New ‘Bible’ of Nearly ‘Ideal’ Eating hit stands to become Instant Best Seller
New Delhi: You are a veritable Hamlet when it comes to the question, to eat or not to eat. If this proverbial dilemma is ‘eating’ you, chew this book ‘SMART CALORIES & COMMON SENSE penned by AIIMS fame Dr Anoop Misra to smartly navigate the food phantasmagoria created by wannabe influencers and dieticians brandishing exotic dietary choices. Just launched book is bound to trigger visceral response.
The book claims to serve as evidence based guide to Indian diets that will cut the clutter and lead you to almost healthy eating. The author also asserted to guide you to freedom from nagging and irrational fears of unwholesome quantity of calorie intake and sugar tsunami in the blood.
From first tee to final putt i.e. from breakfast to dinner, the book handholds you to healthy eating habits. If you are a ‘headless chicken’ for healthy diet choices, this book is a real beacon light. And lo and behold! The author does not paint mangoes as a forbidden fruit. In this sense, the book is most timely because the seductive fruit has already hit the market and, all will agree, it is very hard to foil the temptation of sinking your teeth into the plump fruit. According to the book, mangoes are more sinned against them sinning. Even if you are diabetic and mango so far is a forbidden fruit for you, you can afford to disobey the decree and resort to a bit of blasphemy. No need to treat mango as a villain or a secret affair. With the book by your side coupled with your common sense, nothing to eat is off limits.
The book is not at all killjoy and has no ‘beef’ with joy of eating. But GHEE has come in for severe scrutiny in the book. Thanks to a tribe of ghee proponents, the blatant use of ghee is assuming epidemic proportions in India. Dr Anoop Misra , without mincing words, has red flagged the trend saying liver and artery are in serious jeopardy. It is high time, eaters smelt the coffee and became discreet about ghee use. There was a time when ghee was almost in blacklist. Dr Misra has been warning about flagrant use of ghee, pure or otherwise, for ages.
The great number of people turned up to eat out of Dr Misra’s hand at the launch of the book in India International Centre. Going by the brisk sale of the book then and there, it seemed an instant best seller. The scenario at the launch spoke a volume about Dr Misra’s reputation as a prescriber in matters of health and wellness. A renowned endocrinologist, being last words on Diabetes and former Professor of Medicine at AIIMS , New Delhi, Dr Misra is also a nutritionist par excellence giving dieticians a run for their money. Currently, Chairman, Fortis C-DOC Hospital for Diabetes and Allied Sciences, Dr Misra is a no nonsense nutrition expert too.
In an age of fancy food prescriptions, fad diets and diametrically conflicting counsels on nutrition, this book is bound to serve as ready reckoner for healthy diets. The book launch occasion was graced by Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of Science and Technology as Chief Guest and Narottam Puri, Advisor (Medical) Fortis Healthcare but better recognized as a former cricket commentator as guest of honour. The book elicited their qualified comments that also served as some food for thought. Dr Jitendra, who munched on all 242 pages of the book, during his flight for the launch from Jammu to Delhi, took the book with a pinch of salt meaning ‘ideal food’ is still a misnomer. Dr Narottam Puri’s child like frustration saying ‘what is use of living’ if you cannot eat of your own volition’ served as a true foodie’s angst.
Summing up, if you feel at your wits end in the face of some food being flaunted as Superfood in one book and condemned as a silent killer in another book, you can safely lean on this book which is based on serious research. Lest dietary myths circulating freely in social media misleads you to harmful eating, you can safely treat this book as an infallible guide.
