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Economic Times
10-08-2025
- Health
- Economic Times
Hardik Pandya always counts his calories: Cricket icon shares his diet secret for staying fit without starving
Synopsis Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya shares his daily diet. He focuses on wholesome eating and portion control. His day starts with water and a nutrient-rich breakfast smoothie. Lunch includes jeera rice, palak, and daal. Post-practice, he consumes oatmeal. Dinner is an Asian green bowl with tofu and brown rice. He also uses apple cider vinegar to manage appetite. Agencies Hardik Pandya's Fitness-First Lifestyle and Diet Philosophy Indian cricket all-rounder Hardik Pandya is as well-known for his dynamic presence on the field as he is for his striking fashion sense and enviable fitness. At 31, he continues to inspire fans by showcasing snippets of his demanding workout sessions, which are key to maintaining his athletic edge. Recently, Pandya gave his followers a detailed look into his daily eating habits, revealing a surprisingly simple and sustainable approach to nutrition. Contrary to trends like intermittent fasting or drastic crash diets, his philosophy revolves around wholesome eating and careful portion a video shared on Instagram, Pandya outlined what fuels his day—a menu rooted in familiar, nutrient-rich staples high in protein yet moderate in calories. As a professional athlete, he said he remains vigilant about tracking his calorie intake and incorporates apple cider vinegar supplements to curb cravings and help manage appetite effectively. "As an athlete, I always count my calories," he stated. Pandya's mornings begin with 500 ml of water, a habit he follows before hitting the gym. This early hydration routine, supported by studies from Harvard and the National Academy of Medicine, offers numerous benefits: it jumpstarts metabolism, stabilises blood pressure, cushions joints, safeguards organs, boosts cognitive performance, improves focus, combats fatigue, maintains body temperature, balances electrolytes, aids weight management, and strengthens immunity. For Pandya, this first step sets the tone for an active and productive for the cricketer is a nutrient-dense blend designed to energise and nourish. He enjoys a smoothie combining sunflower seeds, oats, avocado, almonds, almond milk, and a banana. This combination delivers roughly 650 calories and around 30 grams of protein—ideal for those aiming to build strength while keeping weight in check. It is a balanced mix of healthy fats, complex carbs, and high-quality plant-based protein, giving him sustained energy through the lunch, Pandya once again relies on his apple cider vinegar drink mixed with water, a refreshing way to manage hunger while still keeping meals satisfying. His lunch plate features traditional Indian comfort foods like jeera rice, palak, and daal. Together, they provide approximately 550 calories and 24 grams of protein, balancing flavour with essential Pandya turns to oatmeal, a reliable meal for recovery. This portion packs around 600 calories and 28 grams of protein, replenishing his energy stores and aiding muscle repair after intense training follows the same mindful approach. Another dose of apple cider vinegar precedes his final meal—a vibrant Asian green bowl with tofu and brown rice. This combination offers a harmonious balance of complex carbs, plant protein, and fibre, making it a satisfying yet light conclusion to his daily Pandya's dietary approach proves that consistent fitness results don't require extreme regimens — just balanced nutrition, portion awareness, and a commitment to daily you want, I can also restructure this into a more motivational, lifestyle-magazine style with punchier, reader-grabbing lines. That would make it feel even more engaging.
Time of India
10-08-2025
- Lifestyle
- Time of India
Hardik Pandya always counts his calories: Cricket icon shares his diet secret for staying fit without starving
Indian cricket all-rounder Hardik Pandya is as well-known for his dynamic presence on the field as he is for his striking fashion sense and enviable fitness. At 31, he continues to inspire fans by showcasing snippets of his demanding workout sessions, which are key to maintaining his athletic edge. Recently, Pandya gave his followers a detailed look into his daily eating habits, revealing a surprisingly simple and sustainable approach to nutrition. Contrary to trends like intermittent fasting or drastic crash diets, his philosophy revolves around wholesome eating and careful portion management. A Day's Diet in Focus In a video shared on Instagram, Pandya outlined what fuels his day—a menu rooted in familiar, nutrient-rich staples high in protein yet moderate in calories. As a professional athlete, he said he remains vigilant about tracking his calorie intake and incorporates apple cider vinegar supplements to curb cravings and help manage appetite effectively. Productivity Tool Zero to Hero in Microsoft Excel: Complete Excel guide By Metla Sudha Sekhar View Program Finance Introduction to Technical Analysis & Candlestick Theory By Dinesh Nagpal View Program Finance Financial Literacy i e Lets Crack the Billionaire Code By CA Rahul Gupta View Program Digital Marketing Digital Marketing Masterclass by Neil Patel By Neil Patel View Program Finance Technical Analysis Demystified- A Complete Guide to Trading By Kunal Patel View Program Productivity Tool Excel Essentials to Expert: Your Complete Guide By Study at home View Program Artificial Intelligence AI For Business Professionals Batch 2 By Ansh Mehra View Program "As an athlete, I always count my calories," he stated. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like He is our only child, we cannot see him suffer. Help us! Donate For Health Donate Now Undo Morning Hydration Ritual Pandya's mornings begin with 500 ml of water, a habit he follows before hitting the gym. This early hydration routine, supported by studies from Harvard and the National Academy of Medicine, offers numerous benefits: it jumpstarts metabolism, stabilises blood pressure, cushions joints, safeguards organs, boosts cognitive performance, improves focus, combats fatigue, maintains body temperature, balances electrolytes, aids weight management, and strengthens immunity. For Pandya, this first step sets the tone for an active and productive day. Power Breakfast to Start Strong Breakfast for the cricketer is a nutrient-dense blend designed to energise and nourish. He enjoys a smoothie combining sunflower seeds, oats, avocado, almonds, almond milk, and a banana. This combination delivers roughly 650 calories and around 30 grams of protein—ideal for those aiming to build strength while keeping weight in check. It is a balanced mix of healthy fats, complex carbs, and high-quality plant-based protein, giving him sustained energy through the morning. Midday Appetite Control and Comfort Lunch Before lunch, Pandya once again relies on his apple cider vinegar drink mixed with water, a refreshing way to manage hunger while still keeping meals satisfying. His lunch plate features traditional Indian comfort foods like jeera rice, palak, and daal. Together, they provide approximately 550 calories and 24 grams of protein, balancing flavour with essential nutrients. Evening Recovery Fuel Post-practice, Pandya turns to oatmeal, a reliable meal for recovery. This portion packs around 600 calories and 28 grams of protein, replenishing his energy stores and aiding muscle repair after intense training sessions. A Balanced Dinner to End the Day Dinner follows the same mindful approach. Another dose of apple cider vinegar precedes his final meal—a vibrant Asian green bowl with tofu and brown rice. This combination offers a harmonious balance of complex carbs, plant protein, and fibre, making it a satisfying yet light conclusion to his daily menu. Hardik Pandya's dietary approach proves that consistent fitness results don't require extreme regimens — just balanced nutrition, portion awareness, and a commitment to daily discipline. If you want, I can also restructure this into a more motivational, lifestyle-magazine style with punchier, reader-grabbing lines. That would make it feel even more engaging.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy
Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called 'the most influential scientist you've never heard of.' He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein's – who called Garwin 'the only true genius' he'd ever met. A polymath curious about almost everything, he was one of the few people elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine for pathbreaking contributions in all of those fields. He held 47 patents and published over 500 scientific papers. A giant trove of his papers and talks can be found in the Garwin Archive at the Federation of American Scientists. Garwin was best known for having done the engineering design for the first-ever thermonuclear explosion, turning the Teller-Ulam idea of triggering a fusion reaction with radiation pressure into a working hydrogen bomb – one with roughly 700 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. He did that over the summer when he was 23. Over the decades that followed, he contributed to countless other military advances, including inventing key technology that enabled reconnaissance satellites. Yet Garwin was also a longtime advocate of nuclear arms control and ultimately of nuclear disarmament. Working on nuclear deterrence and arms control, now at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, I got to know Garwin as a tireless and effective participant in dialogues with scientists and current or former officials in Russia, China, India and elsewhere, making the case for steps to limit nuclear weapons and reduce their dangers. Garwin was an early participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for its disarmament work. He was also a founding member, in 1980, of the National Academies' Committee on International Security and Arms Control, where he continued discussing ideas for reducing nuclear dangers with foreign colleagues throughout his life. The deep respect that top Russian and Chinese nuclear weapons scientists had for him was palpable – even though he was often blunt in telling them where he thought their arguments were wrong. Once, at a workshop in Beijing, after listening to the leader of China's program to develop nuclear 'breeder' reactors lay out his program, Garwin started his remarks by saying, 'This is a poorly designed breeder program that will fail' – and then laying out why he thought that was the case. Because nongovernment experts have a freedom to explore ideas that government negotiators lack, these kinds of dialogues played a key role in developing the concepts that led to nuclear arms control agreements and, I would argue, contributed to ending the Cold War. As an example, one committee team that included Garwin helped convince Chinese weapons scientists that their country had no more need for nuclear tests and should sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty – which it did soon after the discussion. Only weeks before his death, he and I and others participated in a Zoom meeting with Russian nuclear weapons experts discussing what initial steps should be taken if U.S.-Russian political relations improved enough for them to resume discussions of nuclear restraint and risk reduction. Garwin's mind seemed to be interested in everything at once – and he had a wry sense of humor that could enliven a dry meeting. When I was directing a National Academies study about dealing with the plutonium from dismantled nuclear weapons after the Cold War, he would send an email with a penetrating insight on some issue in the study, followed by an equally long query about the parking arrangements for the meeting. We put him in charge of assessing all the especially strange options for dealing with the plutonium. Once, while diagramming on a chalkboard the option of diluting the plutonium in the ocean, he drew the ship that would be doing the work and then began drawing many smaller vessels. Someone asked him what those were, and he said: 'Oh, those are the Greenpeace boats.' Garwin's unbelievable energies focused on three broad areas: fundamental science, new technologies and advising the government. In fundamental science, he made major contributions to the detection and study of gravitational waves, and he helped to discover what physicists call parity violation in the weak nuclear force – a discovery that was one of the building blocks for what is now the standard model of the fundamental forces of the universe. In new technologies, beyond weapons and satellites, he played a key role in the invention of touch screens, magnetic resonance imaging, laser printers and the GPS technology that enables us all to get directions on our cellphones. He was a researcher at IBM from 1952 to 1993. Garwin advised the government on panels ranging from the President's Science Advisory Committee, to the JASON panel of high-level defense advisers, to leading the State Department's Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board (now called the International Security Advisory Board). He made major contributions to thinking about problems ranging from antisubmarine warfare to missile defense. He was a pungent critic of the 'Star Wars' missile defense program launched in the Reagan administration, pointing out the wide range of ways enemies could defeat it more cheaply. His range was remarkable: He was called on to offer ideas for capping the blowout of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and on managing the COVID-19 pandemic. His curiosity was not limited to important matters. Once, as I was sitting next to him waiting for a meeting to start, he told me that if you took a Superball – a small, extremely elastic rubber ball – and bounced it diagonally on the floor so that it bounced up onto the bottom of the table, it would bounce back onto the same spot on the floor and back into your hand. I said I didn't believe it for a minute – surely it would keep bouncing forward until it got to the other side of the table. He gave me an explanation I didn't fully understand, involving energy of forward motion being converted to torque, and then converted into energy of backward motion. When I got home, I received an express package from him containing an article he'd written in the American Journal of Physics, titled 'Kinematics of an Ultraelastic Rough Ball,' with pages of equations explaining how this worked. The first figure in the paper is a stick-figure drawing of bouncing such a ball, with a footnote: 'This was first demonstrated to me by L. W. Alverez using a Wham-O Super Ball.' Luis Alverez was a Nobel Prize winner in physics. Garwin's brilliance was obvious to all who encountered him and won him wide recognition. In addition to election to all three national academies, he was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2002 by President George W. Bush. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Amid all this activity, Garwin was a family man. His marriage to his beloved wife, Lois, lasted over 70 years, until her death in 2018. They have three children, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. The advances Garwin contributed to have enhanced our understanding of the universe and benefited millions of people around the world. And as dark as nuclear dangers may seem today, the world is further from the nuclear brink than it would have been if Richard Garwin had never been born. This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization bringing you facts and trustworthy analysis to help you make sense of our complex world. It was written by: Matthew Bunn, Harvard Kennedy School Read more: Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks Russia announces its suspension from last nuclear arms agreement with the US, escalating nuclear tension New postage stamp honors Chien-Shiung Wu, trailblazing nuclear physicist Matthew Bunn is a member of the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control and a board member of the Arms Control Association. He is a member of the Academic Alliance of the United States Strategic Command and a consultant to Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Concerned about US vaccine misinformation and access, public health experts start Vaccine Integrity Project
Concerned that the nation's health leadership is casting unfounded doubt on the safety of well-studied vaccines and may take action to curb their use, a group of public health experts is working to put pieces in place to respond. The initiative, the Vaccine Integrity Project, will be funded by a foundation backed by Walmart heiress Christy Walton and has a steering committee helmed by former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg and former National Academy of Medicine President Dr. Harvey Fineberg, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is leading the initiative and who serves as director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. The effort will consider what's needed to safeguard vaccine policy and use in the US, including whether there's a need for a new independent body to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness, Osterholm said ahead of Thursday's announcement. 'There have been conversations happening for months now across the public health community about, 'what will we do if US government vaccine information becomes corrupted or the system that helps to ensure their safety and efficacy are compromised?' ' he said. The initiative is being formed in response to actions by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spread mixed messages about the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak, accused advisers to federal health agencies of conflicts of interest and pledged to start a major autism study that experts fear will falsely tie the condition to vaccines. The Vaccine Integrity Project's first move will be to hold a series of information-gathering sessions, pulling together experts from local public health departments, medical associations, academia, public policy, industry and others. The initial goal is to determine 'what is important to have going forward if, in fact, there should be compromise by the federal government in terms of our vaccine enterprise,' Osterholm said. 'We can't say at this point that that's happened, but we don't want to wait until the moment it might happen, and we have enough signals that that is.' He pointed to Kennedy's vaccine comments, as well as moves like some Minnesota state legislators' introduction of a bill this week 'to declare that mRNA vaccine technology is a weapon of mass destruction and that it should be immediately taken off the market and anyone using it would be liable for criminal activity.' 'Who's going to respond to that?' Osterholm asked. 'Is anybody at the federal government level going to respond to activities like that? That's a question I think we are left, at this point, unanswered.' The 'initial feedback phase,' as he called it, will start this month and last until early August. 'We don't know what's this is going to look like at the end, but we'll only find out by listening to all of these groups,' Osterholm said. 'At the end of that process, hopefully we can all look at it and come to a similar conclusion, that this is what's necessary or not necessary to protect the vaccine enterprise.'
CNN
24-04-2025
- Health
- CNN
Concerned about US vaccine misinformation and access, public health experts start Vaccine Integrity Project
Concerned that the nation's health leadership is casting unfounded doubt on the safety of well-studied vaccines and may take action to curb their use, a group of public health experts is working to put pieces in place to respond. The initiative, the Vaccine Integrity Project, will be funded by a foundation backed by Walmart heiress Christy Walton and has a steering committee helmed by former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg and former National Academy of Medicine President Dr. Harvey Fineberg, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is leading the initiative and who serves as director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. The effort will consider what's needed to safeguard vaccine policy and use in the US, including whether there's a need for a new independent body to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness, Osterholm said ahead of Thursday's announcement. 'There have been conversations happening for months now across the public health community about, 'what will we do if US government vaccine information becomes corrupted or the system that helps to ensure their safety and efficacy are compromised?' ' he said. The initiative is being formed in response to actions by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spread mixed messages about the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak, accused advisers to federal health agencies of conflicts of interest and pledged to start a major autism study that experts fear will falsely tie the condition to vaccines. The Vaccine Integrity Project's first move will be to hold a series of information-gathering sessions, pulling together experts from local public health departments, medical associations, academia, public policy, industry and others. The initial goal is to determine 'what is important to have going forward if, in fact, there should be compromise by the federal government in terms of our vaccine enterprise,' Osterholm said. 'We can't say at this point that that's happened, but we don't want to wait until the moment it might happen, and we have enough signals that that is.' He pointed to Kennedy's vaccine comments, as well as moves like some Minnesota state legislators' introduction of a bill this week 'to declare that mRNA vaccine technology is a weapon of mass destruction and that it should be immediately taken off the market and anyone using it would be liable for criminal activity.' 'Who's going to respond to that?' Osterholm asked. 'Is anybody at the federal government level going to respond to activities like that? That's a question I think we are left, at this point, unanswered.' The 'initial feedback phase,' as he called it, will start this month and last until early August. 'We don't know what's this is going to look like at the end, but we'll only find out by listening to all of these groups,' Osterholm said. 'At the end of that process, hopefully we can all look at it and come to a similar conclusion, that this is what's necessary or not necessary to protect the vaccine enterprise.'
