On: Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause

[darkwizard42]

Kind of depends on how you eat. I don't think daily food for North or South Indian is particularly unhealthy.

North Indian - daal, roti, 1-2 vegetable sides, yogurt South Indian - sambar, idli (rice, urud daal), other urud daal based breads

[renewiltord → darkwizard42]

Either it's portion sizes, diet, or genetics. Or something else. But so many population risk factors are higher for South Asians at comparable stages of their life (same age, BMI - adjusted down, etc) that it would be a mistake to assume based on first principles.

Empirically we know something is wrong somewhere.

[lotsofpulp → renewiltord]

It’s the diet, as always. Too many carbs, saturated fats, and sugars and overall too much food.

[vinni2 → darkwizard42]

What are the “other urud daal based breads”?

[darkwizard42 → vinni2]

Roti, paratha, bhatia come to mind. It is sometimes easy to think in South India urud daal is only used for idli / dosa but the south definitely consumes its fair share of other bread varieties

[vinni2 → darkwizard42]

Never heard of urud daal rotis or parathas. What are the other bread varieties that are made of urud dal that I as a South Indian never heard of?

[darkwizard42 → vinni2]

I just wrote them above. You can use various daal based flour for any breads.