Tag: Carbohydrate

Type 2 diabetes: Here is how the otherwise healthy apples affect your blood sugar levels

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Apples have a lot of health benefits like improving digestion, helping in weight loss, keeping the heart healthy, and may also help in warding off breast cancer. Apples also help improve neurological health. Since childhood, everyone has dreaded going to the doctor because there may be blood, bitter medicines, or an injection coming our way when we do. Probably cashing in on that fear, they created the saying that an apple a day would keep the doctor away. However, apples did prove their mettle when they actually helped to keep…

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Ragi For Weight Loss: Why This Gluten-Free Diet Should Be Part Of Your Weight Loss Diet

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Weight Loss: Ragi is a rich source of good carbohydrates; it is gluten-free and highly suitable for those who are gluten intolerant and could facilitate weight loss too It would not be wrong to say that India loves wheat. From our rotis to our cookies and pastas, wheat rules our kitchen and plates and more often than not in cheap refined forms. According to food writer, Sangeeta Khanna, this fixation with wheat grew post industrial revolution, and we have come to a point that the wheat produce actually exceeds the…

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How to Beat Fatigue

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We have a good check fatigue to guide us. It works as a safety value as a limit to exercise. We can gauge the amount of exercise we should take for best results. Beyond that we begin getting fatigued. When we run or do exercises the breath becomes deeper. There is frequent bringing in of more oxygen into the lungs, which gets absorbed in the blood. Carbon dioxide form the blood gets eliminated in to the air while we breathe out. This increase in breath is called “second wind”. If…

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7 Signs Your Solar Plexus Chakra Is out of Balance and How to Heal It

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According to the Hindu tradition, the solar plexus chakra or Manipura is the third chakra, which governs primary emotions, such as frustration, anger and intuition, feelings of sensitivity and power. The solar plexus chakra is the “headquarter” of our personality. It is where we find our identity and it helps us fit into the norms of society through our personal strength, tenacity and the power of adaptability. Its element is represented by fire. Fire is light, heat, energy and activity, and at the spiritual level, it represents enlightenment. The solar plexus chakra is…

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रात को नहीं खानी चाहिए ये 10 चीजें

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हर व्यक्ति की खाने से जुड़ी अपनी अलग आदतें होती हैं। इसलिए कुछ लोग शाम के समय जल्दी खाना खा लेते हैं, जबकि कुछ लोग देर से खाते हैं। शरीर पर इन आदतों का तो असर पड़ता ही है, लेकिन क्या आप जानते हैं कि आपने रात को जो खाना खाया है, उसका सीधा असर आपकी नींद पर पड़ता है। जी हां, रात को सोने से पहले आपने जो खाना खाया है, यदि ठीक नहीं है तो आपको बहुत जल्दी गहरी नींद नहीं आएगी। आयुर्वेद में माना गया है कि…

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Sugar Overload May Cause Weight Gain and Other Problems: 5 Ways To Cut Down On Sugar

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Excessive consumption of sugar, can put your health at major risk. The zero nutrient value of sugar does not help your body and instead leads to weight gain and other ailments in the body Let’s admit it, one cupcake or an ice cream a day can put a bevy of our daily woes at bay. And, it is totally okay to indulge yourself with these sugary treats once in a while. It is only when you overdo it, that the problem arise.An overload of sugar, sits in the system as…

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जरूर खाए कच्चा प्याज (Raw Onion), होंगे ये बड़े फायदे

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जरूर खाए कच्चा प्याज, होंगे ये बड़े फायदे – भोजन के साथ सलाद के रूप में खाया जाने वाला कच्चा प्याज हमारे स्वास्थ्य के लिए बहुत अच्छा होता है। सैंडविच, सलाद या फिर चाट, प्याज सभी के स्वाद को दोगुना कर देता है। यदि आपको डर है कि प्याज खाने से दुर्गंध आएगी तो खाने के बाद माउथ फ्रेशनर खाइए या ब्रश कर लीजिए, लेकिन प्याज जरूर खाइए। आहार विशेषज्ञों की मानें तो यह यौन दुर्बलता को दूर करने में भी बहुत उपयोगी है। यौन शक्ति के संवर्धन एवं संरक्षण के…

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The Most Talked About Diet of 2017

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Diet that goes a long way in making and keeping you leaner. Several food trends make headlines and a huge fanbase, that’s what happened with Ketogenic Diet in 2017. This LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet was omnipresent from health portals and magazines, to dietician’s recommendation tables. However, Ketogenic diet is not something new. It has been used for patients with epilepsy since ages. For an average person, adopting Ketogenic diet can be challenging, however, with Keto you are arming yourself with a double-edged sword, first you are limiting carbohydrates…

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Balanced Diet

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Variety of foods essential for a balanced diet Nutritionally adequate diet should be consumed through a wise choice from a variety of foods. Nutrition is a basic prerequisite to sustain life. Variety in food is not only the spice of life but also the essence of nutrition and health. A diet consisting of several food groups provides all the required nutrients in proper amounts. Cereals, millets and pulses are major sources of most nutrients. Milk which provides good quality proteins and calcium must be an essential item of the diet,…

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Superfoods are not the answer! Adhere to simple diets followed by ancestors to stay fit

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Consuming a diet like our ancestors – highly diverse and rich in nutrients – may boost human health, a study claims. Researchers from Washington University in the US also found that consuming a monotonous diet of staple cereals and ultra-processed foods may be leading to malnutrition. Malnutrition problems can be traced to poor-quality diets lacking in diversity, a recent phenomenon in evolutionary history, researchers said. The study, published in the journal Nutrition Reviews, posits that there is a misalignment of modern diets and the genome formed through time. Evident in…

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