Saturday, January 06, 2007
Meet Dr. Chandramuki -Nutrition expert in QM college
"Eat well and spend well on food, as a healthy body is the key to a healthy mind"
Excerpts from Thr Hindu of Jan 7, 2006 article:"Fuelled by her passion for dietetics, she quit pursuing her B.Sc Mathematics and took up home science at the SIET College. Since starting her career as a demonstrator with the Queen Mary's College, she has gone up the ladder — to the rank of a Reader in the Department of Home Science at the College. Dr. Chandra Venkatasubramanian, talks to Swahilya on her first love - good food!....
On finishing her Master's degree, she worked as the Chief Dietician in M.V. Diabetes Hospital in Royapuram. After 29 years, she now teaches food science, advanced dietetics, community and therapeutic nutrition and food service management. She has also served with the dietary department in Hospitals and the hotel industry.
She has brought out a recipe book called `Eat' and a manual on therapeutic diets in collaboration with the Post Graduate Department of the Home Science Department in her college.......She has tried out several novel combinations for her family. Dal with dates or mushroom, tomato-onion masala, sprouts and vegetables with more vitamin C content and easily digestible foods are just few of her innovative recipes.
Her 87-year-old father still has all his molars intact and she attributes it to eating chappatis with dry salads, sprouts and vegetables. Her evening tiffin of idlis is usually served with a bowl of vegetable and dal.
Debunking myths about the differences in the calorific value of rice and wheat, she says the answer to the problem of weight gain is in the chewing. "Rice does not require chewing while chappitis stay a longer time in the system," she says. The nutrients are the same in rice, wheat and ragi, but they should be taken in the form of chappatis and not as porridge, she says. Fruits are best eaten raw, she says.
Her recipe to good health is to eat slowly, enjoy the food, never hurry and never think one can skip breakfast and make up during lunch. Nutritious food, coupled with exercise such as walking or running is the only way to fight stress and weight gain and not through any fad diet, she says.
The first sign of stress for anybody is falling hair, she says, critical of the idea of starving to stay slim. The after effects of starving or severe dieting are very bad. Fat is a transport agent, lubricating the body, and it is required in moderation, she says. "When you look at food, quarter of the stomach is satiated. Begin with a glass of water, attack the proteins and vegetables first and then go for the chappatis and rice," she says.
Food lays the foundation for the future generation, according to Dr. Chandra.
THIS IS JUST TESTNG TO SEE EFFECT ON GOOGLE SEARCH: GOOD CURRY gOOD CURRY GOOD CURRY
Excerpts from Thr Hindu of Jan 7, 2006 article:"Fuelled by her passion for dietetics, she quit pursuing her B.Sc Mathematics and took up home science at the SIET College. Since starting her career as a demonstrator with the Queen Mary's College, she has gone up the ladder — to the rank of a Reader in the Department of Home Science at the College. Dr. Chandra Venkatasubramanian, talks to Swahilya on her first love - good food!....
On finishing her Master's degree, she worked as the Chief Dietician in M.V. Diabetes Hospital in Royapuram. After 29 years, she now teaches food science, advanced dietetics, community and therapeutic nutrition and food service management. She has also served with the dietary department in Hospitals and the hotel industry.
She has brought out a recipe book called `Eat' and a manual on therapeutic diets in collaboration with the Post Graduate Department of the Home Science Department in her college.......She has tried out several novel combinations for her family. Dal with dates or mushroom, tomato-onion masala, sprouts and vegetables with more vitamin C content and easily digestible foods are just few of her innovative recipes.
Her 87-year-old father still has all his molars intact and she attributes it to eating chappatis with dry salads, sprouts and vegetables. Her evening tiffin of idlis is usually served with a bowl of vegetable and dal.
Debunking myths about the differences in the calorific value of rice and wheat, she says the answer to the problem of weight gain is in the chewing. "Rice does not require chewing while chappitis stay a longer time in the system," she says. The nutrients are the same in rice, wheat and ragi, but they should be taken in the form of chappatis and not as porridge, she says. Fruits are best eaten raw, she says.
Her recipe to good health is to eat slowly, enjoy the food, never hurry and never think one can skip breakfast and make up during lunch. Nutritious food, coupled with exercise such as walking or running is the only way to fight stress and weight gain and not through any fad diet, she says.
The first sign of stress for anybody is falling hair, she says, critical of the idea of starving to stay slim. The after effects of starving or severe dieting are very bad. Fat is a transport agent, lubricating the body, and it is required in moderation, she says. "When you look at food, quarter of the stomach is satiated. Begin with a glass of water, attack the proteins and vegetables first and then go for the chappatis and rice," she says.
Food lays the foundation for the future generation, according to Dr. Chandra.
THIS IS JUST TESTNG TO SEE EFFECT ON GOOGLE SEARCH: GOOD CURRY gOOD CURRY GOOD CURRY
# posted by SwamiNathan @ 6:21 PM 
