29/04/2026
56.4% of India's disease burden is driven by what's on our plates. (ICMR-NIN, 2024.)
41 million Indian children are now overweight or obese.
India ranks #2 globally — second only to China. (World Obesity Federation, 2026.)
93% of urban school children are calcium-deficient. 86% are iron-deficient. In a country where ragi, palak, and rajma are abundant and affordable. (PLOS One, 10 Indian cities, n=2,428, 2022.)
Indians develop heart disease ten years earlier than people in Europe. (Cardiovascular Therapeutics, 2024.)
These aren't separate problems. They're symptoms of one shift — a generation of Indian families eating food their bodies were never designed to process, in homes that have stopped moving the way they used to.
This page publishes the evidence. Sourced from peer-reviewed research, ICMR, UNICEF, WHO, and India's own National Family Health Survey. Written for parents, in plain language. No supplements to sell. No products to promote. Just the data, and what families can do with it.
India gets sick at 6. Healthcare arrives at 40. The dinner table is the missing layer.
Published by EpicureAI Labs, Bengaluru.
