[Music] you're still not eating huh eat eat this eat this it have your parents also ask you to finish every last grain on your plate in the name of poor children going to bed hungry well that does almost nothing to improve the state of hunger in india in fact did you know india is actually producing more food than it requires to thrive we produce 308 million tons of food in the year 2021 while we only need roughly 220 million tons to survive as a country we are food sufficient the challenges to food security for india
are very different from what you can imagine so not only does finishing your plate not do much to solve for food wastage you eating that last grain could be doing a lot more harm than good for your body hydraulic the overeating which that kid did in the name of not wasting food actually backfired and gave him and millions other diabetes now a lot of people believe that the increase in diabetes is because of processed food but it's also because of the last morsel syndrome indians especially tend to eat very carb rich food which is almost
similar to processed food and the availability of this carb bridge food has increased significantly in the last decade years of eating carbs has set up india for a diabetes epidemic india ranked second in the number of diabetic patients around the world in 2019. in 2017 73 million citizens had diabetes and by 2030 it is estimated that 30 percent of obese people all over the world will be indian citizens but don't let the diabetes charge fool you while a section of india is overeating there is still a large chunk that doesn't have access to food india
is still hungry according to the global hunger index in 2020 india ranks 94th among 107 countries and is in the serious hunger category that kid's mom was right it is because of food wastage but not the kind of food waste that you are thinking about even if all the indian citizens waste 10 percent of their food every day say from 200 grams of rice we based 20 grams we will still end up wasting only 3 percent of the total food that we are producing according to united nations 40 of the food produced never reaches the
consumers you and i are not saving a lot even if we decide to finish that last plate of idli dosa problem with food wastage and food security for malnourished people is something else entirely it's horrible infrastructure there are three main reasons why forty percent of food is not making it to malnourished people number one is road infrastructure [Music] hello [Music] number two is corruption and hoarding sir and number three is poverty availability and purchasing power are two very different things [Music] number one stop with the fake activism it is causing obesity and chronic increased blood
sugar problems number two buy right cook right and eat right number three build technology that will help the current main problems of storage and transportation and lastly don't force feed your friends and family even if it is butter chicken if you can't do any of that at least donate to credible organizations that help people here are a few that we have dug up after checking their background and the next time your mom tells you to finish your meal because people in africa are starving ask her how she plans to get this food there with 50
000 rupees as minimum flight ticket plus truck fuel to make the food reach the remotest parts
