Nutrition ,Diet and culinary skills

Dear Readers, Greetings of the day!! Yesterday I told you to talk to your food, actually I wanted you to understand, analyse and give a thought before putting  food in your mouth. Choose best food among st all healthy dishes and if no choice of healthy then choose bad among st worst unhealthy dishes.Always make it a point to use your visual senses, smelling senses to help you in choosing food. There are other various criteria too to choose foods we will keep on taking about  them in our journey of knowledge sharing. So now understanding ENERGY GIVER FOODS, lets come back to Foods which are needed to grow.These are the most valued, pampered and priced food.They are the showstopper.till now you must be able to make out ,YES I am talking about PROTEINS. PROTEINS are the building blocks. of our body.Imagine a small embryo in mother's womb and then life starts, it progresses and starts growing bigger. Small baby to crawling child then toddler, adolescent, adult and then old aged pe...

Dear Readers, Greetings!! and Sincere prayers that this world remains safe and healthy!!!  So in  my previous blog, I told that how Food is my body's Fuel and basically which food should we look for in order to gain energy.You know as Dietitian  I use to always talk to these food items and this inspiration of "Food talking" long back I got from my Botany teacher who told us that call all flowers and plant with their botanical names and treat them as friends you will never forget their names.This habit of mine now I find useful. I literally look at food items and through my food talk I just ask them what all you will give to my body. It's not that Fat does not give energy or pulses,milk, egg or other sources of proteins do not give energy,but then I hear them telling me please use me for building you body. Fat saying apart from energy I will also give you extra cholesterol. Then I immediately realize that for Energy I will first call carbohydrates, if they are exhauste...

Dear Blog Readers!!! Happy reading to you all!! In my previous blog I had written about the meaning of Food in various aspects.I myself had indicated few and today unfolding layers  from Food Science.So Begin with, let me tell you incidences where you will really connect to me on this prole of Food i.e. energy giving.After your written exams, interview, completion of whole day's massive event, You suddenly remember that "my stomach is howling, if I don't eat a single bite I might fall down."then after eating food you feel so refreshed and active as if a gloomy plant has been watered. So this is  what Food does to us. It provide us energy to live, to grow to sustain and to reproduce. Food gives us Energy this is true but then the Most important question is from which food this energy is actually provided.List is of dishes is exhaustive so we categorize our ENERGY GIVING FOODS as Cereal based food. CEREAL AND MILLET FOODS   WHEAT, RICE, JOWAR, BAJRA, MAKKA, RAAGI,...

Good Morning All my readers and  wishing you an energetic week ahead. So last week, I share an interesting story in which I tried to popularize Farre among Kids. so these are small tricks by which we can still carry our traditional delicacies forward. Remember YOU ARE ROLE MODEL FOR YOUR KIDS. this week I will try to unfold the secrets of Food which always puzzle common man.Many patients  come back to me saying why this simple daal rice seems soooooo complicated before you doctors?? Then I pondered upon to unfold layers of FOOD. TODAY WE WILL TALK WHAT FOOD IS AND i INVITE YOU ALL THROUGH YOUR COMMENTS TO DESCRIBE IN ONE WORD WHAT FOOD IS.  1. FOOD IS MY BODY'S FUEL 2. FOOD HELP ME TO GROW 3. FOOD GIVES ME TASTE AND SATISFACTION 4. FOOD IS MEDICINE 5. FOOD IS MY STATUS SYMBOL 6. FOOD IS MY WEAPON TO FIGHT WITH MY MOTHER. So similarly food is  defined by all. these Six thing I will slowly unfold and make your vision clear. Till then good bye. and yesss come back with ...

Happy reading Dear  Readers!!!  beginning from yesterday's  blog,I had invited you all to come and share what pleasure your cooking brought to your family at your home. Reaction of your family, especially your children. Positive impact of that dish on the health of whole family.how your Kids were involved during preparation of whole recipe.While cooking what all memories flashed before you. That 's the real treasure that's the way recipe passed actually from one generation to other. So Sharing my experience,During lock down  one  fine day I thought of preparing  farre. A very traditional North Indian cuisine, nutritionally rich as contains easily available proteins due to cereal pulse combination method. Secondly cooking method is also steaming process so that makes it more healthy(You know dietitian within me keeps me always alert). So a day before I had told that tomorrow morning's breakfast is Farre. Farre!!! mumma what's this?we will not eat, make somet...

Dear Blog Readers, Greetings of the day!!! At the Onset, my sincere prayers to make this world rejuvenated,thrilled and vibrant.During this Pandemic,we all  have come across through many new transformations in our lives, in our approaches, in our techniques,in our professional fronts.There is a subtle but yet to sink changes taking place around us. I am Scared whether HUMAN TOUCH WILL STILL HOLD IT'S WORTH OR WILL FADE IN NEAR FUTURE. But definitely if I look through this whole pandemic from my Nutrition lenses, I  see some beautiful stories, experiences and smiles. In near past we all were so habitual of eating processed foods, ready to eat diet, preserved items and excited for dining out.our ages old cooking practices,delicacies were taking sidelines.Thanks to this Pandemic which compelled to some and encouraged to some to explore their culinary skills, their traditional recipes. Families eating together, cooking together, and relishing food together has really brou...