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Heart Month 2017: Why a Healthy Diet Should Be Your Priority

February 14, 2017 Srijita2017:, a, be, Diet:, Healthy, Heart, Month, Priority, Should, Why, Your

Happy Valentine’s Day 2017! While we may call February the season of love, it is also a month dedicated to matters of the heart i.e it is Heart Month. Health organisations across the globe have come together to spread awareness about heart diseases and how our current lifestyle habits are triggering many dangerous heart diseases. The heart is a vital organ which is responsible for keeping the body functioning by pumping blood, which carries oxygen and removes waste materials, within the body. If the heart stops pumping then our body…

5 Wonderful Ginseng Benefits: A Magical Root

February 13, 2017 Srijita5%;, a, Benefits, Ginseng, Magical, Root, Wonderful

In today’s world, with a wide number of ailments that have become so common, we often bank upon herbs as a solution to our troubles. Traditionally too, in the most primitive of societies, with the absence of qualified doctors and a lack of resources, people always resorted to nature to relieve themselves. Living amidst wildlife and dense forests, it was not uncommon to find individuals knowledgeable in the field of herbs and their benefits on health and living. From mere cold and cough, to fever and chronic ailments, herbs came…

What Is Lupus?

February 13, 2017 SrijitaIs, Lupus?, What

Lupus is an autoimmune disease which is caused when our immune system does not function properly. It may have mild effects but in severe cases it can also become life threatening. It is not contagious.There are types of lupus that may affect a person. These include Discoid, Drug-Induced and Neonatal. According to the Lupus Foundation of India, about 5 million people worldwide suffer some from the disease. It further states that more than 90% of lupus sufferers are women. Doctors believe that it results from both genetic and environmental stimuli.…

Defective Brain Cells Are Spreading Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

February 13, 2017 SrijitaAlzheimer's, and, Are, Brain, cells, Defective, Parkinson's, Spreading

Brain is the most important organ of the human body yet most of its functioning is still unknown to doctors and scientists. We humans use merely five per cent of the brain’s total functioning throughout our life. The full potential of a human brain’s working has yet not been completely figured out. Neurons are the building blocks of the nervous system which includes the brain and the spinal cord. Neurons normally don’t reproduce or replace themselves, so when they become damaged or die they cannot be replaced by the body…

13 negative side effects of not getting enough protein

February 12, 2017 Srijita13, Effects, Enough, Getting, negative, Not, of, Protein:, Side

HERE’S THE HARD truth: Most of us don’t get enough protein. Alternatively, some guys think “the more protein, the better,” and over-consume it when they do sit down to eat, chomping down a 30g protein bar and washing it down with a protein shake that’s got upwards of 50g, says Jordan Mazur, M.S., R.D., director of sports nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley. To put it bluntly: Both are bad. Everyone has a protein intake ceiling. It varies with your height and weight, but most people can absorb at most 30-42g per meal.…

8 alternative healing therapies that actually work

February 12, 2017 Srijita8, Actually, Alternative, Healing, That, therapies, work

A practice as old as 100 years, alternative healing has always been around, with its importance even more prominent today. With strips of headache tablets kept in our bags or desks at work, the science of healing without medicine is still slow in its pace of reaching the larger audience. In times like these, alternative healing is a practice that has helped many achieve a stable, physical and mental being. Dr Manju Mehra, former President, Indian Association of Clinical Psychology and Clinical Psychologist at AIIMS, “Forms of alternative healing like…