Sitting for over 6 hours a day does not just give you a wide rear, but it also harms you in many more severe ways. Despite the growing availability of ergonomic products and workplace offerings like flexible gym hours, doctors believe many desk potatoes have already done lasting damage to their bodies as a result […]
A food diary is a useful tool that helps you to log what you consume daily. The simple act of writing down what you eat daily helps you to understand what you eat and drink, helps you to identify the good and not so good foods that you consume. You can be someone trying to […]
Blood donation is a voluntary, selfless and most painless way to help save life of others, may it be in your community or victims of a disaster far from home. Being a blood donor can be helpful to you, too. . WHO CAN DONATE BLOOD? There are several parameters that determine the eligibility of an […]
Emotional eating is when a person uses food to help them deal with stress. Many people experience emotional eating at one time or another. It could show itself as eating a bag of chips when bored or eating a chocolate bar after may be a bad day at work. People who emotionally eat reach […]
When Shantanu Moitra came up with the song "Give me some sunshine..." for the movie 3 Idiots, he perhaps didn't know what an important message this was giving to the whole of Indian population! Did you know, 70-100% Indians suffer from Vitamin D deficiency! There is a tendency to think of Vitamin deficiency as not […]
We have the Yoga Day coming up this Friday on 21st June 2019. On this occasion, I wanted to share with you what I personally found great about this gentle form of exercise which builds you slow and steady from within. I once signed up for a climb of Mt.Kilimanjaro (it is a high altitude […]
Mark Twain once said “Giving up smoking is easy… I’ve done it hundreds of times!”. And he eventually died from a heart attack. Are you wondering what’s the point I am trying to make here? That’s exactly the point! 36% adult Indians do not know/believe that smoking causes heart attack, 51% do not know […]
Wishing Happy Mother’s Day to all the super moms out there watching over us from the eyes on the back of their heads! Isn’t it a pity that sometimes they miss seeing glaring warnings for their own health despite those extra set of eyes!? Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar that develops during pregnancy and […]
Image Credits: Randy Glasbergen Did you know that fibre in your diet actually helps to reduce your cholesterol? Dietary fibre has many health benefits. Some, like this one, are not known widely. Dietary fibre includes the parts of plant foods that the body can’t digest or absorb. Instead, it passes relatively intact through the stomach, […]
A recent study has found that women who carry a little extra weight live longer than the men who mention it. But still not long enough to beat what they would have, had they been thinner! Man or woman, the health risks of extra weight is real. India is deemed as the world's capital of […]
