VIEWPOINT

FITNESS

Nutrition experts recommend, you don’t dip below 1200 to 1500 calories a day. When you drastically cut calories, you lose muscle along with fat-especially if you haven’t been exercising. Because muscle is your bodies’ calorie-burning furnace, this can slow down your metabolism; even long after your crash diet is done.

VIEWPOINT ON PUBLIC HEALTH

The public health movement in India relies on medical models with urgency-driven curative medical solutions which have always been short-term fixes and have resulted in the postponement of permanent public health solutions. The easy availability of antibiotics and medication in the developing world mean that provision of clean water, improvements in sanitation, nutrition and housing, all of which are basic public health approaches.