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Are Indians living in India unhealthy and stressed?

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Man Mohan Singh had his arteries bypassed on Saturday, a procedure that increasing numbers of Indians are having. Last year, medical journal Lancet reported a study of 20,000 Indian patients and found that 60 per cent of the world’s heart disease patients are in India, which has 15 percent of the world’s population. This number is surprising because reports of obesity and heart disease focus on overweight Americans and their food. What could account for Indians being so susceptible—more even than burger-and-fries-eating Americans?

Four things: diet, culture, stress and lack of fitness.

There is no doctrinal prescription for vegetarianism in Hindu diet, and some texts explicitly sanction the eating of meat. But vegetarianism has become dogma.

04/07/09
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Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out

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Source: The Wall Street Journal April 6, 2009

By SHEFALI ANAND

Brides and Parents Back Home Get Picky as Economy Makes America Look Risky

Vikas Marwaha would normally be considered a good catch by Indian parents seeking a husband for their daughter. The 27-year-old software engineer earns $80,000 to $100,000 a year and comes from a family “of doctors and engineers,” according to his profile on a matrimonial Web site.

But Mr. Marwaha works for a start-up Internet phone company in San Francisco. And because the U.S. economy is wobbly, that’s a problem. Many Indian parents now are balking at sending their daughters to the U.S. to marry.

During a two-week wife-hunting trip to India in December, Mr. Marwaha interviewed 20 potential brides in 10 days. He says several parents asked him, “How has the recession impacted your job?” Mr. Marwaha says he assured them he hadn’t been affected at all, but still he returned to the U.S. brideless.

Indian parents used to think it a plus to marry off their daughters to Indian men living in wealthier countries, including the U.S. and Britain. But as India has grown more affluent in recent years, the demand for overseas Indian grooms has been fading. While India’s economy is also slowing down, it is still growing, and layoffs aren’t as widespread as in the West.

04/07/09
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March 2009 Issue - Readers’ Comments

“You have done an excellent job in launching of Pravasi Herald, an on-line news publication for the Asian Indians of Alabama. This would also help newcomers in finding an Indian owned business in Alabama, besides local Indian community news.”

Urmish Patel, Birmingham, AL
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The website is very good. Congratulations!

Amita Puri, Birmingham, AL
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Congratulations on the launch of the News Magazine. We wish you all the best.

Sanjeev and Suniti Mishra, Birmingham, AL
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03/19/09
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