India, June 3 -- Online health advice is messy and contradictory. That's why HT Lifestyle launched HT Health Talk - a weekly, reader-first series. How it works: You send us your medical questions on one health topic. We take them to India's top specialists for clear, clinically backed answers. Also read | HT Health Talk: Bengaluru dietician answers all your burning questions about the right food for weight loss

After tackling chronic issues like seasonal migraines, this week we target India's silent plate crisis: rampant sarcopenia, rising type 2 diabetes, and diet myths. Urban diets swapped millets for maida and white rice. Result? Muscle loss, metabolic disorders, and deep nutrition gaps.

To decode it, HT Lifestyle spoke to Sandhya Pa...