- Think small portions. Portion sizes have exploded recently, especially in restaurants. When you eat, choose a start instead of a starter, main course shared with a friend, not asking for anything extra large. At home, use smaller plates, consider portion sizes in terms of realistic and start small. Visual indicators can help to portion size, portion of meat, fish or poultry is the size of a deck of cards. A teaspoon of vinaigrette or salad is about the size of a matchbox and a slice of bread should be the size of a CD case.
- Try not to think of certain foods as “off limits”. When the prohibition of certain foods or food groups, food is natural to want more, and then feel like a failure if you give in to temptation. If you are attracted to sugary foods, salted, or unhealthy, start by reducing portion sizes and eat more often. Later, you can find the desire to be less or think of them as occasional indulgences.
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Aug 11
Diet Tip – II
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Aug 11
Diet Tip – I
- Every change you make to improve your nutrition questions. You do not have to be perfect and not have to completely eliminate the foods you enjoy a healthy diet. The long term goal is to feel good, have more energy and reduce the risk of cancer and disease. Do not let your errors to derail any healthy food choices for accountability.
- Start slowly and make changes in your eating habits over time. Try to make healthy eating at night is not realistic or intelligent. Change all at once usually leads to cheating or giving up your new eating plan. Make small steps, like adding a salad (full of vegetables of different colors) to your diet once a day or commutation of butter olive oil for cooking. As small changes become habit, you can continue to add healthier choices to your diet.
- Simplify. Instead of worrying too much about counting calories or measuring portion sizes, think about your diet in terms of color, variety and freshness, then it should be easier to make healthy choices. Focus on finding foods you like and easy recipes that incorporate fresh ingredients. Gradually, your diet will be healthier and tastier.
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Aug 11
Plan a Healthy Diet
Healthy eating begins with learning to “eat better”-that is what you eat, but how you eat. Your food choices can reduce the risk of diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, as well as defense against depression. In addition, learning healthy eating habits can increase your energy, sharpen your memory and mood stabilization. You can expand your range of healthy food choices and learn to plan ahead to create and maintain a healthy and satisfying.
A healthy diet is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying extremely thin, or deprived of food you like. Instead, it is to feel good, have more energy, and stay as healthy as possible, all of which can be achieved by learning some basic knowledge of nutrition and use of a way that works for you.
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Jul 11
Home Remedy For Premature Graying Of Hair
- Indian gooseberry is beneficial in the treatment of premature aging. Cut the fruit into pieces and dry them. Once dry, place them in the coconut oil until the solid matter in the dust or powder. Apply on the hair.
- Mix one teaspoon of Indian gooseberry juice with a teaspoon of almond oil and a dash of lemon juice. Apply this mixture on your hair and keep it overnight. In the morning, wash your hair. It is an effective home remedy for the treatment of premature aging.
- Avoid refined flour and sugar, soft drinks, cakes, jams, spicy foods, hot foods, peppers and fatty foods.
- Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. They are effective in the treatment of premature aging.
- Mix a quart of yogurt with a tablespoon of yeast. A cup of this mixture before meals because it is effective in treating premature aging.
- One of the best home remedies for premature graying of hair is composed of curry leaves. Include in your daily diet. Alternatively, you can put some curry leaves in coconut oil and bring to boil. Strain the oil and let cool. Apply on the scalp.
- Dry a few pieces of fluted pumpkin in the sun. Soak in coconut oil for 3 to 4 hours. After that, boil until the residue becomes dark and cool slightly. Massage the scalp with the residue.
- Extract the juice of fresh leaves of vegetable amaranth. Apply this juice on the hair. This will be useful to retain the color of black hair and also helps the growth of new hair.
- Massage the scalp with the butter made from cow’s milk. This should be applied at least twice a week.
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Jul 11
Dandruff Treatment
It will be very bright. Place cucumber slices on eyes to remove dark circles around the eyes. This also cools your eyes and relax. Place a slice of potato over your eyes helps reduce dark circles of color. For healthy skin to apply olive oil or almond oil on your face every day. Leave for ten minutes and wash. To remove dirt from your face a mixture of kissing / channa flour and cold milk and apply on face. Let dry completely. Rub gently with your hands with warm water and wash your face. Drink plenty of water. This will automatically solve most of your hair and skin problems.
For healthy, shiny hair, treat your scalp with a mixture of almond oil and olive oil, leave for 10-15 minutes and wash hair. It also reduces hair loss. You can also wrap a hot towel on the head of the oil filter easily and also to open your pores. Mix honey with finely ground almond paste. Add a little lemon juice. Gently rub on face and neck. Rinse with warm water. This acts as a cleansing scrub excellent. For firmer skin, take an egg, add sugar little by it. Wisk and apply on face and neck. Leave for 10-15 minutes. Rinse with warm water. This prevents fine lines and gives skin a firmer. Cut a ripe tomato and rub into the skin.
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Jul 11
Myth busters – magic pill to lose weight
This is an absolute disaster. Not just pills, but there are no portions, creams, waist belts or any other sorceries to get your weight down. If you want to shed pounds, then the only way to do is to get yourself worked harder to lose them. This is the only way and there is no other way around it.
So if he ever came across magic pills or Magic creams then you can be sure that you are about to be fooled. So stay away from them.
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Jul 11
Myth busters – cutting down calories will cut down my weight
This is not entirely true. Just cutting down on calories will not be sufficient to get your body weight down to desired level. In fact cutting down calories will result in fatigue and other undesirable consequences. A thoughtful approach is to couple exercise with your daily routine and at the same time for your degree reduce your calorie consumption.
If you do not exercise, no matter how much calories that you cut down, there is going to be absolutely no use. You’ll never loose weight and even if you did is not going to be in a healthy way and you’re bound to bounce back to your original weight in no time.
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Jun 11
Myth busters – Should not eat after 6
This is an absolutely idiocracy. There is no specific time for consumption of food. Whenever you feel hungry, you have to consume some food or the other. Otherwise it will result in undesirable circumstances.
But what you have to keep in mind is that, whatever food you consume, you should make sure that you do enough work to burn all those energy to take it from that food. This is more important than the time at which you consume food.
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Jun 11
Myth Busters : Giving Up Breakfast
This is a definite no-no. kipping your breakfast to loose weight fast will only worsen the situation and is in no way useful for weight loss. A breakfast with high nutrients is a must and this is needed to jump start your day with full of energy. But you should make sure that the breakfast that you consume is composed of all the healthy stuff and make sure that you have a juice with your breakfast.
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Jun 11
Myth busters – carbohydrates are not healthy
This is a very common mistake that all the aspiring weight losers make – carbohydrates are not healthy and they should be avoided. This is in fact a grave mistake. Carbohydrates from soft drinks and sodas are not healthy but the carbohydrates from fruits, vegetables and other high fiber diets are very healthy and they should be consumed on a regular basis.
Carbohydrates essentially runs our day-to-day activities. Without the carbs we will be able to perform no action. If you cannot resist high carbohydrate diets such as ice creams then make sure you work out extra to burn those excess carbs.