{"id":111973,"date":"2025-11-01T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111973\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:47:07","slug":"indian-diet-problem-too-much-carbs-and-low-protein-vantage-with-palki-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/111973\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian diet problem too much carbs and low protein | Vantage with Palki Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step into any Indian kitchen at lunchtime and you will see plates full of rice, rotis, dal, vegetables and curd, but also an excess of carbohydrates. A large scale ICMR study of more than one lakh Indians shows that about 62 percent of daily calories come from carbs, while only a small portion comes from protein. This imbalance is contributing to growing health issues, including diabetes and obesity. With more than 100 million people suffering from diabetes, India is facing a major dietary challenge. How can we fix this imbalance and move toward better nutrition? Palki Sharma explains. <br \/>See More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Step into any Indian kitchen at lunchtime and you will see plates full of rice, rotis, dal, vegetables&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-111973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nutrition","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}