As she has done for every election in Gujarat, except for the five years she spent working with legendary theater director Peter Brook in France, Mallika Sarabhai went to a voting booth in Ahmedabad vote in the afternoon. “That’s when the queue is shortest,” says the dancer-actor-director, who has been performing professionally since 1977. This …
It all started with a Thanksgiving and Christmas ritual, featuring micro-mini sprouts that are delicately cut, cleaned and cooked to make a nutritious side dish or main course. But given their superfood value, nutrient density, and lipid-lowering qualities, they’ve been co-opted all over the world. This is why this Belgian vegetable is now grown in …
This looked like a data anomaly when we looked at the temporal pattern of malnutrition in Dharni tribal sub-division in Amravati district of Maharashtra. A spike in April in the number of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) surprised us. Common sense nutrition talk dictates that the peak should be …
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Expanding waists and protruding bellies are commonplace these days. It used to be something that plagued middle-aged people, but these days it is common to see youngsters too with a more than ample girth. The first and main cause of obesity or protruding belly is consuming more food than we need or use in our …
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The death of Television actor Siddhaanth Vir Surryavanshi, known for his roles on shows like “Kkusum” and “Kasautii Zindagi Kay,” at the age of 46 was no different than his predecessors in the industry, like comedic artist Raju Srivastava and l actor Siddharth Shukla. Like them, he collapses Gym during a morning workout, 11 a.m. …
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 has several terms grouped together, as befits a goal: hunger, food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture. This does not mean that these terms are synonymous. Only the daring will try to measure the sustainability of agriculture through nutrition data. Therefore, by refining the goals, SDG-2 has separate …
Global Hunger Index: A survey that has trivialized hunger Read More »
No cheat meals, cutting out carbs and adding caffeine: Suryakumar Yadav took the road less traveled to the top. His 360-degree game was achieved through systemic planning, and changing eating habits was one of his greatest off-court accomplishments. Renowned dietitian and sports nutritionist Shweta Bhatia, who worked with the world number one hitter T20I, gave …
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