The NNWA journal
Nutrition, careers and practice
Practical writing for people who want to work in nutrition and for the clients they will look after: diet charts built on Indian foods, honest guides to qualifications and salaries, and what the work is actually like.
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Articles
Intermittent fasting: what the trials actually show
When calories are matched, fasting performs much like ordinary restriction. What the trials found, the lean-mass question, and how Indian fasting traditions compare.
2 Sept 2026ReadWhy am I not losing weight? The honest checklist
Nine reasons the scale stops moving, in order: water and scale noise, intake drift, metabolic adaptation, and the causes that need a doctor rather than a diet.
2 Sept 2026ReadHow to lose belly fat, according to the evidence
You cannot choose where fat comes off, and abdominal fat still matters more than any other for health, especially for South Asians. What the trials actually support.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe calorie deficit, explained properly
A calorie deficit drives weight loss, and every term in the equation is harder to know than you are told. What the energy budget holds, and why the maths misses.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe Kerala diet: what it gets right, and where it needs work
Kerala is not simply South Indian. Matta rice, daily fish and steamed puttu and appam as real strengths, and the coconut and tapioca question handled honestly.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe Maharashtrian diet: what it gets right, and where it needs work
Three patterns share one name. Jowar bhakri, sprouted usal and koshimbir as real strengths, poha without protein and the drift to wheat as the gaps.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe Gujarati diet: what it gets right, and where it needs work
A Gujarati diet plan assessed honestly: steamed farsan and daily dal as real strengths, the sugar and the carbohydrate load as the gaps, and how to reach protein.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe Bengali diet: what it gets right, and where it needs work
A Bengali diet chart read properly: daily fish and mustard oil as real strengths, the rice and potato double starch as the real problem, and what to change first.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe North Indian diet: what it gets right, and where it needs work
What the North Indian and Punjabi pattern does well, from atta roti to daily dairy, where the vegetable share and portion drift work against it, and what to change.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe South Indian diet: what it gets right, and where it needs work
What a South Indian diet plan already does well, from fermentation to the vegetable habit, where the rice load works against it, and the changes worth making.
2 Sept 2026ReadThe types of nutrients, and why seven types of nutrition is the wrong question
Nutrients fall into six classes, with fibre often counted as a seventh. What each does, in Indian food terms, and what essential actually means.
2 Sept 2026ReadWhich degree is best for nutrition in India?
BSc Nutrition, Home Science, Food Technology or general science: what each one opens and closes, and which suits hospital, community, industry or practice.
2 Sept 2026ReadReading about the work is not the same as doing it
Every article here is drawn from what is taught in the programmes. If you want the whole method rather than the summary, start with the catalogue.