Eat Your Water to Avoid Dehydration!

A human body contains from 55% to 77% water depending on body size. Keeping our body hydrated is very important for our physical and mental behavior. We should drink enough to balance water losses. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven liters of water per day to avoid dehydration; the precise amount depends on the level of         Read More …

Antioxidants – Very Important Part of your Nutrition

Antioxidants We need oxygen to stay alive but our body generates reactive-oxygen as a by-product of the body’s stress response. These are also called free-radicals and they can damage healthy cells. These free-radicals are also produced from exposure to smoke, alcohol, heavy metals (through air and water), and even from heavy exposure to sun. Anti-oxidants neutralize the effect of free radicals.         Read More …

Hands Falling Asleep Often – Know Why?

Hands Falling Asleep If your hands falling asleep often, you need not be cautious as it is a quite common problem. It arises at any time, but it is more common when you are taking rest. Most common symptom include tingling in your arms or legs and then you will not be able to move them. This will happen not only during sleep         Read More …

World Health Day 2016 and Diabetes

Every year, the World Health Organization selects a priority area of global public health concern as the theme for World Health Day, which falls on 7 April, the birthday of the Organization. The theme for World Health Day 2016 is diabetes, a non-communicable disease (NCD) directly impacting millions of people of globally, mostly in low- and middle-income countries. Beat Diabetes         Read More …

How to Read Nutrition Labels

Food labels or nutrition labels are read by the consumers for various reasons. Few people compare the brands. The terms used on food label are difficult to understand and they are printed really very small which makes very difficult to read with naked eye are the problems faced by the consumers. Nutritional information will be understood people by TV advertisements,         Read More …

Probiotics are Useful for Good Health

Probiotics Bacteria is good for health. Though it is tough to understand but it is true. We use antibiotics, antibacterial soaps to kill microorganisms but right bacteria at a right place is proved to be beneficial. We usually think bacteria as something which is not good for health and also causes diseases. Our body (mainly gut) is full of bacteria which         Read More …

Salt and Diet

salt What is salt? It is a crystalline compound sodium chloride (NaCl) that consists of sodium chloride, is abundant in nature, and is used especially to season or preserve food or in industry. It is also known as common salt. Salt and sodium Sodium is a component of salt but they are not the same. Salt contains 40% sodium and 60%         Read More …

Selfie Syndrome – Mental Disorder, Narcissism or What?

What is selfie? Wikipedia defines A selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a digital camera or camera phone held in the hand or supported by a selfie stick. A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media. It is closely related to Narcissism. Narcissism means an         Read More …