When I ran the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (scmm) in the year 2011, I was an amateur walker and used to run only the Scmm – and had done little by way of practice. I did the 21.09 km race in 2:50 – which was about 5 minutes MORE than my target time of 2.45. […]

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for those of you tracking my running at Stanchart Mumbai Marathon – Scmm – I did a time of 2:29:28…..for my HM   this is of course the nth time I am doing it..and presumably my best timing….remember 5 years ago there were no chips to use….      

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Many people go to the gym – and one associated expense is the Personal Trainer. Do you go to they gym? Do you feel the need for a Personal Trainer? Let us look at the cost of going to a Gym. Annual Fee: Rs. 35,000. And a Trainer should cost say Rs. 6000 a month. […]

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In this day and age when there are so many advertisements for thirst quenching drinks….why drink water? Every advertisement wants you to drink Pepsi, Coke, Mirinda, Thumbs Up, what have you. Then there are other healthy drinks which have no advertising, but is still very popular – albeit with the lower strata of society. These […]

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  There are at least 10-15 doctors who read my blog…many comment, many do not. Here is a comment from one of the doctors…since it was long, I decided to put it as a separate post…Actually it reflects my view..but I guess this doc is younger than me 🙂   Your article is a pet […]

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Most of us eat a lot of refined carbohydrates, and white sugar. White bread, white rice, sugar etc. are all processed foods and the processing is a process of removing all the nutrients in the food! God gave us potatoes, we made fries. God gave us sugarcane, we created white sugar. Cane and other fruits […]

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Swami Vivekananda was perhaps one of the clearest thinkers in the past 200 years. He said ‘take responsibility for your actions’. We all know it, but do not always take responsibility for our current affairs….no clue why. I met a dietician friend who said ‘people are what they eat’ and most fat people are fat […]

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