# Diabetes in India: Rising Cases and Vegetarian Traditions

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2099785491705176480
- Source account: [@longevitymediaa](https://x.com/longevitymediaa)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:32
- Published: 2026-09-17
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8KdLpQlUVJ1g/en/diabetes-in-india-rising-cases-and-vegetarian-traditions

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8KdLpQlUVJ1g/en/diabetes-in-india-rising-cases-and-vegetarian-traditions) Um, and then I started to think about, you know, the number one place on the planet right now, like in 2026, where do we have the largest collection of diabetics on Earth? Okay?

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8KdLpQlUVJ1g/en/diabetes-in-india-rising-cases-and-vegetarian-traditions?t=12) It's an unusual place. It's in, in India, and it's in a place where people have eat a vegetarian diet for 5,000 years.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8KdLpQlUVJ1g/en/diabetes-in-india-rising-cases-and-vegetarian-traditions?t=20) Yeah. Diabetes wasn't a big problem then, but it's a huge problem now.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8KdLpQlUVJ1g/en/diabetes-in-india-rising-cases-and-vegetarian-traditions?t=24) We create more diabetics in India than we do in the United States and Europe combined every year, and it's like cra-