Author: Neha Jain
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Make these 12 Superfoods Part of Your Diet
Superman may have gotten his energy from the sun but we can’t rely on solar power for our needs. Enter superfoods, nutrient powerhouses that pack large doses of antioxidants, polyphenols, vitamins, and minerals. Adding them to your diet may reduce the risk of chronic disease and prolong life. We give you 12 superfoods you must…
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White Rice vs Brown Rice – Which one should you opt for?
From TV ads to health experts, everyone’s touting the benefits of brown rice. But is it really the better choice as compared to white rice? Let’s consider white rice, which is essentially just brown rice that has had its outer layers scrapped and therefore categorised as a processed food. A staple in Indian homes, many…
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Food Face-off: Whole-wheat vs Multigrain Bread
Happiness is…the smell of freshly baked bread! See how well your favorite bread fares in terms of nutritional content is it whoel wheat or multigrain bread?
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7 Indian superfoods that should be a part of your diet
To most of us, superfoods mean exotic foods such as kale, broccoli, blueberries, acai berries, Greek yogurt and olive oil. Recent research, however, shows that traditional Indian food items also deserve superfood status. These 7 local and traditional foods rank higher than exotic items any day: Ghee Once dismissed for its “fatty” nature, ghee today…
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The high-fat Mediterranean diet can help you lose weight
There are diets and there are diets. And then there is the Mediterranean diet! Validation has come for the diet once again with a new study showing that the high-fat Mediterranean diet does not cause people to gain weight. The study, conducted by scientists at University of Barcelone, Spain, and published in The Lancet, followed…
