Tag: Food Diet Nutrition

Impact of Food on Mental health

Knowing what foods we should and shouldn’t be eating can be really confusing, especially when it feels like the advice changes regularly. However, evidence suggests that as well as affecting our physical health, what we eat may also affect the way we feel. Improving your diet may help to: Improve your mood Give you more […]

Benefits of Mustard Oil

• Mustard oil has been a staple in India from centuries. It is extracted from mustard seeds. It has a strong smell and has numerous health benefits.• Mustard has a balanced profile of mono, poly and unsaturated fats, has Omega 3 fatty acids, rich in vitamin E, minerals and antioxidants.• Mustard oil has anti-inflammatory properties […]

Why Stress Makes Us Overeat and Indirectly Cause Weight(Fat) Gain

Cortisol is a fight or flight hormone that is released every time you’re stressed by anything. Part of its purpose is to replenish your energy after exerting yourself through fighting or fleeing your perceived threat. Primitive humans certainly needed this energy boost after physically battling a wild animal, for example. But generally, we modern humans […]

Plant Protein for Vegetarians – Legumes, Cereals, Millets, Dry nuts, Vegetables

Cereals: They are simply grains. Cereal grains are grown in greater quantities and provide more food energy than any other type of crop . Rice Wheat Barley Millets Oats Millets Millets are coarse grains which are good in protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals. Non-gluten. Jowar (sorghum),  Ragi (finger millet),  Korra (foxtail millet),  Arke (kodo millet),  Sama (little millet),  Bajra (pearl millet),  Chena/Barr (proso millet) […]

Potassium – Benefits and Food Sources

Potassium is one of the seven essential macro-minerals. A high potassium intake reduces the risk of overall mortality by 20 percent. It also decreases the risk of stroke, lowers blood pressure, protects against loss of muscle mass, preserves bone mineral density, and reduces the formation of kidney stones. The primary functions of potassium in the body include regulating fluid […]

Magnesium: Benefits, Foods and Supplementation

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the human body. Magnesium is an essential element required as a cofactor for over 300 enzymatic reactions and is thus necessary for the biochemical functioning of numerous metabolic pathways. Evidence supports the use of magnesium in the prevention and treatment of many common health conditions including migraine […]

N-Acetyl Cysteine(NAC) – Benefits and Supplemention

N-acetyl-cysteine, N-acetylcysteine, Acetyl cysteine, and N-acetyl-L-cysteine are all designations for the same compound, which is abbreviated as NAC. Cysteine is a semi-essential amino acid. Some non-essential amino acids (e.g. Arginine, Cysteine, and Tyrosine) are called semi-essential or conditionally essential amino acids because they tend to run low during infancy or in health conditions such as being sick, injured or after […]

Laws of Training, Workout programs and Fitness

Points taken from https://www.t-nation.com/powerful-words/100-laws-of-muscle There is no perfect training program. In fact, very intelligent, very successful coaches often disagree with one another. That means you’re going to have to learn a lot, think for yourself, and experiment. Don’t like that? Take up jogging. The effectiveness of any training program is directly related to the effort you […]

Careful About the Kind of Oils We Eat

If your diet is high in refined and processed cooking oils exposed to too much light and heat, those chemically modified fats get incorporated into the building blocks of your cell membranes—including those of your neurons. Every living cell in your body has a membrane responsible for allowing compounds to move in and out of […]

Protein and Exercise: International Society of Sports Nutrition Position Stand

An acute exercise stimulus, particularly resistance exercise, and protein ingestion both stimulate muscle protein synthesis (MPS) and are synergistic when protein consumption occurs before or after resistance exercise. For building muscle mass and for maintaining muscle mass through a positive muscle protein balance, an overall daily protein intake in the range of 1.4–2.0 g protein/kg body […]

Vitamins and Minerals for Good Mental Health

While mental wellness requires good lifestyle choices, what we don’t realize is that making even the tiniest of changes, or supplementing some essential vitamins and minerals can help keep your brain healthy and happy. Just like other organs, our brain too needs a helpful dose of vitamins to function well. If you are deficient in […]