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9 Days Navaratri Diet Plan with Weight Loss Tips

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Navratri is a festival celebrated across India, to worship supreme hindu goddess Devi Parvati.  It is celebrated for 9 days in different styles. Various cultural and traditional activities, delicious delicacies are the best parts of celebration.  Cultural activities include the famous dandiya, navratri plays, garba etc. The various delicacies include spices, sweets, snacks, special dishes, beverages. Many people during festive seasons get invaded with uncontrolled food habits and overeating. This consequently gives rise to excess weight gain and health disorders. The common reasons of weight gain are avoiding healthy alternatives of eating food, skipping micro-nutrient rich foods like fruits and vegetables, outside foods. The best way to prevent overeating and weight regain, is to have a well planned diet with vegetables, small frequent meals, hydrating fluids, healthy snacks, home food and low fat  products etc. Recommended diet vegetables are broccoli, spinach, ginger, c

Sunaina Roshan’s Weight Loss Journey

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It’s very common that celebrities and people related to cinema industries like bollywood, make news about their appearance makeovers especially weight loss. After all, they need to look good and be glamorous to get themselves moving ahead. Sunaina Roshan (sister of Hrithik Roshan) , made such news recently, going for weight transformation with weight loss surgery. Sunaina Roshan's journey-Then fat and now fit Sunaina had been going through some serious setbacks following her tough times due to various health issues and family setbacks. She is also a cervical cancer survivor. These factors made her go for quick, risky and unnatural weight loss method. Sunaina had a weight of about 130kgs. Overeating with very little physical activity was a main reason for her rapid weight gain. Then she opted for a bariatric surgery and this surgery made her lose around 60kgs of weight in no time. Fortunately, the surgery was successful and she thanks the doctor. Emergency situations

Simple Yoga Asanas & Tips for Weight Loss

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Yoga Asanas  For good health and fitness, we need good nutrition, balanced diet, proper exercise methods. These vital factors not only help with health issues, but also help with overweight issues such as losing and controlling weight. Overcoming weight issues will help reducing the risk of various health disorders like heart attack, cancer, obesity, hypertension and likewise. There are various exercises for weight loss like lunges, planks, crunches, push ups, office chair workouts, face exercises , leg exercises, belly workouts, bear crawls, cardio, strength training, running, jumping, walking. Yoga Yoga is the most ancient and natural form of exercising which has its origin in India. It is one such rare type of meditation that helps control mind, body and soul. Besides giving you strong health, Yoga helps with reducing fat, weight and controlling weight gain. There are many types of fats like belly fat, thigh fat , face fat which yoga can help with. It’s the most natural

Benefits of Honey for Health & Fitness by Truweight

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Benefits of honey: It's no myth that the sweetener honey is a blessing. Not just the delicious taste but it is gifted with a number of health benefits. This is why it has always been a part of Ayurvedic medications. So, in order to know how honey can help us in keeping up our health, I bring to you 7 health benefits of honey. But before that, you should know the different types of honey that are available : 1. Pure or Raw Honey – This is the unprocessed honey from the Honeybees. 2. Organic Honey – It is extracted through the process of organic farming. 3. Manuka Honey – It is obtained from the tree plant called ‘Manuka’. Health Benefits of Honey 1. Honey benefits the skin immensely.  Besides being a natural moisturizer, regular drinking of milk with a combination of honey controls aging by removing dead skin cells and wrinkles.   2. Benefits of honey for hair:  The vitamins and minerals of honey help in keeping the hair healthy a

8 Nutrition Foods & 4 Food Groups You Should Know

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8 Nutrition Foods & 4 Food Groups You Should Know Nutrition is the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for health, growth and maintenance. Food contains nutrients and nutritional values such as vitamins, minerals, energy, carbs, proteins, carbohydrates, antioxidants, calories, fats etc. But the right nutrition refers to the optimized levels of all these contents. Identifying foods with these optimized levels of nutrients, plays a crucial role in terms of good health and living. Nutrition deficiency would lead to various health disorders related body organs such as eyes, heart, kidneys, lungs, skin, hair, liver, brain etc. Lack of proper nutrition may cause minor and major health diseases ranging from illness, skin and hair issues, vision deficiency, brain malfunctioning, tumours, cancer etc. Common nutrition deficiencies are calcium insufficiency, iron deficiency, magnesium insufficiency, lack

Importance of Protein in the Diet for Weight Loss - Truweight

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Importance of Protein in the Diet for Weight Loss - Truweight Proteins make up about 15% of our body mass. Not just that, our muscles, cartilage, ligaments, skin, and even our hair is made up of protein! So it’s easy to understand now, that since they are the building blocks of our body, quite literally, which is why we need to maintain an adequate protein diet to fulfil our requirements. Proteins are organic compounds called polyamides. Here amides are the amino acids that are found in 20 number of varieties. These 20 amino acids make up different proteins that are necessary for different functions of the body. Health benefits of Protein: 1. Each cell of our body requires proteins. 2. Protein forms a major part of skin, muscles, organs and glands. 3. Proteins help in repairing the damaged cells in our bodies. 4. Protein synthesizes neurotransmitters that help in creation and signalling of hormones. 5. Proteins rich foods are important for proper growth and de