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How a Healthy Gut Could Stop Obesity: Your Guide to Understanding Gut Bacteria

July 15, 2016 Srijitaa, Bacteria, Could, guide, Gut, Healthy, How, Obesity, Stop, to, Understanding, Your

Images via iStock Recent studies suggest that Americans are working out more than ever but aren’t losing weight. Brits, on the other hand, spend billions each year to get into shape. Every two in three adults in the UK are now overweight or obese and one in five children aged 10-11 is clinically obese. It is common knowledge that daily nutrition plays an important part. What we eat is much more important than our total calorie count. However, choosing what to eat to be healthy is far from easy. We…

Get a Grip on High Blood Pressure: This Simple Hand Exercise Can Help

July 15, 2016 Srijitaa, Blood, Can, exercise:, Get, Grip, Hand, Help, High;, On, Pressure?, simple, This

Image credit: Istock You probably know that high blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major risk factor for heart attack, stroke, vision problems, even dementia. But did you know this? Hand-grip exercises – squeezing one of those V-shape devices with a resistance spring – can lower your blood pressure by about 10 percent. That’s one of the “15 Things You Better Know About Your Blood Pressure” that AARP reports in the June issue of its Bulletin publication and at aarp.org. It cites a “landmark” paper published in 2013 in Hypertension,…

Flashes of Light Can Be a Sign of a Dangerous Eye Condition

July 15, 2016 Srijitaa, be, Can, Condition, dangerous, Eye, Flashes, Light, of, sign

Have you ever had black specks floating around in your vision? Patrick Muffler noticed some one day. “I saw funny V-shaped floaters in my eye,” he says. When he woke up the next day, a Friday, they were still there. “I started getting more – black dots, maybe 40 of them.” Over the weekend, Muffler, a retired geologist in Palo Alto, Calif., developed a cloudy area in his visual field. He went to his ophthalmologist Monday morning and learned that his retina was torn and detached. “If I hadn’t gone…

9 Amazing Benefits of Oats: Does a Bowl of Oatmeal a Day, Keep Diseases at Bay?

July 15, 2016 Srijita9, a, Amazing, at, Bay, Benefits, Bowl, Day, diseases, Does, Keep, Oatmeal, Oats:, of

There isn’t a single morning when my grandmother doesn’t start her day without a steaming bowl of freshly cooked oats doused in milk. It always made me look at her quizzically and wonder… Why oats? Yes, it’s healthy, but can one really have it every single day? Nutritionist Gargi Sharma says, “Oats are rich in soluble fibers which help in lowering cholesterol levels. These soluble fibers help increase intestinal transit time and reduce glucose absorption. Oats also contain beta glucan which is a lipid lowering agent. A very healthy breakfast option –…

A depressed person is ignored by all

July 14, 2016 Srijitaa, All, by, Depressed, ignored, Is, person

Generalizing such persons as “simply lazy“ and suffering from “quirky mood swings“ is … If you see a colleague suffer from low self-esteem, irritability and lack of interest in work, it’s time to reach out and prevent the person from taking any extreme step, says psychiatrists and counsellors. Generalizing such persons as “simply lazy” and suffering from “quirky mood swings” is not the way to handle the issue, as it might not be the person’s actual behaviour, but a temporary state of mind, say experts. “If a junior colleague shows…

How to get a flat tummy?

July 13, 2016 Srijitaa, Flat, Get, How, to, Tummy

Do you feel bloated all the time? Do you buy clothes to camouflage your bulging tummy? And do you fear that your flat tummy days are way behind you? Well, let’s accept it; a lot of us obsess over flat tummy, the biggest reason being that it is the most notorious part to shed weight. And it is also the part which unabashedly displays any amount of weight gain. What if we told you that you could have a flat tummy in the next 7 days if you follow the…