Positive thoughts and nutrients nourish and nurture

Joan Collins, the great Hollywood Diva says she doesn’t give her own age (73 years) much thought. But she does get startled whenever she sees it mentioned in print: “Wait a minute,” she says to herself. “That can’t be right. It’s impossible!” That’s because Collins truly believes you are as young as you look and feel. No matter how much...

Sometimes the inquiry into origins of food can prove out to be illuminating. Consider the non-cereal Rajgira: it looks like poppy seeds (khus-khus) and is often used as substitute for cereals like wheat and rice during religious fasting days in western India. Rajgira is venerated for its ritual purity -- seems as Indian as Indian can be. But few people know of its exotic origins; fewer still...

A fitness fanatic friend of ours slipped and badly injured his hip and wrists during the recent rains. His `huff and puff’ routine was in jeopardy. To get his daily workout, he even tried walking. But it wasn’t good enough. When a team from the University of Alberta compared a 10,000-step exercise programme with a more traditional fitness regime of moderate intensity, the researchers found...