Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10

Ways to Increase Your Memory Power

Memory Power differs from person to person and to have a better memory power always help us better in daily life. One of the reason for lower memory power is because we don't train our brain to memorize more. After all, to have a better memory ower helps us in a lot of ways. There are different ways by which we can increase our memory power.

Ways to Increase your Memory Power

Sleep: Let's start fromthe basics. Sleeping well is essential for  good memory power and for the overall function of the brain. Adults must sleep for atleast for 6-8 hrs and children must sleep or 8-9hrs daily.

Eating: Eating Dark chocolate and drinking coffee/ tea will help you in increasing memory power because caffeine helps in boosting memory by keeping us more alert and helps absorb more information. it also els in repairing damaged cells in brain by providing more antioxidants. Dark chocolate contains some chemical compounds known as procyanidins that slows down the oxidation process. This can help in preventing the aging of the brain. Blood Circulation can also be improved by procyanidins so that more oxidents can reach brain.

Exercise: Exercising can improve blood flow to the brain and hence helps in increasing memory power.  Aerobic exercises are also good for brain. You can keep apart atleast 30 mins of your daily life for exercising so that you can have a better life because it not only helps brain but also helps whole body as such to keep fit.

Attitude and organizing: Keep your life organized like for example keeping things at the same place rather than searching for it every time. Also keep yourself motivated and have a positive attitude. This will help in reducing stress and keeping the brain healthy.

Eye strategy: Moving your eyes side to side for 30 seconds every morning can improve memory by ten percent. How? It gets the two sides of the brain working in harmony.

Read More about increasing brain power by going to Ways to increase your Brain Power

Tuesday, August 9

Health Hazards Of sitting


Do you work a lot sitting at one place?  If someone said that sitting is killing you, will you believe it? Well may be there are a lot of things which you need to know before sitting down for a long time.

Tuesday, July 26

How to Gain Weight

You will always find people worrying about putting up weight and doing all sorts o things to loose weight but over here you are not able to gain some weight despite eating food properly.
Size does matter and after all it's natures rule that bigger the size, higher the value! but that doesn't mean you will put on 90kgs, but it is important to have an average size and a good body.
This will not only give you value and impression, but also helps you to have a healthy life.

How to Gain Weight?

  • Diet: Eating food is the most important part of gaining weight. It's not just eating anything but eating food with higher calories, proteins and carbohydrates. [click here for more about protein food] Try Taking at least 4 meals during the day.
  • If you make a simple calculation, the approximate daily caloric requirement for an average male who performs light activity is 2,200; for a female, it is 1,900.You need to eat around 1,000 extra calories per day to gain less than half a kilo a week.
  • Include combination of carbohydrates and proteins for meals like rice and fish /meat.
  • Eat foods with high protein content such as beans, pulses and peas,fish, meat and foods with high starch content such as potatoes, rice and tapioca.
 Snacks: Take snacks throughout the day. Avoid junk foods and aerated drinks which have only calories and no nutritional value instead have:
  • Drink two glasses of milk every day. 
  • Eat Bananas and eggs everyday, may be two eggs with breakfast.
  • Drink Fruit juices to increase calorie intake and vitamins.
  • Have cheese, nuts, dry fruits.
  • take High calorie snacks like fries, roasted chicken etc.
Water: Water is life, so drink lots of water. Atleast moret hana liter a day.

Exercise: Exercise is again important because it helps in muscle and body building . Eating alone can harm you and you might end up gaining fat or even diseases like diabetics, cholesterol and more.
Now it does not need a gym machinery, simple exercise would do.
  • Dumbells  would work great
  • Take short intense workouts instead of long periods of low-stress activity.
  • The best weight training exercises for building muscle mass are free weight exercises like squats, dead lifts, bench presses, barbell rows, pull ups and bar dips.

Remember that you won't gain weight overnight. It might take a month or many be more for it to actually show up because our bodies tend to respond to consistency. Now if you could manage to do these consistently and not getting frustrated and leaving it in mid way, you are sure to gain some weight or else come back here and leave a comment saying we were wrong!
 

Thursday, July 14

Ways To Cure a Hangover

You ever had a situation where in you partied hard last night a just trying to wake up but finds that the handover is hitting you hard and wondering what to do? May be next time when you face this situation, you can try to come over it sooner.

Ways To Cure a Hangover in the Morning

* To start with Drink lots of water. Water can help a lot.

* Most of us will try to reach out for a cup of coffee or tea & this can actually make you feel better, but  you might end up feel worse than you started off in less than an hour because coffee or anything with caffeine cannot help in rehydration and can make situation worse. So caffeine , no-no.

*So the best way to cure a hangover is by having a nice breakfast which does not include much sweet.

* The Best Breakfast options can be a few slices of bread, bananas or anything that is not too greasy. This will help in raising the blood sugar levels gradually.

* Here is the best one: a glass of Orange juice. Since it is rich in vitamin c, it helps you to cure your hangover.

* Rather than trying to be lazy and hugging the pillow on the bed, try doing some exercise and watch the hangover fade away like snow.

Now you don't have to worry much about hangover next time.

Wednesday, July 13

Foods to Heal Injuries Faster

At some point or the other, we all meet with some kind of accident where in we injure ourself. After that ofcourse we get medicines to heal the wounds however your food can also help in healing your wounds faster and better.


Three Golden Rules That you need To remember first.

Water: Keep Yourself hydrated all the time. Drink Lots of water because water is life & it has amazing qualities in healing.

Protiens: Include high amount of protiens in you diet. Learn More regarding protiens here: All About Protiens
Fruits: Have Lots of fruits because they are rich in a lot of minerals, vitamin & more that can help in healing.


Foods to Heal Injuries Faster

  • Increase your healing potential by having orange and dark green vegables and 5 servings of fruit per day.
  • chicken, fish, lean red meats, eggs, whey protein powder and soy product: (good source of protiens)
  • whole grain breads, brown rice, millet and barley : (helps to synthesize proteins into new muscle tissue.)
  • Kiwi, orange, strawberries & blackberries: (good sources of vitamin C)
  • olive and soybean oils, nuts : (improve cardiovascular functioning, help nutrient absorption)
  • Almonds: (provides vitamin E which helps prevent scar tissue)
  • Honey: (a good antiseptic and healer)
  • Red grapes: (high source of potassium and the antioxidant quercetin)

Injuries will heal with time but how faster & better it heals, depends on your care & diet. If you could include some of these foods in your daily diet, not only it will heal you better, but also helps preventing diseases in future. 

Saturday, July 9

Ways To Increase your Brain Power

To have a more developed brain always helps us with better analytical skills, knowledge, understanding and helps us to lead a better life. Also it can give you an edge over others. There are different ways to develop brain power.


Ways to increase your brain power

Reading: Reading knowledge based books will not only increase your brain power but also increase your Brain power. As you read more related to knowledge like general knowledge, science & encyclopedias, including life facts, you will start loving it and hence helps in increasing the brain power.

Positive thinking: Thinking positively will help to deal problems more effectively and hence our thinking base and brain power will increase to much extend.

Eating: Eat different foods that will help increase brain power. The food that helps in increasing brain power are whole grain foods, strawberries, blueberries, almonds, cashews, walnuts, green tea, eggs, red cabbage, tomatoes, spinach, broccoli. These foods not only increase brain power but also increase memory power.

Challenging Tasks: Take up tasks those are challenging rather than simple ones. these will gradually helps in developing brain power. Unlike other people who like doing normal work, you taking up challenging work can make you more open to ideas and hence become more advanced than the rest of the crowd.

Teaching: Teaching someone can also increase brain power as you are sharing your ideas and hence your thought process will search for more innovative ideas to express your knowledge.

Discussions:
Participate in discussions or simply discuss the ideas with your friends. This will help in developing your ideas and hence developing your brain power.

Exploring: Try exploring yourself for answers to the questions. You can search for answers by reading or searching on the internet rather than asking someone. This activity will not only help you increasing your brain and memory power but will also helps you to gain better knowledge and understanding.

Sunday, June 12

More About Proteins

Most of us know that proteins are good for us, but any idea as to what are the advantages and disadvantages of it and where you can find it? Proteins are essential for our body at all stages, for growth, strength, healing and more.

More about Proteins

Advantages: Protein helps in building, maintaining and restoring muscles. It's responsible for healthy blood cells, key enzymes and strengthening the immune system. It also helps to heal faster and aids in growth of a person, especially kids.


Disadvantages: Not much though, two things which needs to be kept in mind are not to over have protiens with the help of supplements and In order to build muscle, protein must be consumed with enough carbohydrate calories to provide the body with energy. Otherwise your body will tap into the protein for energy which might not be a good option for the body.


Where to Find it?


Animals: 
  • Fish, crab, lobster, oysters, prawns
  • Poultry and other meat
  • milk, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese
  • Eggs
Vegetables
  • Grains & Cereals
  • Nuts & seeds
  • Legumes like beans, peas, lentils, soybeans
Quantity
 
 You should have atleast 0.8g per kilo of your body weight per day. Now taking a quantity of say 4 ounces, which might come up to your average consumption, the proteins that can be found is as follows.
  •  Fish :40g
  • Chicken  : 35g
  • Meat: 30-35g
  • Cheese cup: 28g
  • milk cup: 8g
  • Most Other plant protiens comes less that this.
 Types of Proteins

Whey :Whey protein is rapidly absorbed helping to induce muscle-protein synthesis following a training session
Casein:  Casein protein is slowly absorbed providing a long steady flow of amino acids, helping to prevent muscle-protein degradation

You can find these in protein supplements as well. You should always try to combine the food like Grains/cereals and legumes/meat (rice/bread and beans/meat) Grains and diary (Oatmeal & milk) to make it a complete meal and hence you get the complete benifit of proteins. 
You can also read here how to heal injuries faster with food:  Foods to Heal Injuries Faster