4 reasons your Ghar ka Khaana is UNHEALTHY! (and how to fix it)

All of us Indians believe in one thing –

Ghar ka khaana is healthy and bahar ka khaana is unhealthy.

NO! For any diet to be healthy,

It needs to follow some fundamentals of nutrition.

If it’s being followed in your bahar ka khaana, then it’s healthy.

If it’s not being followed in your ghar ka khaana, it’s unhealthy.

𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐫 𝐤𝐚 𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡, 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲.

I’m saying if you have a beautiful MacBook worth 2 lakhs with the best display, RAM, and whatever……but its spacebar DOES NOT work.

Your Macbook won’t be very useful right?

This doesn’t mean, ‘Throw away your MacBook.’

It means it has a small problem, fix it!

Same with your Indian diet.

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬.

For a diet to be considered ‘healthy’ it should have a mix of proteins, carbs, fats, vitamins, minerals, probiotics, prebiotics, and water…..every single day!

1. The great Indian diet is unhealthy because of 4 common reasons –
   
   
2.  We abuse carbs, which cover almost 80% of our diet. (Ideal – 60%)
   
   
3.  We neglect protein, it covers almost 10% of our diet (Ideal – 30%)
   
   
4.  The fats (10%) in our diet should come from nuts, ghee, and butter but it comes from cooking oil.

 Probiotics like dahi, chaas, and taak are consumed only in summer, when they should be consumed everyday.

What a healthy Indian diet will look like –

1. 60% carbs and 30% proteins.

Change – Reducing jara sa chapati, and rice and add protein-rich sources like paneer, tofu, eggs, meat, rajma, chole, soya, etc to your DAILY diet.

2.  Probiotics and prebiotics.

Having a cup of curd during lunch every day.

 3. 10% Healthy fats.

Have a handful of almonds, kaaju, pista, and walnuts in the morning.

 4. Reducing deep-fried foods like bhajiyas to once or twice a week.

5. Eat vegetables every day for your fiber needs.

Till then, Dhyaan rakho apna!