My favorite ingredient in a veggie stirfry or a salad is vinegar. Vinegar has been used for ages but have you ever wondered what could be the benefits of vinegar. Lets have a look at them why you need to add them in your cooking Firstly vinegar helps to slow down the absorption of sugar from the blood. Hence is great for diabetics or others who want to maintain their blood sugars. I love the fact that adding...

Every cuisine is unique in its way. Each cuisine has its distinct type of fat used in cooking. The Mediterraneans use olive oil, the Chinese use lard and the Indians use ghee and coconut oil. Ghee is used liberally in most of the indian dishes. Ghee is nothing but clarified butter. With the recent conflicting issues in nutrition, ghee was considered as a bad food and the main cause for heart disease and suddenly...

Many of us have been eating beans in our diet, but have we ever thought about their benefits. Yes, it is still great to eat baked beans for breakfast now. Let us first look at the health benefits of beans. They are rich in fiber, both soluble and insoluble fiber. The soluble fiber present helps to slow down the entry of glucose into the blood stream, helps to lower ‘LDL’ or bad cholesterol. The...

Factors that contribute to widespread misunderstanding about food allergy is that there are several other classifications of adverse reactions to foods that “MIMIC” allergies. For example, some individuals lack an enzyme that digests the sugar in milk. This sugar is called lactose, and the enzyme that digests it is called lactase. in the absence of lactase, a person who ingests milk will experience...

Capsicum or bell peppers are a commonly used veggie in our diet. If you have noticed refrigerator advertisements on television,you may have noticed these veggies being stacked,making them very colorful, and making you decide that this is the product for you. Although this veggie is not of Indian origin, it is widely accepted in our cuisine. It comes in various colors such as green, yellow and reds. Great to...

I counsel many clients who are in the pre-diabetes stages or are suffering from full blown diabetes. They are worried about table sugar and are ready to skip it in their morning cuppa or just quit eating sweets..But we have many doctors who know all about “nutrition” and “diet” and end up advising patients about their diets and project themselves that they know it all. I have heard doctors...

Processed meats have always been the easiest means of getting a meal ready. They are very convenient and popular. They end up in your breakfast menu as bacon and eggs, in sandwiches and hot dogs etc.They are usually highly salted, may be made in unhygienic conditions and are high in saturated fats, the kind of fats that are bad for the heart.The processed meats commonly consumed are sausages, salami,bacon, ham,...

This article is a reply to my previous article http://nutrihealth.in/2008/11/good-health-with-greens/  ,from one of my ardent readers. Mr. T.S Sundaram has enthusiastically permitted me to publish the article for all my site readers. He has been constantly following my site and I feel privileged to inform that he will be contributing more interesting articles for us to read. According to me, he is a role...

Rice is one of the most misunderstood food in India. It is assumed that you will gain weight if you eat rice. Rice is healthy and contains nutrients. It is considered fine to eat maida, white sugar in a weight loss diet by many of my clients, but if I tell them to eat rice, they think I am misguiding them. Although white rice is not healthy, brown rice is the healthiest. Rice is rich in vitamin Bs which help...

Pistachios have always been a tasty nut but have always been blamed for the wrong reasons. In India, they have been spotted in the wrong places or rather we can say in the wrong foods. They are in our burfis and many other high calorie sweets. They take the main place on the tables while drinking alcohol at parties. Poor pistachios, they are blamed for heart disease and obesity while the fats in the sweets and...