Looking at my friends and even my younger brother who now looks much older than me. Are you also observing that people are aging faster in comparison to US? Is it Pollution or lifestyle issues. Even my parents in late 60s are lesser agile than old Indian people I meet here in US.
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Pollution, stress, lifestyle, diet
Pollution. Unhygienic food. Veggie oil laden foods. Milk powder made from worm protein not milk. Chemical masalas. High levels of pesticides in mdh etc foods. Traffic stress. Oligarchs.
Depends on stress and environment. I am here since 2010, age 40+ My brother lives in tier3 city and 5 year older but looks younger than me with zero grey hair.
So called tier 1 cities are extremely bad for aging. High level of pollution, noise, low quality food, fast life, stressful master slave work culture, polluted water. On the other hand my parents and few cousins live in a remote village, grow their own food, all organic, no noise, no pollution, clear water. My uncle who lived all his life in that village looks younger than my dad who spent his working life in a polluted city.
I've also seen a mindset difference between people here and in India. People here are still outgoing and consider themselves healthy and younger even in their 50s and 60s. So they try and keep themselves active in some way or the other, eat healthier perhaps etc. Back in India I see people claiming that now they're 50 or older, they have become too old and don't do anything active, eat whatever with not much consideration to their diet and this really turns them into a laggard. This will show in how they look. Couple this mindset and lifestyle with heavy pollution, excessive heat most of the places and all the chemicals in food and whatnot people seem to age quicker there. Not everyone is like that back in India obviously, but I've seen many people including my parents and close relatives unfortunately.
Diet and Pollution …
It's not that bad
Its pretty bad. I lived in NYC for 20 years before moving to a luscious affluent suburb in north Texas. It made a huge difference. The same goes for most metroplexes in India …the air and water quality is terrible. The staple food has a lot of inflammatory ingredients …that accelerate the aging process.
Diet and exercise imo. People in India eat carb and fat heavy food and don’t eat enough protein especially if they are vegetarians. People in India also don’t exercise regularly and people here do it way too regularly (I do hate the fitness obsession here).
Even if they are non vegetarian they are eating calorie laden champaran hundi meat or the likes cooked with so much fat, oil, masala and what not.
Common in tech at least / tier 1 cities + higher day to day stress from work, commute, etc + pollution + diet (typically high carb even for home cooked food; a lot of eating out due to newly found higher disposable income) + poor exercise regime + poor baseline / lack of role models
Exercise and diet. And pollution