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India’s leading nutritionist, Rujuta Diwekar is back with Season 2! Rujuta continues where she left and busts all food myths, decodes diet trends and sets you on a path of sustainable health and weight loss. With easy to follow guidelines, do-at-home tips and a healthy dose of grand mom’s wisdom and wit, she makes losing weight and staying healthy a fun, relaxed and exciting journey. Come along. If you haven’t heard Season 1 yet, revisit the wisdom and fun tips-tricks and get on the Season 2 journey!

Acacia seeds, goji berries, kale, the world seems to discover a superfood every week. There's so much talk about them in the press that the word itself seems to have no meaning. What s a superfood then really, do they even exist? This books addresses those questions and more.

Want to get fit but don't know how to start? Let India's number one nutritionist and health advocate, Rujuta Diwekar, help you. In this groundbreaking book, based on the 12-week fitness project, one of the world's largest and most successful public health projects, she will guide you step by step, giving you one simple guideline to follow each week. By the end of three months you will have transformed your habits in 12 crucial ways.

If you are preparing for pregnancy, are pregnant or have just delivered, Pregnancy Notes has got you covered. Rujuta Diwekar takes you through the journey, with tips for even before you get pregnant, till after you deliver your bundle of joy. Each stage includes notes on food, exercise and recovery. Also included are heritage recipes from across the country, so you can mine the wisdom of our grandmothers. This is a must-have guide for every woman.

From the author of the best-selling Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight comes a health and diet book specifically for women. Rujuta's holistic approach to health, weight and diet has made her one of the most sought-after dieticians in the country. In Women and the Weight Loss Tamasha, Rujuta walks you through the different phases of life, from being a teenager to pregnancy to menopause.

Today obesity has become a chronic disease and a cause of concern for many to stay healthy. Not only does obesity affect our health but it also affects the way we look. The only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than the amount of food intake. To achieve this one can either control the calorie intake levels or increase the body activity count so as to burn more calories. 

Milk is an essential part of our diet. While we start consuming milk from the moment we are born, as we grow older we tend to cut down on our consumption due to myriad reasons. Some range from our concern over fat content in the milk, while others range from the misconceived notion of an adult person not requiring milk. Frivolous reasoning aside, milk has such nourishing qualities and life essentials in it that every living being of any age must consume milk as a rule. Milk in reality is indeed a super food.

Cooking oil is an essential commodity to Indian cooking and food, however it has been seen that people are usually confused about which cooking oil to use. Everyday advertising only makes this problem chronic since every brand claims to be healthy and to be the best. It is because of the above that people struggle with the following questions: Which cooking oil is more healthy? What quantity of cooking oil is safe to consume? Is it good practice to keep changing one's cooking oil?

A balanced and nutritional diet is the cornerstone to a healthy body. Both women and men need a healthy food cycle to thrive at their peak. As per science, till the age of nine, children require equal amounts of nutrition. However, as kids hit adolescence, the nutritional requirements of men and women change based on the physiological set up of each sex. Women go through many challenges and changes in a lifetime, which includes changes in bodily composition, motherhood and menopause, just to name a few.

Food intake is an essential activity in a human being's life cycle. Food is the fuel to our body without which the body cannot function and survive. As a rule, human beings must eat a balanced diet every day to not only get the essential nutrients to stay healthy but to also keep up with the calorie intake necessary on a per day basis. Each individual has different requirements as to calorie intake, based on the individual's weight, height, sex, age and lifestyle.

Superfoods might seem like a western concept, but did you know there are several everyday items from Indian kitchens that are also superheroes? Find out how these ordinary items in your kitchen can protect your health in extraordinary ways.