Category : Health & Fitness

Let’s begin with a question: what’s a serve? Tennis fans among you may be piping up right now, but let us hasten to add that we don’t refer to the sport, but to a serve of good old fruits and vegetables. The recommended daily intake for women is five serves, apparently, one of which equates […]Read More

No matter how much we hanker after natural and organic food, we just cannot escape some chemicals that will find their way into our food particles. The Australian Total Diet Study is an undertaking by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) that checks once every three years all the common food items we consume and […]Read More

We all want to get into that favourite dress or show off those perfect abs at the beach, but if your diet is not helping you lose any weight, you may just be committing some of the following weight loss mistakes. Using sweeteners instead of sugar This is a common practice, and the aggressive ‘no […]Read More

A recent survey carried out in the United States highlights the fact that at least one in seven women suffer from breast cancer. It is a possibility that you might already know someone who is suffering from it. The scary part of the disease is the fact that the causes are not exactly in control […]Read More

So we all are under the impression that workout helps us burn fats. Now that is not the only thing that workout does to our body. Along with burning excess fats, workouts also help our fat to be controlled or we can say, behave in a better manner. If you resort to a strict 12-week […]Read More

People have called Yoga India’s gift to the world. In its current form, especially in the West, it is used chiefly as an exercise program to limber up muscles and increase core strength and flexibility. But yoga has a spiritual component to it too. In fact, the word ‘yoga’ in Sanskrit means ‘to unite’ or […]Read More

If you believe Red Bull truly gives you wings, you may want to pause on that thought. Energy drinks have become a way of our lives. They’re present everywhere: at the grocery store, at the local supermarket, at the service station; everywhere you look, you’re confronted with not one but multiple brands of energy drinks […]Read More

When one mentions heart attacks, we immediately think of overweight middle-aged men and women. That the elderly and the overweight are at higher risk of heart attacks is a documented fact, but did you also know that the seeds of heart attack are sown much earlier? In fact, research now suggests that if you’re past […]Read More

A spinal cord injury which is also referred as SCI is a damage to the spinal cord or back bone in humans that can cause into number of disabilities. There are basically two main causes of having spinal cord injury; getting caught in some kind of accident or external physical injury or having disease including […]Read More

Brain stroke, if explained in simple words, is a condition in which brain cells die suddenly due to lack of oxygen. This can be caused by some kind of obstacle in the blood flow or if the vein that supplies blood to brain is damaged due to some reasons. There are two main types of […]Read More