How to minimize FOOD CRAVINGS What are Food Cravings? Cravings are a powerful urge, seemingly irresistible desire to eat something very sugary and fatty (generally foods high in calories) to fulfill a lack of energy, to soothe unhappiness, to de-stress.
Wanting More and More In the second part of our series on Eating Disorders, Smriti Daniel speaks to Consultant Dietician Sigrid de Silva about Compulsive Overeating
ED no longer a ‘Western’ Malady By Smriti Daniel We’re used to thinking of eating disorders (ED) as a purely western malady, but Consultant Dietician Sigrid S. De Silva has noticed a disturbing trend in recent years. Some of her youngest patients have been diagnosed as having anorexia or bulimia, while others complain of compulsive […]
Fad Diets are Injurious to Health! The currently observed trend of extreme diets, such as the now commercialized ‘Keto Diet’ (previously only known as a severely restricted ketogenic diet, difficult to prepare and adhere to, a clinical diet to treat serious juvenile epileptic fits, since the ketogenic diet may reduce multiple, daily episodes possibly due to […]
Are YOU Complaining of Hair Loss? In most cases excessive Hair Loss is a symptom! Today, possible reasons for excessive Hair Loss [above 100 hairs per 24 hours] can be (in no particular order):