25 Apr

Preventing Depression And Boosting Immunity During Corona!

Exercising To Alleviate Depression And Boost Immunity!

Today the world is going through it’s worse crisis since the World Wars. The COVID 19 crisis has brought the world on the brink of disaster. Millions have lost their jobs and millions more will lose them in days to come! Tens of thousands are going to die of Corona and many more due to starvation as economies are collapsing worldwide!

Naturally, a huge number of people are going to suffer from depression in months and years to come.

Depression causes the body to unleash stress hormones, notably cortisol.

High levels of stress hormones lead to hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and strokes. So more people will succumb to these illnesses in the coming days.

Depression lowers our immunity to fight infections and those with low immunity stand little chance of surviving a Corona infection.

Research has proved that exercise is the best and the most potent stress buster. Exercises like brisk walking, jogging, running, swimming, cycling, boost the levels of endorphins, the feel-good neurotransmitters.

Endorphins:

Lower the levels of stress hormones,
Boost energy levels,
Eliminate fatigue,
Act like analgesics and alleviate pain,
Act as sedatives and improve sleep,
Elevate mood,
Alleviate depression.

Exercises:

Boost the levels of endorphins, the feel-good neurotransmitters
Reduce stress
Lift gloom and depression,
Improve self-esteem,
Improve cardiovascular fitness,
Improve lung function,
Lower blood pressure, blood sugar, total cholesterol, and LDL Cholesterol and triglycerides,
Improve HDL Cholesterol,
Protect us from hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and strokes,
And boost immunity.

Thus the best way to get fit and boost our immunity is to exercise adequately.

Most people can take up walking, spot marching, spot jogging at home during this lockdown, to get slimmer, fitter, stronger, more cheerful, more positive and get rid of depression and boost their immunity to fight off the threat of Corona, Also exercise help in weight loss in good health.

You can also use a cardiovascular exercise machine like a treadmill, elliptical trainer, or exercise bike if you have one at home.

And you don’t have to begin big, even one 10 minute session of comfortable paced walk in the morning, one in the afternoon, one in the evening is fine. Increase the pace and time of the walking sessions as you get fitter.

You can even brisk walk for 10 minutes six or more times, or 20 or more minutes thrice if you need to lose weight too.

It is necessary to exercise at least thrice a week, four to five times a week is even better, for alleviating mild depression.

Try walking six times a week to lose weight too.

Working out at a brisk pace and keeping the pulse rate in the aerobic zone will improve cardiovascular fitness, meaning the heart and lungs will become fitter, both vital in fighting off a Corona infection, should anybody contact the infection.

Jal neti and Vitamin D

The eminent head of the top hospital in Western Pune, suggests regular jal neti and Vitamin D supplements to keep our immunity against the virus high. His hospital hasn’t hasn’t suffered a single infection amongst it’s staff.

Jal neti has been well proved to boost the immunity against upper respiratory infections and allergies and Vitamin D bolsters immunity.

Vitamin C supplements too may help bolster immunity during this pandemic.

So it may be life saving to start jal neti and take Vitamin D supplements once a week for the first month, once a fortnight in the second and once every three weeks from the third month onwards.

So, gear up to fight this pandemic and don’t get depressed due to this mandatory homestay, instead use this opportunity to become physically active and get slimmer, fitter, and healthier!

Also, read the articles the ‘Science Of Exercise’, the ‘Slimming Successfully In Spite Of Corona’, and the ‘Mortal Threat Of Corona For The Obese’ on this website.

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20 Sep

Healthy Weight Loss Diet

Healthy Food Plan For Healthy Weight Loss

Today millions of people all over the world are frustrated with obesity and the dangerous diseases associated with it. Most of them would give anything to find a perfectly healthy weight loss diet.

Are you one of them?

This is how we can plan a safe, simple and healthy weight loss food plan that you can follow all your life.

Our breakfast generally includes dishes like chapatis, pohe, upama, idli, dosa and thalipith.

Our lunch and dinner include chapatis, bhakri, rice, dals, and vegetables.

The food of South Indians revolves around idli, dosa and rice and sambar.

Of these chapatis, bhakri and rice are made from cereals.

Dals and sambar are made from pulses.

Idli and dosa are made from rice and udid dal, so they include both cereals and pulses.

Wheat, rice, jowar, bajri, nachani, oats, and corn are cereals.

Red gram, green gram, Bengal gram, lentils, and legumes are pulses.

Together they not only provide us with adequate carbohydrates and energy, a wide range of vitamins, minerals and fiber but also most of our protein needs.

Fruits and vegetables provide us with a wide range of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fiber to make our food more complete.

The cooking oil and the concealed fat in every food that we eat provide us with the essential fats that we need.

Eating a wide variety of foods along these provides us with adequate nutrition including vitamins and minerals.

In addition to this, we need to ensure that we get enough Vitamin B12, the essential fats omega 3 and Vitamin D, too.

Vitamin B12 is available only in animal source foods like milk, eggs, flesh, and fish.

Vegetarians need to consume 2.5 to 3 cups of milk every day to get the necessary Vitamin B12 daily.

Omega 3 fatty acids are an important component of the essential fats that our body needs. Amongst other functions, they also protect our heart from coronary artery disease.

Omega 3 is of two types, the sea source and the vegetable source omega 3.

Of these, the sea source omega 3 is more potent in protecting the heart than the vegetable source omega 3.

Unfortunately, it is available only in sea fish. But few Indians eat fish.

One solution to this problem is to take omega 3 supplements.

There are very few natural food sources of Vitamin D. Fortunately our bodies build Vitamin D when our skin is exposed to sunlight. We can get adequate Vitamin D by getting exposed to about 5 minutes of sunlight daily.

Thus chapati, rice, bhakri, idli, dosa, dal, sambar, usal, pithla, vegetables, milk, fruit and sea fish and a healthy cooking oil make up a completely balanced diet!

Along with this, we also have to avoid the following high carbohydrate and high-fat foods to keep our calorie consumption moderate.

Avoid high carbohydrate foods like Sugar, jaggery, sago, honey, rava, maida and refined flours.

Avoid high-fat foods like groundnuts, coconut, sesame, cream, ghee, butter, cheese, and full cream paneer.

Also avoid fried foods, bakery products, and fast foods.

This is the simplest, safest and healthiest food plan that you can follow lifelong to become slim and healthy for a lifetime. Call it the healthiest weight loss diet, if you like!

Once you settle into this kind of food plan and you can reduce a little bit of rice and chapatis from your meals, even half a chapati and half a bowl rice would be fine for most people and start walking twice a day. Slowly you can reach a level of a brisk walk of half an hour twice a day.

If you persist, you will start losing weight healthily and happily and slim down in due course of a few months, your skin and hair health will be at their best and your blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol, triglycerides levels will correct themselves and you will get fighting fit.

This is the only safe and simple way of living that can make you slim and healthy for a lifetime!

Read more about the subject on ‘Designing Healthy Weight Loss Food Plan!‘ On this website.

And we can help you achieve this kind of results very much at your home, anywhere in the world on the same line of weight loss treatment managed from Pune, in our ‘Distance Program’, through our Obesity Clinic based in Pune, no need to physically join our Slimming Centre in Pune.

Also read the articles ‘Basics Of Nutrition‘ and ‘Simple Steps To Slimming‘ on this website.

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05 Aug

What Makes Us The Best Obesity Clinic In Pune

Over three and half decades ago, as a young doctor, I was absolutely convinced that obesity and its accompanying diseases like various pains, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and strokes and PCOD, miscarriages and infertility amongst ladies were going to spread like wildfire amongst the affluent Indians in decades to come.

And there was hardly any initiative from the medical world towards helping the masses to become aware of these risks, far less make available scientific treatment to fight and prevent obesity.

That was the reason why I set up my pioneering obesity clinic in Pune back in the eighties.

I was the first doctor to set up what then was the novel obesity clinic in Pune or perhaps anywhere else in India, with a full-fledged exercise unit.

I knew that nobody could eat anything other than their own, normal, everyday food for a lifetime, nobody could ‘diet’ all their lives. I knew that diets are temporary and so are their results!

I knew that I had to plan excellent nutrition for people under my care, from their own, normal, everyday food and get them used to exercising regularly and happily to make them slim and healthy for a lifetime!

That is exactly what we put people under my care through, at my well-equipped obesity clinic in Pune. Meeting people every day, understating what they can follow easily and happily to enjoy slimming down without any pressures quickly taught me all I needed to learn to treat Indian people at their homes all over the world, on my consultation based ‘Distance Slimming Program’.

I did exactly that to people under my care and never had a moment to repent. I quickly learned how to manage people on a daily basis as I was meeting and guiding them on a daily basis. I learned very early what suited people and what didn’t. So I could perfect my line of treatment from the start of my practice and we got brilliant results day in day out.

A decade later, my fears about the exponential spread of obesity amongst affluent Indians were coming true and more and more people were falling prey to it and its accompanying diseases mentioned above.

Soon the obesity treatment market became a billion rupee industry in our country and obesity clinics and slimming treatments of various kinds and gyms started mushrooming in Pune and all over India.

But most of these treatments continue to sell people either starvation based diets under one expensive bogus pretext or another or selling them exercises under expensive personal trainers of dubious training and equally expensive protein supplements in posh gyms.

And the self-styled obesity clinics in Pune and everywhere else are selling people the dream of slimming them down effortlessly under magic slimming machines or medicines or magic diets or meal replacement shakes or food packs, under huge publicity.

But all they are really giving people are ill health, injuries, failures, and frustrations!

People frustrated with obesity and its accompanying illnesses continue to fall easy prey to the huge and alluring advertisements of these treatments or gyms and soon get even more frustrated when they experience that they can’t sustain these treatments and regain any lost weight and some more in a short time!

Today Dr. Nitin Gupte Obesity Clinic has inadvertently become the last destination of Indian people who have failed to get slim and healthy in Pune or anywhere else in the world!

And they are immediately surprised to experience a totally new kind of perfectly designed treatment plan in which they eat their own, normal, everyday food, only fine-tuned just a little by me, to make it perfect in terms of nutrition and most often, walk themselves to excellent slimming, health and fitness, very much at their own homes, anywhere in the world, under my daily guidance!

Every minutest detail is planned perfectly, based on the science of health and nutrition that is explained in simple, easy to understand articles on my website and every question that comes to their minds has already been answered hundreds of times before and is also explained in detail on my website, for their ready reference.

It is a very simple treatment, precisely defined and easy to follow, at home, anywhere in the world. And modern-day communication tools have made it very easy for people under my care to report to me daily, their food and water consumption and exercise and for me to guide them daily, based on their reports.

Excellent, precise, easy to follow the treatment plan, daily reporting and advice and constant inspiration make us the best Obesity Clinic based in Pune that is successfully treating Indians all over the world!

Also, read the ‘Testimonials’, ‘Doctors Recommend Us’ and ‘Distance Slimming Program’ link on this website.

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31 Jul

Food Has the Power to Make or Break Our Health! She Came to Me to Lose Weight, but Got Rid of the Psoriatic Patches and Arthritis of Hands Instead!

The early forties college lecturer had suddenly developed psoriatic patches on the skin of her hands and fingers. She had also developed arthritic pain, stiffness and cracking in the joints of her hands and fingers. There was no history of psoriasis in her family but she still had developed it.

As usual, she was put on steroids by skin specialists and not surprisingly she put on more weight. She may have already been a little overweight like most ladies her age are, these days.

Scared of putting on more weight during her impending menopausal age, she came to me. She wasn’t too perfect in following my treatment plan or in her daily reporting to me, as per the protocol of our treatment.

I reminded her a few times to start following the protocol better. She suddenly called to say that she wanted to meet me, at the end of three weeks, instead of at the first month end.

She had lost 4 kg in five weeks, but that was not what she wanted to show me, she wanted to show me that the skin of her hands had cleared up substantially and the pain, stiffness and cracking in the joints of her hand and fingers had vanished completely!

What may have caused them to go away? Like everyone else under my care, she was basically eating more or less her own normal, everyday food, only fine tuned just a little by me, to improve her overall nutrition. So it couldn’t be anything normal in her food.

Most people working together in places like IT companies, banks, colleges or schools tend to eat snacks like pizzas, ‘samosas’ and ‘wada pav’ etc. fast food snacks those are easily available to them, depending upon where they work.

Was it because she had stopped eating the ‘samosas’ and ‘wada pav’ those she was probably eating in the college? Did the oil used and reused again and again to fry these snacks, as happens invariably, cause the psoriasis in the first place? Did the trans fatty acids that she consumed through these fast foods cause the dreaded skin disease?

Did stopping consuming these fried foods help clear the illness?

I think yes, stopping these wrong snacks had probably helped her get relief from her psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis!

She eventually lost 20 kg and slimmed down beautifully. Her psoriasis is now under much better control.

So it is worthwhile remembering:

FOOD HAS THE POWER TO MAKE OR BREAK OUR HEALTH!

FOOD IS HEALTH CARE, MEDICINE IS SICK CARE!

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31 Jul

Food Has the Power to Make or Break Our Health! She Came to Me to Lose Weight, but Got Her Mystery Illness Solved Instead!

An early forties lady consulted me from Aurangabad some ten years ago. She used to have repeated bouts of swelling all over her body along with fever and extreme fatigue. The lady was bed ridden for a few days each time she had such attacks. She saw many consultants, but the attacks did not stop.

She didn’t eat particularly bad, but she loved a certain type of ‘mithai’ from a well known ‘mithai’ shop in Aurangabad. She brought home this mithai every few days. Naturally she had to avoid it as much as possible once she joined my treatment.

She followed her treatment plan well and began losing weight quite well. Her episodes of swelling, fever and fatigue stopped altogether.

Then one day she felt a strong desire to eat her favourite mithai and she bought it. But more health conscious now, she ate it only moderately.

And she was hit by her typical illness straight away, but this time she recovered faster. She was happy that the illness was milder and she recovered quickly this time. She thought it was because she was healthier and fitter now.

But a few weeks later she again ate the same mithai in a small quantity and the illness hit her straight away once more!

This time she reported it to me, the first time she hadn’t.

That’s when both of us suspected that the mithai could be the cause of her illness. We decided to banish it completely and she never had another bout of her illness again!

She eventually lost some 18 kg and became perfectly slim and healthy!

So it is worthwhile remembering:

FOOD HAS THE POWER TO MAKE OR BREAK OUR HEALTH!

FOOD IS HEALTH CARE, MEDICINE IS SICK CARE!

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25 Jul

How To Choose The Best Slimming Center In Pune?

Today millions of people in India are suffering from obesity, various pains and disabilities, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, strokes and PCOD, miscarriages and infertility and many more illnesses associated with obesity.

Recognising this, much before most people, Dr. Nitin Gupte started his pioneering ‘Slimming Center in Pune, three and half decades ago. It was a first doctor run ‘Slimming Center’ in Pune that was well equipped with the best available cardiovascular equipment of those times!

Pune was a much smaller city then and there was much less traffic on the roads than now.

The health club culture was yet to arrive and there was no other ‘Slimming Center’ in Pune.

So the news that a young doctor had started a ‘Slimming Center in Pune, spread quickly and people needing to lose weight to simply look their best or to overcome the various illnesses steadily kept coming to Dr. Nitin Gupte to follow his excellent and easy food plan and worked out daily under his close supervision and got slim and healthy in a relaxed, enjoyable process. The whole practice of Dr. Nitin Gupte spread simply by excellent word of mouth publicity. Many renowned specialists doctors of that era availed the benefits of his expertise.

At the beginning of his practice, Dr. Nitin Gupte helped two young men from Mumbai and Khandala and an elite class Pune lady lose 36, 56 and 27 Kg respectively!

That set the tone of his practice and he never looked back! The top Pune daily and top Marathi magazines began printing Dr. Gupte’s articles on obesity treatment! He was soon recognised as the leading authority on obesity management.

Indian people started consulting him from all over the world, in his ‘Distance Program’ and Dr. Gupte proved beyond any doubt that he could help people get slim and healthy anywhere in the world as long as they were Indians and ate Indian food and were willing to walk and lead a healthy lifestyle! He didn’t need them to exercise under his supervision!

Three decades later he helped a young IIT alumnus settled in Frankfurt lose 16 kg to protect himself from a strong family history of diabetes and the globetrotting CEO of a top automobile industry lose 25 Kg, in spite of nonstop flying between different cities and countries!

In between, Dr. Gupte has helped numerous Indian people including specialist doctors all over the world, overcome obesity and its accompanying diseases, often getting rid of their medication, by simply planning, educating and inspiring people to make small, but significant changes to their lifestyle and their normal, everyday food and walk regularly!

You can read their stories on the ‘Testimonials’ and ‘Doctors Recommend Us’ pages and the basic science of slimming and healthy living on the ‘Science Of Slimming’ and ‘Recent Posts’ links on Dr. Gupte’s website, www.drnitingupte.com.

While all other slimming Centers and gyms are either starving people under bogus slimming machines, medicines, meal replacement shakes or diets, or put them on painful workout and protein supplements, under huge psychological torture, Dr. Nitin Gupte is helping people get slim and healthy happily, in Pune and also all over the world in his ‘Distance Program’ by simply planning, educating and inspiring people to eat and live healthy!

The easiest way to choose the best ‘Slimming Center’ in Pune is to compare the websites of all the available treatments, see the presence or the lack of scientific information of the science of slimming and health, and visit each program to find out the process and results of the program.

Then if you find Dr. Nitin Gupte to be the best in the field, you can get in touch with him from the ‘Contact Us’ page of his website.

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22 Jul

Finding The Best Weight Loss Treatment To Eliminate Risk Factors!

Today millions of people all over the world are suffering from obesity and various pains and diseases like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, PCOD, miscarriages, and infertility those accompany it!

People are so frustrated with obesity and its accompanying diseases that they are constantly searching for and hoping that some brand new, magic weight-loss treatment will come along in Pune, or anywhere else they may be in the world and help them lose weight effortlessly.

No wonder then that the weight loss treatments in Pune and also all over the world have become a multi-billion dollar industry.

Most weight loss treatments in Pune or anywhere else in the world today are busy luring these hapless people, selling them expensive dreams of effortless weight loss with some revolutionary, magic diet, slimming machine or medicine or meal replacement shakes!

But behind the facade of each of these magic treatments lies the inevitable starvation based diets. No one on these treatments can escape the dangerous ill effects of starvation and luckily most people find the diet too tough and become miserable on them and quit it within a few weeks or months. They are the lucky ones. Those who persist, flirt with great danger, even death!

Starvation forces the body to lose glycogen, water, and proteins. The result is they become wrinkled, shrivelled and dehydrated, without really looking appreciably slimmer.

Soon people start feeling weak, get anaemic and unfit and generally feel unwell. The initial false sense of weight loss encourages some to carry on starvation for some more time causing more deficiencies. Apart from anemia, there will be a loss of body proteins and deficiency of most micronutrients. Calcium loss is common. It can lead to dental caries, bone pains and osteoporosis.

Constipation, fissures, and haemorrhoids (or piles) are also common.

Hyperacidity, severe digestive tract disorders including ulcers, colitis, and mal-absorption syndromes are common side effects of sustained starvation. There will pain in the abdomen, indigestion, gases and loose motions. They can become a lifetime disability.

People on liquid diets may develop cholecystitis, inflammation of the gall bladder and gall stones.

Sustained low-calorie diets depresses the metabolic rate, that is, the body burns fewer calories throughout the day than before. So people gain more weight than they lost, as soon as they stop these diets.

On the other hand of the spectrum are the gyms, their super expensive, muscular trainers, heavy, painful and often injurious weight training and punishing floor exercises, bad diets prescribed by the trainer or inexperienced dieticians and expensive protein powders. They unleash injuries and misery on their hapless clients!

That is why hardly anyone loses weight at all in gyms, even short term!

That is the reason why you should choose the best weight loss program, in Pune, or from anywhere else, very carefully so that you can eliminate all the possible risk factors!

The only way one can actually get slim, fit and healthy for a lifetime, is to eat one’s own, healthy, normal, everyday food sensibly and at least walk adequately and regularly, things those ones can take up for a lifetime, things those are sustainable for a lifetime! Any number of people under my care world over can confirm this!

This is the exact treatment that we plan and inspire people to follow, supervise and advise them on day to day basis and guide them till they reach their goals of weight and health, overcome their illnesses and become slim and healthy! These people get lifetime support for maintenance, too!

So if you too are frustrated with obesity and its accompanying illnesses, if you too have failed everywhere else, if you too are looking for the best available weight loss treatment in Pune, or from anywhere else in the world, your quest should end with us!

For more information, also read the ‘Testimonials’, the ‘Doctors Recommend Us’ and the ‘Dangers Of Unscientific Treatments’ pages on this website.

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29 May

A Young Lady Under My Care, Overcomes Obesity, PCOS and Infertility, to Become a Happy Mother

A young lady under my care, overcomes obesity, pcos and infertility, to become a happy mother,

Only to forget me during her pregnancy and ends up with weight gain and high blood sugar.

Faced with oral diabetes medication plus insulin, she gets back to me and starts eating healthy and walking.

The sugar becomes normal within a month without medicines and insulin, and the weight drops down by 16 kg!

The young lady has been absolutely amazing. All credit to her for her success in fighting off obesity, PCOS, infertility and a potentially full blown diabetes, without medication!

There are a lot of lessons to learn from her story.

1. Obesity can lead to PCOS / PCOD, infertility and diabetes.

Obesity can also induce miscarriages and complications during pregnancy and delivery.

2. All of the above can be reversed by eating healthy and walking regularly and losing weight.

3. No expectant mother needs to gain unnecessary weight during pregnancy. We can perfectly calibrate the weight gain that is essential during pregnancy and prevent unnecessary weight gain.

4. You need to eat healthy and walk regularly permanently to stay slim and healthy for a lifetime!

5. No temporary magic diet, slimming machine, slimming medicine, meal replacement shakes or painful exercises can make you slim and healthy for a lifetime!

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The only and the first line of treatment of PCOD or PCOS is exercising regularly and losing weight, not taking hormones for a few months to regulate irregular periods!

And ladies under my care for PCOD or PCOS are doing it successfully, regularly for four decades now.

This is what has also made our Obesity Clinic in Pune the best PCOD treatment in Pune or PCOS treatment in Pune, if you prefer to call it PCOD or PCOS. and I can help you overcome this disease along with your obesity at your home, anywhere in the world.

Check out our happy patient testimonials.

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05 Apr

You Can Eat Mangoes and Still Lose Weight!

Millions of people all over the world are fighting obesity and accompanying diseases at any given time and Indians are no exception.

Naturally, weight loss treatments of various kinds have sprung up like mushrooms, in Pune, like they have all over India and also all over the world!

Today self-styled slimming centers in Pune and all over India are selling their own brand of nutrition, dangerous diets, and injurious exercises, with absolute impunity!

Today so-called obesity clinics in Pune and all over India are selling rubbish diets, pretentious slimming medicines or machines, food replacement powders or shakes, with equal impunity.

Amongst the numerous foods that such weight loss treatments strictly prohibit you from eating, is the wonderful fruit, mango!

Naturally, this leads the obese people to fear that mango really makes them fat and stops eating them altogether!

Some ask if mangoes make them fat, or if mangoes can help in weight loss, or what is the best time to eat them, or can they eat mangoes and still lose weight?

Mango, like many other fruits, is a superfood. It is a rich source of Vitamin A and a very good source of Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), Vitamin C and Vitamin E.

Vitamin A is essential for the health of our eyes, skin and mucous membranes.

Pyridoxine is essential for the production of GABA, a brain hormone and for controlling the blood levels of homocysteine, high levels of which lead to coronary artery disease and strokes.

Vitamin C keeps our gums and teeth healthy, helps our body fight infections and also scavenges harmful oxygen-free radicals.

It is rich in potassium (156 mg per 100 gm) and low in sodium (2 mg per 100 gm), helping regulate our heart rate and blood pressure.

Mango is also rich in flavonoids namely beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, and alpha-cryptoxanthene. Together with Vitamin A, the carotenes help protect us against numerous cancers including breast, colon, oral cavity and prostate cancers and leukemia.

The fruit is also a moderate source of copper, which is required for the production of some enzymes and red blood cells.

In short, mango is a superfood that helps keep our vision, skin and mucous membranes healthy, protects us against infections, eliminates harmful oxygen-free radicals from our body, helps regulate out heart rate and blood pressure protects us against heart disease and strokes, and numerous cancers including breast and colon cancers and leukemia.

Other than these health benefits, mango is the most delicious of all fruits. Indian Alphonso or ‘Hapus’ from the Kokan area of coastal Maharashtra is the prized mango.

A hundred grams of the edible fruit gives you 60 calories and has only 15 gm carbohydrates, mostly sugar, little protein, and very little fat.

So a medium size (about 200 gm) fruit won’t give you much more than 100 calories.

Healthy balanced nutrition should have three helpings of fruits every day. Even if you are looking to lose weight or keep your blood sugar under control, a mango a day is not going to dent your cause, if you eat healthy, the other two fruits are low-calorie fruits and you exercise regularly.

The sugars in the ripe mango will get absorbed in the blood even more slowly if it is eaten with food rather than on empty stomach.

Diabetics could have half a mango once or twice a day, better with food, so the absorption of the sugars in the blood will slow down further because of the food.

And you can always ‘brisk walk’ for fifteen or twenty more minutes twice a day to burn off a mango and also become more heart healthy in the process!

And then the best of the mango season barely lasts for two months!

Not too much to ask for, for the pleasure of eating a mango, the king of fruits, the world’s most delicious fruit for most Indians, and more so for Maharashtrians!

But of course, the word of your doctor should be accepted as final, on whether you should eat a mango or not, on diabetes. So do consult your doctor if you are a diabetic.

So the prohibitions imposed by these weight loss treatments not withstanding, you can go ahead and have a mango a day, without any guilty feeling! And you can also lose weight while eating them!

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07 Feb

Our ‘Distance Program’

Losing Weight at your own home, anywhere in the world!

Over three decades ago, when I started my then unique Slimming Centre in Pune, I was sure that obesity and its accompanying diseases like various pains and disabilities, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, PCOD, miscarriages, and infertility were going to spread like wildfire in the society in decades to come.

Initially, I began helping people get slim and healthy by attending my Slimming Centre on Law College Road, Pune, in what soon became my ‘In-Centre Program’. But soon people began demanding that I help them get slim and healthy at their homes, in different cities, not only in India but also all over the world.

Thus began the journey of my ‘Distance Program’ for people based not in Pune but also all over the world, in which I could help people get slim and healthy on their own, normal, everyday food and exercise as even simple as walking, very much at their own homes, all over the world!

The ‘Distance Program’ is truly not just a slimming program, it is a whole new system of living healthy, that isn’t too far different from our normal life. We only learn to make small but significant changes to our lifestyle and our own, normal, everyday food, get more physically active, rest well and be mentally peaceful and happy! People soon find out that they begin to enjoy their newfound disciplined lifestyle, begin to feel fresh and energetic all day long and begin to lose weight with excellent skin and hair health!

Many successfully fight off various pains and disabilities, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, ladies overcome PCOD or PCOS, miscarriages, and infertility along with obesity and many successfully get rid of their medications for these diseases!

The only and the first line of treatment of PCOD or PCOS is exercising regularly and losing weight, not taking hormones for a few months to regulate irregular periods!

And ladies under my care for PCOD or PCOS are doing it successfully, regularly for four decades now.

The advent of the internet and communication tools like mail and WhatsApp have made it easy for me to get people under my care to report to me daily from all over the world about their food and exercise and send them appropriate advice based on the report, every day!

This has dramatically helped me improve the results of my ‘Distance Program’ conducted through our Obesity Clinic based in Pune, no need to physically join our Slimming Centre in Pune.

If you eat Indian food and are willing to walk regularly, I can help you get slim and healthy successfully at your own home, anywhere in the world!

Read the ‘Distance Program’ link on this website for more information.

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