unhealthy food

When the real cost of food delivery is your health and wealth

Break the fast food delivery habit by creating a monthly ordering budget, meal prepping simple ingredients, and identifying emotional stress triggers. Reclaiming your kitchen safeguards long-term health, saves money, and restores life balance.
6 August 2026

Your favourite snacks may be loaded with hidden salt

Control dietary sodium with insights from Dr Chowdhury Tasneem Hasin of Continental Hospital. Reducing hidden salt in processed snacks prevents hypertension and silent kidney damage, protecting the heart health of young adults across Bangladesh.
11 June 2026

10 types of people you always see at an iftar table

Explore diverse Ramadan personalities at the iftar table, from health-conscious eaters to alur chop protectors. These humorous archetypes unite through shared traditions, cold shorbot, and heartfelt gratitude for every flavourful Maghrib meal in Dhaka.
12 March 2026

How to know your cholesterol is high

Between oily iftar items and the other delicious delicacies throughout the month of Ramadan, it will be very easy for some of us to delve into our favourite items and just let go. However, we must keep our cholesterol in check. High cholesterol is a fairly common problem and although most people face it in their 40s, the prevalence of high cholesterol level among individuals in their 20s and 30s is on the rise.
1 April 2023

All you need to know about peptic ulcer: Causes, symptoms, and treatment

The causes of what we commonly identify as 'gastric' starts off small — from snacking on our favourite dairy-based dessert, or taking a smoke break immediately after wolfing down fried foods, the triggers are aplenty. To think that a sudden case of gas and acid reflux will not set us back for a lifetime would be a wrong idea. It is only a matter of time that the minor heartburn becomes a major obstacle to living a healthy life. It is not entirely impossible to curb gastrointestinal maladies, but in order to do so it is essential to get to the root of the cause while also making some major changes to one's lifestyle.
27 November 2022

Drive against unsafe food to go on

The government has decided to further intensify mobile court drives to check food adulteration ahead of the month of Ramadan and standardise all tests carried out during such drives.
26 May 2016