The shocking truth about the health of Indian Americans.
Indian American men have the highest rates of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and die of the disease at a younger age than males of any other race in America.
Indian American women’s CAD rate is three times higher than that of American women and the highest among all other immigrant women
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This is very common for those races and people who are "transplanted" from their traditional environment into an entirely alien environment.
The native Americans ( "Red Indians" ) are also facing the same problems.
In their case, their traditional lifestyle was invaded by the settlers and now they have been pretty much forced into adapting the "Western" lifestyle.
There is a theory about this - the more traditional and non-modern a race is, the faster it will develop the diseases of modern civilisation when exposed to the modern lifestyle.
This is why all traditional communties and races are facing this problem - from the Inuits to the Aboriginies to the Sub-Saharan bushmen.
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