An ecotarian is a person who eats a diet of food grown or produced in an eco-friendly manner. In a wide sense, it is organic, locally produced food, minimally processed and with little packaging. It should have a minimal impact on the planet. An ecotarian is not necessarily a vegetarian, but a meat-eater who sticks to poultry and pork.

A vegivore is a person who craves or has a special fondness for vegetables. This need not be because the person has an aversion to eating meat but solely due to an intense craving for vegetables. To a vegivore, meat products may only seem like an accompaniment to add flavour to the dish. He/ she will find the vegetable dish …

A fanatic vegetarian out to convert non-vegetarians. The word vegangelical comes from vegan and evangelical. A vegangelical is someone who thinks that any other lifestyle choice besides veganism is wrong. The word usually used in the West, first made its appearance in print in 2003.

The art of plastination deals with preservation of organs, tissues and whole beings. Plastination, unlike preservation through formalin, involves a series of processes that replace the fluids in the tissues and organs by reactive plastics such as silicon rubber, epoxy resin and polyester resin, in a special vacuum process. This achieves the same objective as formalin, which is to prevent …

Anchovies (they are usually classified as oily fish) have the palm oil, which is one of the few vegetable based saturated fats. Another is coconut oil. Haddock, like most white fish, is pretty low in fat. While it does contain omega-3 fat, it has nowhere as much as oily fish like anchovies. Omega-3s are the creme-de-la – creme of good …

The biggest threat is saturated fat as we eat nearly a fifth more than recommended. The worst culprits are pork pies, sausages, full fat dairy products, butter, cakes, pastries, etc. Monounsaturated fats are actually good for us. Along with polyunsaturated fats they help to stop the arteries furring up. Monounsaturates are found in olive oil, peanut butter, avocado, nuts and …

Local burger bar is harmful. Due to pressure from campaigners, the major fast food chains have almost phased trans fats out of their food, but many one-off burger bars, chicken shops, etc, still use them. Otherwise, trans fats are mostly found in processed, baked foods such as biscuits, cakes and pastries.

No more than 35% of our diet should come from fat. That’s 70gm a day for women and 95gm for men. Roughly half of our diet should be made up of carbohydrates – from fruit and vegetables plus starchy foods like bread, cereals and potatoes. The rest should be from protein, found in lean meat, fish, eggs, beans and nuts.

Toasted skin syndrome occurs when skin is exposed to heat for long periods of time, and appears as a darkened, sometimes patterned, discoloration on the skin. The condition can cause permanent skin discoloration and may even lead to skin cancer, depending on the degree of damage. In the old days, people who worked near high heat sources, such as bakers …

The growth, development and adoption of new varieties of oilseeds and complementary technologies nearly doubled oilseeds production from 12.6 mt in 1987-88 to 24.4 mt in 1996-97, catalyzed by the Technology Mission on Oilseeds, brought about the Yellow Revolution.The term also stands for the People Power Revolution in Phillipines in 1986 against then President Ferdinand Marcos. It was a series …