Food Doctor

Curd is essentially a part of every Indian cuisine or diet. The North Indian will club it with their parathas and the South Indians will club it with their rice - curd rice as it is known.. The West will probably with eat it at every meal and the East? Uhm, they will eat it as a dessert - Mishti Doi as they call it. No one is unaware of the numerous benefits of curd. To start with its an amazing source of probiotics, which alter the microflora in your intestines. It increases the healthy and desired microbes whole reducing the unwanted ones. No doubt, consumption of curds improve the gut health, the digestive systems, the excretory systems and the skeletal systems. Known to be a good source of calcium, how can it not strengthen your bones?!! Apart from this, curd is a good source of proteins too, which help in building the muscle mass in the body and increase the lean body. It is also packed with other vitamins and minerals and as a result become a complete essential in the diet. W...

Paneer Cutlets Cutlets? Favourite? Fried? No no no. The third one absolutely untrue... This is one of the healthiest Indian starter option. Loaded with proteins and cooked with low oil. Absolutely not deep fried, but shallow fried with minimum oil. Ways to make normal cooking healthy? 1. replace potatoes with chick pea, paneer, or any other protein source that you like. 2. shallow fry instead of deep frying 3. serve with a hung curd dip with the flavour of your choice. You can replace your mayonnaise with hung curd. Your guests will definitely not miss the mayo!!  4. try to use specialty ingredients such as flax seeds, til seeds, ajwain, whole jeera etc, for two reasons. i. Added nutrients which we not think makes a difference, but it sure completely works for your body!! ii. For added flavour. Our palette loves the Indian flavor. The moment we use such ingredients, we feel the love of our mothers and as a result we may just happily eat more nutrition than ...

Let's continue asking ourself a few more fitness questions, and in case our Answer is negative, we can definitely take efforts to turn the minuses into pluses. 4. Do I eat fruits and vegetables during the entire day? Fruits and vegetables (F&V) should form an important part of your daily foods. They give you all the important vitamins and minerals which actually contribute to your over all health. This is why vitamins and minerals are known as functional foods. They perform specific functions in the body and keep you away from small and big disorders and diseases. It would become too much if I start to mention all the functions of all the vitamins and minerals and so I would keep that for future blogs. However, you may find traces of these functions in my earlier blogs. 5. Do I have different colors on my plate?? Each color in the food world represents a special micro nutrient, maybe an anti oxidant, a phytonutrient, or a special plant pigment which performs a speci...

Fitness is a word which is commonly mistaken with the word exercising.. " If I gym (do vigorous exercise), I am fit." No, you are not fit unless you have coupled your exercise regime with your Diet. " Diet " is not starving yourself to death, killing your taste buds and losing weight. Diet  typically means the food you eat. But just adding the word HEALTHY to it. Healthy food when coupled with exercise, makes you fit.  Fitness is your power to carry out your everyday activities with full energy and vigour, without being fatigued. Fitness is the power to think positive, behave positive and spread a wave of joy around you.  but do we know if we are fit or not?  Here are a few questions you need to ask yourself to know how fit you are..... And what you need to do to become fitter! 1. Do you have a stomach full of Breakfast?  Yes, breakfast is the most important meal of your day, that should give you 1/3rd of your daily nutritional requirem...

Today whenever you see anything labeled as low fat and no fat products, you may take a run to purchase them without understanding whether you are actually consuming the low fat low sugar product or just being cheated about it??  One such product is our very own childhood obsession, the Ice Cream.. Growing up, we all have ice cream memories, but now we are too conscious of eating them, owing to the growing health awareness!! So alot of companies have taken out the low fat varieties of ice creams!! But are they really low fat? Here are a few guidelines as given by the FSSAI, following which a company may label it's ice creams as low fat Ice creams. 1 . Whenever you see an ice-cream, make sure you read the label. The ingredients list is the first thing which will give you the information about what ingredient is used in what concentration. The first ingredient is used in the maximum concentration, while the rest follow in the descending order ... 2. Secondly,...

As we grow more and more aware of our body needs and upcoming healthy food products in the market, we tend to choose them without too much awareness about its truth. What you see is what you buy.  Products named "whole wheat", "oats", "high Fibre", "low fat", "zero cholesterol", "organic", "natural", "healthy" etc., have become a trend in the market. I can manufacture any product and market it the way I want and you are bund to buy them because I have caught your weak point and labelled it that way.  NO! Lets become more aware of the products.  1. Looking at the Nutritional Label:  The first thing you would at is the amount of calories. No. you may look at them but that is not the only thing you need to control or take care of! Look at more important things such as Proteins, Fibre and other micro nutrients such as vitmains, sodium, calcium, iron, etc. If they have mentioned these, means ...

"HEALTH" is the word that we see and hear everywhere today. But what I mean by this word is not dieting, eating less, or eating only boring salads while staying hungry to lose weight, etc. Health simply means to EAT what is nutritious, a wholesome balance of all the food groups (comprising of cereals, proteins - meat and milk products, fruits and vegetables, oils and fats and sugars), and eating at regular intervals. Living a healthy lifestyle is all about managing your cravings for tasty food with the cravings of your body for nutrition. Health has become the focus of alot of people today. Be it industrialists, the hotel industry, the food manufacturing industry, government, or the common people. Each and every individual is becoming aware of his health needs. But why? Why do we need to be healthy and why is it important to carefully select what we eat and what we do not eat? Here are just a few guidelines that would answer all your questions! 1. Ever increasing ...