<p>^^^ Very true for the 2 above posts, I even have first-hand experience with this. I got naan at a local Indian restaurant which was pretty much covered in butter, when my dad asked the manager why, he literally said, “Americans like it that way.”</p>
<p>Haven’t been to an Indian restaurant where the naan had the amount of butter I would consider “normal” by “home standards”. </p>
<p>Home standards are hugely disparate in Indian culture. Few families cook things the same way, and the change is usually noticeable.</p>
<p>Yeah, a lot of the restaurants I’ve been to put a lot of butter on the naan. Did you know they sell naan at Costco???</p>
<p>It is simple guys. Fat tastes good, so they put a lot of butter on naan, so that you are hooked to the food and come back as a return customer. What the restaurants don’t know is they are killing the customers slowly. Them saying they put butter for American customers is a lie. All the Indian restaurants I had been to, most of the customers are Indian.</p>
<p>@AnImpAffliction Yeah. They have it in mine too but it doesn’t taste that good</p>
<p>@rosie19 , virtually every restaurant does that. If your point is to say that Indians are generally unhealthy people, I fear this is the wrong thread to do it in.</p>
<p>I was responding to prior posts that said American foods are unhealthy. I just want to say Indian foods are no better in being healthier.</p>
<p>@rosie19, you keep referencing restaurant food. Restaurant food is of course unhealthier than home-cooked food. I don’t know if you’re Indian or not, but home-cooked Indian food is actually healthy, and if you’re here to just bash on Indian food as a whole, you’re definitely choosing the wrong thread to participate in. Just go Google “health benefits of Indian food” and you get hundreds of articles saying that turmeric and other spices/herbs can prevent cancer, relieve heart problems, and help with Alzheimers. With all this certainty about Indian food, I cannot see why you’re still skeptical.</p>
<p>Any home-cooked food then will be healthy as you know what you want to put in it. Turmeric and other spices may have some benefits as antibacterial, but they have no value in terms of nutrition. The real problem is all the butter, oils one uses in cooking that makes them unhealthy.</p>
<p>Twenty Health Benefits of Turmeric: <a href=“http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/20-health-benefits-of-turmeric.html”>http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/20-health-benefits-of-turmeric.html</a>
Part of an article from WebMD: "Turmeric is used for arthritis, heartburn (dyspepsia), stomach pain, diarrhea, intestinal gas, stomachbloating, loss of appetite, jaundice, liver problems and gallbladder disorders.</p>
<p>It is also used for headaches, bronchitis, colds, lung infections, fibromyalgia, leprosy, fever, menstrual problems, and cancer. Other uses include depression, Alzheimer’s disease, water retention, worms, and kidney problems.</p>
<p>Some people apply turmeric to the skin for pain, ringworm, bruising, leech bites, eye infections, inflammatory skin conditions, soreness inside of the mouth, and infected wounds."</p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-662-TURMERIC.aspx?activeIngredientId=662&activeIngredientName=TURMERIC”>http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-662-TURMERIC.aspx?activeIngredientId=662&activeIngredientName=TURMERIC</a></p>
<p>Riiggght, turmeric has “no value in terms of nutrition”…</p>
<p>Then why Indians using turmeric in their diet have all the diseases listed above?</p>
<p>Guys i’m pretty sure this guy is a ■■■■■ ^</p>
<p>A pretty bad one if I may add.</p>
<p>Last day of Spring Break and I’m crying. D:</p>
<p>Sorry @AnImpAffliction - my spring break was last month lol. Everything comes to an end, so it had to happen, but school ends in one month (for me)! </p>
<p>I read about your Governor’s School rejection. I’d just like to say that it doesn’t matter all that much if you rebound and make the best with what you have, that is what colleges want, they expect less with less opportunities. So, if you can make something awesome happen, you have a year to do it. (It would also make a pretty cool college essay, saying how that rejection made you become a superstar.)</p>
<p>Thanks, @apandia. I’m trying to make up for it by looking for internships for the summer. Haha, maybe I will write about it in my college essay if something great comes out of this summer.</p>
<p>And now, I must do all my APUSH and chem hw that I was supposed to do over break. #swag</p>
<p>Many, some of you guys are still on Spring Break? I’ve been back at school for three weeks now. </p>
<p>@AnImpAffliction I also got rejected from my Governor’s School. Don’t worry. You’re not the only one. </p>
<p>I’m currently on spring break but I have to go back on Tuesday. I only got Friday off which sucks. </p>
<p>@Hawkace, dude I’m sorry. Hope you find a way to have a productive summer.</p>
<p>@awakeningvenus, I go back tomorrow (<em>sobs uncontrollably</em>)</p>