Every Pure Bites article tagged weight management.
Everyday eating
How much cooking oil should one person use in a day?
India’s dietary guidelines put added oil and fat at 20–50 g a day depending on how active you are — about 27–30 g on a 2,000 kcal diet. What that is in teaspoons, in a month’s shopping, and where a fried snack fits inside it.
Nutrition & health
I have been prescribed a GLP-1 medicine and I am vegetarian. What should I actually eat?
GLP-1 medicines shrink appetite, so every small meal has to carry more. What a published expert advisory says about protein, fibre, fluids and the nutrients to watch — translated to dal, paneer, curd and sprouts, with the limits of that translation stated.
Nutrition & health
Paneer, tofu or soya chunks — which is the best protein for the money, and are soya chunks actually healthy?
Three vegetarian proteins, three very different foods. Paneer is the richest and fattiest, tofu the lightest, soya chunks the cheapest by a mile per gram of protein — with a taste and a texture that need a cook. The numbers per 100 g, the cost per 20 g of protein in Surat, what the soya research says, and where each belongs.