In this video renowned Registered Dietician Miloni Sancheti, educates children about the different food groups. She talks about the advantages of all the different kinds of foods and also what a perfect plate of food should look like. She reinforces the fact that we must eat locally available food which is cooked in a healthy

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One of the themes for the National Nutrition Month this year is identification of children suffering from “Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM)”. The importance of nutrition in the first 1000 days of a baby’s life is paramount. Unfortunately, today we are dealing with a #double #burden where not only do we have to deal with increasing

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Very proud to be a part of this committee of experienced bariatric surgeons in India to help in formulating these important guidelines for resumption of #bariatricsurgery during the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic.   #Obesity has emerged as one of the most serious risk factors affecting the severity and prognosis of COVID 19 infection. Till date,

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During this pandemic, surgical decision making has leaned towards being conservative. Being available for patients and seeing them in person makes a huge difference to the final outcomes. Sometimes it’s just a hunch, a gut feeling that it is not what it appears to be. Pain in the right lower abdomen more often than not

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Just as the lockdown opened up, my husband and I resumed our daily morning walks. On one Sunday morning, we were just about a hundred meters from our complex and two bikers came in and snatched the chain from my neck. Before we could react they fled. Later we were told that rising unemployment and

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