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My Plate: A Real Infographic Design of Food plate

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  How you design your cloths, jewellery, you needs to meticulously plan your food plate consider few points as follows : Nutrition: The key principle to keep in mind while planning a plate is the choices of food chosen should be nutritious. 80% of the food that goes into plate should nourish your body inside out. The food we consume can only do justice to our health if it is nutrient dense. As it is rightly said Healthy Body Lead to Healthy mind , it is important to maintain good nutritional status to lead better quality of life.   A poor choice of food now can have adverse effect in future. Age: since conception till we live, nutrition needs tends to vary as individual grows. The amount and types of food consumed changes from infancy to toddler to adolescence to adult to elderly. Designing MyPlate   is like setting up every nutrient , which depends on age, their health condition, physical activity. Taste: First look of my plate is very important, be it a toddler...

Do you remember "mother saying" Always trust your gut?

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  Can you reduce number of doctor's visit? Yes, you can!!!  By keeping  your gut happy and healthy. It is most important in today’s time. Turns out, good health starts in your gut. In today’s scenario, unfortunately gastrointestinal discomfort such as constipation and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are some of the largest health complaints individuals are facing.  Let’s discover innovative ways to manage Gut. It is a second brain. Write down your digestive  issues and find the root cause behind it. Sometimes our work gives pressure but why it gives and where we are lagging behind needs actual analysis. Type of food and timing play important role. Learn to Handle your stress levels .   How you yourself can find your gut is working well or not?  The gut is unhealthy if digestive system is unable to process food properly, which shows symptoms like gases, acidic burp due to a lack of  healthy bacteria in the gut, potentiall...

Can you believe at age of 69 years (weight 119.5 to 94.5 kg)!! Yes it’s 100 percent true!!

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A 69-year-old  obese male patient  ,underwent    coronary angioplasty   PTCA  2 years ago ( percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty after discharge from hospital . Cardiologist Doctor      had  advised to reduce weight, so  visited  our OPD (   Nanavati Max Superspeciality hospital ) for almost more than a year. Each time was given diet chart with timing and correct nutrition as you know  Chrono-nutrition play very  crucial role in reducing weight with difficult patient . It  is  sticking to specific meal times daily to ensure metabolism gets  synchronize with your biological or circadian clock. Keeping in mind the value of  timing  with  biological clock ,treated this obese patient . Amazing results patient had got as he lost  24 kg weight with only lifestyle modification and right foods habits. His BMI has come to almost normal. Note:   Prior coming to ...

Thousands of Cream and Lotion in the market available ,still skin does not glow : Know the power of Nutrition

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Eat and glow : Today there are thousands of  diets ,nutrition supplements ,cream and lotion are available in the market ,still  we hear that my skin  is so dull ,does not glow, doesn't it really give a thought to think .  Let’s know the power of nutrition. plan a daily routine ,have a good diet and detox your body. Understand the type of skin you have, Your skin needs the right balance of nutrients to do its main job. Skin is cover that protects the rest of body organ from outside things it. To help keep your skin looking, working, and feeling good, feed it well from the inside  as you should know that too little fat in your diet can make your skin wrinkled and dry.  you need  Healthy Fats  for your skin, so it can "glow".  Just to tell you: Omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts, flax seeds, and fish like Salmon and Mackerel help in keeping the skin nourished. These polyunsaturated fats accelerate the production of the skin's natural oil barr...

RECENT ADVANCEMENT TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND LESSONS LEARNT FROM INTERMITTENT FASTING

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Everyone reads, but don't understand the actual meaning behind it, feels they know everything. So here we are trying to make few things clear about Intermittent fasting. Let’s understand about Intermittent fasting and science behind it. There is various diet available in market often one gets confused what to eat.  To  improve  dramatically ,   overall health, People do Intermittent fasting. it seems to be everywhere in the news, with influencer and your favorite celebrity or announcer  as a miracle to help with weight loss.  People should instead be thinking about how their food affects their hormones. For example, when someone is eating a Diet which is high in carbohydrates, insulin will be consistently elevated, driving fat storage in the body, slowing metabolic rate, and inhibiting autophagy (the body's way of "cleaning" out damaged cells to regenerate healthier cells). As a fact "With a nutrient fast that avoids carbohydrates in favor of protein and he...

Isn’t it interesting that "fats are good for you"?

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In contd. with Previous Blog … Oil consumption V/S Advertisement:    Do you know fats are your NUTRITION FRIEND !!           In olden days our great grandfather, grandfather, our parents used to eat pure (desi) ghee and their health was really good, NEVER HEARD about any major disease .Even their bones were very strong with eating right kind of foods. Hardly heard about cancer, fracture, major illness like Diabetes mellitus,blood pressure, women's  menstrual issue.   Functions of  Fat : As source, of energy and it protects the skeleton, nerves. Fat also makes it possible for other nutrients to do their jobs.  Not all fats are good: Saturated and trans fats can raise cholesterol levels and increase disease risk.   The body stores fat for protection, warmth, and energy.  Fats are an important part of the diet for humans. Depending on attributes, Fats are classified as : Fats or Fatty Acids ...

Oil consumption V/S Advertisement

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 Everyday we prepare food right !. Indian  families can't think life without oils .Oils  are an important part of the  daily diet  Let’s Discuss why oil to use every day (Konsa oil Accha hey : such question are often asked by every second person ) to understand why do we require  oils : isn’t it interesting that oils are good for you? Oils are required for many bodily functions: As source of energy and it protects the skeleton, nerves. One can get  agree, with  the fact that  not all oils are good:  Trans fats can raise cholesterol levels and increase disease risk. In general oil are liquid at room temperature.our body needs essential oils which has to come through our food.  Food products S uch as nuts, seeds, avocados, beans, whole grains, and vegetables are good source of omega 3.    Trans fats comes from repeated use of oil from deep frying. If any ingredient list on food packaging includes “partially...