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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... read more
Our ‘Distance Program’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Program’!
Losing Weight at your own home, anywhere in the world! Over three decades ago, when I started my then unique... read more
Preventing Hypertension
How To Prevent High Blood Pressure High blood pressure is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease. It accounts for two-thirds... read more
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April 2019
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 centres 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 90 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 and the other two fruits are low-calorie fruits.
Like all other fruits, mangoes are best eaten on empty stomach and no other food should follow it at least for another twenty minutes.
Even then if you should want to offset the mango calories, you could shave off three fourth of a medium size chapati or better still, a bowl of rice from your daily food!
And you can always ‘brisk walk’ for fifteen or twenty more minutes 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!
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!
February 2019
Our ‘Distance Program’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, in Pune and also all over the world, in which I helped 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, as some prefer to call them, are truly not just slimming programs, they are 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, miscarriages, and infertility along with obesity and many successfully get rid of their medications for these diseases!
The advent of the internet and the 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’ in Pune and abroad and also helped more and more people learn about and take up the program.
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.
Grid
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 centres 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 90 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 and the other two fruits are low-calorie fruits.
Like all other fruits, mangoes are best eaten on empty stomach and no other food should follow it at least for another twenty minutes.
Even then if you should want to offset the mango calories, you could shave off three fourth of a medium size chapati or better still, a bowl of rice from your daily food!
And you can always ‘brisk walk’ for fifteen or twenty more minutes 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!
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!
Our ‘Distance Program’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, in Pune and also all over the world, in which I helped 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, as some prefer to call them, are truly not just slimming programs, they are 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, miscarriages, and infertility along with obesity and many successfully get rid of their medications for these diseases!
The advent of the internet and the 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’ in Pune and abroad and also helped more and more people learn about and take up the program.
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.
Preventing Hypertension
How To Prevent High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease. It accounts for two-thirds of all strokes and half of all heart disease.
One out of every five people in India has high blood pressure or hypertension. The situation is worse in Maharashtra, the ratio increasing to one in three.
Hypertension is often asymptotic. Many people never know that they have hypertension, simply because they have never had any reason to go to a doctor and check their blood pressure. It is often detected accidentally or after some tragedy strikes. That’s why it is called a silent killer!
The incidence of hypertension is so high today that it is vital that young people keep a regular watch on their blood pressure, at least once in every six months, even if they are not overweight, have no personal or family history of hypertension, and more often if they have all three plus stress.
Three decades ago, a survey amongst school children in Pune found a high incidence of obesity and hypertension, the incidence is much higher today! If your child is overweight or obese do get his blood pressure checked regularly and make sure that he loses weight.
Childhood obesity predisposes children to early hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes and heart disease.
Untreated hypertension can cause blindness, renal (kidney) failure, heart attacks, strokes, and death. Even those people who are on proper medication may not necessarily escape these complications.
This said, it is vitally important that people consult their doctor, take the prescribed medication regularly and never stop medication on their own, without the knowledge of the doctor. Many people commit this mistake and pay the ultimate price for it.
Even amongst the people who are on regular medication, few have well-controlled blood pressures, 140/100 m.m. of Hg or more are not uncommon, when the levels should be 120/80 m.m. of Hg or less! Such people run the same health risks as mentioned above.
So our best option is to prevent hypertension and most people can definitely do it.
High blood pressure most often occurs without having any specific underlying disease leading to it. This hypertension is called primary or essential hypertension. About ninety to ninety-five percent of all hypertension cases fall into this category. Only five to ten percent people have an underlying disease leading to hypertension. This kind of hypertension is called secondary hypertension.
Various theories have been put forth about the causes of essential hypertension. Broadly speaking high blood volume, increased cardiac output, increased resistance of the arterial walls due to their thickening and reduced elasticity, narrowing of the lumen of arteries, increased vascular tone and a few other causes are thought to lead to primary hypertension.
But the fact remains that, with proper precautions, most people can prevent the onset of primary hypertension, many may overcome the problem completely.
Following are the essential steps you must take to prevent this hypertension.
Adapt a healthy lifestyle.
Keep your nutrition healthy, complete and moderate in calories.
Eat minimum fatty and sweet food and red meat.
Eat salt minimally. Avoid high salt foods like ‘papad’, ‘chatani’, ‘pickles’, dried and salted fish. Salt causes the blood volume to increase and this, in turn, causes blood pressure to climb. The sodium content of mineral salt may be higher than table salts. So, contrary to popular belief, mineral salts like ‘saindhav’ may be worse for hypertension than the table salts. Avoid mineral salts and ‘chat masalas’.
In general, foods rich in potassium, beans, dark leafy vegetables, all fruits, notably bananas, potatoes, fish, mushrooms, will help lower blood pressure. So include them in your food regularly.
Foods high in sodium, table salt, mineral salts, chaat masala, pickles, dried fish, fast foods, chips, French fries, salted nuts, canned foods (meats, fish and beans), sauces, salad dressings, will increase blood pressure. Keep them out of your food.
In general, animal source foods are high while vegetable source foods are low in sodium. So eating less of flesh and more of vegetables and fruits will help lower blood pressure.
Workout sufficiently; a brisk walk of at least thirty to sixty minutes will be good enough for most people, thirty if you are slim, sixty if you are overweight.
Make sure that you move around, get a little stroll whenever possible and generally remaining more active during work hours if you have a sedentary job.
Lose weight. A slim tummy will dramatically help bring down blood pressure, blood sugar and blood fats and cholesterol. Abdominal obesity leads to hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.
Sleep and rest adequately. Seven hours of sound sleep will prove invaluable.
Be happy, positive, contented and peaceful.
A mind full of negative thoughts, sorrow, irritability, anger, endless desires, and a king size ego causes immense damage to our health. This kind of mindset leads people to hypertension, diabetes and heart disease sooner or later.
Any honest and intelligent person can identify if he or she has such a mindset. A bloated ego or plain stupidity can prevent us from identifying that we have such a mindset.
You must calm down your mind, free it from the clutches of negative and violent thoughts if you really want to become happy and healthy and free from the impending threat of hypertension, diabetes and heart disease.
And it can be done for sure, only you should want to be happy and healthy.
Take up a technique as simple as ‘yoganidra’ if not meditation if you wish to be calm, happy and healthy. Consistent yoganidra will immensely help in making you peaceful, happy and positive.
So ensure that you take these steps urgently and see how dramatically your blood pressure and blood chemistry improve. These steps will give you much improved mental and physical health and prevent hypertension, diabetes and heart disease and also slim you down!
Also read ‘Health Problems Of The Young: Hypertension’, ‘Hypertension Prevention And Control Program’ and ‘Preventing Diabetes‘ on this website.
Medium
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 centres 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 90 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 and the other two fruits are low-calorie fruits.
Like all other fruits, mangoes are best eaten on empty stomach and no other food should follow it at least for another twenty minutes.
Even then if you should want to offset the mango calories, you could shave off three fourth of a medium size chapati or better still, a bowl of rice from your daily food!
And you can always ‘brisk walk’ for fifteen or twenty more minutes 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!
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!
Our ‘Distance Program’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, in Pune and also all over the world, in which I helped 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, as some prefer to call them, are truly not just slimming programs, they are 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, miscarriages, and infertility along with obesity and many successfully get rid of their medications for these diseases!
The advent of the internet and the 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’ in Pune and abroad and also helped more and more people learn about and take up the program.
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.
Large
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 centres 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 90 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 and the other two fruits are low-calorie fruits.
Like all other fruits, mangoes are best eaten on empty stomach and no other food should follow it at least for another twenty minutes.
Even then if you should want to offset the mango calories, you could shave off three fourth of a medium size chapati or better still, a bowl of rice from your daily food!
And you can always ‘brisk walk’ for fifteen or twenty more minutes 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!
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!
Our ‘Distance Program’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, in Pune and also all over the world, in which I helped 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, as some prefer to call them, are truly not just slimming programs, they are 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, miscarriages, and infertility along with obesity and many successfully get rid of their medications for these diseases!
The advent of the internet and the 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’ in Pune and abroad and also helped more and more people learn about and take up the program.
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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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 centres 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 90 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 and the other two fruits are low-calorie fruits.
Like all other fruits, mangoes are best eaten on empty stomach and no other food should follow it at least for another twenty minutes.
Even then if you should want to offset the mango calories, you could shave off three fourth of a medium size chapati or better still, a bowl of rice from your daily food!
And you can always ‘brisk walk’ for fifteen or twenty more minutes 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!
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!
Our ‘Distance Program’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, in Pune and also all over the world, in which I helped 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’, as some prefer to call them, are truly not just slimming programs, they are 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, miscarriages, and infertility along with obesity and many successfully get rid of their medications for these diseases!
The advent of the internet and the 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’ or ‘Residential Weight Loss Programs’ in Pune and abroad and also helped more and more people learn about and take up the program.
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.