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Not all fats are bad for you. Dietary fat is the important key to have good health. All you need to do is eat the right amount.
How fat functions
Fat is a macronutrient that provides calories and energy to the body. Primary function is that it's an energy reserve stored in adipose tissues. If you work out, your body first uses carbohydrates and then fat.
Good dietary fat can be obtained from butter, ghee and oils. Other sources are unprocessed nuts and seeds, for example, almond...more
How fat functions
Fat is a macronutrient that provides calories and energy to the body. Primary function is that it's an energy reserve stored in adipose tissues. If you work out, your body first uses carbohydrates and then fat.
Good dietary fat can be obtained from butter, ghee and oils. Other sources are unprocessed nuts and seeds, for example, almond...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Dietitian/Nutritionist•Mumbai
1. Rich in calcium:
No other cereal comes close to ragi when it comes to calcium content. Calcium is a significant factor when it comes to bone development and prevention of osteoporosis. Replacing calcium pills with a ragi kanji or porridge and including it in the diet of growing children is a good way to reap its benefits. You may also like to know the 9 reasons you should eat calcium rich foods.
2. Helps in weight loss:
The natural fat content in ragi is lower tha...more
No other cereal comes close to ragi when it comes to calcium content. Calcium is a significant factor when it comes to bone development and prevention of osteoporosis. Replacing calcium pills with a ragi kanji or porridge and including it in the diet of growing children is a good way to reap its benefits. You may also like to know the 9 reasons you should eat calcium rich foods.
2. Helps in weight loss:
The natural fat content in ragi is lower tha...more
Last Updated: 7 years ago• Featured Tip
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Skin care is an essential part of health and beauty. Though some of you may avoid or ignore it for a long time while giving in way to bring on crow's feet beside the eyes, thin lines on the forehead, and fine lines over the face, yet these all can be taken care of even in your 40s. If you realize that you need to care and deserve to look good always, it's never too late to start a skin health regimen.
These are the 7 tips you need to follow to make your skin look healthy and glowing wh...more
These are the 7 tips you need to follow to make your skin look healthy and glowing wh...more
Last Updated: 5 years ago• Featured Tip
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Often, issues faced by dysfunctional families take a toll on a child s mental health, and various factors can lead to a child's mental health problems. Physical and verbal abuse and parental divorce are among other causes of mental health problems in children. Family therapy is one of the proven effective psychiatric procedures that help a child cope with mental health issues, and helps to direct the child s life.
The Role of Family Therapy -
Family therapy is also known as family ...more
The Role of Family Therapy -
Family therapy is also known as family ...more
Last Updated: 6 years ago• Featured Tip
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Childbirth is one of the most beautiful and exciting times in a woman s life. However, carrying a baby for nine months and giving birth can be a strenuous process, particularly when the woman opts for a C-section delivery. After the birth of the child, the mother needs more time to heal than women that opt for a vaginal delivery.
We have listed four easy and simple ways to help a new mother cope with the strain of childbirth.
Adequate rest: In contrast to other forms of surgery...more
We have listed four easy and simple ways to help a new mother cope with the strain of childbirth.
Adequate rest: In contrast to other forms of surgery...more
Last Updated: 6 years ago• Featured Tip
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Becoming a mother is a special feeling. This can be best explained by only those women who start feeling their babies inside them from the very early stage of pregnancy. These nine months, for a mother to be would need extra care and she has to take precaution of each and every type. In the first trimester or the first three months of your pregnancy detection, you need to take certain precautions. Here are some of the ways in which you can make yourself and your baby secure during the first thre...more
Last Updated: 8 years ago• Featured Tip
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It is not always that fats are bad for us, they are even good at times that is fats help our body to absorb certain vitamins. However, too much quanity is not good for our. Read on to know reasons why fats are good for our health.
1. Fats are considered to be the best source of energy that is derived from food for the body.
2. Fats which contain medium chain fatty acids, like coconut oil, help in weight loss. The good fats, increase the fat burning, reduce unhealthy cravings, a...more
1. Fats are considered to be the best source of energy that is derived from food for the body.
2. Fats which contain medium chain fatty acids, like coconut oil, help in weight loss. The good fats, increase the fat burning, reduce unhealthy cravings, a...more
Last Updated: 9 years ago• Featured Tip
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Things to do when your child gets flu
Although cold and flu are very common issue it is usually not a very serious condition. However when it affects your child, it is essential to take good care since a child’s immune system is not fully developed. Children tend to get flu very easily and if immediate care is not taken it has the potential to develop into serious conditions. Running nose, headache, nausea, body aches, fever, feeling cold, coughing etc. are some symptoms of common flu.<...more
Although cold and flu are very common issue it is usually not a very serious condition. However when it affects your child, it is essential to take good care since a child’s immune system is not fully developed. Children tend to get flu very easily and if immediate care is not taken it has the potential to develop into serious conditions. Running nose, headache, nausea, body aches, fever, feeling cold, coughing etc. are some symptoms of common flu.<...more
Last Updated: 4 years ago• Featured Tip
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Physiotherapist•Gurgaon
Do general exercises twice a day to maintain the flexibility of muscles and joints. Otherwise, you may start feeling pain.
Last Updated: 6 years ago• Featured Tip
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Be it frequent urination, painful urination, or change in color of urine, you must not hesitate to visit a urologist, especially when the symptoms persist for more than two days. Typically, an abnormal urge to urinate is directly affected by any infection in the bladder or due to any underlying medical condition. A urologist who is specialized in the study and treatment of disorders related to the urinary system is the right person to diagnose the problem and put you on the right treatment. Read...more
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