How the food we eat is contributing to our ‘lifestyle diseases’ epidemic
In India, we like to think of our food as healthy, especially compared to all those Western barbarians with their highly processed, empty-calories fast food. So how come we’re the world’s diabetes capital, with at least 50.8 million sufferers? And the way things are going, we could soon add heart disease to our “credentials.”
Photograph: Alok Brahmbhatt; courtesy: 022 at Trident(This story appears in the 10 September, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)