Dia weds Vaibhav
Select guest list includes Aditi Rao Hydari
Dia Mirza and her husband Vaibhav Rekhi distributed sweets to the media after their wedding on February 15. Hyderabadi girl Aditi Rao Hydari, producer Jackky Bhagnani and director Kunal Deshmukh were among those present at the wedding. There were not many invitees to the function.
Dia (39) was last seen in the film Thappad and has worked on a Telugu film called Wild Dog with Nagarjuna.
Vaibhav Rekhi (35) is a partner at Piramal Fund Management, a part of Piramal Capital. He had earlier worked with Savills and DTZ in London, and HSBC and Citibank in Hong Kong, New York, London and Milan He was seeing Dia during the lockdown.
Vaibhav was previously married to Yoga Guru Sunaina Rekhi. Interestingly Sunaina’s and Vaibhav’s daughter walked with Dia down the aisle, carrying a placard which said ‘Papa’s Girls’.
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Cancer is now the fourth leading cause of death in India. So the most pressing question today is — what are you doing to lower your risk? In FOOD MATTERS: The Role Your Diet Plays in the Fight Against Cancer, author Dr Shubham Pant asks readers to ‘focus on the mundane solutions’.
Oncologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, Dr Pant recommends eating a good diet, staying a healthy weight and considering other lifestyle interventions to keep cancer at bay. Citing case studies in the book, Dr Pant also suggests how patients diagnosed with and recovering from cancer can best manage their nutritional needs.
Dr Pant, who is an associate professor in the Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics and the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at the University, shares his inspirations for the book. “Since my early days in practice, I was always interested in the interplay of diet and cancer. Patients from India and of Indian origin always asked me what they could eat during therapy and I noticed there was a paucity of data for the Indian palate. When I started writing and researching the book, I realised that there was a lot of misinformation on cancer prevention and how to stay healthy during and after cancer therapy. The book aims to address these issues in a data-driven approach but is written with real world examples and so that anyone can read and understand nuances when it comes to diet and cancer,” he says.
FOOD MATTERS discusses how to cut through the background noise and focus on a healthy diet and stop being impacted by food fads. The book also discussed what patients can eat to better deal with side effects during and after cancer therapy.
Dr Pant, who spent approximately two years researching before he started writing the book, says he felt that to write a book on an important subject such as cancer, he needed to have data from reliable sources. “I relied on peer-reviewed articles, which were published in well-respected journals and data from organisations that had done exemplary work in the field,” he adds.
The doctor points out that there is a paucity of reliable sources with many of the articles focusing on individual ‘miracle foods’ without looking at what we eat as a whole. “I read a lot of research articles and distilled the information into an easy to read format without taking the science out of it,” elaborates Dr Pant. “We have one hundred and seventy six references in the book. I also felt that the stories needed to be told from a survivor’s view point and I was lucky enough to connect with amazing cancer survivors who were kind enough to let me share their stories.”
Working out is one of things you can do body. Exercise strengthens your muscles and bones, improves cardiovascular health, reduces stress, boosts memory and promotes better sleep, among other things. Yet, if you're doing the exercises the wrong way, you could be actually hurting, not helping your body.
One of the areas for error while exercising is the use of technique. For instance, you risk a back injury if you arch your back while doing planks and a knee injury if you bend too deeply in a lunge or squat.
In order to reap all the health benefits of exercise, fitness trainer Zaineb Ali, certified Pilates instructor, identifies the most common workout mistakes that might be sabotaging fitness goals, and talks about how they can be fixed. the best for your
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If you are new to fitness, take professional assistance or read up to ensure that you adopt the right posture before starting and ending exercises.
A few tips to get you started: Keep your shoulders squared, pelvis neutral; don’t raise your shoulders to your ears; keep your core engaged.