| "> | | | | is predominantly meat based and has lesser emphasis |
| South Asian children and youngsters worldwide are | | | | on carbohydrates. They mostly prefer cooked hot |
| moving from an Indian diet to a predominantly western | | | | meals and like to prepare their own food. This means |
| format diet. These changes coupled with metabolic | | | | that an Indian Diet is not just a set of different |
| syndrome lead to the development of early diabetes | | | | ingredients but a different eating pattern altogether. |
| and cardiovascular diseases. | | | | Many westerners cannot follow an Indian diet because |
| South Asians have very different dietary habits. Their | | | | it is extremely spicy and full of pungent and strong |
| diets are rich in carbohydrates and many of them are | | | | flavors. Most Indian diets, if planned well, are healthy |
| vegetarians. A typical Indian diet consists of chapattis | | | | because they are high in fibres and provide a healthy |
| and rice in every meal and would mostly be eaten with | | | | mix of carbohydrates and proteins in every meal. |
| lentils or vegetables; in contrast to a western diet that | | | | |