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# RKS: GI vs GL FACE-OFF - GI - The Fad, But GL - A Dictating Health Reality

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  # RKS: GI vs GL FACE-OFF GI - THE FAD, BUT GL - A DICTATING HEALTH REALITY RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 4 1st July 2026 THE GI & GL COMBAT ENLIGHTENING ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GL Dear Reader, Glycemic Load (GL) is the most accurate predictor of how a specific food impacts blood sugar and insulin. While Glycemic Index (GI) only measures how fast carbs break down, GL calculates both the speed and the quantity in a realistic serving. This makes it pivotal for controlling insulin spikes.  When chased by a dog compared to a tiger one would accordingly run or gallop. So does the secretion rate of insulin from pancreas depends upon how glucose floods the blood. Facing one animal is different from confronting a hound. Similarly the carbs with varying GI can be conquered but GL needs to be factored whether the pancreatic insulin can counter the same. This blog is devoted exclusively to unveiling the GI of carbs as well as GL of foods consumed to make an educative choice whilst cho...
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# RKS: GI CONUNDRUM - GI - The FAD-Dictating Carbs Consumption

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    # RKS: GI CONUNDRUM “GI - THE FAD-DICTATING CARBS CONSUMPTION” RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 3 1st June 2026 THE GI IMPLICATIONS LAID THREADBARE GI ASCERTAINING & UNDERSTANDING Dear Reader, Diabetes is a disease under the radar for the healthcare providers, Dieticians and common man alike. So much has been the spread about its awareness, including the complications and so much has been professed about diabetes by self-created and projected experts that the unwitting lay population has fallen easy prey to even information viralled by unqualified Nutritionists or even housewives! The latest craze is discussions on the Glycemic Index (GI) of various carbohydrates (carbs) contained in food items and the scare about the same has even put to shame the roar of lions and tigers.  Healthy, non-diabetics and with zero risk factor have become unnecessarily worrisome regarding the GI of the foods they consume! It is not essential to dwell on what we eat and get alarmed at gr...
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Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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# RKS: SUGAR ENTRAPPED BELIEFS - "Added Sugar"

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   # RKS: SUGAR ENTRAPPED BELIEFS “ADDED SUGAR” RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 2 1st May 2026 ALL THAT WARNS ON PACKAGED FOODS IS NOT ENCOMPASSING THE HIDDEN ‘SUGARS’ GLEEFULLY CONSUMED Dear Reader, The packaged food industry has come under a cloud of ill-health and the snacking facilitated has been equated to “junk” food. Food is called "junk" when it is high in calories, fats, sugars, or salt while providing little to no essential nutrients like fiber, vitamins, or minerals. Calories are a result of content of fats and sugars but the latter too, along with salts, are in today’s era have become the bane for Dieticians, housewives, and doctors from healthy lifestyle perspective! The upcoming 6-blogs series discusses the futility of shunning packaged snacky foods just by evaluating added sugar, fat content and salt quantity present.  SUGARS Approximately 66% to 90% of packaged food items in India contain added sugars, with high prevalence in biscuits, snacks, sauces, and e...
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Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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# RKS: MOBILE PHONE EMISSION - Knowing About SAR

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  # RKS: MOBILE PHONE EMISSION KNOWING ABOUT SAR RKS / 2026-2027 / Ser 9 / Blog 1 1st April 2026 MOBILE PHONE HAZARDS DEFINED INSTRUMENT + HABITS DICTATED Dear Reader, The mobile phone market is flooded by 10-15 global companies, regional players apart, but the number of brands have declined from over approximately 750 in 2017 to 250 active by 2023. The top 5 brands (Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, Vivo, OPPO) control a vast majority of the market, with "Others" accounting for about 32-33% of shipments. The Indian mobile market is flooded with dozens of active brands, dominated heavily by Chinese manufacturers (Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, Realme, iQOO, OnePlus) and South Korea's Samsung, which together control most of the market share. The US $15 billion (bn) (INR 1,50,00 crore) market in India is comprised of around 100 handset brands.  In India, Android holds a 95.26% market share, while iOS trails at 4.44%. The country's wireless (mobile) subscriber base is approximately 1.15 to 1...
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