Srijita, Author at Pinfaves

10 Wonderful Benefits of Amla Powder: A Powerful Superfood

January 30, 2017 Srijita10', a, Amla, Benefits, of, powder, powerful, superfood, Wonderful

Indian gooseberry, commonly known as amla, is undoubtedly a powerhouse of nutrients. It is an uncommon balance of sweet, sour, pungent and bitter flavours. Amla or Amalaki can be consumed in any form be it juiced, powdered or eaten raw. You can pickle it, make a jam or have candied amla. Being a very rich source of Vitamin C, iron and calcium, amla is a health treasure. It also offers a number of beauty benefits for your hair and skin. “Amla is a very special fruit full of antioxidants that…

No Time to Sleep? You Could Be Hampering Your Immune System

January 30, 2017 Srijitabe, Could, Hampering, immune, No, Sleep, System, Time, to, You, Your

Why do we need to rest? There’s always so much to do and we have such little time. We have deadlines to meet and goals to achieve that we often convince ourselves that four to five hours of sleep time is more than enough. Now just ask yourself one question – do you want to be at the best of your health and live long? Living a healthy and balanced life takes dedication and effort, and you shouldn’t take it for granted. What we often fail to understand is that…

Beware: Not Monitoring Your Exercises Could Worsen Type 1 Diabetes

January 30, 2017 Srijita1, beware!, Could, Diabetes, exercises, Monitoring, Not, type, worsen, Your

Diabetes is one the major diseases today, affecting the population worldwide. While Type 2 is the most kind which is a consequence of the unhealthy lifestyles led by many people among other factors, Type 1 is a condition that you can blame on your genes. Type 1 diabetes, which is also known as Juvenile Diabetes because it mostly affects children, is a condition when the beta cells in the pancreas that are responsible for producing insulin in the body are destroyed by our immune system. As a result, the breakdown…

5 Easy Lifehacks to Help You Keep New Year Resolutions

January 30, 2017 Srijita5%;, easy, Help, Keep, Lifehacks, New, Resolutions, to, Year, You

At the start of every year, we make our set of resolutions to work smarter, exercise more, eat better and so on. But come February and the gym card will lie unused, the fruit juicer will collect dust and we will most likely be back to eating all the junk food we had sworn off. This year, let us resolve to find ways to make our new year resolutions work for us! Here are some of my easiest life-hacks to help you keep your healthy new year resolutions: Hack #1: Cut…

Now, wearables to improve mood, sleep

January 29, 2017 SrijitaImprove, mood, Now, Sleep, to, Wearables

Wearables are not just about fitness metrics any more. These days you can get something to calm you down, or pep you up, or improve your sleep, and the inventors have not run out of ideas for new applications yet. There’s the Emora bracelet, for instance. It uses light and colour to display your moods, and keeps a sort of diary.”Unlike fitness and medical wearables, the Emora translates each user’s unique heartbeat pattern into a mood-pulse light from electrocardiogram,” its press release explains. Feel, a similar device, tracks mood and…

Cardiac trauma: Turning ‘specialists’ to save lives

January 29, 2017 SrijitaCardiac, lives, Save, specialists, to, trauma:, turning

In 2008, a tailor suffered an injury to his heart when his wife hit him with a scissor. The 34-year-old was rushed to AIIMS Trauma Centre where no cardiac surgeons were available at that time, so a general surgeon attempted to repair the heart and succeeded. Since then, general surgeons at the trauma centre have succeeded in saving more than 20 lives -they repaired the hearts of patients who had suffered blunt injuries in road accidents or as a result of a fall from a height. “I have performed heart…