Tag: superfoods
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Negative food messages may lead to unhealthy choices
It is bad for you…is that why it looks so good? Recent research published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research reveals that messages telling dieters that all sugary snacks are bad to make those snacks all the more compelling. Is that why a cupcake looks so appealing? As do fries, chocolate, and…
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Can the right diet help beat diabetes?
With as many as 50 million people suffering from Type-2 diabetes, India is the diabetes capital of the world. The burden is expected to increase further in the years to come with the WHO estimating a spike of 58 percent, from 51 million people in 2010 to 87 million in 2030. But what is diabetes?…
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5 reasons that raw jackfruit is a superfood
Jackfruit is one of the least known superfoods. It means many things to many people. Like the five blind people who explored the elephant, jack fruit means five different things depending on where you grew up in India. It can be a fruit, nut, vegetable vegan meat or a carbohydrate. Most people from the South…
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7 Indian superfoods that should be a part of your diet
To most of us, superfoods mean exotic foods such as kale, broccoli, blueberries, acai berries, Greek yogurt and olive oil. Recent research, however, shows that traditional Indian food items also deserve superfood status. These 7 local and traditional foods rank higher than exotic items any day: Ghee Once dismissed for its “fatty” nature, ghee today…
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Cauliflower Power – Healthy Cauliflower Recipes
Jasminder Nagra may have scoffed at aloo gobhi as she tried to Bend it Like Beckham but her mum seems to have known more than she let on. The humble cruciferous cousin of broccoli, kale and kohlrabi has a lot going for it. Loaded with vitamins, minerals and cancer-fighting phytochemicals, the cauliflower is a powerhouse…