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    Food Craving - Why & How to Fight it?

    Did you know that some cravings have a psychological basis - you want what you can't have. Other cravings have a physiological basis. Your body produces chemicals that send messages throughout your nervous system that tell you how to feel.
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    Food Poisoning

    Food is a perishable commodity and requires careful handling and storage. Ingestion of contaminated food with harmful bacteria or microorganism causes food poisoning.
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    Maintaining Food Hygiene

    The word 'Delhi Belly' is a term which is familiar to most foreigners visiting India. The Urban Dictionary defines Delhi Belly as "Diarrhea or dysentery contracted from eating Indian (i.e. from India) food". It is also known as Bombay belly, Traveller's d
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    Tomatoes- A Super Food

    Tomato is an important ingredient in Indian cooking and food preparation. Any curry without tomato is incomplete. This fruit-vegetable has many benefits to fight against different health conditions. It contains Lycopene which fights against diseases.
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    Summer Food

    Summer is the time to get active with picnics, summer cocktails, and barbecues and innumerable trips to the ice cream shop which usually means consuming a lot more calories than any time in the year.
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    Vegetable Fried Rice

    Serves: 2   Ingredients:   2 cups cooked rice, long grained, preferably one day old 1 tsp. garlic puree 1/2 tsp. ginger puree 2 tsp. vegetable oil 1/2 tsp. sesame oil 1 tsp. sambal oeleck (or any hot sauce - optional) 1 cup mixed
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    Green Pea Mint Cold Soup

    Serves: 2   Ingredients:   1 cup frozen green peas 1 cup vegetable broth 1 chopped onion 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 tablespoon spring onion 2 tablespoon chopped mint Salt Pepper   Method:   In a frying pan,
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    Avocado and Cilantro Soup

    Serves: 2   Ingredients:   2 cups chicken broth 1 ripe avocado 2 tablespoon fresh coriander 150 ml sour cream Salt Pepper   Method:   Heat the chicken broth. Chop the avocado flesh coarsely. Stir the choppe
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    Akki Roti

    1. The state of Karnataka has a scrumptious cuisine. Staple food for the people of Karnataka is rice, jowar (millets) and raggi. Tradition Karnataka meals are served on a patravali (banana leaf) or muttuga (leaves stitched together). Sesame and gr
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    Badshahi Kichidi

    Bengali Food is Known for its spicy, aromatic and mouthwatering flavours. Bengali Cuisine generally consists of a variety of rice dishes and fresh water fish delicacies. Bengali Food enlists delicious rice main courses, curries, fish dishes, chick
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    Diabetes

    Diabetes is characterized by an abnormally high level of blood glucose in the urine. It results from relative lack of insulin which leads to abnormalities in carbohydrate metabolism and the metabolism of protein and fat. Ancient scholars of Ayurveda
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    Acidity

    Acidity is a common problem now-a-days. The excess production of acid by the gastric glands of the stomach, results in the condition known as acidity. It occurs when hydrochloric acid, an important constituent of digestive juices, makes its way upwa
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    Obesity

    Obesity is the most common nutritional disorder, particularly among the affluent, all over the world. Obesity may be described as a condition characterized by excessive deposition of fat in the body. It is usually a result of consuming food in quanti
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    Jaundice

    Jaundice is the most common of all liver disorders. It is a condition in which yellow discoloration of skin and mucous membrane occurs. The yellow color is a result of the increase in the level of bilirubin (a bile pigment) in the blood. This pigment
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    Insomnia

    Insomnia literally means a complete lack of sleep. However, in practice it is used to denote a relative inability to sleep. In other words, it is difficulty in falling asleep or difficulty in remaining asleep, early final awakening or combination of
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    9 Out Of 10 Indians Are Vit D Deficient.

    A recent visit to my daughter’s Pediatrician seemed like a Tsunami had washed over me. Sitting impatiently in the waiting area for an hour, the unpleasant purple poster kept glaring at me. "9 OUT OF 10 INDIANS ARE VIT D DEFICIENT";
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    Happy HEALTHY Easter

    The DesiDieter team would like to wish everyone a Hop, hop, hoppy & Healthy Easter! In our endeavor to make your (and our own) life healthier, here are some ideas to make this Easter a little healthy for all: For the Easter egg hunt: Kids love t
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    Ask The Diet Expert

    On account of Health Awareness Campiagn At DesiDieter, We Answer All Your Queries And Share Them With All Our Readers. Bringing You Some Interesting Q & A's What is the ideal way to start a day? Start your day with a combination of carbohydrate
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    Physical Activity Improves Academic Performance

    Healthy body does lead to a healthy mind is just not a fancy phrase. Science and research proves the direct correlation between a healthy body and healthy mind.   According to a study, which involved 1.2 million people, better cardiovascular f
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    Summer Fun-Mango Granita

    With the mango season just around the corner-here is a simple dessert for those days when you want to have something ‘icy’!   Ingredients: Mango-3 cups cubed Water-1 cup Sugar- 1 tbsp. (can be omitted if the mangoes are very s
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Veg Wholesome Meal

A quarter plate of tomato basil penne with a teaspoon of cheddar cheese and an orange.

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