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Diet

Food over Time

Intermittent fasting has been hailed as the ultimate shortcut to better health. By narrowing the hours of eating rather than obsessing over calories or food groups, its advocates promised a pathway to weight loss, metabolic balance, and even longevity.

Of ancient diets and Covid times

The Himachal Pradesh government has started marketing a haldi drink. In other locations, tulsi and ashwagandha are being distributed for free and the demand for turmeric and saffron has shot up as immunity boosters. This is an apt moment to recall the kind of dietary patterns that Indians had as recently as one hundred and fifty years ago.

Sweet and Sour

Sugar provides calories with no nutritional benefit. Excessive sugar can be toxic. Recently, the American Heart Association warned against too much added sugar in the diet. The solution lies on our determination to curb sugar consumption. The basic principle, as formulated by Paracelsus (1493-1541) runs thus: 'All substances are poisonous; there is none which is not a poison, the right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.'