More than just being a means of survival, food has been an integral part of our culture. This isn’t necessarily all positive. Buddha once said, “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease”. Today we have failed miserably at this task. We either overindulge in or completely restrain ourselves from eating. […]
Holistic health practitioner Ann Wigmore once said, “the food you eat can be either the safest and the most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison”. There is never enough time to have a sumptuous breakfast in the morning. In your haste to make it to work on time, you reach out […]
Cortisol is a natural alarm system of the body, and proved very efficient when humans faced bigger animals as predators. Now since we inhabit concrete jungles, our threats have evolved too. The response to these threats, however, has remained the same. Cortisol is released as a response to such stress, which leads to the suppression […]
The number on the weighing machine for many people has been the beacon that guided their fitness regimes for the handsome portion of their life. And this is where the health-conscious generation is wrong. The risk of diabetes, obesity-related cancer and cardiovascular diseases are the primary reasons for people wanting to slash on the numbers […]
Training or physical fitness can be a very personalized concept. Training one individual may be vastly different than another and often involve making customized workout strategies. While a fitness routine varies from a person to another, there are certain common elements that can be identified and classified for men and women as a broader category. […]
Protein diets are the hottest concepts among fitness enthusiasts. After all, the nutrient is a vital component of a fitness regime aimed at good physique for a lifetime. Regardless of your objectives though, proteins are essential for not just muscle building or fat loss, but also for healthy living. With the endless range of protein […]
With the population of self-confessed “health freaks” on a steady rise, especially in urban metropolitan areas, there is a larger focus on what one eats. Take any given day in a shopping complex, for example. Everything – right from chocolates, ice creams and aerated drinks to cereal, milk and even flour is available in a […]
Protein is arguably the most important nutrient for anyone aspiring to maintain a healthy lifestyle or putting in time at the gym. It constitutes nearly 20% of the human body and is responsible for all the muscle building we engage in. Proteins, however, are themselves made up of an organic compound known as amino acid […]
Nutrition myths are hard to miss these days, and harder to identify given the trends in Health and Fitness. There have been several popular myths generated in the last two decades, and even after significant advancements in nutrition science, they remain prevalent even today. Let’s take a look at some of the most widely talked […]
With something as globally popular as Indian food, there are understandably a lot of misconceptions that come with it. We all know how delicious that full course Indian meal is and often tend to overlook the downsides associated with it. Let’s look at where all these problems start. It all comes down to the staple […]
