Each cell in our body is capable of generating it energy like a tiny powerhouse. Raw material for energy production is glucose and fat. Glucose is always available in the blood for regular as well as emergency energy requirement. Fat is more denser and more efficient source of energy. Too much glucose in the blood…
There was a time not so long age when no food was stored in the house. Children of 70s & 80s remember that if they were hungry at night, mothers simply told them, you should have eaten during dinner. Now wait till breakfast. Food was cooked fresh and households took time to prepare a meal….
Anyone who has acidity can agree how painful and inconvenient it is. Severe cases go to the extreme of anything eaten causes an acidic reaction as it travels down the food pipe. So the action begins right after you swallow the food. Eventually a stage comes when you are forced to have a digestive tablet…
We have been born and brought up among Hindi movies which have a certain elder father of the bride or hero dying of kidney failure or heart attack. While the percentage of onscreen death due to heart attacks are much higher, kidney failure is not far behind. But the sad part is that 75 years…
Topic of the article might surprise you. Only if you are interested, go on reading. It will require some amount of will power to being with fasting. Definition of anxiety Anxiety is a feeling of worry and fear about every day situations. It is condition of fear or dread as to what will happen next….
Q. What should you break your long fast with? Ans. Any fast beyond 36 hours, the digestive system goes on a break and the size of stomach really shrinks. So breaking a fast needs to go with a plan. Straightway diving into solid foods which give a violent reaction in the form of watery bowel…
Navratri thali is the best example of how Indians avoid fasting. Since fasting is connected with divinity, no one wants to mess up the way to heaven. But still we Indians love food. Anyone who abstains from food pleasures is considered a taboo and spoil sport. In this article we shall discuss the benefits of…
If you are new to intermittent fasting you are almost certain to get hair loss. This is unnerving and traumatising, specially for women. Many women come to start intermittent fasting as a last resort after everything else has failed. Then they having to deal with hair loss becomes the main reason for them to leave…
If you are exercising for building up muscles or toning up your body or enhancing endurance, you are on the right path. People even exercise as a stress buster and are pretty successful at it. But if you are exercising to lose weight, then you need to read this article, carefully. We shall first see…
The moment we put on weight, we start eating less and exercising more. This drastic step is more out of guilt than any other scientific logic and reasoning. To make matters worse almost all diet plans out there work on the principle of calorie restrict. Starving is almost definitely on the table. Here is what…
