healthy. No one eats cream-based curries at home every day. South Indian cuisine is probably one of the healthiest regional cuisines. Like any diet, it’s all in the preparation.

Ghee is not healthy. Saturated fats are not healthy. Ghee can be eaten in moderation as part of a healthy diet.

It is healthy. Ghee is not plain butter. It is purified butter, made by boiling the butter to obtain butterfat in its natural state. Ghee has been used in Auyervedic medicine for thousands of years and numerous studies have been done on the health benefits of ghee, namely that it reduces the risk of heart disease. It also lowers insulin resistance and has a ton of vitamins.

[Anonymous]

^Because I think they think, vegetarian = healthy. They don't seem to realize that when you over cook vegetables, nutrients are gone. When you make them swimming in vegetable oil or ghee, that is much worse for you than say cooking in 2 tsps. of olive oil. And just bc you eat vegetarian doesn't mean it is healthful. I know TONS of families that splurge often (like every weekend) on pakoras, samosas etc. -- bc in their minds, they eat little to no meat so they can splurge. Great except those things are 100% fried usually in cheap oil. I think it'd be better for you to have a portion of grilled, no oily lean meat than samosas weekly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Half Indian here. Indian food isn't necessarily healthiers. Lots of fried foods, and many of the curries are made with ghee (clarified butter). There are healthier options too.. just like there are healthier American food options.

Ghee is quite healthy. Indian food is quite healthy. No one eats cream-based curries at home every day. South Indian cuisine is probably one of the healthiest regional cuisines. Like any diet, it’s all in the preparation.

Ghee is not healthy. Saturated fats are not healthy. Ghee can be eaten in moderation as part of a healthy diet.

It is healthy. Ghee is not plain butter. It is purified butter, made by boiling the butter to obtain butterfat in its natural state. Ghee has been used in Auyervedic medicine for thousands of years and numerous studies have been done on the health benefits of ghee, namely that it reduces the risk of heart disease. It also lowers insulin resistance and has a ton of vitamins.

It is still derived from butter -- which no adult needs in great quantities. Sure I bet there are health benefits to minimal consumption of ghee. But there are families that cook EVERYTHING in ghee AND then POUR it on top of rotis etc. to make them soft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in Ashburn...an Indian Mecca. Over the years I've been invited to countless Diwali parties and to neighbors house for dinner cooked from scratch. I've always left so full of carbs and grease. If I ate that food in a daily basis, if have a man sized gut. I love the food, but But OMG, I don't need diabetes!

Except if you're going to parties and special dinners your hosts are serving you special occasion food. No one eats those things on a daily basis in any culture.

You missed it. In addition to Diwali, I go for a regular dinner as well. Same. Super greasy, very carb heavy, and all of the vegetables in a thick heavy sauce. This is not one Indian family, but quite a few.

Don't get me wrong, I love fried bread, but could not tolerate it on the regular and remain a size 6. All of the Indian women I know (with a few exceptions) have pot bellies.

How sad that they have you as a neighbor. They extend their hospitality to you and invite you into their home regularly to partake in meals and friendship yet you just complain about the food. Why do you keep going when they invite you?

Typical two faced white person.

I never said the food wasn't good. It is excellent. An Indian diet is simply not something I could eat on a daily basis and remain of normal weight. I see people posting on how incredibly healthy the food is and that had not been my experience.

Would you be happy if I lied?

New poster here and I agree with you PP. Indian food is delicious but it’s not healthy. For some reason though most Indians i’ve met (I married an Indian American man so it’s quite a few) wax poetic about how healthy Indian food is and it’s superiority over American food. Home made Indian food is delicious but filled with vegetable oil or ghee and the vegetables are over cooked so as to lose most of the nutrients. It’s a shame.

Bc a lot of them don't eat much American food and when they do eat it once a month or a few times a year, they are going out for quintessentially heavy foods like those at Olive Garden and then thinking -- hmm fried eggplant doused in cheese, our sabzis are soooo much healthier than this. Not realizing that no one eats eggplant parm at home daily.