Cholesterol is oil like sticky substance,  more like oil that gets into your kitchen sink and eventually sticks to the walls of the pipe. Our liver produces cholesterol and sends those all over the body through blood. If we have more cholesterol than required, it is going to keep roaming around...

Sugar is 100% simple carbohydrate with 100% empty calories with no nutritional value whatsoever. On the extreme side, Water is the only known consumable with Zero calories and Zero carbohydrates.

It is not that calories are bad. Calories are the cost we pay to get something in return. That 'something...

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When you go to the supermarket breakfast aisle next time, check the breakfast cereals. Most of them will have MUESLI printed in big font. This is something similar to most schools calling themselves International. Whatever sells! There is a lot of difference between MUESLI and simple CEREAL.

One of t...

February 17, 2017

I just came back from a Triathlon Event in GOA – India. It was an Olympic distance event where I first swam 1.5 km in the ocean, and then cycled for 40 km. It ended with 10 km of running on a hot, sunny day. This is my second consecutive year at GOA for this event. I took 3 hours an...