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September 11, 2018 By Saaimah Parkar 13 Comments

Be it parties, festivals or weddings always eat healthy

always eat healthy

We Asians relate food to almost every occasion. Be it any occasion- happy times or sad, food plays an important role in our lives.

Birthdays remind us of cakes, weddings of a large buffet spread of delicious food and desserts and festivals of all the goodies. India is such a vast country with so many cultures and religions that we celebrate one festival almost every other week. Secondly, we Indians are highly social people and we have loads of relatives who visit us or we visit them, we also have a lot of business meetings taking place over food.

Given this background how does one stay fit? People are constantly making excuses to not exercise or eat healthy. The list is never ending and neither are the excuses to not stay fit.

Why do we make such excuses? The biggest reason being the perception that most have about dieting. Diet to most Indians means eating just salads, fruits and tasteless food and that they are forbidden from eating their favourite foods or desserts. But, little do we realise that dieting is not all about salads or fruits, instead, it is all about achieving the right balance of all the nutrients required in your diet. You can also have that occasional junk but, we need to maintain a right balance between junk and wholesome food.

An average Indian also lacks basic knowledge of foods and is easily fooled by the junk market and not to forget some less aware doctors, dieticians, newspaper articles add more to the confusion. In such a scenario what does one do?

If you ask me I would say anything in excess is bad. You eat too much of salads and raw foods you will end up with a bloated stomach. Therefore the best way to lead a healthy life is to maintain a good balance of the healthy and the not so healthy.

Not all our traditional food is bad. In fact, we have such a unique cooking culture that every region has different cooking styles and this is something that is influenced by the climate, soil fertility and the crops grown and yes, that is what is healthy!

The olive oil that travels from Italy or middle-east is not the trend we should follow, we should stick to our local grown peanut oil (Gujarat/Maharashtra), Sesame (Til) oil (Punjab), Coconut oil (south). So why are we fat and not fit compared to our grandparents and ancestors, despite having so much access to all the information about health and nutrition?

We eat the non-traditional foods such as burgers, pizzas, pasta etc too often and our grandparents traditionally stayed in joint families and worked in farms all day, the food was limited and physical exercise in the form of working on the farm was very high. We have now come down to nuclear families and abundance of food. To cut it short, we need to eat local wherever on the globe we are, because local food is customised to suit local people for better health.

Some tips to eat healthy when eating on many above illustrated occasions:

  • Eat the traditionally fried, baked or sweet foods but in controlled portions
  • Drink more water, at least 3 litres every day, if you stay outside in the sun a lot then you definitely need more water intake.
  • Make the traditional delicacies at home so you know there is no adulteration in the ingredients.
  • On festive occasions like Holi, Eid, Lori relish the milk based sweet drinks (Thandai and Shirkurma, Lassi) all of which contain really healthy spices and nuts.
  • Do not force anybody to eat more, change the trend by avoiding fried food and offering healthy sweets. Also, if someone says they are on a diet, help them follow it and don’t push food down their throat.
  • If possible take tasters of food and appreciate healthy food. However, never mention you are on a diet, trust me you will be the biggest target at the party to eat.
  • If the food is heavy, avoid the dessert. But, if you have a major sweet tooth, eat a smaller main course to accommodate the sweet.
  • Limit alcoholic drinks to 1-2. Banning soda is the best thing you can do for your body.

About Saaimah Parkar

Saaimah Parkar has a long list of degrees. She is a bachelor Home Science, a Msc Cardiovascular rehabilitation and has a post graduate diploma in sports science and nutrition. Thanks to all her degrees and knowledge in Nutrition counselling, preparing weight loss/gain diet charts, Management of Diabetes and PCOD/PCOS she has done her internship at the Asian Heart Institute before gaining experience of working at some of the leading fitness centres. Her job profile entailed prescribing weight loss and weight gain diets to clients apart from paying special attention towards those clients who were suffering from hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hypercholesterolemia and PCOD/PCOS. A black belt in Taekwondo she believes that overall good health can be achieved through a holistic approach and not through dieting or exercising alone. According to her natural foods have great healing powers. She has also researched well on the role of garlic in heart disease. Her other interests lie in experimenting with recipes and coming up with healthier versions, gardening and feels that every person should have a plant associated with them as it contributes to your share of oxygen to the environment. With regard to her own fitness, Parkar likes to run and practicing Taekwondo as it gives her lot of confidence to defend herself. Finally, to distress she practices yoga.

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Comments

  1. Pravin says

    July 5, 2017 at 4:29 pm

    Informative

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  2. Nitesh says

    July 8, 2017 at 5:52 pm

    Very well articulated.. Whatever is written its not that we are not aware but reading this makes us more confident that its easy to follow it. Thanks

    Reply
  3. Rahul says

    July 10, 2017 at 9:14 am

    Thanks for writing this. It helps

    Reply
  4. Viraj Shukla says

    July 10, 2017 at 3:55 pm

    Any thing which is too much or excess leads us to wrong way, just like our over weight…. Everything looks good in balance only whether it is our food or bad habits or weight…..

    Reply
  5. Jennifer says

    July 11, 2017 at 8:20 pm

    Loved the article, makes total sense to eat what is locally grown. Loved your writing style too

    Reply
  6. Vinod Puri says

    July 12, 2017 at 8:43 am

    Excess of everything is bad. Eat In moderation every time. This is the best way to healthy lifestyle. The whole article is very informative. Kindly let us know about the role of garlic in heart disease.

    Reply
  7. Rich Evans says

    July 28, 2017 at 11:16 am

    Celebrations have the tendency to give us excuses to over indulge. If we’re more concerned about our health, though, we can become more conscious of what we eat during these types of events. If we are healthy, we have more than enough reasons to celebrate. Great post as usual. Thanks!

    Reply
  8. Prerna Jatav says

    September 12, 2018 at 9:09 pm

    Hi this is great advice but please elaborate on why soda is bad, m asking about plain unsweetened soda. Is that bad too?

    Reply
  9. Ravi Shankar Dayanand says

    October 20, 2018 at 7:44 pm

    This has to become a prayer in everyone’s lives
    All the best guys, keep fit

    Reply
  10. Wedding Aaha says

    June 11, 2019 at 12:21 pm

    Amazing Article. Thanks for Sharing Valuable information

    Reply
  11. zzeehmarketing says

    April 29, 2020 at 11:57 am

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  12. molagara harika says

    July 16, 2020 at 11:28 am

    Very much explained.. Whatever is composed it isn’t so much that we don’t know however perusing this makes us increasingly certain that its simple to tail it. Much obliged.

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  13. kusuma says

    August 11, 2020 at 11:30 am

    Nice info thanks for sharing with us.

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