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We all will probably agree to the fact that cooking during the winters is no less than a struggle. For instance, the cold water used to clean vegetable and fruits makes our fingers go numb. Hence, we are in constant search for recipes that can help reduce the time we spend in the kitchen. And the first name that pops up in mind is a heart-warming bowl of khichdi. Healthy and wholesome, khichdi spells comfort. In fact, this one-pot dish is a go-to option for all in every good and adverse situation. It is quick, easy and needs just a few ingredients for preparation. While a bowl of khichdi can be not-so-appealing for some people, it also gives enough room for experimentation. Adding ghee, spices and a few ingredients can spruce up a bland and boring khichdi in a jiffy.

Besides being a go-to food, it also makes a nutritious meal for all. Here we bring a healthy khichdi recipe that includes protein-packed sprouts (instead of dal) in the recipe. For the uninitiated, sprouting is basically the process of seed germination that makes them yet more nutrient-rich.

For this recipe, we also used soya bean chunks, along with sprouted moong and lobia, which makes the dish ideal for daily consumption. And the best part is, you can prepare this dish in just 10-15 minutes. Let's find out the recipe!

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Half cup sprouted moong

Half cup sprouted lobia

1 cup of rice

Half cup soya bean chunks

1 tomato, cubed

1 teaspoon ginger paste

1 dry red chilli

1 teaspoon jeera

Half teaspoon hing

2 tablespoon ghee

1 teaspoon turmeric powder

Half teaspoon jeera powder

Half teaspoon coriander powder

Salt, as per taste

Water, as much needed

Heat ghee in a pressure cooker and add hing, dry red chilli and jeera. Cook till the jeera splutter.

Add ginger paste and fry till the raw smell goes.

Add tomato, turmeric powder, jeera-dhania powder and salt and cook on medium flame till the mix releases oil.

Add soyabean chunks, sprouts, rice and mix everything together. Fry for 2-3 minutes.

Add the needed amount of water and close the lid. Pressure cook on a medium flame for 3-4 whistle. Switch off the flame.

Open the lid after the vapour releases and mix half teaspoon ghee, garam masala powder and chopped coriander leaves and close the lid for 2 more minutes. You may avoid this step if you want.

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Serve hot with chutney and papad and relish.

Try this recipe at home and make your meal a healthy affair!

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Usain Bolt is not the fastest man alive. In the realm of documented nonfiction, there is no one faster, alive or dead. He is the fastest person, ever.

In the 2012 Olympics, Bolt set a world record of 9.63 seconds at the 100-meter dash, but thats only a small facet of what makes his dominance so remarkable. At the previous games, Bolt became the first sprinter to achieve a double double, where for the second Olympics in a row he won gold medals in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes. In 2012, Bolt won golds in both events again. Even with American runners making admirable wins in all of those same races, no sprinter is better known abroad or stateside than Usain Bolt.

When hes not obliterating world records, Bolt is training to break more of them in his home country of Jamaica. And that training typically consists of very long, very hot days. I try not to eat too much up to a workout, but I stay hydrated. I drink Gatorade throughout the day because its so hot in Jamaica, Bolt, a longtime rep for the brand, says. You have to keep it up throughout the day.

One admittedly small advantage to being the fastest person, ever, is having your own cook. Bolt starts the day with a simple egg sandwich, spends 20 minutes in the weight room, then has a light lunch of pasta with corned beef, or, if he needs to go light on meat, fish. Then his training starts for real. During the day I only eat just enough to have energy for training and to make sure I digest fast enough. But at nights, before I go to sleep, I consume a lot of food. My coach wants me to eat a lot of vegetables, so I do eat more of that than anything else. Ill eat broccoli, but Im not a big fan.

The veggies and grudging broccoli go with yams, meat, and Jamaican dumplings. When Bolt first started running, he was much less regimented. In the past three years Ive really focused on my diet. Initially I just had anything I feel like, but Ive adjusted my diet to eat more vegetables and protein.

"Ill eat broccoli, but Im not a big fan."

When you start with a coach and theres a weight you need to stay at, and every day you have to weigh yourself and watch what you eat. When you get your cravings you just have to look the other way. Thats the hardest part.

And most common craving? Hot wings, he says. Thats the biggest craving that I have, all the time.

BreakfastEgg sandwich

LunchPasta and corned beef

Throughout the dayMango, pineapple, apples throughout the day.

DinnerJamaican dumplings, roasted chicken

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Robbie Williams has shared a fishy tale about his brush with death caused by a seafood diet.

The Angels singer, 46, said that hed been diagnosed with mercury poisoning thanks to a regime that had him eating fish and seafood twice a day.

Williams had thought he was looking after his health, but the toxin reached dangerous levels in his body, leaving him at risk of dying although he admitted the news gave him a strange sort of ego boost.

He told Radio X: Ive got the highest mercury poisoning the doctor has ever seen.

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Do you know what I thought when I heard that? Ive won! Thats how my ego works, Ive got the highestdid you say the highest? Thank you.

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I literally won the mercury award, he joked.

Williams said he had gone for the test on the advice of his wife, Ayda Field, saying she was neurotic about getting lots of health tests.

He added: Anyway, thank God, because I couldve dropped dead of mercury and arsenic poisoning.

Former Take That star Williams has been vegan since 2017 and admitted that the mercury poisoning had been part of what made him change his diet, saying that he went plant-based the next day.

Williams recently debuted the video for his festive song Cant Stop Christmas which features him dressed as Boris Johnson and giving a press conference.

The music video makes reference to the coronavirus pandemic and also includes lookalikes of Sir Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty, and Theresa May.

However, superstar Williams has also said that he thinks his days of topping the singles charts are over and is now concentrating on hitting the top spot in the album charts instead.

He told Smooth Radio: "Im an albums kind of person now, which is wonderful. But I dont even look at the charts now. And I wouldnt even think that I would get anywhere near up there.

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But if I did, it would be a Christmas miracle and Id be very grateful."

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Heather Eicher-Miller, Purdue University

(THE CONVERSATION) The nation has thousands of food pantries, places that give cash-strapped people free food with few questions asked. These organizations can occupy everything from an entire building to a literal pantry as in a few shelves in a church basement.

Most of the estimated 300 million Americans who relied on food pantries in 2017 experienced food insecurity, meaning that they didnt have access to enough food. Even before the pandemic hit, up to half of the people who use food pantries live in food insecurity that is so severe that they sometimes skip meals or dont eat for whole days at a time.

Food insecurity is, by many accounts, an even bigger problem now.

Food pantries get the food they give away from many sources, sometimes making it hard to control nutritional quality as they seek to obtain the right quantity of food. And getting enough healthy food to give away is challenging.

I am a nutrition science researcher who studies what food-insecure Americans eat. My team and I have recently completed several studies on rural food pantries in Midwestern counties. We found four signs that food pantries improve the diets of low-income people.

1. A substantial amount of food

Food pantries are an important source of food.

People typically receive a bag or box containing enough food to serve their family three meals for about three or four days. Most people who use food pantries visit multiple pantries. About half make more than five trips a month to pick up food.

Whats in those boxes and bags accounts for an estimated 36% of what the people who pick them up eat, according to our recent article in the British Journal of Nutrition.

2. A good source of nutrients

Having access to enough food is critical, but the variety, nutrients and quality are also important for long-term health. We asked 613 U.S. Midwestern food pantry clients about the amounts and kinds of food they ate and where that food came from. We found that compared to supermarkets, other stores and restaurants, food pantries provided the most fruit, something that most people in the U.S. at all income levels need to eat more of every day.

Likewise, Americans generally get too little fiber, calcium, vitamin D and potassium, making these nutritional deficits a public health concern even for people not facing economic hardship. We found that the amounts of these nutrients in the items from food pantries were also highest or tied for the highest compared with all other food sources in the diets of people who visit food pantries.

Even so, Americans who use food pantries dont get enough of these nutrients. Another concern is that provisions from food pantries tend to contain too much sodium, something most Americans need to curb.

3. More visits = better nutrition

Making more trips to food pantries often means better nutrition.

Going more than once a month, rather than once a month or less, is linked with a higher-quality diet, or doing a better job of meeting the recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the science-based dietary guidance that the federal government maintains to promote health.

For example, the average American would get a failing grade, with a score of 59% for their consumption of fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy and protein, along with sodium, added sugar and saturated fat. People who rely on food pantries fare even worse.

Those using food pantries once a month or less would score 39%, while those visiting more frequently would score 44%. Higher dietary quality, even just a 5 percentage point gain, may improve someones health and help stave off chronic diseases.

4. A wider variety of food, including whole fruits

Eating a wide variety of food helps meet basic nutritional needs. The day after visiting a food pantry, people ate two more kinds of food compared with what they ate the day before.

Specifically, people who visited a food pantry ate more fruit, including whole fruits such as eating an apple as opposed to drinking a glass of apple juice. Eating more whole fruits is especially helpful because they have a lot of fiber and other nutrients that can help prevent cancer, heart disease and other chronic diseases.

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Certain foods are pretty bad for your teeth and gums. But there are also foods that make them healthier. The bits of food that remain in your mouth after eating are particularly pesky, says dentist Sophya N. Morghem, DMD, MS.

If the food is acidic, sweet, or a simple carbohydrate, it can increase your risk of tooth wear and decay, says Dr. Morghem. Along with that, your food provides nutrients that help remineralize the teeth and keep them strong.

And its not just about the nutrientsthe texture of the food you eat can also impact your oral health.

Corn nuts, candies, sunflower seeds, popcorn kernelsall these can increase the risk of tooth fracture, says Dr. Morghen. Chewing ice can put excessive forces on the teeth leading to an increased risk of fracture as well. Certain foods help cleanse the teeth as you eat and reduce plaque build-up such as raw vegetables and sharp cheese.

When building a diet full of foods for teeth and gum health, registered dietitian Yasi Ansari, MS, RDN, says you want to eat a varied diet full of calcium, phosphorus, and vitamins A, C, and D.

Eating a variety of foods will help to ensure an individual is consuming a wide range of nutrients that can help keep teeth and gums strong and healthy throughout different stages of life, says Ansari, who is a national media spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Ansari says that calcium is great for strong teeth and bones. She suggests eating calcium-rich foods like yogurt, fortified soy beverage, almond beverage, milk, tofu, bok choy, collard greens, and almonds. Phosphorous and vitamin D help to make the calcium we eat even more effective. Phosphorus helps to protect our teeth and helps support calcium in building strong teeth, she says. Vitamin D helps to increase calcium absorption. For phosphorus, she says to eat foods like eggs, nuts, and beans. Youll find vitamin D in fortified foods like cereal and milk and in fatty fish. It is also common to supplement with vitamin D since it can be hard to get all of ones daily needs through food alone, says Ansari.

These are a dieticians favorite foods rich in vitamin D:

Foods rich in vitamins A and C can help support your hum health. Pumpkin, sweet potatoes, and carrots are great sources of vitamin A. For vitamin C, Ansari recommends tomatoes, bell peppers, mangos, and citrus fruits. Be mindful of citrus fruits as consuming too many foods higher in acid can cause damage to ones tooth enamel, says Ansari.

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To get the most out of these nutrients, Ansari recommends eating them regularly. I encourage a daily eating pattern that includes these foods as part of a well-balanced intake and one that includes a variety of nutrients, she says.

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In the face of so much uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, its tempting to search for answers that might help you regain some sense of control over your life. You might, for instance, find yourself reading the advice of self-appointed health experts and social media gurus, who love to make overblown and often blatantly inaccurate claims about using diet to avoid getting seriously ill from the novel coronavirus and spreading it to other people.

Their arguments can be summed up like this: A population full of strong bodies would effectively stanch the pandemics spread and hasten our return to normalcy. Also, eating the right food and fortifying ones immune system (through vitamins, etc.) is enough to personally inoculate oneself from the worst effects of COVID-19.

As science, its garbage. Worse, emphasizing healthy eating above all else is a way of casting doubt on the necessity of masks, social distancing and, on occasion, the efficacy of vaccines.

This focus on diet is shared by alternative-health gurus, medical quacks, social media grifters, and at least one celebrity chef and former presidential candidate. These people often dont deny Covids existence, or even its virulence. But they often imply that the climate of fear surrounding the pandemic is overblown and that mainstream authorities have deliberately ignored the issue of diet in their safety messaging. The true pandemic, they say, is Americas longstanding preponderance of diet-related disease, such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and obesity.

Perhaps youve seen these ideas echoed by friends on social media, where they tend to proliferate. Or maybe youve seen the misinformation emerge at its source: by various influencers or public figures who advance these claims online, often to audiences in the tens of thousands.

One particularly brazen tweet that was devoid of much context came from the UKs Aseem Malhotra, a cardiologist who cites dieting as something of a panacea in the fight against COVID.

As Nicola Guessassociate professor at the UKs University of Westminster and Head of Nutrition at the Dasman Diabetes Institutetells Lifehacker, diet is and has always been an important aspect of ensuring overall health. But there is zero evidence to support claims that eating healthier will protect one from contracting COVID or succumbing to its more serious effects.

She writes in an email:

Eating a healthy diet and...exercise is sensible as it protects us from a lot of diseasesin my view there is no evidence and no justification for pinning healthy eating on COVID-19 (unless you have something to sell). Is it worth trying to eat more healthy during a pandemic if theres a chance it could protect you against severe infection? Sure, because there are no downsides to eating less sugar, junk food etc. Lets just not pretend that its going to prevent someone from getting COVID-19 and even dying from it there are 23-year-old slim athletes who have sadly died.

Eating healthy, exercising, and taking vitamins when needed are great ways to ensure your personal health in a general sensethis is knowledge backed up by over a century of scientific study. Still, its no substitute for a coherent public health policy involving traditional epidemiological tools in the midst of a raging pandemic. Heres what you need to know about the culture of dietary zealotry and how you can spot it in its many forms.

In recent years, dietary evangelists have accrued an increasing deal of clout in the public sphere. The craze has been spurred on by celebrities such as Gweneth Paltrow, whose wildly popular lifestyle brand Goop has touted raw food diets deemed potentially deadly by experts. Podcast host Joe Rogan has also helped amplify the dietary claptrap of Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who advocates a strictly carnivorous diet (both Peterson and his daughter, Mikhaila, claim a red meat diet cured their long standing bouts of depression).

Much of the dietary fundamentalism preaches different methods for boosting general immunity and thus warding off Covid. Paul Saladino, for example, a doctor based in Austin, Texas, recommends chowing down on organ meats and steak. The doctor T. Colin Campbell, on the contrary, is an advocate of whole food, plant-based dieting. He wrote this year: I doubt there are many people who will be content with repeated masking, social distancing, and contact tracing when changing our diet could do so much more, while simultaneously protecting social norms, job security, and our economy. UK celebrity doctor Aseem Malhotra, meanwhile, published a book promising a 21-day route to immunity through conscientious dieting that purports to prevent, improve and even potentially reverse the factors that can cause or worsen COVID-19.

Adherents of the trend arent always doctors. Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans was fined $25,000 by the countrys Therapeutic Goods Administration this year after making outlandish online claims about a device he invented called a Biocharger. Evans was charging $14,000 for the wellness platform, which he claimed was programmed with a thousand different recipes and theres a couple in there for the Wuhan coronavirus. The idea seeps into the echo chambers of YouTube and Instagram, but isnt confined to social media influencers: former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson joined in as well.

David Gorski, M.D., an oncologist and editor at Science-Based Medicine, says the notion that diet can prevent or treat illness is nothing new. The idea that diet can somehow magically enhance the immune system so that we never (or almost never) get sick is a very old alternative medicine fantasy that takes a grain of truth and then vastly exaggerates it.

This kind of dietary dogma is often devoid of the scientific nuance that pervades modern immunology, especially in light of COVID-19s recent emergence and our evolving understanding of the virus.

Dr. David Robert Grimes, a cancer researcher, physicist, and author of The Irrational Ape, builds on that point, saying: dietary zealots often make vague statements about protecting ones immune system, but this is at best a truism and at worst mindless. He explained to Lifehacker that this thinking showcases a complete lack of understanding about immunology.

According to Grimes:

Boosting your immune system is often the last thing you want to do; ask anyone with an allergy, being attacked by their own immune system, for example. During Spanish flu, young healthy people died disproportionately because their immune system over-reacted. Not only do diet evangelists give too much credit to diets ability to modulate immune response, they fail to understand any subtlety whatsoever with it.

Its important to note that many of those who preach the dietary gospel are entrepreneurs or authors in their own right. Saladino peddles dietary supplements in addition to his book; an anonymous meat evangelist who goes by @KetoAurelius on Twitter sells beef liver strips along with a hyper-masculine mantra that lauds the supremacy of beef while casting doubt on the severity of the pandemic.

The appeal of healthy eating makes sense as a tantalizing alternative to the uncertainty posed by government-mandated lockdowns, school closures, and the economic calamity wrought by COVID in the face of paltry fiscal stimulus from the federal government. After all, changing your diet is relatively easy, and wouldnt it be great if all it takes is some moderate self-discipline to make a world of difference?

There is an alluring prospect here. It allows anyone who subscribes to this logic to believe theyre equipped with unspoken knowledge that the mainstream medical community is actively ignoring. According to Grimes, the notion gives [people] a sense of power and well-being: they know the causes and cures to disease, and thus they are effectively impervious to them. This sense of control is entirely illusory, but it often flatters the believers ego.

But consciously, or not, theres an implicit level of victim-blaming that necessarily comes with this kind of individualist approachthat whoever succumbs to COVID-19 must have been doing something wrong.

Gorski says theres a definite blame the victim vibe to these claims. They imply that its the victims fault if he dies of COVID-19 because he didnt eat right or live right. Of course, that leaves out the fact that the biggest risk factors for severe COVID-19 are unalterable: being male and increasing age.

Gorski points out that making individual dietary changes can, in fact, bode enormously positive results in terms of increasing overall metabolic health in the long term, but those lifestyle adjustments often take a huge amount of time.

He tells Lifehacker:

Its possible that by becoming less obese or by partially reversing type II diabetes or heart disease with diet, weight loss, and exercise, one might decrease ones risk of death from COVID-19, but that doesnt help NOW. Such interventions take months to years, not days to weeks.

While youre not going to be able to personally eradicate the spread of misinformation (thats an ongoing job for tech companies), you can equip yourself with enough to recognize all of its hallmarks: it often offers a reductive, quick-fix approach to a multi-faceted dilemma, valorizes individual efforts to protect themselves, sells various lifestyle products, and traffics in inflammatory rhetoric about the current slate of tools used to keep people safe in a pandemic.

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Dear Readers: It seems that most Americans, including me, will be happy to put the year 2020 behind us. No doubt, it's been a tough year. It's difficult to focus on healthy eating during the holidays with so many sweets available, but the new year is just around the corner, and many people will resolve to eat healthier.

TheU.S. News& World Reportranks thirty-five diets every year. A panel of nutrition experts, made up of Registered Dietitians, Professors of Nutrition, and Medical Doctors, evaluates the diets. Assessment is based on seven categories: the ability to produce short-term and long-term weight loss, the ease of following the diet, the diet's ability to prevent heart disease and diabetes, its nutritional value, and its safety.

The #1-ranked diet is the Mediterranean Diet. By now, most of us are familiar with this diet. It is a plant-based meal plan rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, fish, and olive oil. Red meat is eaten no more than once a week, and red wine is often enjoyed with meals. This diet is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes than Western diets. It replaces saturated fat with monounsaturated fat found in olive oil and polyunsaturated fat found in nuts. It is likely the combination of foods in this diet that produces health benefits.

Pro:Allows a wide variety of foods

Con: Some of the dietary restrictions may be challenging.

The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet came in at #2. This meal plan originated in the 1990s when the National Institute of Health (NIH) funded research to determine if nutrition changes alone could lower blood pressure. Researchers found that dietary intervention reduced systolic blood pressure (top number) 6-11 points (1). The DASH diet is a well-balanced plan emphasizing fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, and unsaturated fats. Meat is limited to 6 ounces a day, and salt is below 2300 mg per day. It even allows five servings of sweets each week. Alcohol is permitted in moderation, but remember, these beverages tend to be high in calories.

Pro: Well-balanced, so you're less likely to cheat when your body is adequately nourished.

Con: The restriction in sodium, while very healthy, takes planning and adjustment since we are surrounded by high-salt convenience foods

The Flexitarian Diet, rounding out the top three, is a vegetarian diet that allows meat once in a while. The term "flexitarian" was coined by dietitian Dawn Blatner Jackson. On this diet, you get the health benefits of a vegetarian diet and the satisfaction of a steak when you are craving meat. In her book, Jackson outlines three stages of the diet that gradually decrease the amount of meat in your diet. The goal is to focus on eating more plant foods. Moderate alcohol intake is allowed (2).

Pro: You may save money on your grocery bill since you're not eating less meat. You can also buy your fruits and vegetables at the local farmer's market to save a buck.

Con: The diet could be low in iron.

All of these diets focus on lifestyle changes, which evolve gradually. It takes time. Fortunately, when we eat better, we feel better, giving us encouragement to carry on. Another thing these diets have in common is they all emphasize fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. A healthy diet is well-balanced and allows a variety of foods from all food groups.

Until next time, be healthy!

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Leanne McCrate, RDN, CNSC, is an award-winning dietitian based in St. Louis, Missouri. Her mission is to educate consumers on sound, scientifically-based nutrition. Do you have a nutrition question? Email her today atdeardietitian411@gmail.com. Dear Dietitian does not endorse any products, health programs, or diet plans.

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The novel coronavirus affects the lungs and causes flu-like symptoms and pneumonia. Proper nutrition and hydration are vital with a well-balanced diet. A healthy balanced diet is a key for maintaining good health and immunity. Also Read - How to Apply For Thailand Tourist Visa; All About Its Fees And Validity Period - Happy Holidays!

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1. Ensure a high protein diet: Protein is a major component to build up immunity to fight off infections and protect the body. Good nutrition and protein plays a very important role in your recovery from infections and surgical procedures and helps to regain the strength needed for rehabilitation. It is important to consume at least 1 serving of protein-rich food in each meal/ at least 2-3 servings of protein-rich foods per day. Also Read - Australian Open 2021 Delayed Due to COVID-19, Set to Begin From February 8 in Melbourne: ATP

You can take your source of protein from:

Milk products: You can include cheese, low-fat paneer, curd/yogurt, lassi, or buttermilk.

Eggs- If you are diabetic include egg whites to your diet.

You can include chicken, fish for protein intake.

If you are a vegan, you can opt for different types of Soybean. You can have tofu, soymilk, soya flour, soya nuggets/chunks, soya granules.

You can also take your source of protein from dal/pulses/legume.Tips:

Add paneer blenderized or cubes to soups, dals, vegetables and boiled salads.

Add skimmed milk powder to milkshakes, beverages, gravies, sauces and flour.

Add diced lean meats, cooked eggs, or cheese to sauces, vegetables, boiled salads and soups.

2. Ensure adequate hydration: It is important to maintain hydration during any viral infection. Ensure adequate hydration by drinking water or liquids through the day. Liquids also help reduce the cough and congestion. Water is the best choice. If not water, unprocessed and unsweetened liquids like vegetable soups, chicken soup, lemon juice, buttermilk, milk, etc can be included.

Drink plain, boiled and cooled or warm water. Aim to consume 2.5-3 litres of fluids per day.

Avoid drinking sweetened, sugary and carbonated beverages.

3. Include Omega-3 fatty acids: Omega -3 fatty acids have anti-inflammatory properties. Vegetarian can include nuts like walnuts, almonds, pistachio and oil seeds like flax seeds, chia seeds, soy oil, etc for omega-3 fatty acids. Non-vegetarian can include fish.

4. Eat fresh and unprocessed foods every day: Eat fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains daily. Include at least 2 bowls of fruits and 2-3 bowls of vegetables regularly. Do not overcook vegetables as they may reduce the vitamin content of the food.

5. Include essential fats in moderation: Fats are good source of calories, required for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins. Fats are beneficial for lungs as lubricant/surfactants. Moderate quantity of ghee can be included in meals regularly as it is rich in MCT, easy to absorb. Oils like olive oil, sesame oil, mustard oil, ground nut oil, rice bran oil, and sunflower oil have a good balance of MUFA and PUFA that should be included in moderation.Recommended amount of oil/fat intake: 500 ml per person per month, this amounts to 3 tsp (15 ml) of oil per day per person and 1 tsp (5ml) of ghee per day per person or 4 tsp of oil per day per person. This includes oil in the visible form i.e. oil added to cook the food. It does not include hidden fats in groundnut, coconut and oil seeds used in cooking

6. Include Vitamin-C rich food Vitamin C contributes to immune defense by supporting various cellular functions of both the innate and adaptive immune system. Vitamin C deficiency results in impaired immunity and higher susceptibility to infections. Sources-Amla, guava, capsicum, orange, Lime, amaranth leaves.

7. Include Vitamin-E-rich food Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant and has an ability to modulate host immune functions especially in elderly populations. Sources-Sunflower seeds, pistachio nuts, safflower seeds, Almonds, flaxseeds, garden cress seeds (Halim).

8. Include Zinc rich food-Zinc is crucial for normal development and function of immunecells. Deficiency of zinc is associated with immune dysfunctions. Sources-Cereals, dals, pulses, black til, nuts, seeds, egg, chicken.

9. Include Anti virals from Kitchen No single food is a super food. Using these ingredients in your daily cooking or as tea/concoction may help improve immunity over a period of time.Sources- Ginger, garlic, turmeric, tulsi, neem, lemon grass.

General Guidelines

NO SINGLE FOOD IS A SUPER FOOD.

Do not fall prey to any forwards that claim that consumption or application of certain foods will help prevent or cure certain respiratory tract infection.

Although garlic, ginger, turmeric are known to have antiviral properties, there is no evidence on their role in preventing/ treating infections from respiratory tract viruses.

You may use these antioxidant rich ingredients in your daily cooking.

Food Safety Guidelines

Avoid roadside foods, water and beverages.

Prefer home cooked meals.

Eat well cooked foods only.

Avoid consumption of raw foods.

Salads can be lightly steamed.

Wash your hands thoroughly with soap before eating and drinking as well ascooking/handling food.

Wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly.

Buy non-veg items like chicken, meat and eggs from clean authorized outlets only.

Ensure that food is cooked well (esp. fish, meat and meat products).

Wash food packets (like milk etc) with soap and water thoroughly.

Disclaimer- Viral Respiratory Tract Infections spread through droplets from infected persons. It is important to note that there is no single super food or foods in general which can help cure/prevent/treat the infection. An overall healthy diet will ensure better immunity and lesser chances of getting affected by this epidemic. One must follow all hygiene and food safety precautions published by WHO.

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The nation has thousands of food pantries, places that give cash-strapped people free food with few questions asked. These organizations can occupy everything from an entire building to a literal pantry as in a few shelves in a church basement.

Most of the estimated 300 million Americans who relied on food pantries in 2017 experienced food insecurity, meaning that they didnt have access to enough food. Even before the pandemic hit, up to half of the people who use food pantries live in food insecurity that is so severe that they sometimes skip meals or dont eat for whole days at a time.

Food insecurity is, by many accounts, an even bigger problem now.

Food pantries get the food they give away from many sources, sometimes making it hard to control nutritional quality as they seek to obtain the right quantity of food. And getting enough healthy food to give away is challenging.

I am a nutrition science researcher who studies what food-insecure Americans eat. My team and I have recently completed several studies on rural food pantries in Midwestern counties. We found four signs that food pantries improve the diets of low-income people.

Food pantries are an important source of food.

People typically receive a bag or box containing enough food to serve their family three meals for about three or four days. Most people who use food pantries visit multiple pantries. About half make more than five trips a month to pick up food.

Whats in those boxes and bags accounts for an estimated 36% of what the people who pick them up eat, according to our recent article in the British Journal of Nutrition.

Having access to enough food is critical, but the variety, nutrients and quality are also important for long-term health. We asked 613 U.S. Midwestern food pantry clients about the amounts and kinds of food they ate and where that food came from. We found that compared to supermarkets, other stores and restaurants, food pantries provided the most fruit, something that most people in the U.S. at all income levels need to eat more of every day.

Likewise, Americans generally get too little fiber, calcium, vitamin D and potassium, making these nutritional deficits a public health concern even for people not facing economic hardship. We found that the amounts of these nutrients in the items from food pantries were also highest or tied for the highest compared with all other food sources in the diets of people who visit food pantries.

Even so, Americans who use food pantries dont get enough of these nutrients. Another concern is that provisions from food pantries tend to contain too much sodium, something most Americans need to curb.

Making more trips to food pantries often means better nutrition.

Going more than once a month, rather than once a month or less, is linked with a higher-quality diet, or doing a better job of meeting the recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the science-based dietary guidance that the federal government maintains to promote health.

For example, the average American would get a failing grade, with a score of 59% for their consumption of fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy and protein, along with sodium, added sugar and saturated fat. People who rely on food pantries fare even worse.

Those using food pantries once a month or less would score 39%, while those visiting more frequently would score 44%. Higher dietary quality, even just a 5 percentage point gain, may improve someones health and help stave off chronic diseases.

Eating a wide variety of food helps meet basic nutritional needs. The day after visiting a food pantry, people ate two more kinds of food compared with what they ate the day before.

Specifically, people who visited a food pantry ate more fruit, including whole fruits such as eating an apple as opposed to drinking a glass of apple juice. Eating more whole fruits is especially helpful because they have a lot of fiber and other nutrients that can help prevent cancer, heart disease and other chronic diseases.

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The sitcom Mister Ed ran from 1958 to 1966 and told the tale of a talking horse who fully participated in the life of his human keepers and friends. Mister Ed: Im attending college because I want a Ph.D. Wilbur (his owner): Ph.D.? Mister Ed: Palomino Horse Doctor.

Clearly Ed didnt see many obstacles before him. And if you guys dont want ED (thats erectile dysfunction) to be an obstacle in your life, well, a new study says you should go for a Ph.D. too thats a Pretty Healthy Diet!

Researchers recently mined 16 years of data on more than 21,000 healthy men ages 40 to 75. They found that guys who ate a diet that emphasized vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes and fish or other sources of omega-3 fats, and avoided red and processed meat lowered their risk of developing ED by about 20%.

The study, published in JAMA Open Network, urges men of any age who are concerned about their risk for ED to adopt that healthy eating style. And if youre already contending with sexual dysfunction, those nutritional choices can help you too. A previous study found that they noticeably improve function in men with ED and metabolic syndrome (a collection of issues such as high blood pressure, elevated LDL cholesterol and glucose regulation problems).

So as Mister Eds theme song declares, Go right to the source and ask the horse. Hell give you the answer that youll endorse. In this case, its a plant-based diet with healthy proteins.

Mehmet Oz, M.D., is host of The Dr. Oz Show, and Mike Roizen, M.D., is chief wellness officer emeritus at Cleveland Clinic. To live your healthiest, tune into The Dr. Oz Show or visit http://www.sharecare.com.

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