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The study conducted by the cooking oil brand, the simple reason could be the fact that most people consume rice as the staple food over wheat, atta, maize or ragi. According to the study, 79% of the people surveyed in the city admitted that they had 2 types of whole grain or less, while 18% estimated that they ate between 3-5 types of grains.
As the entire study was conducted by interviewing respondents through online surveys, there is a good chance that the slim margin of people who had 3 different food grains a day could just be having multi-grain bread.
Another interesting fact that came up in the study was that 31% of the people surveyed in Chennai consumed no fruit on a daily basis.
When compared to cities like Ahmedabad (48%) and Kolkata (39%) it is to the city’s credit that close to two-thirds of people have some amount of food every day.
“Some of these facts are simply because of regional habits and culture. Rice and fruit consumption are directly affected by that,” said Dr Muthuvel Somasundaram, cardiologist at Apollo Hospitals.
Dr Somasundaram unveiled the fact that 72% of people in the city were at risk of getting cardio-vascular disease, due to various factors such as obesity, cholestrol, diabetes and the other usual suspects.
With most other cities also having as many people with CVD risk, the whole nation has little to cheer about.
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