Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi

New Delhi, Sep 30: A landmark national study has sounded alarm bells over the Indian diet, linking the country’s surging diabetes and obesity rates to excessively high carbohydrate and saturated fat intake, coupled with chronically low protein consumption.

The findings, published in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine, come from the Indian Council of Medical Research-India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) study — the largest nationwide nutritional survey of its kind — and highlight how deeply entrenched dietary patterns may be driving India's metabolic health crisis.

According to the research, a staggering 62% of daily calories consumed by Indians come from carbohydrates — one of the highest proportions in the world. Much of this carb intake comes from lo

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