diet

The Genealogy of Taste

Shylashri Shankar

What the food habits of childhood can do to our life

Fasting and Feasting

Dr Ambrish Mithal

Is it fine to keep the body stressed for so long?

The Body Politics of Taste

Shylashri Shankar

What our ancestors ate continues to influence our palate

Dietary Supplement: Pop Goes the Pill

Sonali Acharjee

Valued at over $2 billion, the dietary supplement market in India promises buyers an irresistible cocktail of convenience, choice and good health

Diet: In Praise of Dal-Rice

Rujuta Diwekar

In following Western dietary guidelines, we have given up our own food wisdoms handed down the generations by the women in our homes

Greeks, Dukes And the Art of a Perfect Diet

Shylashri Shankar

The problem we face today in India and many other parts of the world is that we straddle two conflicting ways of thinking about the relationship between health, food and taste

Uncooked To Perfection

Lhendup G Bhutia

Fancy living on a diet of raw food? Many are doing it

The Last Free Lunch

Kalpish Ratna

The only way to evade diabetes is to stop evading responsibility for what we eat

The Rs 90,000 Diet That Crashed

Haima Deshpande

It was meant to knock off 20 kilos in 20 weeks, but if the fiscal setback was a shock, so was the physical cost—gnawing hunger, mortifying hairfall and dry skin