All packaged foods come with a nutrition label meant to provide us with the information necessary to know exactly what we are eating. Understanding what’s in the food we eat helps us make healthier choices. Checking food labels also makes it easy for us to compare the nutrient content of different options.…
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Bone-a-fied! (Keep your Bones Strong and Healthy)
Bones are living tissues that respond to their environment. They have nerves, blood vessels, and marrow, which are important for the production of blood cells. Our bones are dynamic, that means they are constantly breaking down and building back up in a process called remodeling.…
Meal Planning for Beginners
Want to begin a diet but can’t find the time to weigh food and cook during the week with the busy schedule? Do you start a diet and then leave it midway because you’re always running around? Life gets busy and we often don’t find time to accommodate cooking healthy meals; leave alone weighing each raw ingredient before cooking.…
How does exercise reduce stress?
Busy lives, early school runs, deadlines for work, urgent emails, online classes, work from home have become an integral part of modern life, which is hectic and stressful at the same time. Everyone experiences a certain amount of stress on a daily basis but to live life happily and feel contented, one should first recall the moments how they react to encountering stress.…
Squat your way to health
As part of everyday living, we spend a lot of time bending, reaching, lifting, twisting, turning, and squatting, without even thinking about it. These movements show up in everything from carrying groceries to playing with our kids, to sitting down and standing up.…
How To Increase Non-exercise Activity Thermogenesis (Neat)?
“Human Beings evolved as a walking entity, exploring the world on our feet,” says James Levine, MD, author of “Move a little, Lose a lot.” Technological advances taking place across the globe and with increasing culture of work from home during Covid, physical activity has decreased in the global population.…
After the stork…Let’s talk about Postpartum Depression.
While the birth of the baby is bound to bring joy and delight to the mother, it can sometimes be confusing to see the opposite happen. It is normal to occasionally miss your pre-baby life or to wish that certain things about being a mother were easier.…
Vegan Diet
Plant Based Diet [PBD] or vegan diet is gaining more and more popularity over the decade. The word ‘vegan’ was coined in 1944 by Donald Watson, the co-founder of the vegan society. A vegan or plant-based diet is a food pattern characterized by the exclusion of all animal-origin foods like dairy, eggs, and meat.…
The Complete Guide to Probiotics
Whenever most people hear the word “bacteria”, the microscopic living organisms, the first thing that comes to their mind is something dangerous that can cause infections and diseases. Yes, there are those infectious bacteria but then there are good bacteria too, which are beneficial and extremely important for our immune system and many other aspects of health.…