It's one thing to just copy wholesale what another culture is doing, and another thing entirely to recognize that another culture fills in certain gaps on what could improve fulfillment and enjoyment in your own life.

For westerners following a vegan diet, there is a strong culinary benefit from learning from other cultures' vegetarian and vegan dishes, for a reset away from most western cultures' meat-forward approach to food and dining.

So pointing out poor health outcomes of a particular group of people doesn't actually disprove that bringing in their cuisine will improve the overall diet of the person who made this post.

That's what you get for being the origin of sugar.

But so long as you go low on dessert, most Indian food is quite healthy.

Our sweets are just too good for even us to resist.

"Genetic and phenotypic (environmental factors) differences also contribute to a country's having a higher diabetes population than other countries. But this becomes all the more relevant in countries in South Asia, where these factors are also accompanied by weight gain due to childhood nutrition choices and foetal development."

"The report also pitches for increasing the financial accessibility of people towards buying healthy food like fruits and vegetables. This is important for countries like India, because the last ‘State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World’ report said that as many as half of Indians (55%) are not able to afford a healthy diet."

FYI posting a source without reading it makes you look like a dumbass