Indian food is very popular. But there are many controversies that are attached to the Indian food name. Things like nutrition and food sustainability are a real, and big issue. Those two points make people have their judgment towards Indian food culture and the environment that the food has to endure. India’s nutrition is, to say the least, not amazing. India is known as the diabetes capital of the world, hitting an alarming mark of 69.9 million people by 2025 and a suspected 80 million by 2030. Also about 20 percent of India’s children under 5 suffer from wasting due to undernutrition and India accounts for every 3 out of 10 stunted children in the world. India’s diet is very odd because most of their country is vegetarian, due to religious beliefs, and in general aren’t the healthiest with having legumes, salt, sugar-sweetened beverages, and trans fats being some of their highest types of food consumed and things like omega-3, red and processed meats being the lowest consumed. Their country is very controversial in the way they eat, one reason being, is that they let their religion dictate what they consume. They are mainly vegetarian because of this and there are many people who do not agree with being religious or being vegetarian. Another reason is because of their bad nutrition and how it has affected their people badly. The environment that India’s food has to endure is very poor. Their environment causes them to have very bad sustainability with their food. The environmental issues in India, that affect the food is their growing water scarcity, with their water dealing with lack of government planning, industrial waste and human waste. The country also has to survive with land and soil degradation which is caused by land shortage, poverty and population. Due to these issues India has a problem with feeding their population in a sustainable way. These issues, of course, make India a controversial place because their government isn’t doing the most to fix these problems and it wouldn’t be this bad if they worked on these issues earlier but now they are dealing with the consequences. India is a very controversial place. From their nutrition to their food sustainability India has some big problems. These issues make people judge their food and culture without really looking into it properly and understanding what is actually happening. Sources:
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