Why Diabetes is on the rise in India: The biggest misconception about diabetes in India is that this disease is caused by eating sweets. The food items commonly eaten daily at home like roti, rice, thepla, upma, khakhra, etc. can also increase the risk of diabetes. Health coach Foodfarmer has recently informed in a post on his Instagram account that sweets have no role in increasing the risk of diabetes but the low protein and high carbohydrate food of Indians has a big role in it. Foodfarmer has said these things citing a research.

India is among the countries with the lowest protein intake per capita. Researchh by Professor Janet Ranganathan published in 2016 says that India is at the bottom in terms of how much protein is consumed by each person in the world in a day. According to this report, a person in the country consumes only 52 grams of protein per day. In this regard, India is also behind Africa. If we compare it with America, this figure goes up to 90. In Europe, the per capita consumption of protein is 86 grams, in China it is 80 grams and in Africa it is 58 grams every day. Now let's look at the figures of carbohydrates.

India is among the countries that consume the most carbohydrates

Our World in Data says that the percentage of carbohydrates in the Indian diet goes up to 68%. Surprisingly, in a country like America where obesity is a big problem, this figure is 46%.

What is the effect of a high carbohydrate and low protein diet on diabetes?

If we look at the ratio of carbohydrates and protein in the diet of the country, some very surprising figures emerge. According to Our World in Data, we eat 6 times more carbohydrates than protein. A report by the National Center for Biotechnology Information says that a major cause of diabetes in Indians is a high carbohydrate and low protein diet and the risk of diabetes can be reduced by improving the diet. The report also says that increasing protein in the diet of people suffering from diabetes can have very positive effects. If you want to reduce the risk of diabetes, then you should increase the amount of protein in your daily diet by 5 to 10 percent and reduce the amount of carbohydrates by the same amount i.e. 5 to 10 percent.