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The Commonsense Diet

Written by: Rujuta Diwekar
Narrated by: Nayan S. Parekh
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15 Years After Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight Comes the New Diet Manual for the Country

Does intermittent fasting really work? Should we go on high-protein diets? Is doing a gut cleanse worth it? Should we be switching to millets?

In her insightful new book, Rujuta Diwekar answers these questions and shows us a commonsense way of eating and living a full life.

A life without fear and confusion about food. A life where good health is the default. A life of happiness and enthusiasm. Because ghar ka khaana can do that for us. If we let it.

©2025 Rujuta Diwekar (P)2025 Audible Singapore Private Limited Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition
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Though I had heard of this author, this is the first time I have read or heard something from her and I must say she comes out in flying colors. She has done a fine job in this book. She has reinforced traditional wisdom in food and nutrition. She has stuck to her roots and has done it so emphatically that traditionalists like me in this matter do not feel guilty at all. In fact I felt very reassured that whatever has developed in the society or my family over the period of may be more than a century is not wrong. I feel more reassured of telling no to eatables that I do not like and continue consuming what I have been doing for decades. Also, she encourages an occasional indulgence while reinforcing the basic three tenets on which she builds her approach: 1. Home Food 2. Regular exercises and 3. Good sound sleep. Now no need to be embarrassed if your “modern” friends, colleagues or family members are eating and drinking “modern fashionable and costly” creations and concoctions and you are enjoying your roti-lentil-vegetables-rice-buttermilk-salad meal and yes a small serving of some homemade dessert say like a “dudhi halwa”. Well done Rujuta!

However repeatedly and unnecessarily slipping into words and phrases in local vernacular including Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati mars the rhythm and flow of the narration. This is not your lecture, it is a book. During lectures I too sometimes use some local words or phrases to strike a familiarity chord with the audience but not in my books. I found it to be disturbing and unpleasant. It is for this reason I may not listen to or read any of her other books. I didn’t enjoy the act of listening though all praises for the books are in the paragraph above.

Nice book but narration unnecessarily mediocre

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The flow of the book, told logically and with simple explanation. Was ilystrated with examples.

All about food

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Nothing path breaking or enriching .. perhaps that's what a healthy diet; so RD has nothing new to share. May be expecting new is an error here.

Average this time

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What I absolutely love about Ms. Diwekar is her simple formula of eating Local, Seasonal and Traditional and how our age old custom dietary practises passed down by our dear nanis and dadis are all we need to lead a healthy life.

Ms. Diwekar teaches us in this book the importance of going back to age old kitchen practises and teaches us how to uncomplicate health and nutrition the way people have complicated everything today.

I really liked listening to the audiobook of this one and as always Ms. Diwekar's no nonsense and straightforward approach to clearing myths about food and what is actually healthy and what is not.

Definitely an eye opener one and also that last chapter is amazing wherein Ms. Diwekar gives a general framework structure of an entire day's meal plan that's simple and healthy and how ghar ka khana is all that you need.

Diet and Nutrition ☑️

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Rujuta had made it so simple yet powerful. For Indian it is awesome. Even the speaker is excellent speaking in simple English with Hindi very required.

Awesome Book by Rujuta

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