Are you confused about the different kinds of olive oils available?

Here’s a quick explainer that will make you an olive oil guru in less than a minute. Starting with this fun fact: It takes 4-5 kilos of olives to get 1 litre of olive oil!

🧵Losing weight easily and sustainably isn't as complicated as some of the threads here are making it seem🙄

This is literally the easiest and ZERO COST way to lose weight. (thread) The crux is to consume fewer calories than you usually do.

It’s easy to cut out 500 calories a day in a sustainable manner and this will lead to losing roughly 1/2 kilo a week or 2 kilos a month. 🔻

Did you know that nature made a thick cushion for pomelos for a reason?

Pomelo is a heavy fruit growing on trees nearly 30ft tall. These fruits sometimes fall to the ground but suffer zero breakage or damage. One of the reasons is their cushion-like skin.

https://twitter.com/nikhil_merchant/status/1650855828654792706

The other, more important reason is the distribution of pores through the skin of the pomelo—more compact pores near the flesh and the outer surface, and more spaced-out pores in the middle.

🧵Thread: There's eternal confusion on what oil to use for deep frying and the use cases for cold-pressed and refined oils. The following tweets will give you clarity on this matter. #nutrition 1. Choosing the right oil is crucial for deep frying - smoke point, flavour, and cost are key.

At the smoke point, oils begin to break down and produce smoke, releasing harmful compounds and altering flavour.

10 things I did in #Kolkata in the short time I was there for @TheAKLF
Click here for the video and the list
instagram.com/p/CnhYS8nunWt/ Met up with @sohinichat who took me around vintage Kolkata

🧵Here are 5 basic dietary changes that will drastically improve the blood sugar and insulin profile of diabetics and prediabetics. #WorldDiabetesDay 1. Ditch low-fat or fat-free processed versions of foods. Go for full-fat milk, yoghurt, cheese, coconut milk etc. Fat prevents sugar spikes and offers satiety.
Nature made it that way for a reason.

#WorldDiabetesDay2022

Mixed flours, grated beet, spices, crushed peanuts made into a roti by pressing dough into a Kadai #breakfast Lunch for less than $8

Moong and matki microgreens growing in sieves - WIP pic from day 4 Sprout length 😍

My guest column for @HTBrunch on the true nature of sabudana and the nuance of nutrition which always comes from digging deeper - hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/brun… The complexity and confounding nature of nutrition make it difficult to pinpoint cause and effect, but there is no grey area when it comes to factory-made food products. No good comes from eating these highly processed products.

This ‘celebrity nutritionist’ is known for peddling all kinds of health damaging info, ex: eating every 2 hours (causes hyperinsulinemia, metabolic damage, ripe mangoes for diabetics (causes spike in blood sugar) and now the most ultra processed zero-nutrition food as superfood. What troubles me more is that a reputed publication like @HindustanTimes aiding such quacks in peddling their quackery. So disappointed.

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This Valentine's Day, if you love someone, feed them less. Resist the temptation to use sugary desserts or alcohol as a way to show love or to celebrate every milestone.

Today is Tulsi vivah, a festival with a very interesting backstory. I wrote about using Tulsi in our everyday cooking in my column in @Mint_Lounge

lifestyle.livemint.com/food/cook/how-… There are a few versions in Hindu mythology of how the tulsi plant came to be. One such version has been narrated in the book The Tale of the Tulsi Plant and other studies by C A Kincaid, published in 1908. This is a tale that is told in the Padmapurana.

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2-DG is in the news and there is a quite some conflicting information around it. Let us try and make some sense of it. #2DGDrug 2-DG is short for 2-deoxy-D-glucose, a drug developed by DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation) in collaboration with Dr.Reddy’s Laboratories (DRL).

🧵*Debunking Covid19 prevention and cure myths* 🦠‼️

This is a thread of all the remedies that DO NOT prevent or cure Covid19.

These have been doing the rounds on social media /Whatsapp & many even promoted by media channels, politicians, godmen, famous personalities etc. These fake preventions and remedies can cause more harm than good, and even turn dangerous when people lose valuable time in seeking actual medical help.

Kindly DO NOT share such unverified remedies on your platforms.

Follow the advice of your treating doctor only.

🧵We are facing a terrible time with the second wave of Covid with anxiety and helplessness on every front.

There's a lot of misinformation on food/nutrition in the context of Covid.

I've prepared a diet plan to follow if you have Covid or for a proactive healthy diet. 1/14 To make it simple, here are the 3 categories of foods to eat everyday
1. Foods to improve immunity
2. Foods to reduce inflammation
3. Foods for improved mental health (our mental health is crumbling, whether we realise it or not) 2/14

Few days ago, a neighbour shared a pic of kadhai paneer made by her mom in law. Something about that photo screamed delicious. We all hounded her for the recipe. In a couple of days, she sent us a detailed recipe in the WhatsApp group. #lockdown cooking I have been prepping for it this morning. If there’s enough interest, I’ll share the step by step recipe with photos. This promises to be incredibly tasty ❤️

I’m genuinely concerned that a totally frivolous oped like this gets published in the current times when the world is reeling under the effect of a pandemic. 1. Immunity is not quantifiable. It’s not like how can say my hemoglobin level is 12mg/dl. You cannot say “immunity is 98.8 and therefore “toughest”.

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Indian breakfasts are the best.

Idlis, with chutney / Podi / sambar/ anything else you prefer Masala dose at Vidyarthi Bhavan #bengaluru