Thanks for being respectful about it. 🙂

hi sanjay, respectfully i would like to say you are the dumbest person i have ever seen so according to you china should be zero in basketball where the need of height is essential…….so here is bingo…….china is among to 10 teams in the world

hi sanjay, respectfully i would like to say you are the dumbest person i have ever seen

Problem with a lot of indian food as mentioned above is, that it’s incredibly high in complex carbs which can take a lot of effort to burn off. It’s just as bad as eating a burger at McDonalds etc.

That’s where you are wrong! The way to get a lean muscular body is through proper eating and exercise. Many don’t get the body they desire because they get the nutrition all wrong. The most important thing about eating comes down to getting the 3 crucial macronutrients(Essential fatty acids(Omega 3, Carbohydrates and Protein).

I am sure you’ve heard of Aamir Khan? He happened to defy the odds of getting a ripped body at the age of 40 which is pretty hard to do at that age and he didn’t use steroids at all according to him.

Oliver.. but lot of our Indian are settled abroad and supposedly get good nutrition? We haven’t seen any miracles from them either.

Unless, you suffer from a medical condition that prevents you from gaining muscle(lack of Testosterone), then you don’t have to worry about it.

The reason why there aren’t many Indians who look athletic is, because it has never been part of our culture. No one in india wants to look like an athlete. It is only now that many have started to realize that looks are important.

There is the case that many of us lack protein which many indians and others fail to see the importance. Our diet unfortunately lacks protein and it’s mostly high carb fast food nonsense. Yeah, sure a lot of indian food tastes nice but most of the nutritional value is lost after preparing the meals.

Sanjay, my point is that if we train well, then we can surely find “one person in a large population who compares with the best from other (typically much smaller) populations”. Right now we cannot do it because we don’t have good training facilities.

The very fact that when India trained more in hockey we won more shows it is indeed about who trains better. Now that other countries have started training more while Indian hockey infrastructure has become worse over the years and the game has been overshadowed by cricket, India does not win any more. At least in this hockey story, genes don’t seem to come into play that much.

I’m sort of uncomfortable with the racial undertones.. this article has been assuming all along that South Asia is an insulated region with a unique mix of these races, while forgetting the fact that Iranians & Kazakhs who have historically won more medals have a higher ‘Aryan’ (or call what you will) gene pool than Indians 🙂