If your kid’s school bag is too heavy for you to carry and if the pencil you dropped on the floor seems to be a kilometer away, then you’re not alone. Your one of the 9 out of every 10 people who experiences back pain at some point or the other in their life. Lifestyle […]
It is common knowledge that tobacco consumed in any form is extremely detrimental to one’s health. In fact, statistics have shown that millions in India itself die each year from tobacco-related deaths. Governments and health services try their best to persuade smokers to give up the ‘cancer stick’ by resorting to public messages and […]
Asthma is an allergic condition resulting from the reaction of one or more allergens. The allergen attacks the respiratory system bringing broncho constriction, thereby making it difficult for the patient to breath. It occurs in 2.5 % of the global population. And about 60% of patients develop this allergy in childhood itself. This disease is […]
Veins are thin walled vessels through which impure blood is carried back to the heart. They usually have valves which regulate the flow of blood towards the heart. Varicose veins are a condition in which veins become enlarged, dilated or thickened. Varicose veins probably affect more than 10% of the population. It can occur in […]
Hypertension or high blood pressure - a disease of the modern age, is regarded as a silent killer. Fast life style, work pressures, mental tensions by the metropolitan environment has its set of bad effects on an individual’s health, as the adrenaline levels in the human body are raised thereby rising the blood pressure […]
The heart is the most vital organ in the body, which is about the size of ones own clenched fist protected in a covering called pericardium. The heart normally beats 1,00,000 times in a day and pumps blood through 60,000 miles of tiny blood vessels.
For all this the heart itself requires nourishment which comes from […]
The Indian breakfast cereals market, though at a modest 250 crores now, is growing at an impressive 30% year-on-year. Though Kellogs has been in India for more than 10 years, it has not seen the kind of success it would have liked. The reason was quite simple. Indians like their breakfast hot and as you […]
Both human and cow milk are considered to be a complete food, with a minor exception that cow’s milk has little less iron as per human requirements.
1) Protein in milk: Cow’s milk has 3 times more proteins and 4 times more calcium. This is because the growth rate of calves is much more than human […]
Sometimes you may be eating the best foods but due to a wrong combination, the food items become harmful to us rather than being beneficial. Hence, it is desirable that one should understand the laws of food combination and their scientific basis.
When one eats an incompatible combination of foods, nature flashes a distress signal in […]
Ayurveda is a highly developed philosophy. Its concepts are not only health related but as a whole uplift human civilization, to make a healthy vibrant society, and such a society is known as supraja (healthy citizens). In order to achieve this goal, ayurveda has advocated a regime for pregnant women, called garbhini paricharya (antenatal […]
