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50 Desi Super Drinks Red FM India
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Young, active and accomplished, Lovneet Batra is one of Delhi’s most insightful nutritionists, columnists and former host of Restaurant Spy by India Today Group. She has also been the celebrity host for various television shows on NDTV, History, India Today, etc.
Founder of Nutrition by Lovneet, she holds a BS and MS in Dietetics and believes in a sustainable ‘no deprivation’ approach to a meaningful, long-lasting lifestyle makeover. Her unparalleled knowledge and experience in the field of Sports Nutrition has earned her a long-term association with the Sports Authority of India. In the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, she played a key role as official nutritionist to various Indian teams such as boxing, cycling, gymnastics and hockey (girls).
In this contemporary era, where our diet has become as glamorous as fashion, people believe that superfoods come from some faraway land and are expensive too. 50 Desi Super Drinks by Lovneet Batra aims to burst this bubble and make people believe that any food that is homegrown, seasonal and fresh can be considered as a superfood. Along with the facts, come the recipes. They are 100 per cent Indian at heart, natural, easy to prepare.
The subject chosen is exemplary and unique. The author is giving us the recipe of fifty indigenous drinks. These are the drinks that are so common in India that we drink them routinely (or have stopped now after becoming westernized) without even knowing their health benefits and healing attributes. The book serves two purposes (at least). First, to remind those who have forgotten and tell those who are ignorant, the miraculous features of fifty Indian drinks, and secondly, the right way to prepare such delicious drinks that will be loved by your palate.
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Recipe Cinnamon Milk
Milk is one of the most misunderstood fluid these days. Milk remains an offering to the gods for an answer to our prayers, but when it comes to milk as an offering to our stomach, a certain hesitation takes over. Many fitness enthusiasts I meet automatically mark that they have an allergy to it on their assessment sheets when they are not even lactose intolerant, and they all come with the same mantra: milk is not meant for adults. Just like any other fluid, it is not meant for adults who are lactose intolerant or allergic to it, but that does not make it a forbidden drink for the rest of us.
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Recipe Ashwagandha Milk
Stress is a silent killer that is now rooted deep into our systems, and what makes it dangerous is that we are almost always unaware of it. Sometimes it’s the stress to achieve, or it’s the stress to retain or the stress of coping with a loss. No matter where we are in life, there’s no room for complacency anymore. There’s an old saying, ‘Jaisa ann, vaisa mann’ (As is the food, so is the thought), pointing to the fact that every morsel we eat has an effect on our mental and emotional well-being.
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Recipe Coconut Water
This desi drink is something I thought I would never need to defend until I started my practice in Delhi. The number of people who called it fattening was rather shocking. Once a lady almost cried after a 20-minute-long fact check comparing sugar-free frozen yoghurt to coconut water. There are 39 calories on an average in one coconut. It takes 7,700 calories to make one kilo of fat and even though that math is not always linear, coconut water is far from ‘fattening’.
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Recipe Coriander Seeds Water
This one is a dieter’s delight, a morning ritual for instant weight loss. Those numbers can govern our mood, energy and self-worth. Now there goes an error in judgement; our body weight is a limited measure to evaluate fitness. But there’s still something to the kilos that makes us take desperate measures towards weight loss success. I often come across women who would otherwise prefer a salt-free dinner and ‘indulge’ in dal–rice, thanks to this morning star. The fear of eating salt goes out of the window when coriander seed water comes to the rescue. It makes me wonder, shouldn’t our quest for fitness bring more stability and strength to life—body and mind included? On the contrary, modern-day fitness trends comprising of changing food habits and photoshopped bodies have left us even more restless and insecure. The science behind healthy eating may be simple but we surely have become more complicated.
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Recipe Mulberry Juice
Every time we hear the word ‘berry’, our mind automatically goes ‘healthy’, so it should come as no surprise that mulberry makes it to the superfood list. This sounds very foreign, but it is more commonly known as shahtoot in India. It is a desi super fruit that can give any exotic berry a run for its money. Listen to the Podcast 50 Desi Super Drinks with celebrity nutritionist Lovneet Batra and with one of our Top RJ's RJ Mandee on the RedFM India App
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Wheatgrass Juice
Popping up everywhere, from fancy juice bars to your neighbourhood park, wheatgrass juice is an old player in the world of natural health. It comes from the freshly sprouted leaves of the wheat plant that are usually harvested in 7–10 days, after sprouting. It is traditionally sown in India as khetri during Navratri as an offering to the Mother Goddess on the last day, symbolizing devotion and prosperity for the upcoming harvesting season. The juice extracted from wheatgrass is known to be liquid sunshine as it contains high levels of chlorophyll, a plant pigment that can transform energy from sunlight into food. Being structurally similar to haemoglobin, a protein that is responsible for carrying oxygen in our body, wheatgrass juice is also known as the green blood that can help in boosting energy levels. It is also an excellent source of many different vitamins and minerals. Listen to the Podcast 50 Desi Super Drinks with celebrity nutritionist Lovneet Batra and with one of our Top RJ's RJ Mandee on the RedFM India App
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