Best Minerals for Weight loss

If losing weight was a child’s play, obesity would never have been an epidemic. Losing weight requires a scientific approach and a planned routine along with proper micro-nutrient supplementation (vitamins and minerals).

In our attempt of losing weight we become obsessed with our carbohydrates, protein, fat and vitamin consumption however nobody really bothers about their mineral intake….. Read more

Fire Up Your Metabolism

Firstly we need to understand what metabolism is and then can we have a picture of how metabolism effects weight loss . Metabolism is the amount of energy (calories) your body burns to maintain itself. Whether you are eating, drinking, sleeping, cleaning etc… your body is constantly burning calories to keep you going.

Metabolism is affected by your body composition i.e.  the amount of muscle you have versus the amount of fat. Muscle uses more calories to maintain itself than fat. People who are more muscular… Read more

5 Fruits to Boost your Health

Fruits are a major and natural source of  many vitamins, minerals and other natural substances to protect you from chronic diseases. Fruits are available through out the year and some are seasonal too.

Here is a list of commonly available fruits that you can include in your daily diet to boost immunity to stay away from infections with its anti-oxidation properties to destroy free radicals. Read more

Reading Nutrition claims correctly

Whether you are on diet for weight loss, on a muscle gain plan, managing you diabetes, or just looking for healthy food. To know if food is really healthy, you need to know two things: how to read the nutrition labels, and understand the claims that foods make, like ‘low calorie’ ‘high fiber’ and others. We showed you the first. Now, we’ll tell how to decipher claims that a food product makes.

Nutrient content claim is a claim that describes the level of a nutrient contained in a food. Here are the claims and what they mean:

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Reading Nutrition Labels Correctly

Nutrition labels are supposed to tell us how healthy or unhealthy a food really is. Some of us read them, many don’t. But if you read them, are you reading them correctly? Reading nutrition label can help make wise food choices but knowing how to read the nutrition fact label can be complicated without the right guide. So, let us show step by step how to correctly read the nutrition label:

Step 1- Start with serving size
At the top of the label are the serving size and the number of servings per container.  Serving sizes is the amount of food that is typically eating in one serving indicated by cup or number. Serving sizes differ on each food label and may not equal the serving size you normally eat. If you Read more

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 veggies for weight loss

Along with being among the healthiest sources of nutrition, vegetables are great for weight loss. Let’s show you how:

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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

Weight Gain after Rapid Weight Loss

Rapid weight loss sounds like the ideal way to lose weight. But with weight rapid weight loss, comes rapid weight gain. Yes, many of us have seen it, that if you’ve lost a ton of weight, then you would’ve had a hard time also keeping the weight down. Read on to know why your body gains weight after drastic weight loss, and how you lose weight without gaining it back.

To achieve rapid weight loss, you need to take extreme measures like crash dieting, excessive exercising and others. Weight loss efforts like these can result in nutritional deficiencies in the long run, and other long term health effects. Besides all the detrimental  side effects on your health, your body has a strong tendency to gain the weight back. Let’s explain one Read more

Juice Diet- detox & weight loss?

Juice diet is a popular diet that many people try to follow- most people use detox diet for weight loss. The juice diet has many forms: lemon juice diet, orange juice diet, carrot juice diet, vegetable juice diet, and other possibilities of juice diets. We told you about the lemon detox diet. Here, we talk about all juice diets

It is basically a fad diet or crash diet form, involves intake of raw vegetable and fruit juices, and water only. It is an extreme diet form, as no solid food is consumed during the length of the diet. So, is the juice diet good for weight loss? Is the juice diet healthy?

Does the juice diet detox your system? The juice diet is like a mine field. Read on to find out, if you’re going to lose weight, or lose something else…

So, does the juice diet help weight loss? Read more

Sauna Belts – weight loss fad or truth

Call them Sauna Belts, Thermal Belts, Ab Toning Belts, Slimming Belts, Thermal Packs, Slimming thermal blanket, Sauna Blankets, Body Toning Belts … they’re all the same. Essentially something that you wrap around your body, that claims to help you lose weight. Does it really?

We told you about Body Wraps last time. Now, we tell you about Sauna Belts. You’ve heard the ads talking about those weight loss belts that help spot reduction- thermal belts using heat therapy to get the toned waist you’ve always wanted. Think twice before wasting your money on it. Read on to know why..

Sauna belts electronically produce infrared rays which increase Read more

Body Wrap- Weight Loss Fad?

Continuing our series of weight loss fads. First we told you about how mono diets are unhealthy. Now, find out how body wraps are a weight loss fad!

You have all seen the advertisement: Lose 6-20 inches from your body in just one hour! Have you ever wondered how that is possible? We will tell you all about that. Body Wrap treatments, also called ‘miracle bandages’ are among the popular techniques that many ‘slimming’ centers & spas use. This gives you temporary weight loss & can have side effects. And the weight comes back on fast! Read on, to know more

In the Body Wrap treatment, absorptive substances like Read more

Mono Diets: Fast, Unhealthy Weight Loss

Everyone wants ‘Fast Weight Loss’, regardless of how long it took them to gain weight. Due to this high demand, there are many short terms fixes using extreme & often unhealthy methods for ‘fast weight loss’ that do not give you actual fat loss, only water loss. So, once you return to your normal lives, the weight gain comes back with a vengeance. One of these is commonly known as Mono-Diets or mono food diet plan.

Mono Food Diet Plan means that you will only eat one Read more

Special K Diet Challenge: Does it work?

You’ve probably seen the Special K cereal advertisement for the Kellogg’s Special K Diet Challenge: 2 meals, 2 weeks, and lose upto 2.5 kg of weight!

What is the Special K diet challenge? Does the Special K diet really help you lose weight? If it does, is the Special K diet challenge really good for your health? And will the weight loss stay off?

We did the research, so read on.. Read more

Does drinking cold water make you fat?

Do you think that drinking ice cold water makes you fat? It baffles us why anyone would ever think that drinking cold water makes you fat! But since there are some people who do, we are here to tell you if drinking really cold water will really make you fat.

First of all, its a known fact, that water is good for you. And most people don’t get enough of it. You should drink 9-12 glasses of water a day.

Now, water is an essential component of most bodily functions. Drinking 2 glasses of water Read more

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