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Dopamine Decoded: The Chemical We Blame But Don’t Understand

Ankush Datar

5 min read

The Palm Oil Problem Isn’t What You Think. (But Why Is It Everywhere?)

Anushka Mukherjee

8 min read

How Food Got Divorced From Flavour

Anushka Mukherjee

6 min read

How much do you really need to invest in fitness?

Lavanya Mohan

6 min read

Six Types of Rest Your Body Really Needs

Rohini Sen

7 min read

Five things: Eggs, Cancer, Productivity and More.

Jaanvi Advani

5 min read

I Stopped Drinking Two Years Ago. Here’s What Really Changed.

Aniruddha Mahale

10 min read

How The World Got High On Sugar

Anushka Mukherjee

6 min read

What’s Going On In Your Heart?

Samarth Bansal

4 min read

No One Tells You How Hard PCOS Really Is

Disha Rawal

4 min read

Do You Need Collagen Supplements?

Priya Nagwani

5 min read

The Beginner’s Guide to the Gym

Ankush Datar

7 min read

Fat Loss Needs A Mental Plan. (Not Just Motivation.)

Shrey Khanna

6 min read

Precaution vs. Proof: How the US and EU Differ on Food Safety

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4 min read

The Science of Helpful Conversations

Natasha Zorana

6 min read

Forget weight loss. Exercise fights a hidden enemy

Samarth Bansal

4 min read

Why Restaurants Fail

Shashank Mehta

5 min read

Why Packaged Food Startups Fail

Shashank Mehta

4 min read

The Hair Truth: 26 Things You Need To Know

Namita Chopade

7 min read

What’s The Best Way To Eat Your Veggies?

Priya Nagwani

4 min read

The Baby Feeding Jungle

Hamsini Ravi

6 min read

Five Fat Loss Myths

Samarth Bansal

7 min read

Ovary-Achievers: How Hormones Shape Women’s Health

Dhanya Ramadurai

7 min read

The Beginner’s Guide to Salad Making

Riya Rashmi

4 min read

Five Things: Salt. Sleep. Books. And more.

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

Are You Eating Your Feelings?

Charvi Altamirano

5 min read

Flawed and Fit: Everything I’ve Learned About Staying Healthy

Samarth Bansal

13 min read

I Quit My Smartphone for Five Months. Here’s What I Learnt.

Ayan Modi

7 min read

My Antidepressant Diaries: A Love-Hate Story of Healing

Uddhav Parab

6 min read

How to start meal planning

Shalini Goyal

4 min read

Mangoes are aam-azing. But are they healthy?

Priya Nagwani

5 min read

How I quit my 20-year smoking habit after failing six times

Aniruddha Mahale

6 min read

A Yogi’s Guide to Your Yoga Queries

Vrinda Sharma Rosenberg

6 min read

Beyond the news: The fall of ‘health drink’ label and Indian masalas under scrutiny

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

The Night Shift: Sleep, Stress, and Self-Care

Shantanu Kishwar

8 min read

Discipline, Resilience, and Discomfort: Three Pillars of my Fitness

Sahil Kapoor

6 min read

How can vegetarians get enough protein?

Priya Nagwani

8 min read

The ultimate guide to skincare

Namita Chopade

8 min read

The beginner’s guide to Continuous Glucose Monitors

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

The Great Protein Cover-Up: Is Your Food Lying to You?

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

The complete guide to magnesium

Ankush Datar

7 min read

How I transformed my diet and improved my health

Riya Rashmi

8 min read

Travelling through time, one run at a time

Rohan Banerjee

5 min read

Rapid Fiver: Is 10k steps a myth? And four other things to know!

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

My autoimmune journey: I lost all body hair, but gained inner strength

Pulkit Goyal

8 min read

Did we need Poonam Pandey’s shock-marketing on public health?

Anoo Bhuyan

6 min read

Nutrition science is so confusing. That’s okay!

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

How and why I turned vegan

Shweta Thakur

8 min read

What is creatine and what does it do?

Ankush Datar

7 min read

How to manage your alcohol consumption?

Shashank Mehta

4 min read

Are multivitamin tablets good for you?

Shantanu Kishwar

5 min read

Truth Be Told: Looking back, looking forward

Samarth Bansal

6 min read

How winter can help your fat loss

Sudarshan Gangrade

4 min read

Why you should track insulin

Ankush Datar

5 min read

Why is my food a chemical cocktail?

Samarth Bansal

6 min read

The ultimate guide to achieve good gut health

Sandesh Chopade

5 min read

How I took on the Herculean task of reinventing my body

Aniruddha Mahale

13 min read

How are people reversing diabetes? Did British rule make us prone to diabetes?

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

How to manage fitness as an adult with ADHD

Yashi Gupta

10 min read

Are energy drinks bad for you?

Ankush Datar

4 min read

Influencer vs Brands: What’s the truth

Sanjana Ramachandran

6 min read

Why is cancer hard to beat? Is ice cream secretly good for you?

Samarth Bansal

4 min read

Ozempic: Weight loss fad or wonder drug for diabetics?

Shantanu Kishwar

5 min read

How to pick a good dietitian

Ritika Shah

5 min read

Good books on health, fitness and nutrition

Ankush Datar

4 min read

Tongue-ties in newborns and how to look out for it

Hamsini Ravi

6 min read

Is fruit juice the new cola?

Amita Gadre

4 min read

How I built my exercise routine

Samarth Bansal

6 min read

Longevity secrets: What I learned about preventing chronic diseases

Shantanu Kishwar

8 min read

An interview with ‘The Bournvita Guy’, Revant Himmatsingka

Shashank Mehta

4 min read

How to eat a healthy breakfast at buffets

Shashank Mehta

4 min read

Are artificial sweeteners healthier than sugar?

Samarth Bansal

6 min read

A masterclass on managing caffeine: How much coffee is too much?

Ankush Datar

6 min read

Rapid Fiver: Is even a little alcohol harmful? And 5 other things to know!

Samarth Bansal

4 min read

Travel hacks: How to stay fit while travelling?

Shashank Mehta

4 min read

How I went from 102 kg to 74 kg at 50

Sachin Kalbag

11 min read

A beginner’s guide to millets

Shirin Mehrotra

5 min read

Are blue-light glasses effective?

Ankush Datar

5 min read

How I manage the “cheat meal”

Shashank Mehta

5 min read

Rapid fiver: 5 truths on health from us

Samarth Bansal

6 min read

How to improve gut health?

Samarth Bansal

7 min read

Allergic to being still: A runner’s diary

Shantanu Kishwar

10 min read

Will Bournvita allow us to talk about sugar?

Samarth Bansal

9 min read

Is whey protein a steroid?

Nayantara Menon Bagla

5 min read

How can genetics affect your health?

Sandesh Chopade

10 min read

Is A2 milk a cash-cow?

Shirin Mehrotra

4 min read

How my dad started strength training at 63

Ankush Datar

6 min read

Track your health to hack your health

Mukesh Bansal

5 min read

I finally started taking care of my body

Narayani Basu

10 min read

How to find a good therapist?

Aruna Gopakumar

7 min read

Is modern-day bread even food?

Samarth Bansal

7 min read

The Ultimate Guide to Parkour for beginners

Sandesh Chopade

14 min read

Want to become fit? Start with your ‘why’

Varun Duggirala

6 min read

Does refrigeration kill nutrition?

Krish Ashok

6 min read

Resolutions don’t work. Habits do.

Ashdin Doctor

4 min read

Beware: New Year marketing is here!

Shashank Mehta

5 min read

Everyone has an opinion on your body. But why?

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

Safest cooking utensils for healthy living

Swetha Sivakumar

6 min read

Your brain needs to relax and here’s how you can do it

Swami Purnachaitanya

5 min read

Here’s how I got my cholesterol levels down

Ankush Datar

6 min read

Why you can’t eat just one chip

Samarth Bansal

6 min read

The Definitive Guide to Smart Food Shopping

Shashank Mehta

9 min read

I solved the mystery of the afternoon slump with CGM

Ankush Datar

6 min read

Eight swaps to eat better everyday

Swetha Sivakumar

6 min read

Diwali indulgence won’t make you fat

Shashank Mehta

2 min read

What spikes your blood glucose?

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

Is your body ageing gracefully?

Samarth Bansal

5 min read

Should you count calories?

Pariksha Rao & Shashank Mehta

7 min read

Letters to Editor: Reader Response 01

Samarth Bansal

6 min read

My experiments with sleep

Ankush Datar

9 min read

8 tips to choose the right cooking oil

Swetha Sivakumar

7 min read

Why weight loss is a rigged game

Samarth Bansal

9 min read

You can’t be ‘healthy’, if you don’t know what it means

Shashank Mehta

9 min read

Food and fitness journalism is broken. We are fixing it.

Shashank Mehta

7 min read