Couch potato is laziness and no physical activity which leads to many health problems like heart diseases, over weight, diabetes, memory loss and solitary life.
Couch Potato Syndrome: A sedentary lifestyle Can Reduce your Lifespan
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Honey and Health Benefits
Honey has multiple health benefits including weight loss, good for reducing cough, gastrointestinal, skin care and burn care
Eat Your Water to Avoid Dehydration!
A human body contains from 55% to 77% water depending on body size. Keeping our body hydrated is very important for our physical and mental behavior. We should drink enough to balance water losses. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven liters of water per day to avoid dehydration; the precise amount depends on the level of Read More …
Antioxidants – Very Important Part of your Nutrition
We need oxygen to stay alive but our body generates reactive-oxygen as a by-product of the body’s stress response. These are also called free-radicals and they can damage healthy cells. These free-radicals are also produced from exposure to smoke, alcohol, heavy metals (through air and water), and even from heavy exposure to sun. Anti-oxidants neutralize the effect of free radicals. Read More …
Hands Falling Asleep Often – Know Why?
If your hands falling asleep often, you need not be cautious as it is a quite common problem. It arises at any time, but it is more common when you are taking rest. Most common symptom include tingling in your arms or legs and then you will not be able to move them. This will happen not only during sleep Read More …
Ideal Weight Height Charts and BMI
When you consult a doctor for regular checkup, your healthcare provider will likely take your height and weight measurements. Then they use the measurements for to determine whether you are in normal weight range for your height, age and gender. It is important to note that these measurements are only part of health assessments. No one number fits every individual. Read More …
World Health Day 2016 and Diabetes
Every year, the World Health Organization selects a priority area of global public health concern as the theme for World Health Day, which falls on 7 April, the birthday of the Organization. The theme for World Health Day 2016 is diabetes, a non-communicable disease (NCD) directly impacting millions of people of globally, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. Beat Diabetes Read More …
How to Read Nutrition Labels
Food labels or nutrition labels are read by the consumers for various reasons. Few people compare the brands. The terms used on food label are difficult to understand and they are printed really very small which makes very difficult to read with naked eye are the problems faced by the consumers. Nutritional information will be understood people by TV advertisements, Read More …
Probiotics are Useful for Good Health
Bacteria is good for health. Though it is tough to understand but it is true. We use antibiotics, antibacterial soaps to kill microorganisms but right bacteria at a right place is proved to be beneficial. We usually think bacteria as something which is not good for health and also causes diseases. Our body (mainly gut) is full of bacteria which Read More …
Salt and Diet
What is salt? It is a crystalline compound sodium chloride (NaCl) that consists of sodium chloride, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry. It is also known as common salt. Salt and sodium Sodium is a component of salt but they are not the same. Salt contains 40% sodium and 60% Read More …