Lean Picking
The Supermarket stores are choc-a-bloc with so-called diet snacks - roasted bhel, kurmura, chiwda, makhana (lotus seed), wheat flakes, jowar, soy nuts, bajra; baked methi puri,samosa, kachori, sev/farsan, chakli, sweet potato chips, soy puris.
Yet are these comestibles worth the extra rupees you pay for them? Diet snacks aren't really the best choice, says nutritionist Niti Desai, "because even though they claim to be fat free, they all do contain some oil.
" (You can check this out for yourself by placing the snack in question on a tissue paper.
) "Completely fat free farsan and chaklis are inedible - they taste like cardboard, that's why manufacturers add a little oil.
" However, she admits, "in a pinch, they're still better than the Real McCoys.
" Trade in convenient, high-calorie snacks for one of these more nutritious options: Take 30 seconds to throw some healthy cereal into a small TuppelWare container, says Carla Wolper, R.
D.
"The fibre and sheer volume of a bowl of cereal will keep you satisfied longer than a chocolate bar," she says.
You can nibble on them or add milk (got from the office chaiwalla, or buy a small carton of soy milk).
Guava's antioxidant content proved to be similar to that of orange , grapefruit and broccoli, and just below that of spinach - foods considered high in antioxidants.
Other fruits that ranked surprisingly high in antioxidants included Iychee and papaya Among the most striking physical features of our model.
Huzefa Lokhandwala, this month are you guessed it his broad shoulders.
And with good reason: "I give them a lot of attention," admits this head trainer form Gold's Gym's Napeansea Road branch.
The transformation did not take place overnight.
Huzefa's shirt size grew from small to medium to large over a period of 7 years.
A tailormade workout that involved lifting progressively heavy weights and also addressed weak areas in his case, the deltoids did the trick.
"I hit them with four sets of Lateral Raises (12 to 15 reps) followed by Front Raises and Up Right Rows (3 sets of 10 to 12 reps each) once a week," says Lokhandwala.
Howerver Huzefa warns that strong shoulders are not created simply by piling weight plates.
"Ptrogress is important but is you need the trainer's help to lift, you shoulders are not getting the full benefit.
Also people fail to understand that there has to be a mind-muscle connection for development.
" Overloading brings with it risks of injury too: The reason your shoulders have great range of motion is because their underying structure is unstable.
The muscles surrounding the joint can be easily strained or torn, and the joint itself can separate.
''The mantra is to lift weights at a comfortable pace and not rush through the movement to finish all your reps.
" Going too fast means you're using momentum - not muscle - to hoist the weight and risking a muscle pull.
"That's what happened to me when I tried to lift heavy without controlling my movements," says Lokhandwala.
Yet are these comestibles worth the extra rupees you pay for them? Diet snacks aren't really the best choice, says nutritionist Niti Desai, "because even though they claim to be fat free, they all do contain some oil.
" (You can check this out for yourself by placing the snack in question on a tissue paper.
) "Completely fat free farsan and chaklis are inedible - they taste like cardboard, that's why manufacturers add a little oil.
" However, she admits, "in a pinch, they're still better than the Real McCoys.
" Trade in convenient, high-calorie snacks for one of these more nutritious options: Take 30 seconds to throw some healthy cereal into a small TuppelWare container, says Carla Wolper, R.
D.
"The fibre and sheer volume of a bowl of cereal will keep you satisfied longer than a chocolate bar," she says.
You can nibble on them or add milk (got from the office chaiwalla, or buy a small carton of soy milk).
Guava's antioxidant content proved to be similar to that of orange , grapefruit and broccoli, and just below that of spinach - foods considered high in antioxidants.
Other fruits that ranked surprisingly high in antioxidants included Iychee and papaya Among the most striking physical features of our model.
Huzefa Lokhandwala, this month are you guessed it his broad shoulders.
And with good reason: "I give them a lot of attention," admits this head trainer form Gold's Gym's Napeansea Road branch.
The transformation did not take place overnight.
Huzefa's shirt size grew from small to medium to large over a period of 7 years.
A tailormade workout that involved lifting progressively heavy weights and also addressed weak areas in his case, the deltoids did the trick.
"I hit them with four sets of Lateral Raises (12 to 15 reps) followed by Front Raises and Up Right Rows (3 sets of 10 to 12 reps each) once a week," says Lokhandwala.
Howerver Huzefa warns that strong shoulders are not created simply by piling weight plates.
"Ptrogress is important but is you need the trainer's help to lift, you shoulders are not getting the full benefit.
Also people fail to understand that there has to be a mind-muscle connection for development.
" Overloading brings with it risks of injury too: The reason your shoulders have great range of motion is because their underying structure is unstable.
The muscles surrounding the joint can be easily strained or torn, and the joint itself can separate.
''The mantra is to lift weights at a comfortable pace and not rush through the movement to finish all your reps.
" Going too fast means you're using momentum - not muscle - to hoist the weight and risking a muscle pull.
"That's what happened to me when I tried to lift heavy without controlling my movements," says Lokhandwala.