Healthy Eating Out Guide

With the festive season, there is a lot of eating out- family gatherings, weddings, parties, friends, the inevitable boxes of cookies at the office water cooler. Its a landmine of unhealthy choices. With our party season food guide, you’ll party and stay healthy.

First of all, don’t repent for wolfing down a heavy platter. Understand that it is human to give into temptations, but be sure to learn from them. We often lose control of our food sensory threshold and overindulge only to feel guilty later.

Here are some easy tips which will never slip off your mind even while you move ahead to place an order with confidence at various eating joints.

Rehearsing a situation in your mind before it happens helps you to arm yourself with strategies, visualize yourself doing them and experience the positive results.

So, let’s start with the healthy food guide for this party season

Order right: Make it a point to always ask for Read more

Eat Satisfying Foods to Lose Weight

We all focus on low calorie foods, and eating healthy to lose weight, but are we eating satisfying foods? New research shows that eating certain foods satisfies you much more than others. Scientists think that this might be helpful for people who want to lose weight.

Studies have suggested that the more viscous or glutinous a food, the better is its satiety value. Different foods have different effect on energy production, and satiety is the feeling of fullness that arises after eating. Some examples of high satiety foods are Read more

6 reasons why street food is unhealthier than you thought?

You’ve heard about how deep fried foods aren’t good for health because of the high calorie content, and not being heart healthy! Turns out, they are actually worse for your health, than you thought they were! See the 6 reasons

We told you if which chaat is healthiest. Most popular street foods are fried at some point: aloo tikki – kachori- aloo filled samosas- chole bhature – pav bhaji. Most of these are fried (which facilitates quick preparation), high in fat and sodium, and low in fiber, vitamins & minerals. Let’s show you how these foods are unhealthier than you thought:

Tran Read more

Is Indian food healthy

Most Indians believe that Indian food is among the healthiest cuisines in the world. No doubt, that it can be healthy, but is all Indian food healthy? To see what is healthy in Indian cuisine, and what is not, read on..

The Good:

- Indian food by its nature incorporates a lot of Read more

Health Benefits of Besan: Weight Loss, Heart & more

Most kitchens have plenty of healthy food options. So, creating healthy food is actually simpler than it seems. One such common kitchen food is besan (bengal gram flour). With its lower glycemic index, higher protein content, being gluten free and high nutritive value, besan has a lot of health benefits like weight loss, controlling diabetes, heart health &more. Read on to find out how…

Control Diabetes: Read more

Coloured vegetables for your Health

Did you know that the natural colour of vegetables is not just for appeal, but is closely related to its nutritional content?! So, let’s see what the different colours means among the whole list of Indian vegetables out there:

Red Coloured Foods
Red colour has flavonoids, a type of antioxidant present can help lower the chances of developing Read more

Does healthy food help you lose weight

Most food products today seem to have some kind of a ‘diet version’. Whether it’s low fat version or the sugar free version, the market is flooded with such foods. What it does is that it lets you indulge in the food, without feeling guilty about it.

Now, clearly most people love to have fat free ice-cream for the fear of eating too many calories or getting fat, but the question is .. does ‘diet food’ really help you lose weight?
Studies show that they don’t .. read on to know why..

Studies have shown that when Read more

Coffee Health Benefits- Burns Fat

Common knowledge is that caffeine dehydrates you. If you’re a coffee lover, we have good news- A recent study shows coffee does not really dehydrate. According to 2 studies, there is no valid scientific evidence suggesting that the consumption of caffeinated beverages in your normal lifestyle leads to fluid loss in excess of the fluid volume consumed, or is associated with poor hydration status.

Besides all this, coffee has a number of health benefits, including improved oxygen intake … read below.

Burn Read more

Do you really eat healthy and fit?

At Fitho, we help you live a healthier life and get fit – whether that is losing weight, toning up your body. We talk to many people on a daily basis who we help get fit. Most of them believe that overall they already eat a healthy diet but they are still gaining weight or unable to lose weight. Many of these people even exercise without much results.

Do you face the same problem. Read on to know where you might be going wrong and a simple solution to fix it …

Veg vs Read more

Milk in Tea- Reduces health benefits

We’ve told you how drinking green tea is good for weight loss and health benefits of milk. So, does it make sense to mix these two, and have milk in your tea, to get the benefits of both? New research shows that adding milk in your tea, negates the health benefits of tea! Read on to know more…

Tea is loaded with antioxidants called catechins, whether its black tea, green tea, etc. Previous research showed that drinking tea improves blood Read more

Apple a day, to be healthy & fit

Looks like there might be some truth to the old adage: An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Recently Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease stated that eating apples and drinking apple juice, along with a balanced diet can protect the brain from oxidative stress or age-related memory loss. Apart from being brain healthy, apples are delicious source of fiber (both soluble and insoluble), protect against diseases and improve daily functioning. Want more reasons to add an apple to your daily diet? Read on..

Weight Loss: One medium-sized apple provides 5 grams of fiber, Read more

Coconut- High fat calories & healthy?

Coconut is commonly used in many Indian cuisines. Did you know that coconut contains more saturated fat than butter itself (by weight comparison). 1 cup of coconut contains 27 gm of fat of which 24 gm are saturated fat. Each cup accounts for almost 300 calories. In fact one cup of coconut contains more saturated fat that your daily recommendation. Considering the amount of fat that it contains and the resulting calories, you would think its unhealthy, and will clog your arteries.

But is it really. We don’t think so. Read on to find out.

Even though coconut is packed with saturated fat, it appears to have Read more

Fat burning foods for 6 pack abs

To build a well muscled, low fat body with a nice six pack, besides the exercise, you need to eat right- meaning, eat the right fat burning foods. And there are some basic foods that can help you get there, by providing you with the right nutrition and help you gain muscle & reduce fat.

Note that the list is mostly vegetarian foods. Its important to know that you can even grow muscle with vegetarian foods. Here’s our list of the top 5 fat burning foods: Read more

Is Chaat healthy? How many calories?

Catching up friends over some chaat, and trying to watch your diet? Not sure about which chat is the best for you to indulge in. Well, At Fitho, we’ve done the research for you, to know which chat is healthy, which chat is unhealthy, and suggestions on how to make your chats healthier!

Below is a list of some popular North Indian chats: Read more

Hot dog- Fatty, Unhealthy, Cancerous & more?

Do you like hot dogs? Well, we have bad news for you. Not one, but two pieces of bad news for hot dog eaters, who care about either their health or fitness.

Let’s first talk about how hot dogs are bad for your fitness. Hot dogs are basically processed meat, that is loaded with saturated fat. A regular hot dog has about Read more

« Previous Page — Next Page »