Diet Basics

Nutritional requirements age wise: Childhood

A child’s nutritional requirements vary as his age progresses. The child requires more amount of nutrients and energy during his growing.......

How Many Meals should One Eat Daily?

How many meals should one eat daily? : Having smaller infrequent meals, i.e. 6 times rather than 3 in a day helps you lose.......

Things You Didn’t Know About Fat

Things about Fat: Over the years, we have been hearing health risks of eating excess fat, or health benefits of low-fat diet. Here are some useful things about fat that you might not be familiar.......

10 Things you must Know about Metabolism

Diet Basics - Know the essential facts about metabolism. It will help you to keep it healthy at all.......

Metabolism Myths and Facts

Diet Basics - There are a lot of myths about metabolism and how one can influence it. This article dispels some of.......

How Antioxidants Work?

Diet Basics - For balanced and healthy body, you need the antioxidants and oxidation process in your body to balance out each.......

5 Dieting Mistakes We Make

Common dieting mistakes people.......

Winter Diet Basics

If one had to pick a season for the best kinds of foods, it would have to be winter. The season where the brilliance of Punjabi cuisine shows up in every morsel, and the extra weight it gives us can....

Ways to avoid overeating this festive season

Festive season involves eating and consuming large amounts of food or excessive amounts of unhealthy foods. Here are some smart tips that you can apply to your binging.......

Importance of Balanced Diet

Importance of Balanced Diet - It is very important to take a balanced diet as it helps in metabolism, maintains body weight and fulfills the nutient requirement of the.......

Top 10 Brain Boosters

Diet basics- Your eating habits significantly affect your brain. Here are some of the food that can boost your memory and it's overall.......

Essential Nutrients in Vegetarian Diet

Diet Basics- If you are a vegetarian or are planning to become one then make sure to include essential nutrients in your vegetarian diet. Make sure that you consume adequate quantity of iron, vitamin ....

How to Test Drinking Water Quality

Some ways to keep a check on drinking water.......

FAQs on Importance of Water

Madhuri Ruia, celebrity  dietician, answers few questions on importance of water in our diet. Read and get your facts right.......

Information of Expiration Dates

Best before or sell by Feb 20-2010, is the type of information that you often find on food products especially perishable ones. Are these dates needed? Is it safe to use the products after that date? ....

High Calorie Foods

Whether you need food high in calories depends on your agenda---like if you are on a diet for weight loss eating high calorie food is not a good idea. But if you are underweight or want to gain muscle....

Nutrition Supplements for Kids

Most parents try to teach their children healthy eating habits but children love to eat refined, fried, fast, and junk food. Vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients are essential for your child’....

Learning about fats

Fats are made of fatty acids and glycerol, and are needed for both growth and energy. The body uses fat for synthesizing several hormones as well. As the fats are metabolized slowly they are the slowe....

Supplements in your Diet

The word supplement means in addition to, or added to a complete thing to make it stronger. Dietary supplements are also called Nutritional supplements or Food supplements. They are available in powde....

Types of Vitamin Deficiencies

The lack of certain vitamins can cause various medical conditions, even if other aspects of the diet are adequate. Such as: Vitamin C deficiency/ascorbic acid deficiency: Scurvy and weak immune syste....