Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences
INFS was established with the intent of providing comprehensive and practical knowledge in Health and Fitness.
For women in their 40s, health is a different ball game altogether. During this decade of life, the majority of women are set in their routine life, and each of them has their own definition of health.
Like the 20s and 30s we read about in the previous blog, the 40s have their priorities too.…
A woman’s body keeps changing every decade. Every ten years of her life, she has to face different milestones of life that challenge her health mentally and physically. From the start of menstruation during puberty to menopause and even after that, the physiological processes usher in different illnesses, deficiencies, and problems in general.…
Every month every woman in her reproductive age has to experience her monthly menstrual cycle commonly called the “period”. It is a natural phenomenon that once the woman reaches puberty her body starts preparing for reproduction and her womb starts getting conditioned to give birth to a new life.…
By now we all know that women have very different physiological needs than men. In her lifetime a woman has to transform herself with every milestone. From the time of birth to the start of her first menstrual cycle, getting married, pregnancy and then menopause, at every stage of her life her body’s physiological needs keep changing.…
With the recent pandemic and people being stuck in their homes, with nowhere to travel, many of them losing their jobs, and among other adversities, the topic of depression was being talked about more than ever.
Many celebrities including Hollywood and Bollywood actors and actresses have opened up about going through depression and their experiences with the mental disorder.…
Menstruation or periods is a normal phenomenon that all girls have to undergo throughout their reproductive life starting from their teenage. The beginning of this phase may not always be an easy one and for a majority of the girls, there is a lot of stress associated with the same.…
As we need oxygen to live and water to survive so do, we need sleep to refresh ourselves and reset ourselves for the next day. Every day brings with itself something new and what is more satisfying than beginning a new day with a good night’s sleep?…
Healthy cells in our bodies divide and replace themselves in a controlled fashion throughout our lives. Cancer starts when a cell is altered & there is uncontrolled, purposeless multiplication. A tumor is a mass composed of such abnormal cells.
Benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body.…
The genetic material called DNA present in the nucleus of human cells contains small fragments called genes. These genes decide the individual traits like color of hair, skin & eyes, etc. Each person has two copies of every gene, one gene from each parent.…