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I reckon this should be the title of a book, not a blog post! I will possibly tackle this on several other occasions, so don’t take this as a complete treatise on the subject.

I am putting down a list of Indian foods that I had a hard time finding the nutritional info of, and I hope this will help people looking specifically for this. I have made these calculations on my own, using the ingredient lists and from Fitday.

As far as possible, I have tried to be accurate.

KIRAY/KIRAI: A South Indian spinach dish flavored with grated coconuts and fried lentils. Very healthy, with veggie proteins, heathy fats (coconuts have medium chain triglycerides) and iron. The caloric value depends on how much of coconut is used.

Let me get into the details (all numbers rounded off):

400 grams spinach: 160 cals

1.5 cups of grated coconut: 424 cals

1 tbsp moong dal (lentils): 42 cals

1 tsp oil: 40 cals

Total: 666 calories, 63 grams fat, 18.6 gms protein, 40 gms carbohydrates.

This together gives you 6 cups of kirai. I can easily eat two or three without a blink (if not the whole thing).

Each cup of kirai, therefore, gives you:

Calories: 111

Fat:10 gms

Protein: 3 gms

Carbohydrates: 7 gms

Iron:16% of daily requirement

Potassium: 392 mgs

Sodium:194 mgs

CHICKEN KEBAB:

Each plate carries 273 calories , 15 grams fat, and 25 grams of protein.

DIMER DEVIL:

This is a much beloved Bengali snack that is essentially a boiled egg wrapped by boiled potato and minced mutton and crumb-fried in oil.

Each Devil contains 185 calories, 12.2 grams of fat, 9 grams of carbohydrates, and nearly 10 grams of protein.

PANEER BUTTER MASALA:

CHANA DAL:

Note: each serving of chana dal should contain roughly an ounce of dry dal.

RAJMA:

A large serving with 100 grams of boiled beans

140 cals, 5.9 grams of fat, 17.8 grams of carbs, and 5.7 grams of protein.

RAVA MASALA DOSA:

385 calories.

SANDESH:

The size of the sweet and the quality of the milk makes caloric estimation uncertain. I take it as 170 calories per sweet, though you can also make lower calorie ones containing around 90 calories.

ROSSOGOLLA:

Similar problem with this delicious symbol of Bengal’s confectionary superiority: I estimate roughly 120 calories for each rossogolla.

MUTTON SHEEKH KEBAB:

One serving should carry around 164 calories, 8 grams fat and 11 grams protein.

PAYESH/PAYASAM:

A serving of this sweet rice porridge carries roughly 140 calories, 5 grams each of fat and protein, and 18 grams of carbohydrates. Note that there are too many individual variations to account for, so use your judgment when calculating this.

I had heard of some nutritionist who had become famous because of actress Kareena Kapoor who had lost weight and allegedly become more attractive. I had also heard that this lady had written a book on the subject of nutrition and weight loss. Even better, I thought. Then a couple of patients asked me about the book and what I thought of it. It was then that I chanced upon the book by accident at a bookstore. I bought ‘Don’t Lose your mind, Lose your weight’ by Rujuta Diwekar and proceeded to read it.

To say I was disappointed would be understating the truth. I was dismayed. Shocked. Nauseated, even. Not only was the language atrocious (the author tries to act cool by using Mumbaiya slang liberally, and gleefully discusses acts normally referred to discreetly by polite society), but the substance was horribly false and unscientific.

She adds weight to her deliberations by name dropping. Astonishingly, she credits Anil Ambani with the quote “Common Sense is Uncommon”. I was impressed by that—how shallow and hypocritical does one have to be to do that bit of name dropping and eminence-by-association? Of course, the lovable ‘Bebo’ is freely referenced. The whole credibility of the author and the book seems to rest on this one case of weight loss and health gain.

The author makes amazingly dumb claims like “laddu can be as wholesome a breakfast as omlette”, “pasta does not make you fat” and many more. I am getting irritated to even continue this critique of this most unworthy piece of nutritional fiction.

I thought I would point out the scientific fallacies freely thrown about in every page. I thought I would underline to the reader and show that the blanket truisms she spouts every other line as if they are beyond question are almost all fake and false at the least, and fraudulent at the worst.

However, so numerous are these, so wild and outrageous the claims that I am already tired of rebutting them one by one.

If she really believes all she wrote, she knows no actual nutritional science. If she does know the science, she has written fiction. Let her decide what she has done.

I do understand that I need to substantiate my comments on the book. As tiresome as it is, I will merely list a few, and only a few:

Because alcohol raises estrogens in the body, drunk men giggle like girls”. Does this need any rebuttal, you think?

In the absence of carbs, fat cannot be burnt” (a more idiotic statement that this would take some doing!).

Bread, biscuit and alcohol are all bad carbs”. Yeah, I wonder she didn’t say beef was bad carbs, too!

Carbs reduce bloating and improve metabolism”. And my name is Janet Jackson.

If you eat sweets during your festivities without guilt, you won’t put on fat. Take your body into confidence.” Where will the calories go, you ask? Probably gets burnt off by all the smiling and shitting (her favorite word) that the guiltless binge must induce.

Animal proteins are difficult to digest”. Really? I thought they were easily digested, absorbed and had a high biologic value (the BV of eggs is nearly 98% or so).