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Healthy Resolutions You Must Make This New Year

It’s the time of the year when the planners are out and people are itching to start the New Year on a happy and positive note. Amidst all the awareness on adopting a healthy lifestyle, most resolutions, are thankfully centred around good-health. But within a week or maximum a month, the resolutions slowly fade away, […]

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Your Guide To Eating Healthy This Festive Season

 By Consultant Nutritionist and Dietitian Dharini Krishnan  India is soon going to be the global capital for Diabetes and Cardiac Disease and at the same time, India also celebrates the maximum number of festivals and occasions.  With Diwali, Ramzan, Christmas and New Year, people are in a celebrating mood. The celebration includes sweets and goodies. […]

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Amazing Health Benefits Of Tomatoes

With the rains lashing out Tamil Nadu over the last so many days- the vegetable prices have spiralled up and even some of the essential ones have become dearer. One such costly pick now is the ripe, red tomatoes.  A berry fruit of the Solanum Genus- the scientific name is Solanum lycopersicum and is known […]

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Litchi: Is It Safe To Consume Them?

A member of the soapberry family, Litchi, is known to mankind from around 1059 AD. But the fruit is now in the news for its role in the widespread encephalitis, rampant across Bihar and other parts of northern India. What is about this fruit that makes it a preferred choice among fruit lovers as well […]

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General Good Health,Naturally

Food Allergy vs Food Intolerance: What’s The Difference?

One man’s meat is another man’s poison is an old saying that could not be truer than from a nutritionist’s point of view. Most people can make wheat products their staple diet. But some rare individuals end up with vomiting or diarrhoea when they consume wheat. Such adverse reactions are produced either by the immune […]

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Heard Of A Flexitarian Diet? 5 Things You Need To Know About This New Trend

Back when we were growing up- there were only two kinds of diet- vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism. And then the vegan trend started. But now- you see new names cropping up like Lacto-vegetarian, Pescetarian, Paleotarian and Pollotarian, and the latest trend joining the bandwagon- the Flexitarian! Here are 5 basic questions you would have on Flexitarian […]

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Good Health,Naturally Mental Health

Eating Disorders: Food For Thought

By Psychotherapist Ravi Samuel A 27-years-old lady living with her husband and 6-years-old daughter in a high raised flat approached me for the problem of eating excessively and then starving for many days. She has the habit of getting tense when she is alone at home thinking of various problems, to overcome the tension she […]

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Children Good Health,Naturally

Obesity & Weight Reduction in Children- The Healthy Way

By Consultant Dietitian, Dharini Krishnan  Ideal weight for an adult depends on the person’s height, weight, age, the frame of the body and genetic makeup. An average adult of height 160 cms should weigh around 58 to 62 Kgs. Currently, in India, we are facing a problem where children are grossly obese and weight reduction […]

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Children General Good Health,Naturally

Lactose Intolerance: What You Need To Know

What is Lactose Intolerance? When a baby cries incessantly and passes loose stools frequently it causes a lot of anxiety to the mother. If the child passes loose stools whenever a milk feed is given and the stools are frothy, explosive,  it is a condition of Lactose Intolerance, says Consultant Pediatrician Dr. Rajam Natarajan.  Lactose is […]