Commitment and persistence are needed to experience true benefits of a meaningful change in our life. And the fact is, it takes time for results to show up and it takes time to gain momentum. It takes time for our mindset to take shape and align to our new way of lifestyle. Most probably any […]
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Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle- Struggle and Suffering
More we delay doing the right things in life, the higher the price we pay for it later. More delay equals more interest we pay and the payment (suffering) will be compounded (like the compound interest we receive for our bank fixed deposits). In actual life, the interest we pay will be in terms of […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Life Does Not Give a Damn, So Prepare and Plan
Our overall well-being is defined by doing those simple, trivial and unnoticeable activities that we do daily. These habits are the ones that add up to help us in critical moments. The most beneficial things are simple and easy to do in life. But they are also easy to quit because they generally do not […]
Mindset for Leading a Healthy Lifestyle – Discipline
Discipline is doing the right thing that is in our best interests even though we don’t feel like doing it. When it comes to our health, fitness, overall wellbeing, relationships, financial security, our passion – we need to do the things that we know are in our best interests even though we do not feel […]
Why Do We Have Doubts and Misconceptions on Health Supplements
Majority of the people in India have many doubts, wrong information and confusion when to comes to taking nutritional supplements like protein powders or even other nutraceuticals like vitamin/mineral/herbal supplements. A large population is completely against usage of any dietary supplements and these false claims comes ‘unfortunately’ from a large section of medical community. Lets […]
How to Increase HDL Cholesterol Levels
HDL means High Density Lipoprotein. HDL particles encapsulate lipids and cholesterol and carries them back to liver, adrenals, ovaries, testis. HDL cholesterol helps rid the body of extra cholesterol and keeps it from collecting on the linings of your arteries. Our liver uses HDL cholesterol to produce Bile which is used to digest fats in […]
Important Test Parameters to Look out for in Your Blood Test Package
Important parameters in the Blood test that would help us to plan our wellness program include Complete Blood Count, Hemogram/Hematology Kidney Function Test Complete Lipid Profile (Cholesterol and Triglycerides) Liver Function Test HBA1C (very important) Fasting Blood Glucose Fasting Insulin (very important) Thyroid Profile (very important) Testosterone hormone levels Complete Vitamins Profile – Especially Folate, […]
Movement and Exercise is More Important Than Weight Loss For a Longer Life
PEOPLE TYPICALLY LOWER RISKS OF HEART DISEASE AND PREMATRURE DEATH FOR MORE BY GAINING FITNESS THAN BY DROPPING WEIGHT. Research overwhelmingly shows that people who start to exercise rarely lose much, if any, weight, unless they also cut back substantially on food intake. Exercise simply burns too few calories, in general, to aid in weight […]
Widely consumed Junk/Processed Foods and What are the Common Ingredients
Some of the most widely consumed processed foods. Pizza Chocolates with high sugar content (Not dark chocolate) Chips Cookies/ Biscuits Ice creams French fries Burgers Cakes Soft drinks/juices Deep fried animal based foods All of them have some things in common. They will have a combination of more than one factors below. High Sugar (highly […]
Why is it Important to Manage Carbohydrate and Fat Content (ratio) in Foods
Take a moment and just think about this question. Do we have any food (plant based or animal based) offered by mother nature that has high fat and high carbohydrate both of them together? Answer is there is none (may be almost none as far as I know). Examples of High fat, high protein, low […]
Daily Checklist for Overall Wellness – Simple and Possible for All of Us
Move – create regular movement, exercise, do not sit for long time, take 10 minute walks after every meal. Balanced diet – Eat whole food meals at regular intervals. Prioritize quality protein, healthy fats from natural foods. Avoid snacking in between meals. Get exposed to sunlight for a while. If there is no sunlight, go […]
Keto Diet and Low-Carb Diets – Who is it Beneficial for?
The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates, a state known as ketosis. When this happens, your body becomes incredibly efficient at burning fat for energy. It turns fat into […]
Our Daily Routines Impact Our Brain Health
The decisions we make each and every day, like what we eat, how much sleep we get, and how often we move are all steps that can dramatically shift the health of the brain for the better. And there’s so much more we can do, too.A poor diet affects our brains in more ways than […]
Role of Mitochondria Health on our Overall Wellbeing
Mitochondria are key energy sources for our bodies. They are tiny factories housed within our cells that take the foods we eat and the oxygen we breathe and convert them into energy. That energy is called adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, and it is used to support every function in our bodies. Each cell holds hundreds […]
Ways to Maintain Good Gut Micro Biome (Pro-Biotic)
We know that an impaired gut microbiome can be triggered by a number of things. These include a high-sugar, high-fat, low-fiber diet; impaired immunity; use of drugs, like antibiotics, birth control pills, and estrogen; and psychological stress. Refined grains, and highly processed foods convert to sugar when we eat them and SUGAR is what […]