This really should be paired with the fact that Soouth Asians (indians) are 4x more likely to have a heart attack than any other population.
I am an indian and I did 2 nutrition startups.
Most South Indian food is unhealthy - heavy carbs laced with oils. Delicious but unhealthy.
A small part of North Indian food is healthy - roti, daals, veggies etc.
Wheat is not native to India and rice is considered a superior complex carb. Wheat has also been hybridized so many times while multiple varieties of ancient rice still exists in South India.
One of the words for ‘outsider’ in Sanskrit is Mleccha. It also means..’wheat eater’.
Rice growing countries like China, India, Japan and many Asian countries have a far healthier diet than countries with a wheat heavy(non vegetarian and hence grain heavy) cuisine.
North Indian - daal, roti, 1-2 vegetable sides, yogurt South Indian - sambar, idli (rice, urud daal), other urud daal based breads
Empirically we know something is wrong somewhere.