You Snooze You Lose: 5 Ways to Fall In Love With Your Morning Workout

“Just five more minutes,” you mumble to yourself and hit snooze, returning to your sweet slumber. Are you among those to play the snooze game and miss out on your morning run? Does it feel like it takes you ages to drag yourself out of the bed? If morning workout and you can’t look each other in the eye, you either need to shift your regime to the later part of the day or consider altering your routine to start getting up on time.Although one can exercise at any point…

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12 ways to start cleaning up your diet

12 ways to start cleaning your diet (Getty Images) From diet books and recipes to our Instagram feed, the “clean eating” trend seems to be everywhere lately. As daunting as it may sound, ‘clean eating’ is just about getting back to basics. It is not a diet, it’s a happy and healthy lifestyle. At its simplest, clean eating is about eating whole foods, or “real” foods. “Clean eating means incorporating real, fresh, whole foods into your diet – foods that are free of additives, preservatives and ingredients you can’t pronounce,”…

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The Thyroid Diet: 6 Ways to Heal Thyroid with Food

Thyroid is the most important, yet the most neglected gland in our body. The butterfly-shaped gland secretes hormones that manage essential functions in the body like metabolising food, regulating our sleep pattern, weight management, mood swings, depression and anxiety.Healthcare practitioners solely rely on blood tests, and subsequently ‘prescription hormone therapy’ to treat thyroid related problems. The attention to food and nutrients to encourage proper functioning of the gland is often ignored. The nutrients that the thyroid gland needs are easily available in many food items. Let’s use the right information…

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4 Unusual Ways to Help Lose Weight

Images via iStock Sucking in your stomach hoping it will disappear? Dying to fit into your favourite pair of jeans again? Desperately hoping you can pull off your swimsuit this summer? The only answer to your prayers (which you already know) is exercise. But if you’re sick of hearing that exercising and eating smaller portions are the key to weight loss, fret not.We’ve put together four unusual ways that will surprisingly help you lose weight – 1. Play an instrument Playing the recorder while sitting on a chair won’t do…

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5 Natural Ways to Stop Snoring

There are a couple of things that can stand in the way of a good night’s sleep – at the worse, a howling dog and a snoring husband. The rule book says that six to eight hours of sleep is a must for a healthy lifestyle. But in our bustling cities, not always do we have the luxury of a space with nature’s soothing rhythms or absolute silence. I remember the time I had visited Kerala and was staying at a cottage right in front of the beach. Listening to…

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10 ways to avoid catching the flu

Doctors are witnessing an unusually high outbreak of viral illnesses this time of the year. To make matters worse, viral fevers, which are otherwise short lived, are taking longer to subside. With everyone around you coughing, sneezing or carrying a fever, what can you do to avoid succumbing to this viral mayhem? Here are some tips: Wash your hands Do it a lot during this season, regardless of the line of work you are in. If you come in contact with anything that has been touched by an infected person,…

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