A heart healthy diet, the Mediterranean diet encourages consumption of foods that are aimed at a healthy balanced diet! What more, the diet allows you to have meat and dairy products along with alcohol too, albeit in moderation.
The diet consists of food items which provide amazing health benefits for your heart and overall benefits such [...]
Here are ways to make your diet plan healthy and lose weight:
Start with Salads- Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., professor of nutritional sciences at Pennsylvania State University tried gave women a low fat salad containing tomato, celery, cucumber, lettuce before their meal. She found that they ate 12% fewer calories than before.
Thus one way of benefiting from these [...]
Following is a list of some food items that must be included in a growing child’s diet to ensure that he gets the needed nutrition and achieves optimal growth, both on the physical and mental front!
Iron – Spinach & Turmeric
Iron is known as the ‘Oxygen Carrier’ of the body. Adolescents or growing children have a [...]
It is not just about the quantity of food, but also the timing of food that matters. The reason for this is that dinner eaten after late evening actually slows down the body’s mechanisms thereby leading to a multiplication in the number of harmful microorganisms in the body.
Modern nutrition experts, though, suggest that eating dinner [...]
Here is a list of foods that should be avoided during summer:
Cold drinks and ice cream – Most of us prefer drinking cold drinks or licking ice-creams over water, to cool our parched throats during summers. But while the fizzy cold drinks and yummy ice -creams may seem cool, they actually interfere with the body’s [...]
Summers sap the energy out of you! The heat becomes unbearable and no matter how much water you drink you are always thirsty, similarly summers tend to take away your appetite. A lack of appetite means that you don’t eat as much food as you regularly would, which means that your body ends up lacking [...]
Again, one of the recent common urban diseases, heart disease is a leading cause of death in India. Heart disease is linked to due to unhealthy diet, habits along with smoking and stress along with heredity. More of cholesterol in the blood causes plaque to form in the blood vessels, leading to limited blood supply [...]
You must be wondering what things at your desk can be the breeding grounds for bacteria. But will be surprised to know that the regular things which you use in the office like keyboards, mouse, telephone or mobile can be the hidden places for bacteria to thrive. These bacteria and viruses which live on the [...]
Coconut water is considered the most natural beverage–after water of course. For centuries, people around the world have revered coconut water for its health benefits, convenience and taste. Here are some benefits:
Hydrates the body: Coconut water’s electrolytic balance is the same as our blood as it is a isotonic beverage. This makes it an excellent [...]
Traveling on a regular basis can be fun, but it gets tiring. It can also really knock you down. One of the biggest problems for people who travel often is that they get sick often as well. If you or someone in your office is traveling a lot, try following these tips and help them [...]