Food Plan Preparation Tips

Maintaining weight loss requires long term change and patience. If it doesn't seem possible for you, then you're interested in fad and unhealthy diets.
If you lose some weight every month, eventually you'll get rid of all your excess weight. Great progress! that's what you want.
Ps: long term change is only hard in the beginning, especially the first couple of weeks. Once you develop new habits it becomes easier every week.
Remember, it's about starting and it's the hardest part.

With cricket being such a favourite sport in our country, almost everybody takes to it. What starts off as playing during summer holidays in open grounds can take more professional and committed routes with an obsession to become national and international players. It is very important to understand that it is not about the game, but about overall fitness, both of the mind and the body. It requires extreme physical fitness and focus and therefore planning a meal for cricketers is of extreme impo...more

Adolescence is characterized by the spurt in growth, a period in which growth occurs really fast. During this time, physical changes affect the nutritional needs of the body, while lifestyle changes might affect eating habits along with the choices of food. On the other, Nutrition is equally important for all those who are pregnant as, during pregnancy, a woman's body goes through a number of physical and hormonal changes. Hence, the way one nourishes her body during this phase will affect one's...more

Fats are an essential source of energy for the body. It helps you to absorb minerals and vitamins from the food you eat, which help in building the cell membranes. All fats are similar in structure a chain of carbon and hydrogen atoms bonded together. A difference in this structure causes a radical change in their functions and effects.

Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated are considered good fats while trans fats are considered unhealthy. Saturated fats are neither good nor bad. In or...more

Food Items You Should Not Pick From Grocery Stores!

Abdomen pain or abdominal pain is usually experienced in the area between the chest and the stomach. This kind of pain usually comes as a dull cramp that also produces shooting stabs of pains intermittently, or it may be a localised pain in one side of the stomach. This may also be accompanied by inflammation, and other diseases related to organs like intestines, kidneys, pancreas, liver, spleen and stomach.

So what are the causes of stomach or abdomen pain? Read on to find out:
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Extreme diet or crash diet is a method to lose a significant amount of weight within a limited time period. But crash diets are not meant for long term weight loss plans. Since crash diets usually cut down on one or more food groups to reach a desired weight level, these diets skip out on important nutrients that your body needs.

The ways crash diets can affect your body include:

Dehydration: You realise you are losing weight after implementing the crash diet, but this is just ...more

In 1989, the United Nations announced July 11 as World Population Day and since then, it is being celebrated annually with an objective to spread awareness about various issues related to the population across the world.

Significance of the Day

With the population of India growing exponentially, and reproductive health issues becoming a major cause of death and ill health for the community people, the UN Council aims to enhance the skills and knowledge of people from all over...more

Colon cleansing is something people are familiar with. It is a process which helps to remove toxins from a person s body and improves the digestive system, thereby taking care of the overall quality of your life. In a similar manner, salt water flush is also known as a safe, simple and effective way through which one can remove toxins and clean-up the colon. Before we explore how salt water flush helps in losing weight, let us first understand, what exactly is salt water flush.

Salt wat...more

If you are looking for an ideal, healthy diet which will help in improving your GI s or general symptoms, you should opt for an elimination diet. It is an effective dietary approach, which is useful for addressing individual needs along with certain benefits for everyone who undertakes the diet. This diet is especially useful if you suffer from food sensitivities. In the elimination diet, certain food items are eliminated from your diet for a certain period of time. They are slowly reintroduced ...more