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By foodnetindia 19th November 202019th November 2020 Food and Health/Food News

Dear Rujuta Diwekar, Traditional and Home Cooked Does NOT Necessarily Mean Safer Or Healthier!

Rujuta Diwekar is at it again. She has put up a post on Facebook (screenshot below). In her post, while praising traditional Diwali sweets’ virtues, she implies that traditional and home-cooked food is superior merely because it is traditional or home-cooked. This is a DANGEROUS misconception!

By foodnetindia 18th July 202017th August 2020 Featured/Food and Health

Indians Must Use Less Vegetable Oils

Indians have been consuming way too much omega-6 vegetable oils in the last six decades. Until the 60s, people in India used ghee or coconut oil (in the coastal areas) as cooking mediums. The other major vegetable oils used for cooking at that time (peanut, mustard) were quite abundant in

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By foodnetindia 21st June 202021st June 2020 Food and Health

PUFA In Vegetable Oils Is A Cancer Risk

To rephrase the headline, PUFA and Oxidised PUFA from heated vegetable oils increases the risks of various types of cancer and also other lifestyle diseases.

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