Notes for Healthy Kids

by Rujuta Diwekar

Basically, like love, you will find calcium in places where you are not looking. Two big, but unknown, sources of calcium, are: i. Ragi: known to be Hanuman’s favourite food. Hanuman is celebrated for his power and strength, and both come from good bone mineral density, specially the ability to carry heavy stuff. Remember the story of Hanuman carrying the mountain? So one can easily carry or, as is depicted, fly while carrying things heavier than one’s body weight when one is strong in bone mineral density. Chalo, make ragi a weekly habit now — laddoo, dosa, porridge, or just roll it into a roti. ii. Moringa: i am sure you have eaten sambar and found a drumstick in it. Now drumstick ka cool name is moringa, and recently, at a course i studied in Germany, it’s been identified and looked up to as ‘future food’. Future food is about foods that are resilient and will survive climate change and continue to provide taste and nourishment for the ever-increasing population on earth.