First of all, Indians are indeed generally vegetarian, and the average level of meat consumption in the world is only higher than Bangladesh, so there is no necessary connection between being fat and being vegetarian.
Second, according to The Lancet published data, India's obesity rate is only 5%, in the OECD countries is only higher than the obesity rate of 3.4% of the Japanese, one of the world's lowest obesity rates, on the contrary, 46% of the population in India malnutrition! with height and weight below normal values.
Of course, because India's own population base is so large, even with a low percentage, it still has a fat population of more than 70 million, which is among the highest in the world.
Indians are vegetarian to the point of jaw-droppingMany people know that because of the influence of Hinduism, Indians do not eat beef, and at the same time also rarely heard of Indians eating lamb or pork, and in fact, Indians do eat very little meat. Currently, the proportion of pure vegetarians in India is more than 40% of the total population, and if you add in the number of regular vegetarians who eat very little meat, the proportion can be close to 75%, which is quite amazing.
Muslims, who make up only about half of India's population, eat lamb regularly, and most Indians, who don't eat beef, barely eat lamb, pork, and other international meats, and get their animal protein from chicken, fish, and other aquatic products.
In traditional Hindu culture, eating meat is considered unclean and will bring karma, under the caste system, the higher the caste or the higher the status of the more purely vegetarian, and the lower caste groups do not often eat meat, one because they can not afford to eat meat, and the second is because the Hindus believe that eating meat will bring sin, will lead to the next life can not be reincarnated into adults and reduced to animals, so India's low-caste groups will also often eat vegetarian, hoping to pray for blessings.
India's large and small cities, there are almost all completely vegetarian restaurants, and even the residential areas of Indian cities, pure vegetarian population and non-vegetarian population living area is also separate, In India, vegetarianism is not only a habit, a continuation of cultural traditions, but more of a status and identity symbols, the rich in India believe that vegetarianism symbolizes the health and nobility, and the Indian rich people think that vegetarianism symbolizes the health and nobility, and the Indian rich people think that vegetarianism symbolizes the health and nobility, and the Indian rich people think that vegetarianism symbolizes the health and nobility.
Overall, most people in India don't have enough to eatIn recent years, India has surpassed the traditional rice exporters Thailand and Vietnam, and has been the world's largest rice exporter for several consecutive years, but it's confusing to think that India is exporting rice on one side of the equation, and that hunger is getting worse on the other side of the equation.
Because most of India's land is privately owned, the vast majority of India's farmers work hard but can't fully own the disposal of food production, and the disposal of food in the hands of a small number of high-caste groups who own the land, coupled with the price of food in India is far lower than the international price of food, the high-caste who own the majority of the land naturally chose to export the food.
Indian farmers, the vast majority of the source of income from the land, or even the only source of economic, and they in exchange for the necessary life production materials, can only use a limited number of food exchanges, so that, then the number of food in the hands of the number will be relatively reduced by a lot of helpless, a lot of Indian farmers can only tighten their belts.
Because of this, the real situation in India is that a large part of the population is not enough to eat, malnutrition, in accordance with incomplete statistics, India's children under the age of five and women of childbearing age, more than half of them are anemic, India 16 to 35 years of age of the young adult population, there are more than half of the body weight and height development It can be argued that the majority of people in India are underweight and undernourished, rather than fat, and that the opposite is true.
India's real fat is the rich and soldiersDue to the huge difference in living conditions, most of India's population of poor people in the state of not enough to eat, but many of India's rich people have a lot of over-nutrition, and India's main obese people, but also from the rich groups.
While most of India's rich are high caste vegetarians, they live in a privileged environment with a high intake of fats, dairy proteins, and sugars, which are high-calorie foods that can easily lead to obesity.
In addition to the rich, India's soldiers, especially non-commissioned officers of a certain rank, are fatter. Although India's financial resources are stretched quite short of money, but in the purchase of equipment to build military strength in this regard India is spared no effort. India's soldiers group dietary conditions are far better than the average Indian, coupled with insufficient training and other reasons, the Indian army obesity rate is very high .
Vanity Fair, India's poor alternative fertilizationNormally, the main factors affecting fat and thin, and not the food itself, but the diet structure and whether overeating. In India, look fat or not fat is regarded as a response to the standard of living of the most intuitive standard, and some poor people in India, in order to make themselves look "better living conditions", so they have taken a lot of strange ways.
For example, some poor people in India will often drink butter directly, and doing so will indeed make the person in a short period of time to quickly gain weight, although the Indian people rarely eat meat, but the consumption of dairy is among the top level in Asia.
In addition, some parts of the Indian diet in order to ensure sufficient calories, often more fried food, and will add a lot of sugar, excessive intake of these foods will make people in a short period of time in a different kind of obesity, especially in the abdomen, which is why many Indians on the body of the rest of the body is very thin, but there is a pretty big belly.
We found out from media reports that there are indeed many obese people in the Indian army.
It is true that there are many fat people in the Indian Army. It is very common in the Indian Army. So, why are there so many fat people in the Indian Army? I think there are three reasons:
First, it is caused by the military service system. India has a recruitment system and years of service: 17 years for enlisted men, 21 to 28 years for sergeants, and 26 to 33 years for lower commissioned officers (warrant officers in the navy and air force).
Secondly, due to religious taboos, India does not usually eat beef and pork, so they are mainly vegetarians. They mainly eat curry and rice, pancakes, various mixed soups and many carbohydrates. In addition, despite spending a large percentage of its military expenditure, India spends mostly on buying weapons from developed countries and actually uses very few soldiers. The country is poor and military spending is low. Currently, India's GDP per capita is only $1,983, ranking it 139th in the world. Indians like to eat curry, and Hindus promote vegetarianism and eat more rice. Conditioned Indians like to drink carbonated beverages after eating, therefore, under the **** same effect of these factors, Indians are prone to swelling.
Indians are of complex ancestry, but many are of higher white ancestry, a race that is more prone to obesity in middle age. White Europeans and Americans have high rates of obesity, while in reality, the average Indian soldier is relatively healthy and strong.
India is a major country in the world with 1.3 million soldiers, of which 1.13 million are in the army, 120,000 in the air force and more than 50,000 in the navy. Obesity accounts for the majority of military personnel.
Indian soldiers are restricted by their religious belief system. They do not eat pork or beef. They eat three meals a day of bread, curry, rice and mixed soup, and they tend to get fat if they eat plain pasta.
In this case, it's easy to overeat, especially if you eat too late at night, and it's easy for your stomach to grow. In all those years of dealing with Indians, I ate a lot of Indian food and developed the kind of irregular habits that, according to India's own data, more than one-third of the Indian Army suffers from varying degrees of complications related to obesity. It's fair to say that's a high percentage.
India is a religious country, predominantly Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist. Hindus consider cows as gods
As per common sense, people who eat meat regularly get fat. Indians eat neither beef nor pork, so why do they get fat?
The Indian army mainly uses curry soups and noodles. There is also a lot of sugar and carbohydrates and they can easily make people fat.
Because the Indian Army has very little meat, it mainly consumes high protein foods to make up for the lack of meat.
The weight gain of Indian soldiers is not due to the abundance of food, but to the lack of nutrition.
Although India spends about $71.1 billion a year on its military, India and its army have 1.2 million active soldiers. Moreover, a significant portion of India's money is spent on military equipment and very little will be spent on Indian officers and soldiers. There is still a lot of corruption in the military and soldiers do not get to eat meat and have to eat a lot of carbohydrates. There is a high percentage of obesity among Indian officers.
There is a reason why there are so many fat people in the Indian army, especially a high percentage of officers. Officers in the Indian Army are usually high caste. These people are privileged, eat well and do not exercise.
India's military service system is also a major cause of obesity. Their nationals serve in the military as a career. An ordinary soldier serves for 17 years, an officer can serve longer and can serve up to 50 or 60 years of age.
But the measures taken by the Indian military have had little effect. The leading cause of death among Indian soldiers is heart disease, followed by suicide.
Many people may think that the food in the Indian army is good, but it is not. In India, officers and soldiers cannot eat together. It is a shame for Indian officers and soldiers to eat together.
Those who think that Indian soldiers eat well are indeed wrong, but Indian officers do eat too much because they can cook their own food and deduct the soldiers' pay.
Fundamentally, India is highly dependent on advanced Western science and technology, and does not pay much attention to the development of soldier morale. Most of the Indian army is predominantly vegetarian, consisting mainly of curry and rice and some fried noodles. Although these foods actually sound simple, they contain a lot of carbohydrates.
Apart from diet, the Indian army also lacks training. If you look closely, you will realize that the more veterans and officers there are in India, the fatter and worse they get.
First, too much fat.
Second, ethnicity.
Third, the rich don't exercise.
Fourth, India is predominantly skinny. But of big tall people.
First, because they don't eat meat, Indians must consume a lot of carbohydrates to replenish their bodies with energy
A few Indian colleagues. Although they do not eat meat, they rarely eat vegetables.
The excess carbohydrates will be converted into glycogen, which will be converted into fat, which is the root cause of their obesity.
It's strange not to get fat when you eat something high in sugar, oil and calories every day!
India loves tea more than the Chinese, but they don't drink pure tea. They drink milk tea with half a cup of sugar. It's really scary Our Indian colleagues in the unit are three men and two women. The company provides him with four meals a day: breakfast, morning tea, Chinese food and afternoon tea. They drink the most milk tea with half a cup of sugar. Indians do not eat regularly. The timing of the three meals a day is too arbitrary. Unlike our relatively fixed time, Indians usually eat lunch at three or four in the afternoon, and then dinner time is usually delayed until 10 pm.
One reason for the obesity of Indian soldiers is the lack of military training. If there is strict military training, no matter how much you eat, you will consume it and there will not be so many fat people. The Indian military also realizes that obese soldiers are not conducive to combat effectiveness. It has also taken some mandatory measures. Physical assessments are conducted once a year. The Indian Army serves maximum fried food on a daily basis. Both vegetable and meat dishes will be deep fried in a flat pan. This will make the soldiers feel full and eat less food. India has a recruitment system. The term of service for an ordinary soldier is 17 years and for a midshipman it is 21 to 28 years.
Most ordinary soldiers remain in relatively good physical condition when they are able to train effectively, but once the lack of effective training is combined with a generally unhealthy diet, it is difficult to consider not gaining weight.
This is especially true of non-commissioned officers in the Indian Army. When they are ordinary soldiers, they can still train to maintain their posture, but once they become non-commissioned officers, training largely disappears.
In short, the cause of obesity among Indian soldiers is the result of an irrational diet on the one hand, and inadequate military training on the other. The first cause of death of Indian soldiers is heart disease, the second cause of death is suicide. Most of the soldiers suffering from heart disease are said to be obese. Obesity is the main cause of death of Indian soldiers.
Who says Indians are vegetarians, Indians eat almost everything except beef, which of course they can eat.
India's big fat grassroots are pampered aristocrats. The poorer surnames or communities don't get this treatment.
What does vegetarianism have to do with being fat? It's not like eating meat is the only way to get fat. You can eat rice and noodles and other high-carbohydrate things will also be fat ah
For safety and convenience, the company's Chinese people basically all choose to rent a community near the company, and Indian people mixed together, and therefore, I have the opportunity to observe some of the Indian state of life and lifestyle.
This is one of the most upscale Indian neighborhoods, and whether you buy or rent, the price is very high, so, in fact, from a strict point of view, what I observed should be considered the life of the Indian middle class and above.
This community is very large, there are more than 20 small high-rise 14-story elevator apartments, elevator apartments next to the two-story single-family houses, in addition to the community gate guards, inside each elevator below there is also a doorman, there are many gardens between the buildings, lawns, and volleyball, tennis courts, gymnasiums, swimming pools, at any time there are people to maintain, in fact, the feeling is almost the same as a large community in China.
The difference is that as long as you live inside, whether you're a buyer or a renter, the use of these amenities is free and you don't have to pay extra.
We only need to pay for the rent of the house, electricity and gas, water is free in our neighborhood, and the property management fee is paid by the landlord himself.
We can say that we can live more comfortably in India than in China for the same amount of money.
Just come to the first burst, I am most unaccustomed to the diet, the beginning of curiosity about Indian food, went to a few restaurants after enough, in addition to curry or curry, and where all vegetarian restaurants, making me often hungry and consumptive, and the domestic circle of friends food enthusiasts to express resentment, but I went back to the country was actually criticized by my friends said that the fat, it is really wronged very much.
I've been drinking a lot of Indian milk tea.
I'm often asked by curious people: they eat vegetarian every day, how to grow so fat?
Because sometimes the Indian people in my photos, including Indian movies, really most of the fat.
Through the observation of Indian food and Indian snacks, I found that, although the Indian people do not eat much meat, but they especially love to drink milk, especially love to eat sweets and fried food, the sweetness is quite amazing, basically all the snacks are none of the fried.
And I know a few Indians, both men and women, all say they love to drink milk tea, morning and afternoon tea must drink, and with a variety of small cookies, coupled with breakfast and dinner, is not a day five?
And they drink milk tea is not our Chinese people scraping oil tea, is a big pot boiled out, which not only add milk, sugar, but also add ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, and even saffron and other spices.
The most different thing between Indians and Chinese here is meal time.
We Chinese follow the Chinese time strictly around 7am for breakfast, 12pm for lunch and 6pm for dinner.
Indians are different, at 10 am, my floor of the hallway will be added to a variety of spices of the milk aroma, that is the Indians began to drink morning tea; two o'clock in the afternoon there will be a flour paste incense, began to pancakes; nine or ten o'clock in the evening after the stir-fried garlic and onion aroma, began to do the curry, that's the dinner time of the Indians.
So, when we Chinese finish dinner at six or seven o'clock and go out for a walk in the neighborhood, we will see a lot of Indians also out of the activities, smaller children on the lawn, playgrounds, all kinds of games and crazy running, big children focused on doing the game together, and the smaller like a follower of the tail, about the younger siblings.
It is interesting to note that there is a difference between men and women here. Boys basically play with boys, ride bikes together, play ball, girls basically play with girls, hide in a corner and dance, or sit together and whisper, draw a grid on the ground hopscotch, let's call it that, like my carefree childhood.
I found that here, and China is not quite the same is that at this time, many adults are men, the father is playing with the children, unlike in China most of the mother or grandparents, grandparents with play.
And in the neighborhood, it's always the Chinese families with their own children, and the moms are self-deprecating, saying, "Yeah, Indian men never have to work overtime, so they'll never be able to catch up with China.
This time on the lawn, early people set up a lot of chairs, older grandmothers and grandfathers, wearing a traditional sari, sitting under the shade of the tree began a variety of chanting, a variety of prayers, prayers after chatting, I went over to the ears also do not understand what they say, have to be when they talk about the shortcomings of the parents and a variety of gossip, right?
This time basically do not see the middle-aged women, it is estimated that they are at home to prepare dinner. Because dinner is the most formal part of their day.
It's usually not until after 9pm that the lawn becomes less crowded and it's time to go home for dinner.
After dinner, it's bedtime.
So, despite being vegetarians, Indians are fat for a good reason.
Every morning, the neighborhood will come in from the outside many people, to each household to do housework, there are flower workers, repair lawn, ironing clothes, wipe the car, walk the dog, take the children, cooking ......
The division of labor in the homes of rich Indians is very fine, these things are done by separate people, and, at low prices, the workers run several jobs a day to feed themselves, so the neighborhood is quite lively in the morning.
Sometimes I really do not understand all the work is invited to the next person to finish, then the Indian people do what?
In addition to going to work, they probably love to exercise, India's haze is so serious, every morning, there are still people desperate, wearing a mask, running around the garden, walking, of course, there are also swimming, gym workout, the most common is yoga, in the summer morning, less than seven o'clock in the morning, there are people practicing yoga.
When the weather is good, I will also get up early to run, saw them take a yoga mat sitting on the lawn, there are people specifically sitting on a high platform to teach everyone, we follow him to practice, there are people in other corners of the world, their own practice, there are people have to wait until the sun comes out, bathing in the sunshine to practice yoga, in short, practicing yoga is just like our square dance is the general situation.
Our neighborhood is clean and tidy inside, outside the neighborhood is the road, a step away is dusty, no green belt, no street trees in the street, a few sparse small trees outside the gate is also dusty, cows everywhere, sitting and lying down freely, at a glance looks to be the two poles, and sometimes really do not understand such a culture.
It is said that the Indians real estate developers, unlike China, the government requires the repair of the house to fix the surrounding environment, India is required in the area selected by the real estate developers and then allocated a piece of vacant land, left to the poor to build houses.
The government's beautiful name is about to facilitate the future of the rich living in the neighborhood, the poor do not have to run too far to serve the rich.
The government sometimes builds some low-cost housing in these vacant lots, and sometimes it just leaves them empty, with the poor building their own.
It is said that the real estate developers in our neighborhood have used that empty land for themselves, and were fined severely by the government, and the consequence of the fine I heard was that the rich were not allowed to use the swimming pool after it was repaired, and it was opened only after two years.
One thing that is certainly appreciated is the charitable behavior of the Indians in the community.
One of the buildings in the neighborhood has a set of empty rooms, and there is a special room called the library for the children of the workers who work in the neighborhood, that is, the children of the security guards, the florists, and so on.
In the children's afternoon two or three o'clock after school time, organized by the women in the district, to give them extra tutoring and remedial homework, (Indian education is also very competitive, children study is also very hard) children do not have to pay, and even the cost of their schooling, are these women's families in the district to give them out of the money.
Most of the rich people in the neighborhood are knowledgeable and educated, including women. I know an Indian woman named Kita, whose own children have grown up and are adults, so she goes to her children's classes every afternoon as if she were working.
There is also the fact that every week, at the gate of the neighborhood, there is a free lunch that the poor people in the neighborhood or around the neighborhood can come and eat. Cooking, picking and buying of course are living in the neighborhood Indian. Every week, I sometimes encountered, looking at nothing more than some curry paste and some cakes, but the amount is more, see the people who came to eat in a long line, the people who share the food, are calm and peaceful, not condescending and not condescending.
About India, of course, can not be separated from the song and dance.
Also strange, India is actually very conservative, pay attention to etiquette, most of the marriage decided by adults, basically do not dare to disobey the old man at home, I have witnessed in the neighborhood had been dancing and companions chatting with young people, to see an old man over, hurriedly prostrate to the front, kneeling down and kissing the old man's feet, this daytime rarely seen behavior let me stunned.
They also respect the old and love the young, such as the subway also have the old and sick seat.
The Indian dress is also conservative, you can show waist leakage back is not to show legs, the day again have to set the Indian version of the fall pants.
The Indian festivals are too many, once the big festivals, such as Diwali, Sahabat or a variety of festivals, the neighborhood will be decorated, set up stalls to sell a variety of snacks, the night will be a light ball.
Once the music is playing, the Indians are completely changed, jumping that called a free and enthusiastic, this time the Chinese, only dry eyes.
At this point, this is the real movie Indian.
In fact, the concept of hierarchy here is still quite heavy, the elevator in the apartment is divided into the master and the subordinate, two big and two small, on both sides.
Honestly, the attitude of Indians towards their subordinates is much harsher than that of the Chinese.
In and out, downstairs, the doorman and we greeted, the Indians basically when did not hear, unlike us Chinese often want to return a smile or promise.
Once downstairs, I saw with my own eyes, plain that see me very polite doorman, ready to enter the master elevator to an Indian worker scolded, although the Hindi I do not understand, but the expression to see out, told him to go to the other side of the elevator under the people.
Indian community, I also saw only one side, but the description, nothing more than a record.
Domestic restaurants usually have a food called "Indian pancakes". Whether they're made properly or not, they have a lot of **** in common, and a little bit of frying. It's a food with too many calories. But it's an Indian favorite. Indians eat pancakes almost every day, and they rarely pair their pancakes with vegetables and eggs.
It's easy to get fat eating a lot of meat, but you can also get fat if you eat a lot of staple foods and relatively high-calorie veggies. India has the highest percentage of vegetarians in the world. Of its population of over 1.35 billion, 40% are completely vegetarian. If you add in the population of occasional meat eaters who are regular vegetarians, the percentage could be more than 70%.
Although many Indians are vegetarians, they consume a lot of calories every day because they eat a lot. Vegetarians are mainly Hindus and make up about 60 to 70 percent of the population. Many Hindus eat meat, they just don't eat beef. The rest of the Muslims and Sikhs eat meat, but everyone has taboos.
India is a large country in South Asia. Apart from local territorial disputes and sporadic conflicts with its neighbors, India has long refrained from large-scale operations. In peacetime, they are not very well trained.
There are still a lot of obese people in the Indian army, mainly because of two things. One is the poor diet of the Indian army and the other is that the amount of training in the Indian army is really inadequate.
If you look closely, there are more obese officers in the Indian army other than soldiers. This is because the diet of the Indian Army is very irrational.
The Indian army itself is not trained enough and its military training system is not very good, which makes many Indian soldiers and officers obese.
For a long time, India has been having a headache to solve the problem of obesity among its soldiers, but there is no real way to do it, because to solve this problem, it is necessary to completely improve the food and nutritional structure of the soldiers.
Difference in food between soldiers and officers in India. The food of ordinary soldiers is controlled by nutrition. They are well-fed but not easily fattened. Moreover, most of them are children of poor families and they are naturally thin and average. Since these officers were used to poverty and starvation, they wanted to make up for the past once their living conditions improved. They can eat anything they want
Despite the fact that the Indian Army is predominantly vegetarian, there is an overabundance of deep-fried high-calorie and high-sugar foods
Indians' ability to eat sugar is among the most powerful in the world, and the Indian Army's food is also high in sugar and deep-fried.