Best of Weekender: From a Made in India furniture brand to a social media influencer offering inspirational content
This week, YSWeekender also brought to you stories about a healthy snacking brand for kids and if excess sugar and salt intake contributes to weight gain.
The pandemic reasserted the long-held belief that one’s home is where one’s heart resides. And interior designing and beautifying personal spaces took on significant meaning during this time. Addressing this shift in mindset, Delhi-based furniture brand opened its doors in October this year.
Described as a ‘global design brand made in India’, Sunday Design offers contemporary products manufactured in India but designed in Italy.
In this age of influencer marketing, many people look towards influencers who have a prominent presence on social and digital media. Thus, the role of a digital content creator comes with responsibility.
Mumbai-based Meenakshi Kuwadekar – a luxury and lifestyle connoisseur, podcaster, and travel enthusiast – certainly takes this role very seriously. On her popular podcast M-Power, she has interviewed celebrities like Edward Lalrempuia, Pooja Dhingra, Rocky S, Aishwarya Nair, Zorawar Kalra, and Monisha Jaisingh among a host of others.
Ask any mother what she would change about her child’s eating habits, and the answer is likely to be, ‘I wish they ate less sugar!’
Mumbai-based , co-founded by two young mothers -- Radhieka Pandeya and Simer Dhall -- in April 2021, attempts to address this problem by offering multiple healthy snacking options for children.
The Snack-A-Doodle range currently includes Bites, which are miniature bars in a host of flavours like Banana Choco-Chip, Strawberry Apple, and Mango Pineapple. They also have cookies in flavours of Vanilla Milkshake, Strawberry Milkshake, Crunchy Date, and Crunchy Chocolate Millet, as well as a do-it-yourself baking kit.
Weight loss is a lot more complicated than breaking it down into specific foods. However, consuming certain foods can be predisposing factors towards weight gain.
While looking through this perspective, what better foods to look at than sugars and salts. When it comes to sugar and salt, what matters is your body and what it is telling you, the right forms of these, and moderation.