Secondly, according to the data published by The Lancet, the obesity rate in India is only 5%, which is only 3.4% higher than that in Japan among OECD countries, and it is one of the countries with the lowest obesity rate in the world. On the contrary, 46% of India's population is malnourished, and its height and weight are below normal.
Of course, due to India's large population base, even if the proportion is very low, India's obese population still exceeds 70 million, ranking among the best in the world.
Indians are surprisingly vegetarian. Many people know that Indians don't eat beef because of the influence of Hinduism. At the same time, it is rarely heard that Indians eat mutton or pork. In fact, Indians seldom eat meat. At present, the vegan population in India accounts for more than 40% of the total population. If you add people who are often vegetarian and rarely eat meat, the proportion can be close to 75%, which is quite amazing.
Muslims, who account for only about 0/5% of India's total population/kloc-,often eat mutton, while most Indians hardly eat mutton, pork and other international mainstream meats, and at the same time do not eat beef. In India, people mainly get animal protein from chicken, fish and other aquatic products.
In traditional Hindu culture, eating meat is considered unclean and will bring retribution. Under the caste system, the higher the caste or the higher the status, the more vegans there are, while the lower caste groups don't eat meat often. First, because they can't afford to eat meat, and second, because Indians believe that eating meat will bring crime and lead to reincarnation as animals in the afterlife, the low-caste groups in India tend to be vegetarian and hope to pray for a blessing.
Almost all large and small cities in India have completely vegetarian restaurants, and even the residential areas of Indian cities are separated. In India, vegetarianism is not only a habit, a continuation of cultural tradition, but also a symbol of status and identity. The rich in India believe that vegetarianism symbolizes health and nobility, while the poor in India believe that vegetarianism can accumulate blessings and good luck for the next life.
Generally speaking, most people in India do not have enough to eat. In recent years, India has surpassed Thailand and Vietnam, the traditional rice exporters, and has become the largest rice exporter in the world. However, it is puzzling that while India exports rice on a large scale, the domestic hunger situation is getting heavier and heavier.
Because most of India's land is privately owned, the vast majority of Indian farmers work hard but can't fully own the food produced for disposal. The right to dispose of food is in the hands of a few high-caste groups who own land. In addition, the food price in India is far lower than the international food price, so the high-caste people who own most of the land naturally choose to export food.
Most of the income of Indian farmers comes from land, or even the only source of income, and they can only exchange limited food for necessary means of subsistence and production. In this way, the amount of food in their hands will be relatively reduced. In desperation, many Indian farmers can only tighten their belts.
Because of this, the real situation in India is that a considerable number of people are hungry and malnourished. According to incomplete statistics, more than half of India's children under the age of five and women of childbearing age are anaemic, and more than half of India's young and middle-aged population aged 65,438+06 to 35 are underweight and malnourished. It can be said that most people in India are not fat, but in the opposite state.
What is really fat in India is the rich and the soldiers. Due to the huge difference in living conditions, the poor, who account for the majority of India's population, are hungry, but many rich people in India are overnourished, and the main obese people in India also come from the rich group.
Although the rich in India are mostly high-caste vegetarians, their living conditions are superior, and their intake of oil, milk protein and sugar is very high, which are all high-calorie foods that are easy to gain weight.
In addition to the rich, Indian soldiers, especially non-commissioned officers with certain positions, are relatively fat. Although India's financial resources are quite short of money, it has spared no effort in purchasing equipment and building military strength. The diet conditions of Indian soldiers are far better than those of ordinary Indians, and the obesity rate of Indian troops is high due to insufficient training.
Vanity, India's poor gain weight. Generally speaking, the main factors affecting obesity are not the food itself, but the diet structure and whether it is overeating or not. In India, being fat or not is regarded as the most intuitive standard to reflect the level of living standards, while some poor people in India have taken many strange measures to make themselves look "richer".
For example, some poor people in India often drink butter directly, which really makes people gain weight quickly in a short time. Although Indians seldom eat meat, their milk consumption is among the best in Asia.
In addition, in some places, in order to ensure enough calories, Indians often contain more fried food and a lot of sugar in their diet. Excessive intake of these foods will make people in an alternative obesity state in the short term, especially in the abdomen, which is why many Indians are thin in other places, but they have quite big bellies.
We found from media reports that there are indeed many obese people in the Indian army.
There are indeed many fat people in the Indian army. This 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:
The first is the military service system. India has a conscription system and years of service: soldiers 17 years, non-commissioned officers 2 1 to 28 years, and junior non-commissioned officers (naval and air force warrant officers) 26 to 33 years.
Secondly, due to religious taboos, India usually does not eat beef and pork, so they are mainly vegetarians. They mainly eat curry rice, pancakes, mixed soups and many carbohydrates. In addition, although Indian military spending accounts for a large proportion, Indian military spending is mainly used to buy weapons from developed countries, and soldiers are rarely used in fact. The country is poor and the military expenditure is low. At present, India's per capita GDP is only $65,438 +0.983, ranking 1.39 in the world. Indians like to eat curry, and Hindus also advocate vegetarianism and eat more rice. Conditional Indians like to drink carbonated drinks after meals. Therefore, under the combined effect of these factors, Indians are prone to edema.
Indian descent is very complex, but many people have higher white descent, and this race is more likely to gain weight in middle age. The obesity rate of white people in Europe and America is very high, but in fact, ordinary Indian soldiers are relatively healthy and strong.
India is a big country in the world, with 6.5438+0.3 million soldiers, including 6.5438+0.65438+0.3 million army, 6.5438+0.2 million air force and more than 50,000 navy. Obesity accounts for the majority of soldiers.
Indian soldiers are restricted by the religious belief system. They don't eat pork and beef. They eat bread, curry, rice and mixed soup three times a day. If they eat pure pasta, they tend to get fat.
In this case, it is easy to overeat, especially if you eat too late at night, it is easy to make your stomach bigger. In those years when I was dealing with Indians, I ate a lot of Indian food and formed that irregular habit. According to India's own data, more than one-third of the Indian army suffers from obesity-related complications to varying degrees. It can be said that this ratio is very high.
India is a religious country, mainly including Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Hindus regard cows as gods.
According to common sense, people who eat meat tend to get fat. Indians neither eat beef nor pork. Why do they get fat?
Indian army mainly uses curry soup and noodles. There are also many sugars and carbohydrates, which are easy to make people fat.
Because the Indian army has less meat, it mainly eats high-protein food to make up for the lack of meat.
Indian soldiers gain weight not because of abundant food, but because of insufficient nutrition.
Although India's annual military expenditure is about $765,438 +0 1 100 million, India and the army have10.2 million active servicemen. In addition, a considerable part of India's money will be used to buy military equipment, while little money will be spent on Indian officers and men. There is still a lot of corruption in the army, and soldiers can only eat a lot of carbohydrates, not meat. There is a high proportion of obesity among Indian officers.
There are many reasons for the fat people in the Indian army, especially the high proportion of officers. Indian officers are usually held by high castes. These people have the privilege of eating well and not exercising.
India's military service system is also the main cause of obesity. Their nationals take military service as their occupation. The service period of ordinary soldiers is 17 years, and the service period of officers can be longer, and the service life can reach 50 or 60 years.
However, the measures taken by the Indian military have had little effect. The main cause of death of Indian soldiers is heart disease, followed by suicide.
Many people may think that the food of the Indian army is very good, but this is not the case. In India, officers and men can't eat together. It is a shame for Indian officers and men to eat together.
Those who think Indian soldiers eat well are really wrong, but Indian officers do eat too much, because they can cook for themselves and deduct soldiers' wages.
Fundamentally speaking, India is highly dependent on western advanced science and technology and pays little attention to the cultivation of soldiers' morale. Most Indian troops are vegetarian, mainly curry rice and some fried noodles. Although these foods actually sound simple, they contain a lot of carbohydrates.
In addition to diet, the Indian army still lacks training. If you look closely, you will find that the more veterans and officers in India, the fatter they are, the more serious they are.
First, there is too much grease.
Second, the issue of race.
Third, rich people don't exercise.
Fourth, India is mainly thin. But it belongs to a tall man.
First of all, because they don't eat meat, Indians must consume a lot of carbohydrates to supplement their body energy.
Some Indian colleagues. Although they don't eat meat, they seldom eat vegetables.
Excess carbohydrates will be converted into glycogen, which in turn will be converted into fat, which is the root cause of their obesity.
It's strange to eat something high in sugar, oil and calories every day without getting fat!
Indians like tea more than China, but they don't drink pure tea. They drink milk tea with half a cup of sugar. It was really scary. The Indian colleagues in our unit are three men and two women. The company provides him with four meals a day: breakfast, morning tea, Chinese food and afternoon tea. What they drink most is milk tea with half a cup of sugar. Indians eat irregularly. The time for three meals a day is too casual. Unlike our relatively fixed time, Indians usually have lunch at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and then dinner time is usually delayed until ten o'clock in the evening.
One reason why Indian soldiers are obese is the lack of military training. If you have 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 realized that obese soldiers were not conducive to combat effectiveness. It has also taken some coercive measures. Physical assessment is conducted once a year. The Indian army provides the most fried food every day. Vegetables and meat dishes will be fried in the pot. This will make soldiers feel full and eat less food. India has a recruitment system. The service period of ordinary soldiers is 17 years, and the service period of chief officers is 2 1 to 28 years.
Most ordinary soldiers can still maintain a relatively good physical condition after effective training, but once they lack effective training and have an unhealthy diet at ordinary times, it is difficult to consider not getting fat.
Especially the non-commissioned officers in the Indian army. When they are ordinary soldiers, they can still maintain their posture through training, but once they become non-commissioned officers, the training basically disappears.
In a word, the obesity of Indian soldiers is caused by unreasonable diet structure on the one hand and insufficient military training on the other. The first cause of death of Indian soldiers is heart disease, and the second cause of death is suicide. It is said that most soldiers suffering from heart disease are obese. Obesity is the main cause of death of Indian soldiers.
Who says Indians are vegetarians? Indians eat almost everything except beef, of course.
Fat people in India are pampered grassroots aristocrats. Poor surnames or ethnic groups cannot get this treatment.
What is the relationship between vegetarianism and obesity? It's not just meat that makes you fat. Eating high-carbohydrate foods such as rice and noodles will also make you fat.
For safety and convenience, China people in the company basically choose to rent a neighborhood near the company and mix with Indians. Therefore, I have the opportunity to observe the living conditions and lifestyles of some Indians.
This is one of the very high-end Indian communities. Whether buying a house or renting a house, the price is very high, so in fact, strictly speaking, what I have observed should be the life of Indians above the middle class in India.
This community is very big. More than 20 small high-rise elevator apartments, with a height of 14. Next to the elevator apartment is a two-story single-family villa. In addition to the doorman at the entrance of the community, there is also a doorman under each elevator. There are many gardens, lawns, volleyball, tennis courts, gyms and swimming pools between buildings, which can be maintained at any time. In fact, it feels similar to a large community in China.
The difference is that as long as people who live in it, whether buying a house or renting a house, use these facilities free of charge and do not need to pay extra.
We only need to pay the rent, water, electricity and gas, water in our community is free, and the property management fee is paid by the landlord himself.
It can be said that compared with China, the house bought with the same money is more comfortable in India than in China.
At first, what I was not used to was food. At first, I was curious about printing meals. A few restaurants, that's enough. Except curry or curry, they are all vegetarian restaurants, which often make me hungry and dislike food lovers in domestic friends circle. However, when I returned to China, I was criticized by my friends for gaining weight. Really wronged.
Well, I just drank too much Indian milk tea.
People in China are often asked by curious people: They are vegetarian every day, why do they still grow so fat?
Because sometimes the Indians in my photos, including those in Indian movies, are really fat.
Through the observation of Indian food and Indian snacks, I found that although Indians don't eat much meat, they especially like to drink milk, especially sweets and fried foods. The sweetness is amazing, and basically all snacks are fried.
There are also several Indians I know, both men and women, who all say that they like milk tea best. Morning tea and afternoon tea must be accompanied by all kinds of biscuits, plus morning, noon and evening, isn't it five meals a day? !
Moreover, the milk tea they drank was not made by scraping oil from the Chinese, but boiled in a large pot, which not only contained milk and sugar, but also added various spices such as ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and even saffron.
Here, the biggest difference between Indians and China people is the meal time.
We strictly follow China time in China, with breakfast around 7: 00, lunch 12 and dinner at 6: 00.
Indians are different. In the morning 10, the smell of milk with various spices will float out of the corridor of my floor. That's when Indians started drinking morning tea. At two o'clock in the afternoon, there will be the smell of flour, and pancakes will begin; After 9: 00 or 10: 00 pm, there will be fried garlic and onions, and curry will be made. It was dinner time in India.
So when we China people take a walk in the community after dinner at six or seven o'clock, we will see many Indians coming out for activities. Younger children are playing games and running on the lawn, older children are playing games together, and younger children are following like followers, about brothers and sisters.
Interestingly, there are differences between men and women here. Boys basically play with boys, ride bikes and play ball together, while girls basically play with girls, hide in a corner and dance, or sit together and whisper and draw a checkered hopscotch on the ground. Let's call it this, just like my carefree childhood.
I found that it's not like China. At this time, many adults are men, and their fathers are playing with their children. Unlike China, most of them are mothers or grandparents.
In the community, it is always China's family members who take care of their children. The mothers laughed at themselves and said, Yes, Indian men never have to work overtime, so they can never catch up with China.
At this time, many chairs were set up on the lawn. Old grandmothers and grandfathers, dressed in traditional saris, sat in the shade and began to sing and pray. After praying, they talked. I went over and pricked up my ears and couldn't understand what they said, so I had to tell my parents' stories and gossip.
There are almost no middle-aged women at this time, so it is estimated that everyone is preparing dinner at home. Because dinner is the most formal thing in their day.
Generally, after nine o'clock, the lawn will gradually become less crowded, so it's time to go home for dinner.
After supper, I went to bed.
Therefore, despite being vegetarians, Indians are fat for a reason.
Every morning, many people come in from outside to do housework, such as gardening, mowing, ironing, washing cars, walking dogs, taking care of children and cooking. ......
Rich people in India have a fine division of housework, and these things are done by different people. And the price is low, workers have to run several jobs a day to support themselves. Therefore, the community is quite lively in the morning.
Sometimes I really don't understand that all the work is done by servants, so what do Indians do by themselves?
Besides going to work, they probably just love sports. The smog in India is so serious that every morning, people wear masks, run around the garden, take a walk, and of course swim and exercise in the gym to save their lives. The most common is yoga. On summer mornings, some people practice yoga before seven o'clock.
When the weather is fine, I also get up early to run and see them sitting on the lawn with yoga mats. Some people sit on the high platform and teach everyone, and everyone practices with him. Some people practice by themselves in other corners, while others wait until the sun comes out and practice yoga in the sun. In short, practicing yoga is a common situation, just like our square dance.
The interior of our community is clean and tidy. There is a road outside the community. One step away is a street, full of dust, no green belts, no trees on the roadside. Several small trees outside the gate are also covered with dust. There are cows everywhere, sitting and lying freely. At first glance, they are two extremes. Sometimes I really don't understand this culture.
It is said that Indian real estate developers, unlike China, require the government to repair the surrounding environment before building a house. India must delimit another open space in the area selected by real estate developers and leave it to the poor to build houses.
The government's reputation is to facilitate the rich who live in the community in the future, and the poor will not go too far to serve the rich.
Sometimes the government will build some low-rent houses on these vacant lots, and sometimes they are empty, so the poor can build them themselves.
It is said that the real estate agent in our community took the vacant land for himself and was severely punished by the government. The consequence of the punishment is that the swimming pool is not allowed to be used by the rich after it is repaired and will not be opened until two years later.
Of course, one thing I still appreciate is the charity behavior of Indians in the community.
There is an empty room in a building in the community, where a room is specially set up for the workers working in the community, that is, the children of people such as security guards and florists, called the library.
After school at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the children are organized by women in the community to give them remedial classes. (There is also great competition in education in India, and children have a hard time studying. Children don't have to pay, and even the cost of going to school is paid by these women's families in the community.
Most of the rich people in the community are knowledgeable and well educated, including women. I know an Indian woman named Guita. Her children are all grown up, so she goes to give lessons to them every afternoon, just like going to work.
In addition, there is a free lunch at the entrance of the community every week, and the poor in the community or nearby can come to eat. Cooking and shopping, of course, is the community where Indians live. Every week, I sometimes meet it. It looks like nothing more than some curry sauce and some cakes, but the amount is relatively large. The people who come to eat line up, and the people who divide the dishes are very calm, neither supercilious nor arrogant.
About India, of course, it is inseparable from singing and dancing.
Strangely, India is actually very conservative and pays attention to etiquette. Most marriages are decided by adults, and they basically dare not disobey the elderly at home. I have seen very happy young people chatting with their companions in the community. Seeing an old man coming, I quickly climbed to the front, knelt down and kissed the old man's feet. I was dumbfounded by this rare behavior in broad daylight.
They also respect the old and love the young. For example, there are old, weak and sick seats in the subway.
India is also conservative in dress. You can show your waist and back, but you can't show your legs. Wear Indian autumn trousers no matter how hot it is.
There are too many festivals in India. Once there is a big festival, such as Diwali Festival, Red Light Festival or all kinds of unclear festivals, the community will decorate with lanterns and set up stalls to sell various snacks, and there will be light dances in the evening.
As soon as the music rang, the Indians changed completely and danced enthusiastically. At this time, the people of China have to stare.
At this point, this is the Indian in the real movie.
In fact, the hierarchy here is quite heavy. The elevator in the apartment is divided into master and servant, two big and two small, and divided into two sides.
To tell the truth, the attitude of Indians towards servants is much stricter than that of us in China.
In and out, the doorman downstairs greeted us, but the Indians basically ignored us, unlike us in China, who often replied with a smile or a promise.
Once I went downstairs, I saw the doorman who was very polite to me yelling at an Indian worker who was going to enter the main elevator. Although I don't know Hindi, I can see his expression and tell him to take the elevator on the other side.
I have only seen one side of the Indian community, but the description is only a record.
Domestic restaurants usually have a kind of food called "Indian flying cake". Whether it's authentic or not, it has a lot in common, and it's a bit explosive. This is a food with too many calories. But this is the favorite of Indians. Indians eat pancakes almost every day, and their pancakes are rarely accompanied by vegetables and eggs.
Eating a lot of meat is easy to get fat, but if you eat a lot of staple food and a relatively high-calorie vegetarian diet, you will also get fat. India has the highest proportion of vegetarians in the world. Of the population of over 654.38+35 million, 40% are totally vegetarians. If you add people who occasionally eat meat and are often vegetarian, the proportion may exceed 70%.
Although many Indians are vegetarians, they consume a lot of calories every day because they eat a lot. Vegetarians are mainly Hindus, accounting for 60 to 70% of the population. Many Hindus eat meat, but they just don't eat beef The rest of Muslims and Sikhs eat meat, but everyone has taboos.
India is a big country in South Asia. Apart from local territorial disputes and sporadic conflicts with neighboring countries, India has not carried out large-scale actions for a long time. In peacetime, their training is not very strong.
There are still many obese people in the Indian army, mainly because of two points. First, the diet structure of the Indian army is unreasonable, and second, the training volume of the Indian army is really insufficient.
If you look closely, there are more obese officers in the Indian army besides soldiers. This is because the diet of the Indian army is very unreasonable.
The Indian army's own training is not enough, and the military training system is not perfect, which makes many Indian soldiers and officers obese.
For a long time, India has been a headache to solve the problem of soldiers' obesity, but there is no real solution, because to solve this problem, it is necessary to completely improve the food and nutrition structure of soldiers.
Food differences between Indian soldiers and officers. The food of ordinary soldiers is controlled by nutrition. They are full, but they don't get fat easily. In addition, most of them are children from poor families. They are born thin and ordinary. As these officers are used to poverty and hunger, once their living conditions improve, they want to make up for their past regrets. They can eat whatever they want.
Although the Indian army is mainly vegetarian, there are too many fried foods with high calorie and sugar.
Indians have the strongest ability to eat sugar in the world, and Indian food is also fried with high sugar.