Why You Crave Sweets After a Meal
Offer another chapati after a wedding lunch and a man will cover his plate as though you are trying to serve him a court summons....
Category : Food
Why Does Urad Dal Cause Gas and Bloating?
There should be two bills for medu vada: one payable at the counter, the other during the car ride home. The first you settle with...
Which Cooking Oil Is Best for Your Heart? What I Tell My Patients
“Doctor, we always use olive oil. From abroad,” says Zainab. The last two words seem to require passport verification. Anita buys cold-pressed oil. Lovely Kaur’s...
Tambuli: Why These Two Spoons Matter
Yesterday Lakshmi came for a follow-up, sat down, and announced tambuli to me the way Vasco da Gama announced India to Europe. “Doctor! You know...
High-Protein Biscuits: Are They Really Healthy?
A patient recently placed a packet of biscuits on my table. “Doctor, these are healthy. I have stopped ordinary biscuits.” The packet had oats, almonds, millets, green...
Appemidi: The Mango That Became an Inheritance
Every mango is expected to ripen, soften and become sweet. Appemidi refuses. This small, intensely sour mango from Karnataka’s Western Ghats is picked while it...
Knol-Khol for Diabetes: Eat It This Way, Not That Way
A knol-khol sits in the vegetable shop looking like a cabbage that has swallowed a tennis ball. Most shoppers examine it, suspect it of having...
Fish vs Fish Oil: Which Is Better? Benefits, Omega-3, Best Indian Fish & Expert Guide
A patient walked into my clinic carrying a bottle of imported fish oil capsules that cost more than the fish sold outside my neighbourhood market....
Curd: What Science and Ayurveda Really Say
The funniest argument I hear in my clinic is not about medicines. It is about curd. One patient insists it causes cough. Another swears it cured...
Does Milk Raise Blood Sugar?
“Doctor, one last question.” Every doctor knows those four words can add another ten minutes to a consultation. This gentleman had already collected his prescription,...