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At BioFach India 2016, Our New Favourite Foods for Healthy Living

November 14, 2016 Srijita2016:, at, BioFach, Favourite, Foods, for, Healthy, India, living, New, Our

Biofach is India’s biggest exhibition to showcase the newest and best organic and natural foods. Packed with over 80 brands and co-operations for three days (10th to 12th November 2016), it was a great place to see and sample a wide assortment of products and trends for healthy living. To understand how quickly the market for organic food and health products is growing in India, just take a look around at your local superstore. You will find aisles and sections devoted to just healthy alternatives. From low calorie snacks and…

Delhi Air Pollution: 6 Natural Ways to Purify Air at Home

November 3, 2016 Srijita6, Air, at, Delhi, Home, natural, Pollution, Purify, to, Ways

As Delhi’s air pollution remains at hazardous levels, we’ve listed 6 natural ways to purify at home. Did you know: The air inside your home is actually 2 to 5 times more polluted and toxic than the air you breathe outdoors? It’s appalling, really. We go for regular health check-ups, pop pills on a daily basis, stress over allergies, but neglect the most basic thing there is – the quality of the air we breathe 24/7. Everything from the mattresses we sleep on to our kids’ pajamas can contain harmful…

Breathe at Your Peril: Delhi Sees Month’s Worst Air Quality

October 29, 2016 SrijitaAir, at, Breathe, Delhi, Months, Peril:, quality, Sees, worst, Your

With continuous deterioration in its air quality, Delhi on Thursday breathed the most polluted air of the month as the Air Quality Index (AQI) dipped to the season’s threshold at 355 — labelled ‘very poor’. Unlike other two days, Ozone was for the first time in October found a decisive element in the worsening air quality. Beside Delhi, other cities that share the same air-shed or similar climate zone, including Agra, Kanpur and Faridabad, also inhaled an equally bad air quality or even worse. In Kanpur the AQI was 451,…

Want to Perform Better at Sports? Eat More Spinach

October 13, 2016 Srijitaat, Better, Eat, More, Perform, Spinach, Sports, to, Want

A new study has found that spinach which is rich in nitrates can boost sports performance particularly at high altitudes with low oxygen conditions. Nitrate, commonly found in green leafy vegetables like spinach, is important for the functioning of the human body, especially during exercise. The study showed that nitrate supplementation in conjunction with sprint interval training (SIT) – short, high intensity exercise – in low oxygen conditions could enhance sport performance. For the study, a research team from the University of Leuven in Belgium examined 27 moderately trained participants. They were…

Want to Perform Better at Sports? Eat More Spinach

October 7, 2016 Srijitaat, Better, Eat, More, Perform, Spinach, Sports, to, Want

Friendly Colleagues at Job Your Gateway To Better Health

October 5, 2016 Srijitaat, Better, Colleagues, Friendly, Gateway, Health, Job, to, Your

Your colleagues at work – and not your spouse or kids — decide how healthy you will be as you age, as you are likely to spend an average of one third of your day on the job. According to the researchers, health at work is determined to a large extent by our social relationships in workplace — and, more particularly, the social groups we form there. In a new meta-analysis covering 58 studies and more than 19,000 people across the globe, psychologists found out that how strongly we identify…