As someone who is perpetually 8-16 pounds overweight, and doesn’t really do anything about it, I read the NYTimes Big Fat Lie article with great interest. Thankfully, most (non-vegetarian) Indian diets, while carbohydrate-adequate (for the hot climate and the higher metabolic rate), are not fat/protein deficient. And processed flour (”maida” and friends), while more common than it used to be, is still looked at with disapproval by ‘traditional’ wisdom.