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How to Eat Out and still Stay Healthy 14 y
Whenever you are out and have forgotten to carry lunch or if you are a bachelor/bachelorette and do not have the time to cook, you will frequently find it difficult to find a wholesome healthy meal outside in the market. To top that, eating out everyday has its own perils.
Whenever you are out and have forgotten to carry lunch or if you are a bachelor/bachelorette and do not have the time to cook, you will frequently find it difficult to find a wholesome healthy meal outside in the market. To top that, eating out everyday has its own perils.
Eating out is becoming a bigger and bigger challenge. Sticking to your guns away from home is hard for many reasons. Plus you never know what’s in your food especially when the kitchen is behind closed doors. The way out of this dilemma is to know what to choose when eating out.
So you want your cake and want to ... read more Allergic to Foods? 14 y
"Hey, do you want some?" your friend asks as he offers you a mouthwatering Chocolate Cake. You're tempted by the delicious dessert, but then you see the crushed peanuts on top. Darn! You're allergic to peanuts. For some people with food allergies, that's reality.
”Hey, do you want some?” your friend asks as he offers you a mouthwatering Chocolate Cake. You’re tempted by the delicious dessert, but then you see the crushed peanuts on top. Darn! You’re allergic to peanuts. For some people with food allergies, that’s reality.
What is Food Allergy?
Food allergies occur when your immune system makes a mistake. Normally, your immune system protects you from germs and diseases. It does this by making antibodies that help you fight off bacteria, viruses, and other tiny organisms that can make you sick. But if you have a food allergy, your immune sy ... read more How to make your Diet Work 14 y
Nutrition means nurturing the body to keep it healthy and functioning. Healthy eating is essential to your health and well being. We must provide our bodies with all the food, vitamins, and minerals they need in order to thrive.
Nutrition means nurturing the body to keep it healthy and functioning. Healthy eating is essential to your health and well being. We must provide our bodies with all the food, vitamins, and minerals they need in order to thrive. A good diet is important for good health. A healthy and varied diet can help to maintain a healthy body weight, enhance general wellbeing and reduce the risk of a number of diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis.
With our fast-paced lifestyles, we don’t have time to devote hours or entire days to preparing healthy meals t ... read more Running Without Injuries 14 y
Most people start running informally as an enjoyable way to keep fit rather than as a 'serious' sport. However, the allure of the sport is very strong for many, and you just might find yourself running competitively before too long!
Most people start running informally as an enjoyable way to keep fit rather than as a ’serious’ sport. However, the allure of the sport is very strong for many, and you just might find yourself running competitively before too long! Running is one of the best activities most people can do to improve their health. Running regularly can help with weight loss, fighting aging and disease, and with generally staying healthy.
Why take up running? Because it is the simplest, fastest and the most accessible way to fitness and good health. You don’t need a partner; you don’t need equipment, a c ... read more Top 8 Food Addictions 14 y
Have you ever eaten something - a bowl of ice cream, a piece of cake, a chocolate - and felt hungrier than before? Do you have urges for a particular food and find it hard to satisfy your craving unless you eat that particular food?
Have you ever eaten something - a bowl of ice cream, a piece of cake, a chocolate - and felt hungrier than before? Do you have urges for a particular food and find it hard to satisfy your craving unless you eat that particular food?
If the answer is ”yes” to either of these questions, then you have a Food Addiction . Food addiction is a contemporary term used to describe a pathological disorder; the compulsive, excessive craving for and consumption of food. Want to know the top 8 food addictions and their side effects?
Tea/Coffee: It is the number one and the most common addicti ... read more Reduce Fat from Hips and Thighs 14 y
Losing weight can be difficult, even frustrating, especially when you are trying to lose weight around pesky trouble spots like the thighs and hips. It can become maddening to perform hours of exercise in those problem spots and not see results.
Losing weight can be difficult, even frustrating, especially when you are trying to lose weight around pesky trouble spots like the thighs and hips. It can become maddening to perform hours of exercise in those problem spots and not see results. At least for women, losing weight on the hips and thighs is an eternal dream and to confess the truth, the same issue has intrigued most weight loss doctors because many methods used for weight-loss simply do not show results in these problem areas.
Many people attempt to lose weight on the hips and thighs by some spot reduction methods like so ... read more Balancing a Vegetarian Diet 14 y
For reasons of health, or conscience, or religion, or simply preference, vegetarianism is increasingly popular. It's even easy to be a vegetarian these days with so many meatless food products in the market, along with all kinds of vegetarian cookbooks and magazines.
For reasons of health, or conscience, or religion, or simply preference, vegetarianism is increasingly popular. It’s even easy to be a vegetarian these days with so many meatless food products in the market, along with all kinds of vegetarian cookbooks and magazines.
Certainly being vegetarian is a boon if one eats healthy rich diet but a bane if one hardly pays any importance to what he or she is eating. Vegetarians are not present in India only but they are residing abroad as well, but there lies a remarkable difference between vegetarians in India and vegetarians in overseas. People ... read more How to Stay Fit in Winter 14 y
It stinks when you make a New Year's Resolution to get fit right in the middle of winter which is one of the hardest times to get moving. It can be tough to stick with your exercise program when winter hits. Winter can frustrate the most motivated exercisers. And if you're not so motivated, it's all too easy to pack your workout gear away with your summer clothes.
It stinks when you make a New Year’s Resolution to get fit right in the middle of winter which is one of the hardest times to get moving. It can be tough to stick with your exercise program when winter hits. Winter can frustrate the most motivated exercisers. And if you’re not so motivated, it’s all too easy to pack your workout gear away with your summer clothes.
The key to staying motivated during the winter is first, to make it as easy as possible to do your workouts and, second, to recognize when you’re starting to get bored with your workouts and make a change before you really lo ... read more Diet Tips for Hostelers 14 y
College life is the most dynamic time of one's life where one is trying to balance hectic study schedule along with extra-curricular activities like theatre, college bands workshops, etc. There is so much to do like studying, parties to go to, homework to catch up on, exams etc. All this not only requires a lot of physical stamina but also a high level of mental energy.
College life is the most dynamic time of one’s life where one is trying to balance hectic study schedule along with extra-curricular activities like theatre, college bands workshops, etc. There is so much to do like studying, parties to go to, homework to catch up on, exams etc. All this not only requires a lot of physical stamina but also a high level of mental energy.
For most students the phrases ”Hostel” and ”healthy eating” never go hand in hand. What usually happens is that hostellers, due to the time crunch and lack of home cooked food, eat a lot of junk food from the street ven ... read more Before and After a Workout 14 y
There are two aspects of exercising that should be done, every time without fail, so as to have the best work out each time. Warming up before you start your exercise regime and then cooling down after you are done will without doubt enhance your workout performance for the better.
There are two aspects of exercising that should be done, every time without fail, so as to have the best work out each time. Warming up before you start your exercise regime and then cooling down after you are done will without doubt enhance your workout performance for the better.
Warming Up
Starting any calisthenics with no warm up is actually a serious way to cause injury to yourself. Before starting any exercises, muscles in our bodies are stiff hence it is important to loosen them up before attempting any vigorous activity.
Here are some warm up and stretching tips:
... read more Are You Binge Eating? 14 y
To figure out why we do this, it's important to review in a general fashion what a typical professional's day is like:
On weekdays one tends to wake up nice and early, kids need tending and so one gets busy with that, the clock is ticking your adrenalin is pumping so sleep is pushed aside by having caffeine (Coffee/tea) with biscuits.
It is hard to maintain a work life balance and sometimes the lack of it shows in our eating habits. Its true when one is really busy, food is sometimes the last thing we think about, and often we end up missing our meals at meal times. When we miss our meals we invite to our systems ”binge eating”. This is because when we are very hungry it doesn’t seem to matter what we eat, anything will do even the wrong foods.
Why we do this?
To figure out why we do this, it’s important to review in a general fashion what a typical professional’s day is like:
On weekdays one tends to ... read more Need help with those Tight Jeans? 14 y
Are those expensive, chic-looking jeans that you used to flaunt in college just lying there in your wardrobe because they don't fit anymore. Is it getting too difficult to belt your trousers? Did you ever fantasize a six-pack abs like Shahrukh Khan or hips like Shakira?
Are those expensive, chic-looking jeans that you used to flaunt in college just lying there in your wardrobe because they don’t fit anymore. Is it getting too difficult to belt your trousers? Did you ever fantasize a six-pack abs like Shahrukh Khan or hips like Shakira?
Obesity is more becoming a worldwide epidemic. Obesity is not a condition that can be taken lightly or can be shrugged off; it is a grave condition that not only affects the physical well-being of a person but also has an impact on his emotional state. It is indeed mighty embarrassing to have a pot belly which not only ... read more Are Calories same as Energy? 14 y
There seems to be some general confusion when it comes to counting calories and energy from the food we eat. When you read the calorie content of any food from its label, it's wrong to assume that the food will translate into those many calories.
There seems to be some general confusion when it comes to counting calories and energy from the food we eat. When you read the calorie content of any food from its label, it’s wrong to assume that the food will translate into those many calories.
Let’s make it clear as to what the scientists meant when they used the term calorie:
”Calories are a term created by food scientists to describe the energy released when a unit of food is completely burned (called complete combustion). On burning, the energy released is called the calories of the food”.
Many people make the mistake of ... read more Need Motivation to Exercise? 14 y
Exercise like any other hard work needs motivation and in some people's cases more than others. There have to be things we can do to keep the focus and remain interested in exercising.
Exercise like any other hard work needs motivation and in some people’s cases more than others. There have to be things we can do to keep the focus and remain interested in exercising. The other thing about motivation is you usually find it only when you really look for it... Starting a fresh, energetic and healthier standard of living is something you do for yourself, like making an investment in the future that will ensure first, that you live to see your older years and secondly that in the years ahead, you spend them actively doing what you like.
Here are ten things to get you moti ... read more Food Combinations:Whats Wrong,Whats Right? 14 y
The concept of combining the right foods together or avoiding certain food groups is not a new one. It's not something that's perhaps only found in Ayurveda but also in western naturopathy. While it's not in a common man's realm of understanding, it is now starting to get popular amongst people in all walks of life.
The concept of combining the right foods together or avoiding certain food groups is not a new one. It’s not something that’s perhaps only found in Ayurveda but also in western naturopathy. While it’s not in a common man’s realm of understanding, it is now starting to get popular amongst people in all walks of life. The scientific reason of the food combination theory is that foods can be alkaline or acidic in nature and need certain different enzymes for digestion; if these different types of foods are mixed with each other they can cause indigestion, gas and can also lead to some path ... read more Bran-Power Packed Breakfast 14 y
What is bran? Why is it essential to our diet? Is it really such a big deal?
What is bran? Why is it essential to our diet? Is it really such a big deal?
Bran (or Chokar) is the skin of any food grain. It is easily available at flour mills (atta chakki). It is the hard outer layer of grain. It is an integral part of whole grains. Bran is particularly rich in dietary fibre and omegas (Omega fatty acids) - it also contains significant quantitities of starch, protein, vitamins and dietary minerals.
Since there are so many dietary benefits linked to bran, it’s natural to assume that they will help in digestion and absorption of the energy. This e ... read more Acidity-The Stomach Woe 14 y
Acidity is the one thing we are hit by at one time or the other in our lives. It has other names too like heart burn and gastric reflux. There could be several reasons as to why one suffers from this.
Acidity is the one thing we are hit by at one time or the other in our lives. It has other names too like heart burn and gastric reflux. There could be several reasons as to why one suffers from this. Reasons such as the presence of helicobacter pylorus or high hydrochloric acid levels in the stomach and even functional problems with the stomach valve (which puts a lid on the contents when the food churns in the stomach); last but not the least even stress and too much fried foods have been linked to acidity.
There are two ways to approach this affliction one is to adopt instant rel ... read more |