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Foods To Avoid As They Can Induce Stress
The reason behind such an accusation is that most of the health problems being diagnosed today seem to have their roots in the stress. Similarly the food that we chose to eat, can impact our tendency in remaining stressed. Just as there are foods which are known to fight stress same ways there are foods which can induce stress as well.
Refined Sugar foods: Easily available in form of sweetened beverage, baked items like pastries, doughnuts etc. fast food junks, all have high concentration. Initially these foods seem to induce feeling of goodness. This is because the refined sugar gets instantly absorbed, this is known as sugar spike. But soon spike is followed by low or the crash wherein the goodness induced by sugar slowly wears off and you feel low, de-energized and irritated. Thereafter [...]
Posted on Feb 13, 2012 | General Health | Comments 0
Don’t eat cholesterol but eat away the cholesterol
People are now well aware about benefits of choosing good food, that is having healthy eating habits, what food should we consume to what food we should not have. Yet with this information wide spread on Internet, we struggle in eating the right kind of food. Most of time we begin with healthy eating but over extended period of time we don’t maintain eating right food and we succumb to eating foods which are high on calories and low in essential nutrients.
The reason behind the diversion from healthy eating is rushed lifestyle, ongoing stress, and the attraction of eating sinful food and easily availability and low prices of these foods. Thus we end up having more cholesterol in our body. Cholesterol is core component that turns into fats or is the adipose tissues in body.
One solution [...]
Posted on Jan 11, 2012 | Diet & Nutrition | Comments 0
Vitamin Supplements: essential for your body
Common man has stereotype that vitamin supplements are company’s gimmicks for marketing and getting more customers. Most of the people think that food supplements have no use. one of the best counter arguments that common people give in against the supplements is that some years ago there were no such food supplements, vitamins supplements, or such products. Then also during those years people were healthy and lived much longer back then. They didn’t require any supplements!
To reply to this counter argument, lets take in the picture of the situation of today. People of those years were able to get the required and proper nutrition of the minerals and the vitamins from the food which they used to eat. But today people are living fast life, where in people eat more of junk food, for they [...]
Posted on Dec 29, 2011 | Diet & Nutrition | Comments 0
Food To Increase Metabolism
People desire to lose weight. For that they skip meals and still they are not able to lose weight as they desire to. Skipping meals, or eating less and still weight is not getting less? Don’t you wonder as why is weight not getting lost from you? The very answer to these queries is the metabolism rate of the body. The metabolism principle of the body is not understood by all, which is very important to be considered when person is going on diet to lose weight. Whatever diet you follow its important to know one’s metabolism rate.
To begin with metabolism is body’s rate through which person body turns the calories from food into energy. Metabolism rate is inherited, yet there are things which can affect the rate of metabolism. One of the biggest mistake that person on diet does is skipping [...]
Posted on Dec 26, 2011 | Diet & Nutrition | Comments 0
Run dear Run
Running is one of the best ways to keep you healthy. A best workout, which can helps in keeping lungs, heart healthy. Also running is believed to be best for losing weight. Running is for everyone, not just for athletes. You can run over in some speed to some distance, running suits to people with different levels of fitness and their abilities. In parks there are tracks for people to jog and run. You should utilize those places. Running will help in building stamina.
Basic requirements for running:
You can’t run in uptight casual clothes, or in your gowns, in your tuxedo’s well for running you need to wear clothes which are loose, in which you are comfortable and feel at ease will running. And most important you need to wear right shoes for running.
Shoes which are designed for the [...]
Posted on Dec 15, 2011 | Exercise & Fitness | Comments 0
Added sugar: Sabotages your health
Do you notice the contents of the food items that you buy? Do you read and heed when it is written added sugar. Do you keep a count of sugar in your diet? If you are not paying attention to these, then like most of the people you are calling for risk to your health. Because if you are not paying attention to these things, then you are consuming more sugar in the food and beverages when you eat and drink, because such foods have added sugar in them. It’s believed that excess of sugar is also one of the reasons obesity is caused and also causing some health problems.
You must be wondering should you have sugar or not? Well it’s not necessary that you avoid sugar. Here am not discussing about people who have Diabetes, but people who are not affected with diabetes. Such people can have sugar. [...]
Posted on Dec 08, 2011 | Diet & Nutrition | Comments 0
Restless legs syndrome is a neurological disorder
RLS or Restless Legs Syndrome is a kind of neurological disorder which is characterized by an unpleasant sensation in the legs. Such sensations give out an uncontrollable urge to move while they are still. You feel that moving your feet will get rid of this unpleasantness that has gripped the feet.
Sensations that arise from the RLS are described as –
Burning
Tugging
Creeping
Insects crawling feeling
Such feelings are called paresthesias (or abnormal sensations) or the dysesthesias (or abnormal and unpleasant sensations). The sensations can get really annoying; they will first cause irritation and then get painful.
Most paradoxical aspect of such a condition are the symptoms of restlessness which hit hard when you are sitting down or lying down for relaxing. A lot of people [...]
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | Brain & Nervous System | Comments 0
Wheezing and asthma – All about it
Wheezing is the whistling noise which is seen during breathing. This happens when the airways get too narrow due to inflammation. It happens mostly when you breathe out and it is a symptom of asthma. Other asthma symptoms include cough, breath shortness, and chest tightness. The people who are suffering from asthma might face one or all three symptoms.
Wheezing and asthma - the common symptom
It is said that wheezing is one of the most common asthma symptom and this is the reason why a lot of asthma patients seek medical help. During wheezing, you hear a high pitched sound of whistle while breathing through the mouth and nose. In most of the cases, wheezing is a common occurrence which is heard during inhaling and exhaling. Such wheezing sound is happens when the lungs are narrow. This narrowing [...]
Posted on Nov 29, 2011 | Allergies & Asthma | Comments 0
How Air Pollution Affects Asthma Patients
Asthma is chronic respiratory disorder which occurs due to constriction of the bronchial passages of the patients. Air pollution often acts as trigger for asthma. When anyone gets asthma attack, the air ways get closed and hence there are problems of breathing, wheezing, and coughing. Such symptoms of asthma are mostly due to air pollution. Anyone having chronic asthma should make sure that environment which surrounds him is totally pollution free and this includes office and home. The people who are suffering from asthma should avoid going to the highly polluted places. Here I am blogging about some air pollution effects on the asthma patients –
Aggravation of symptoms of asthma :
Medical experts say that pollution aggravates the symptoms of asthma in the people who are already suffering [...]
Posted on Nov 25, 2011 | Allergies & Asthma | Comments 0
Brain cancer survival – new drug for change equation
The rates of brain cancer survival are defined in the medical terms as percentage of the people with certain type and stage of the brain cancer who are surviving the disease for specific period after the diagnosis.
Surviving of brain cancer is a different story for different people. There are renditions which might warm your heart and there are others which might shake you up totally. However, it is important to remember that the survival depends on a lot of factors like
The brain cancer type
Location of the brain cancer
Tumor size
Cancer grade
Overall general patient’s health and the immunity levels
The relative rates of survival
There are different methods used for calculating rates for the different purposes. Relative survival rate considers percentage of patients that [...]
Posted on Nov 22, 2011 | Brain & Nervous System | Comments 0
