by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
A calorie is a unit of energy. In the nutrition world, a calorie is the potential energy in the foods that you consume and which the body uses to perform various actions. Calories are derived from the three macronutrients in the food: carbohydrates, proteins, and fats...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Both honey and cinnamon are natural foods that on their own, bestow so many amazing benefits on your body. Combination of these two medicinal foods gives you that extra synergistic effect of their health advantages. Since centuries this mix has been used as a cure in...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Raw organic honey is the best honey to buy. Choose this honey because it is unprocessed and therefore, maintains all the nutritional ingredients of honey in it. Processing involves pasteurization, heating, and filtering of the raw honey, which takes away its natural...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Long before modern medicine strode into life, man has been using honey both as food and as medicine. That honey is being used since ancient times for its nutritional health benefits only proves its time-proven advantages. What makes honey so valuable to health is its...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Natural raw honey is the sweet food formed by the bees in their hives using the concentrated nectar of the flowers, which they collect in their mouth. This, the bees do by mixing their enzymes with the nectar of the flowers. The honey is then stored in their hives....
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
This post describes how the bees make honey from the nectar of the flowers and how they store it. We have also explained the nutritional ingredients that make up the composition of honey. What exactly is honey? Honey is a thick, golden liquid produced by bees. These...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Planning your diet for optimum health benefits goes a long way to prevent any major health problems. As far as the macronutrients fats are concerned, you should incorporate foods that contain the right type of fats to obtain the best benefits. Your dietary fats are of...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Trans fat, also referred to as trans-unsaturated fatty acid or trans fatty acid, is a type of unsaturated fat. It is of two types: One that occurs naturally in minute amounts in meat and milk fatThe other that is artificially manufactured for use in processed foods to...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
As mentioned in the earlier post on fats, you have saturated fats, the unsaturated fats, and the trans fats. Of these, the unsaturated fats are the healthy fats while the other two are categorized as unhealthy. Unsaturated fats are again sub-classified as...
by Dr. Sanjiv Khanse | Nutrition
Definition Monounsaturated fat is a type of healthy fat that exists in your diet. The other healthy dietary fat is polyunsaturated fat. Eating these healthy fats and replacing the saturated fats and the trans fats with these unsaturated fats is a fit choice that...
