Diwali mithai bullies can stuff themselves

Not to play the Grinch Who Stole Diwali, but has there been any medical study or analytics by a consumer-watch company on the damage caused by the deluge of mithai that enters both ecosystem and digestive system each Diwali? While we shakers and moneymakers celebrate the bulge in consumption as a healthy sign of the consumer's spike in appetite, damage to the waistline and digestive tracts turns every member of a household into a potential diabetic. While Cyclone Mithai started a while back, today being D-Day, the tsugar tsunami is truly upon us. Is it worth the gorge-fest being a non- negotiable part and shiny parcel of the festival of lights? Remember, there's a reason why it's not a festival of heavies.

Grandmums, mums and even 21st-century dads dole out laddoos, barfis and gulab jamuns as if they're IPOs. These Willy Wonkas with more ghee and less Oompa Loompas need to stop their Diwali-tide 'hard insisting', 'Oh, you MUST try another! You can gym it off later!' Refusing mithai should not be considered a cardinal paap whose prayaschit is to have mithai. So, pushback on this mithai madness. And if some super-enthu Diwaliwala insists you to have mithai by telling you about it being 'tradition' and saying no would be un-Lady Diwalilike, give them your 'unDiwided' attention and then tell them with luminescent politeness, 'Why don't you stuff yourself.'