Your Protein Anxiety Is a Business Model. Your Dal Is Fine.
She came in with a food diary. Seventeen pages. Hand-written. Colour-coded by meal. Across the top, in red ink pressed down so hard it had...
Category : Food
Can High Cholesterol Patients Eat Ghee? A Doctor Answers Honestly.
She had done everything right. That was the problem. She walked every morning. She slept seven hours. She had not touched a piece of bakery...
Can Nuts Really Lower Cholesterol?
The funniest thing about cholesterol is that it rarely scares people; what scares them is the thought of giving up biryani, so they run to...
Is Bread Omelette Healthy Every Day?
Some foods arrive with fanfare. Others just show up, do their job, and quietly take over the morning. Bread-omelette belongs to the second category. It...
Curd Before Exams: Superstition, Science, or Gut Intelligence?
Long before science wrote theories, culture built habits, and behaviour became data, a simple spoon of curd and sugar carried its own quiet logic—offered without...
Seed Cycling for Hormone Balance: A Simple Daily Ritual for Women
In every Indian kitchen, there is a quiet democracy of seeds. Flax sleeps in steel dabbas beside forgotten ragi. Sesame waits in tiny jars like...
Fibremaxxing and Ayurveda: Why Gut Health Is India’s New Wellness Habit
It started with protein shakes and ended with psyllium husk. Wellness, like fashion, loves its trends — and fibre has become the new Gucci. On...
Stop Blaming Rice: The Real Problem Is Lifestyle
A young engineer walked into my Bengaluru clinic clutching a diet chart like a court summons. “Doctor, I have stopped eating rice,” he declared. I...
How India’s Love for Carbs is Fueling a Silent Diabetes Epidemic?
In the summer of 2002, the town of Bellary shimmered like a brass pot on the stove. I sat in the consulting room of Dr...
Which Cooking Oils Are Really Best for Your Health?
The war over cooking oils has moved from kitchens to newsfeeds. One week, sunflower oil is a “heart-healthy light oil.” The next is branded “toxic...