The country of so many fat bellies.

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Jai Guru Datta.

 

Indians, since time immemorial, been eating mountains of rice, chillies, curd...

everything. The genetic layout for people from that area is such that, the extra

fat is usually stored around the middle of the body, whereas it is all over the

body for Europeans and in different places for different people of different

ethnicity.

 

Indians remained the healthiest people, even in the times of the plagues of the

middleages, when half of the Europeans were wiped off.

 

There is nothing wrong in that food. and with the Indians.

It is all the 'cultures' that were 'forced' on the Indians' throat by all the

invaders, except the Greeks.

And it continues.

 

In the name of development, and to keep pace with the western world, because of

the western world's constant naggings and peer pressure to keep up with it, most

of the Indians  find no time for a workout/walk/exercise. And the time factor...

So, good old walking is out. I know of old timers who walked 10 miles to school,

places of work and many pilgrims who made it by foot, thousands of miles.

 

Indians were all hard working and most of them walked and the rest rode horses

most of the time.To work and to war.

 

But nowadays, the way of living is changed. But hard goes the habit of eating.

Easier comes the 'addition' of fast foods.

 

So, it was actually cheating/alluring by the bad things of the western cultures,

for which unsuspecting 'rice mountain eating' Indians fell prey. (And became

mountains themselves!)

(I must tell my own experience. I was eating 'mountains of rice' and all the

typically Indian cuisine. and maintained a flat one if not a 6 pack, till my

marriage. Of course I was hardworking physically too, at that time.)

 

I only hope that, our Lord's speech one day at the Mysore Ashram, given here in

text. It was about eating and exercising. Was that 2 - 3 years ago?

 

Ohm Aiym Hreem Shthreem Shivaraama Anagha Dattaaya Namaha!