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What Belongs on a Heart-Conscious Plate?
Keep added salt under 5 g a day, about one teaspoon for the whole day. What that looks like with dal and roti, and when a sachet or softgel has a job.
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Everyday nutrition for Indian home cooking
The meals you already cook at home are the subject here: dal at lunch, sabzi and roti at dinner, fruit when it is around. Protein, salt, and fibre each have a place in that week. Each post takes one of them and starts from the food in the kitchen.
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What Belongs on a Heart-Conscious Plate?
Keep added salt under 5 g a day, about one teaspoon for the whole day. What that looks like with dal and roti, and when a sachet or softgel has a job.
5 min read
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Soluble and Insoluble Fibre, Compared
Most of the fibre in atta and chana dal is insoluble. Soluble fibre is the smaller share. Apple sits closer to an even split, and a powder can add both.
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How Much Protein Do You Need a Day?
About 0.83 g of protein per kg a day, near 50 g if you weigh 60 kg. A vegetarian workday that adds up, and when a shake is only a convenience.
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Protein, salt, and fibre in one week
The posts stay with food you already buy. A powder or a sachet comes up only when a meal leaves a gap you can name.
Protein at meals
Pulses, dairy, and soy can carry protein across breakfast, lunch, and dinner. How Much Protein Do You Need a Day? builds that kind of day from food you cook, and treats a shake as a convenience when a meal is missed.
Salt and oil at the stove
The salt in the tadka and the oil in the same pan are chosen while you cook. What Belongs on a Heart-Conscious Plate? follows both through a day of dal and sabzi.
Fibre already in the meal
Atta, chana dal, and fruit already bring fibre to the table, in different mixes. Soluble and Insoluble Fibre, Compared sorts which foods lean which way.
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