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Using both diet and exercise for weight loss advantage
We often hear complaints about how seemingly ‘difficult’ or ‘hard’ it is to lose weight. Sometimes the numbers on the scale don’t budge despite eating a relatively ‘healthy’ diet and exercising regularly.
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Why is exercise making me hungry?
Step out of the gym or exercise class and an hour later you feel famished! Driving home you may gorge on chaat or you get a take out from your favourite fast-food restaurant. After enjoying your treat, you lean back wondering – what just happened? All those calories I burnt, I just put back on!!
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Working Around the Diet and Exercise Challenges of Shift Work
Working on shifts can often take a toll on your eating habits, sleep patterns and exercise schedule. Rotational shifts can further throw things out of balance. Many shift workers eat unhealthy foods, skip exercise and also have disturbed sleep. This can lead to weight gain and other associated lifestyle related diseases.
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The Dangers of Going Gluten Free When You Don?t Need To
Some health gurus and fitness freaks are increasingly on the anti-gluten warpath. Usually gluten free foods were found in health food stores if they were stocked at all. But these days our supermarkets contain food products that carry a ‘gluten- free’ label. But is gluten really all that bad for us?
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Healthy Eating for 3 Shift Patterns
Working night shifts and trying to stay healthy may seem like a complicated balancing act. Granted that shift work comes with its own set of challenges- regulating sleep timings, non- availability of healthy foods, skipped exercise, sedentary work, weight gain etc.
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Flavoured Water: To drink or Not to drink?
Is there anything special about flavoured water? Those crystal-clear bottles advertised as healthy and vitamin enriched, do they live up to the hype? Why are people shelling out their money for a bottle of this water?
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A Pinch of Himalayan Pink Salt
Himalayan pink salt is said to be a pure, natural and healthy salt. This salt has been around for millions of years and stayed in a pristine environment thereby retaining certain minerals
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Mindful Eating for Healthy Living
Unless our understanding of ‘healthy food’ changes, we won’t be able to enjoy food for what it is. The food you eat offers you far more than just calories.
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How to cultivate a healthy lifestyle that you Enjoy
Changing your lifestyle may seem like something that requires you to give up on all the fun in life. However, a healthy lifestyle doesn’t need to be boring!
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Family And The Fight Against Diabetes
The fight against diabetes and other lifestyle diseases is an ongoing one. The theme of the International Diabetes Federation this year could not be more apt- Diabetes: Protect Your Family.
