A balanced diet is your key to leading a healthy life. Not only will it help you in attaining your ideal weight and that perfect body, but it will also leave you feeling energized.…
How to Start a Healthy Lifestyle and Stick to It?
Category: Nutrition
Why it is about time women take Protein seriously
While it is a common occurrence for men to discuss (more like debate) protein in gym locker rooms or even on the internet, women, even those who can out-squat their male counterparts, are usually missing in action when it comes to the topic of protein.…
Dietary Cholesterol and Heart Disease
A few decades ago, the health industry was rocked by claims that dietary cholesterol leads to an increase in serum cholesterol and is responsible for an elevated risk of cardiovascular diseases. Cut to 2020 and followers of the Low Carb movement can’t stop adding butter into their coffee.…
Is Non-Vegetarian safe in Covid-19 times?
Author: Praveen Budhrani, INFS alumini and Fittr coach
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak exposed our world to a threat that was not seen by humanity in the last two decades. The impact that this outbreak is having in terms of deaths and infections is exponentially more than what happened in the past pandemics.…
Intermittent Fasting – Yay or Nay?
Author : Anushree Kailash , INFS scholar
Edited by : Subia Khan , Corporate consultant @ SQUATS
Let’s understand what Intermittent Fasting is:
Intermittent fasting is not a type of diet but a diet strategy or eating pattern which times the total daily food intake into a specific number of contiguous hours to produce an extended fasting phase; as long as 24 hours.…
Nutrient Partitioning
Author: Shanu Shashank , INFS alumni
I would be flying high if my body could become a machine that converts everything I eat into muscles, whether its carbs or protein or any of the unhealthy food items. While each time I shred, I would lose on those fats and no muscles, literally.…
Managing Diet in Hostels for Students by a Student
Author – Arpit Kushwaha, INFS Certified Nutrition and Fitness Consultant & a student at Institute of Law, Nirma University.
Introduction
College is the time you can set your own priorities and make your own choices. I used and abused my choices in my first three years in college.…
Nutritional Requirements of the Elderly
Key Points
- Aging results in a reduction in caloric requirement. Caloric restriction (CR) is a proven intervention in the prevention of chronic diseases and promoting healthy aging. Caloric intake should be kept between 1.30 to 1.52 times the REE.
- Protein requirement increases with age to preserve the decreasing muscle mass, and partly due to ‘Anabolic Resistance (AR)’.