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Wheatgrass for Healthy Living By Diana Grace

August 9, 2016 by admin in Nutrition Basics

This article was first published in Superfoodsliving.com

The growing popularity of wheatgrass in recent times signifies a greater than before confidence in the wonder-wheat plant. The nutrient-rich food offers enormous health benefits which contribute toward its wide-spread usage and marked visibility across varied demographics.

Cyberchondria – The New Age Disease

February 10, 2016 by Sapna in General Health, Happiness, popular, Stress Management

To All Parents with Teens…

Last night Anna was in her study room till late night. Her Mother called her thrice for dinner but Anna did not respond. Her mother heard her crying in the room. She went to her and asked ‘what happed?’. Anna started hawling and said, ‘Mummy I think I have Breast cancer. I am having pain around my armpit area and I just checked on the internet that it is one of the symptoms of breast cancer. Amita’s mother was shocked. They could not sleep at night. In early morning they went to see a cancer specialist.

How to put on weight naturally?

December 23, 2015 by Sapna in General Health

This question may sound weird to many of you but actually there are few people who try hard to put on weight. Particularly people having a very lean structure or sometimes if you are recovering from a prolonged sickness. I remember my cousin Nina was very thin and we used to tease her calling her ‘ Sutki’. Infact it’s funny but many marriage proposals were cancelled because she was so too thin.

Homemade Beauty Secrets With Honey

October 27, 2015 by admin in Home Remedies

The beauty secret to younger looking skin: Honey

Every lady wants to have radiant and beautiful skin, but due to hectic lifestyles, there’s simply not enough time in their day to take regular care of their skin and beauty. Most of them instead rush to beauty parlors before any important event. However, you wouldn’t need to worry if you take regular care of your skin. There are plenty beauty tips out there, but here are a few tried and tested Beauty Secrets for your skin. So how can you take better of your skin, lets look at a few beauty remedies that help solve common beauty ailments.

Plagued with knee pain? Find out why

October 13, 2015 by Sapna in General Health, Healthy Lifestyle, Posture & Ergonomics

Being one of the larger joints, the knees supports the entire weight of the body. It consists of three different bones, the lower end of the femur and the upper ends of the tibia and fibula. Acting as a hinge joint ,it is only capable of moving forwards and backwards, similar to that of a door. Pressuring your knees sideways or pushing it in the wrong direction, can end up hurting them. Our daily activies such as walking and climbing stairs as well as exercising results in constant wear and tear of our knees. In a single lifetime, our knees perform over and above its capacity. Besides the degeneration from overuse, injury, infection and age can result in acute knee pain in joints.

Food poisoning – are you responsible?

September 30, 2015 by Sapna in Diet & Nutrition, Nutrition Basics, popular

Last Monday, when I got up in the morning, I was feeling very lethargic to cook my breakfast. I opened my refrigerator and found few slices of paneer and bread lying. I quickly placed the paneer slices on bread, pour some mayonnaise and started eating. The taste was little ‘different’, but then I was in hurry, so I did not bother and ate the full sandwich. By evening I started feeling extreme pain in stomach, I was vomiting continuously. My bother took me to the doctor. After examination the doctor said that I had a food poisoning……..

Antioxidants- The new panacea for all health problems?

September 23, 2015 by Sapna in Diet & Nutrition, Nutrition Basics

No one wants to grow old.

Free radicals are responsible for the changes and shortening of the DNA in our cells, which in turn causes the visible changes of ageing. Free radicals are compounds created when a molecule in our body gains or loses an electron, rendering it unsuable. Apart from damaging the DNA, excess free radicals can harm protein structure and cell membrane. This results in diseases such as arthritis, respiratory diseases, hypertension, cancer, diabetes, parkinson’s disease and obesity. Production of free radicals increases with infection, inflammation and during exercise. It increases exponentially with exposure to environmental pollutants, cigarette smoke, radiation and solvents.

Reduce your medical bills. Can you?

September 16, 2015 by Sapna in Healthy Lifestyle

Heart patients have to take medicines regularly to reduce angina. People suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis are also dependent on high doses of medicine to survive.

These medicines, when they reach the blood of the patients perform their appropriate action, but as soon as they reach the kidneys – they are filtered and thrown out of the body. Thus they have to be consumed daily depending upon the hours the kidney takes to eliminate them. If it takes eight hours- patient has to take 3 tablets daily, if it takes 12 hours, the patient has to take 2 tablets daily. This means the person has to be on regular medicine.

12 remedies for Heart burn or Acidity

September 2, 2015 by Sapna in Diet & Nutrition, Nutrition Basics

Heart burn or Acidity is a very common health problem these days. It refers to a sense of burning felt below the central bone of the chest or sternum, this usually radiates towards the mouth or throat-especially after heavy meals during weight lifting, bending over or just lying flat.

Get mouth ulcers often? Find out why.

August 28, 2015 by Sapna in Diet & Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle, Home Remedies

As a result of irregular and bad food habits such as eating outside food or eating junk food over a long period of time can lead to constipation. This means that the body is unable to flush out the toxins causing your internal temperature to rise and manifest itself as liver patches, boils on skin and mouth ulcer.

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