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…
If the title of this article is sounding military like, it is meant to be, because conquering stress is like a military mission. You will need to approach it with precision and only then you can hope for complete victory. Else the enemy will overwhelm you. That is the power of stress. You need to…
After the skin, it is our hair which perhaps get the maximum attention as far as external pollutants go. Our immune mechanism broadly consists of skin, mucus, tears in eyes and White blood cells to fight off internal infections. You can add hair to it too which takes on the most of the damage because…
Are you thinking that the title of this article is meant to scare you? We shall answer this question at the conclusion. Maltodextrin The most common item in our kitchen is table sugar which we use in everyday cooking. Though sugar is seemingly inexpensive for us, the food industry does not think so. They found…
Lifestyle ailments are not just because of sedentary lifestyle though it can be a contributing factor. Not eating the right food or eating too much of the wrong variety is the primary cause of metabolic syndrome which leads to lifestyle ailments. Shorter version What are lifestyle ailments or lifestyle diseases? It begins with a hardly…
When Socrates was asked why did he fast, he replied to get mental clarity. Pythagoras not only fasted himself but encouraged his students to fast too. Lord Buddha fasted for 49 days after attaining enlightenment. What is so fascinating about fasting that almost every culture and religion of the world practises fasting in one form…
