Complete Wellbeing [CW] is a first-of-its-kind monthly magazine dedicated to YOU and your wellbeing. This website offers a preview into the magazine. In each issue, you can read six complete articles (marked FULL TEXT). Excerpts of rest of the articles are also available. Explore the free articles.
Nandita Iyer, MBBS, a Mumbai-based physician, is an enthusiastic writer and a passionate cook.
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Apr 2008Health And Healing • Healing Truths
Follow these simple self-help remedies to combat ailments this summer. Each one of us has different associations with summertime. For some its exams, ice creams and vacations, while for others it is sweat drenched clothes, prickly heat and itchy eyes. While we cannot do (Read Full Text »)
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Mar 2008Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
The value of food is not determined by its price tag. Highly-nutritious foods may come cheap and some expensive food items might not be worth the money. Take a stroll in the produce section of your neighbourhood supermarket - you will find all kinds of (Read Excerpt »)
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Feb 2008Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
Make love one of the ingredients in the food you cook for your family. Food is the most primitive form of comfort. Ask anybody who’s been away from home what they miss the most and the answer is most likely to be home-cooked food. Indian (Read Full Text »)
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Jan 2008Body And Beauty • I, Me, Myself
Keep the “cough and cold” menace out but, if it comes knocking, take good care of yourself. At the beginning of a new year, when you are waiting to put the resolutions you made into practice and you are ready to take on new (Read Excerpt »)
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Nov 2007Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
Ensuring that you and your family eat healthy is not really time-consuming. Advanced planning and some time-saving tips can help you provide healthy food. My friend’s favourite reason for eating less than two home-made meals a week is: no time. No time after coming home (Read Excerpt »)
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Oct 2007Malaysia is a great travel destination, with bustling malls and serene tea plantations. When you embark on your first trip to Malaysia, you will be truly enthralled by its sights, its people and, of course, its shopping malls. I was no exception. Ours was a (Read Excerpt »)
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Sep 2007Food And Nutrition • Value Addition
Minerals are essential for our daily body functions and good health. Vitamins have always been a household word. Also, no one would think twice before popping a multivitamin pill along with their breakfast — for immunity, for great skin, lustrous hair, well almost everything. (Read Excerpt »)
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Jul 2007CW salutes doctors for their work in making our world a better, healthier place. July 1 is Doctors’ Day. While Friendship Day and Valentine Day have been greatly publicised, Doctors’ Day is yet to receive equal importance in our country. My grandparents religiously went (Read Excerpt »)
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Jul 2007Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
Fruity pleasures are made of these. Ah, the cooling, nutritive delights of watermelon! Mark Twain described it best: “When one has tasted watermelon, he knows what the angels eat!” There are just a few things that provide as much relief in summer, or any other season, as biting into a large chunk of watermelon. It cools, energises, and refreshes you — pronto! Watermelon has the maximum water content — 92 per cent — among all fruits and vegetables. Such is this fruit, now labelled a vegetable.
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May 2007Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
Beat summer heat with the king of cool, refreshing fruits: the good old cucumber. Blame it on global warming, or diminishing green cover, it already feels like we are in the thick of summer. There’s something that calms the scorching heat, though. Come summer, (Read Excerpt »)
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Apr 2007Health And Healing • Cleansing Act
Detox, the buzzword among the health-conscious, is like “spring cleaning” your body.
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Mar 2007Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
You always thought of eating healthy food produced through natural farming, but did not know how to go about it. Here’s the lead-up to going organic. “Former Bollywood film star, Sridevi, regularly shops for organic food in London’s famous Selfridges to stock up her pantry.” “Actors Yana Gupta and Rahul Khanna launch Mumbai’s newest organic food store.” “Taj Group of Hotels launches the first fully organic restaurant in the country.” These were some of the “organic” headlines that made news, during the last few months.
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Feb 2007Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
The only fruit with seeds on the exterior, strawberry is a power-packed wonder that can give big fruits a run for their nutritional content. Derived from the old English word, streowberies, a variation of strewed, strawberries not only resemble the heart — the symbol of (Read Full Text »)
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Jan 2007Health And Healing • Healing Truths
Small changes in diet and lifestyle can go a long way in helping us lead an “acidity-free” life. Do you get a burning sensation in your chest after meals? Is it worse on lying down or bending? Is the sensation most often aggravated by food? Is there frequent belching with a sour after-taste in the mouth? Does an antacid provide relief to the above symptoms?
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Jan 2007When you are at your doctor’s clinic, you often get tongue-tied, or your memory does not stand by you. Relax! This is not just your problem, but a problem with most people around the world. Here are a handful of practical tips that will (Read Excerpt »)
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Dec 2006Health And Healing • Longevity Secrets
The right mix of healing foods can take you a step closer to leading a cancer-free life. Though the incidence of cancer in India — despite our diverse food habits — is lower than the West, the dreadful disease is on the rise, thanks (Read Excerpt »)
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Nov 2006Body And Beauty • Beauty Salon
Water holds the mirror to a healthy glow and beautiful skin — not just on the surface, but also deep within. Thales, the Greek philosopher, suggested that water was the material cause of all things — he wasn’t off the mark. Water comprises not (Read Full Text »)
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Nov 2006Food And Nutrition • Cafeteria
You think the banana is a boring, commonplace fruit? Think again, because few fruits pack as much nutrition and health benefits as this perennial favourite. The banana is known to have had its origins in Malaysia; some travellers brought it to India. If the (Read Full Text »)
