What is better, eating fruits or drinking fruit juices?
Want to share a recent experience before answering this. I was with my best friend last Saturday. A much-awaited get together! Gossiping, shopping, sharing! Just one change …eating replaced by dieting! I planned to eat momos, pasta, and what not! To all my dismay, She was on a diet. I know I was wrong, but my excuse was, “Momos has veggies, you can eat it!” Hers was, “Nhi yar, I will have juice!”She was very true in her approach until she opted for juice! Just like to highlight few major points on fruits vs. juices. My readers are wise enough to decide which is better!Fruits have fibers. These fibers improve your gut health. Juices are devoid of pulp (in most cases)and thus no fibers.Fruits have fruits sugar (fructose), fibers, and other essential vitamins and minerals. The juices retains concentrated sugars.Fruits when eaten as snacks relieves your hunger pangs and provide enough but not excess calories to perform day-to-day work.Fruits make you feel fuller for longer and thus help avoid binge-eating on fast foods. Fruits are just fluids, so you can still fill eatables to the rim.Fruit fibers help decrease glycemic index (GI) of overall meals as they are slowly digested, juices are digested quickly and have high GI.Fruits eaten at right time and right amounts do not cause instant spike in blood glucose levels. Juices are a complete No No for diabetics as they cause instant rapid increase in blood sugar levels.Fruits are natural power source of nutrients. Juices may come with additives, preservatives, and extra calories.Heat in blenders while preparing juices, can at times denature nutrients within the fruits.Last but not the least, few very very important tips:-You can choose fresh fruit juices over cold drinks and cocktails when eating out (at least less harm than others, but resist if you can).-Fresh fruit juice is less harmful version of canned fruit juice.-Fruit smoothies are better than fruit juices-Cold-pressed juices may be healthier, but no processing is always betterFor those, who want to read it short, the bottomline is :Nutrientwise Ranking: Whole fruits > Fresh fruit juice > Cold pressed fruit juice > Canned fruit juice > Fruit flavored synthetic drinks
Can I take probiotics, Omega 3 and Turmeric Curcumin together?
Yes that is a great combination. Omegas are great brain food, curcumin shines as an anti inflammatory and probiotics provide great gut bacteria. They will not interfere with each other.
What are the best foods when you're sick?
In India, as kids, we ate stuff such as “Khichdi”, ”Daliya with milk” as the food when you are not well. Banana is another fruit that you can take when you have either lose motion or say when you have constipation. It works. The list is long, depending on which region or country you belong to. Also, I think it depends on the type of sickness. I remember once, I had a very bad food poisoning and the stuff that helped me over come it is something known as “Curd Rice”.The story goes something like this.I was young and had a bit too many the previous last night. Didn't know when to stop and next day when I woke up, had to go to toilet at least 4 times and vomited at least 5 times. Felt like my intestines will come out of my mouth if I vomit one more time. I was throwing from both ends. Couldn't even keep a bit of water in my stomach. On top of it, had to catch an international flight the same night, for which I have to first travel from a place called Mysore to Bangalore by road and than take a flight from there to Mumbai and than to Amsterdam.On route to Bangalore to catch my first flight, sleeping in back of the taxi, I called and asked a friend to get me some medicines and he asked his doctor dad and got me a anti vomit tablet and curd rice. Essentially you just mix curd and rice together and it has cooling and stabilizing affect on your stomach. I somehow ate it and took the medicine. After around 30 mins, I was already feeling better and thinking, “now i can catch a flight”. May be it was medicine or may be curd rice or may be both but whatever it was, it made me better again.And of course, I promised not to be that drunk ever and I believe, I have kept that promise to myself :).On food of choice during sickness, the list can be big, but I think if you eat the stuff popular in your geography as a food of choice for that type of sickness, that is often a better choice than picking up new food for your tummy during sickness.Cheers, To health and happiness!
What are the best whey protein brands in India? Where can I buy them in Bombay?
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