We’re only about halfway into the celebratory season, but conversations filled with ‘No more cheat days for me this year’ or ‘I can’t even imagine how many weeks it’s going to take to offset all that sugar!’ and ‘I can’t go see my nutritionist until I work off the mithai’ have taken over. To prevent deprivation from being the only solution to healthy festive eating and give sweets a starring role rather than an insignificant cameo in your diet, many Mumbai sweet spots are whipping up wholesome alternatives that are sure to leave you spoilt for choice.
With organic, vegan and gluten-free offerings, protein-packed or paleo cakes online, or the many keto-friendly foods on menus across the city, the aim is primarily to create and encourage beneficial habits instead of diet fads. Laying emphasis on the keto diet, Karishma Boolani — sports scientist and founder, HUMANICS — shares, “In the human body, the sugar burning mechanism is your fuel engine and the fat burning mechanism is your electric engine. It is essentially designed to use the fuel (sugar) energy in emergency situations and live off the electric (fat) engine for the most part. Yet the diets that most people follow have been doing the exact opposite; the majority of calories in our diet have been refined carbohydrate sources. When we eat a lot of carbs, we burn sugar as a primary energy source. The human body is the most intelligent machine, and it’s essential that we do not work against the way nature intended, it is very important to understand the science in order to work with its physiology and allow it to thrive.”
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