Food
The 5 Foods to Eat Every Day
“Superfoods” lists promise five magic foods. The truth: it’s the characteristics — fiber, nutrients, whole foods — that matter, not the specific names.
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Indian cooking, recipes and food culture, from regional dishes and festival sweets to the restaurants and kitchens of the diaspora.
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Food
Mooli, the Little-Known Radish
Daikon — mooli — is a culinary foundation across Asia and a digestive aid in traditional medicine. On the radish hiding in plain sight.
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Should Children Be Drinking Juice at All?
Even 100% fruit juice contributes to childhood obesity and tooth decay. On what juicing removes, what the pediatric guidelines say, and why water wins.
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The High-Fat Diet That Quiets Seizures: Ketogenic Therapy for Epilepsy
The ketogenic diet — a 1920s epilepsy therapy revived by one family's story — quiets seizures where drugs fail. On food as medicine, and its limits.
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Pie or Not - This Thanksgiving
The pumpkin pie debate is not about pie — it is about memory. On food traditions, addition over substitution, and multicultural Thanksgivings.
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In India — the World's Largest School Lunch Program
The Mid-Day Meal Scheme feeds 120 million Indian schoolchildren daily. Akshaya Patra, its largest NGO partner, drew praise from Obama on his 2010 India visit.
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Indian Spiced Thanksgiving
Yogurt-marinated turkey, spiced gravy, cashew-and-raisin stuffing. Where Indian spicing genuinely improves Thanksgiving — and where it doesn't.
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Indian Recipes for Thanksgiving
Sweet potatoes with mustard seeds beat sweet potatoes with marshmallows. An Indian American Thanksgiving: two generous cuisines, one table.
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An Indian Thanksgiving
Turkey alongside biryani, gulab jamun after pumpkin pie. How Indian American families made Thanksgiving their own — and made it better.
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Families Dining Out More
Urban Indian families eat out more than ever before — and the family meal was never just about food. What's gained, what's lost, what's worth saving.
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Buffets: A Total Waste of Your Money and Your Tummy
The all-you-can-eat buffet runs on one reliable miscalculation: that eating more equals better value. The economics — and the food — say otherwise.
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Diabetes Diet — Diabetes Is on the Rise, But There's a Solution
Diabetes is rising fastest in India — and type 2 is overwhelmingly a lifestyle disease. What science says about food, and what Ayurveda said centuries earlier.
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