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Renu Mahtani's "The Ultimate Indian Diet Book" points one on the right direction
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For Renu Mahtani, it has been years now that she is eating to live and not living to eat. An MD in Medicine, Pune-based Renu had suffered from psoriosis, almost a decade ago. Though herself a doctor, she found no answer in medicine beyond a limit.
"And so, I took to working on the right diet and believe it or not, it is been seven years and I am completely cured." Her self-experiment led her to broaden her "vision about health," and took her beyond allopathy. And recently, Renu has come out with her maiden book The Ultimate Indian Diet Book attempting to take the readers through the science of food vis-à-vis Indian food habits.
Published by Macmillan, the 173-page book is not a usual copy of leaf after leaf of recipes, (though it has a few recipes to take you towards the required direction) but filled with her explanations on what is the right food for you. "When I was suffering from psoriosis, I realised the limits of allopathic cure. I wanted others too to know the boundaries of medical knowledge. But when you want to find out about the right food habits in books, all we find are western publications. They suggest you to have avocadoes and asparagus, which you don't find in your local market. Also, Indian appetite and taste are so different from the West. All these have made me write this book," she explains.
A clear voter for vegetarianism, she quit non-vegetarian food some years ago and is "reaping" its benefits now. "I am so much calmer, there is such clarity of thought now. There is a general lightness of the body that you get to enjoy being a vegetarian," she says.
And in her book too, she has devoted quite a few chapters on vegetarianism.
"I know that the vegetables and fruits that you get now are generally not free from chemicals. But you can dip them in water for some time before eating. Nothing these days is perfect, the art lies in making things suitable for you," she states.
A regular practitioner of pranayama, Renu is already planning her next book on the concepts of breathing and meditation.
SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY
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