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[quote=Anonymous]Grew up on Indian food and didn't care for it back then. We weren't a vegetarian family (just no pork), but I didn't like (and still don't like) Indian meat dishes. And I thought rice, daal, and a daily veggie were boring, esp when I knew my American friends were eating burgers and pasta nightly.

And yet with all the food news out there daily about this being bad for you or that being bad for you, part of me wants to go back to subsisting on rice, daal and a veggie. I'm told rice + lentils together form a complete protein (no idea if that's true, but I know daal has a lot of protein) and veggies obviously have known nutritional value. I feel like this is the formula that has worked for generations and back in the day aunts and grandmas were always giving random advice about putting x or y spice in your food bc it was good for your stomach or iron or whatever -- things like turmeric, cumin, etc. which Indian food is cooked with routinely. These aunts and grandmas had no medical training and often little science education at all, yet maybe there's something to this old world stuff . . . and I say this as an "eat in moderation" person who eats no pork (religious reasons), enjoys a good turkey sandwich 2x a month, and a burger maybe 3-4 times/yr. So it's not like I'm eating processed meats daily and freaking out about the latest WHO news, yet it seems like every day there is some report about how "modern" food is bad for you.[/quote]

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