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Are Air Fryers & Microwaves Safe? Kitchen Gadgets – A Physician’s Guide

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Which Cookware is Safe? A Physician’s Guide

We carefully check food labels for sugar and preservatives, but how often do we check the vessel that cooks it?...

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Which Cooking Oil? A Physician’s Guide

The Oil Crisis in Your Kitchen For the past few decades, we abandoned our traditional ghee for plastic bottles of...

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Chips and crisps are popular snacks all over the world. They are appreciated for their crunch and variety by kids...

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What is Telogen Effluvium? It is a common type of hair loss that occurs when more hairs than normal enter the shedding phase of the hair growth cycle at once.

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