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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up on Indian food and now treat it like dessert and eat it very infrequently. The amount of oil used is startling and my system just can't take it. I shudder to think what my arteries would look like today had I stayed on that diet. Like many other many of my relatives have diabetes and most all older Indian women I know carry an enormous amount of belly fat. I'm think the high carb diet causes much of that.

Glad to have a diet of an educated American now. Lots of vegetables, none of my food drowning in oil and lean meats. For carbs we do a lot of sold salads that are often half carb (such as quonia, orzo, and bulgur ) and half veggies. I do cook daal, but once again skip the oil and only use enough to saute onions. I look nothing like the Indian women in my family who still eat a traditional diet, no belly fat and most importantly no Insulin shots![/quote]

I am lucky - my mom's cooking was really healthy.  Olive oil, and not too much of it.  We ate white rice rarely, and instead had chapatti made with whole wheat atta. If I live to be 100 it's because my parents were poor and we lived on chapatti, dal, vegetables, and yogurt.  [/quote]

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