Category Archives: Health & Nutrition
Why Rancid Cooking Oil is Bad For You?
When it comes to the health of our families, we make sure we purchase a heart friendly healthy cooking oil, even if it is a little pricier. Then how is it that our oil still becomes distasteful? Just as foods become rancid due to excessive exposure to air, water, or light, cooking oil, too, becomes rancid and unfit to use.
What is rancid oil?
For most, rancid oil is not a common cooking terminology, yet we’ve all come across it or Read More...
10 Unknowing Ways We Make Food Less Nutritious
Many of us are highly concerned about what we cook and when we cook, though still end up inadvertently making our food less nutritious. We go to the best places to source our ingredients and buy the ‘good quality’ vegetables that are healthy for our families, but do we ever think of how we cook or whether we are cooking correctly?
Here are 10 unknowing ways we’re making our food less nutritious:
Boiling vegetables
Vegetables are a very important part of our Read More...
Can a ‘Junk Food Tax’ Work?
Kerala becomes the first state in the country to introduce a ‘fat’ tax on junk food in the country in order to promote healthy eating. This comes in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) advocacy of using fiscal tools to promote healthy eating.
While debatable and something that can be construed as a ‘naïve’ prescription for health, we view this as an important health measure undertaken by the state government in response to the rapidly increasing obesity in the Read More...