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Anonymous wrote:You're right OP. I'm tired of hearing about yoga and Aryuvedic secrets from India. Is there scientific research to show that people in India lead long healthy lives?

DW is a cardiologist and always comments on how many Indian patients she has. Their diet is too heavy on cream fat I think.

Actually, people from the Indian subcontinent have a high genetic pre-disposition for atherosclerosis, completely independent of their diet. The North Indian diet does include a lot of carbs and heavy dairy, but that is only one part of India. South Indian food is completely different.

Of course, if your DW is a cardiologist who treats a large population of ethnic Indians, she probably already knows this.

Anonymous wrote:ethnonationism leaks into the diet forum

+1 Seriously. Who uses the terms "first world and third world" anymore except for the alt-right?

Anonymous wrote:ethnonationism leaks into the diet forum

This feels like it's it's the same racist OP who posted constantly in the real estate forum asking whether she should rent to Indians because it would make the house smell like curry. It would start innocuously and then end up with calling Indians fat and lazy and smelly.

I have no idea what you are talking about. If anything US and Western eating habits are ruining the health of third world countries. There are even documentaries about it. We are sharing the spread of obesity ever so generously!

Nor has anybody told me to eat Eastern/ African/ South American or any single way. If you are referring to intermittent fasting, it is not about any Eastern culture, it is about going back to when people didn't snack all day long, in any country. Also lent is a real thing for many people in Europe, and not I'l give up chocolate or booze lent. I grew up in Europe, and at 7am had an open faced sandwich, nothing till around 1:30pm when I came home and had a nice lunch, and then small dinner around 6 or 7 pm, yogurt or another open faced sandwich. You do you, but don't make up trends that are not there. I've watched just about any Netflix food documentary and nobody is shoving any Eastern rice eating habits down anybody's throat.

ethnonationism leaks into the diet forum

there are more than a billion people in India--lots of different cities, income levels, religions, climates, etc. There is not one particular "Indian diet." Your DW probably isn't a cardiologist in India, and therefore she sees people who have access to western food and the money to buy expensive/fatty ingredients.

to the OP, eat all the ribs you want. But don't assume that "Westerners" all, or always, ate like that. Meat is expensive and hard to produce. Even in Western Europe and North America, historically, most people couldn't afford to eat a lot of it. From an environmental perspective, the world can't handle everyone having meat at every meal, either. But eat what you like.