all about health
Wednesdays’ target is to regulate your blood sugar levels. Why? Because it’s one of the best ways of losing weight! If you have excessively low or excessively high blood sugar, you’re more likely to comfort eat and you’ll store the sugar you eat as fat. How? First of all, drizzle … Read more
Burn fat Today, use the fat-burning power of Vitamin C to your advantage. Why? Dynamiting, immunizing Vitamin C is one of the most effective nutrients for fat burning and weight loss. We mainly find it in fruit and veg, which just so happen to be the best low-calorie, high-fiber slimming allies … Read more
Lemon can have staggering effects on weight loss, so if you want to increase your vitality, eliminate toxins, get rid of excess pounds and boost your glow, get zesting!
Here’s our 7-day plan from nutritionist Dr Andre, with complete menus, recipes and daily targets.
7 days on the lemon diet is all it takes to cleanse your body, recharge your batteries and drop a jeans size!
The benefits of detox
Before you start your diet for real, you need to rid your body of the toxins that are hampering it and kick-start your digestive system. This doesn’t mean fasting! Starving yourself puts your body into a state of deprivation, which, instead of cleaning you out, actually makes your body produce more waste.
Midnight snacking is not an indulgence but a disorder that doctors are giving the ominous label of Night Eating Syndrome (NES). Nearly 5% of 230 patients of Sion hospital’s psychiatry department whom doctors studied for two years had symptoms indicating NES, characterized by an urge to eat sweet and oily … Read more
Fancy a day of beauty food to get you into good habits? Here’s a menu to try!
Breakfast
A hot drink
A glass of fresh fruit juice or a piece of fresh fruit
A fermented milk yogurt or soya yogurt
2 slices of whole meal bread with Omega-3 rich butter (butter made with vegetable oil is better than animal fat butter)
Don’t just say you want to lose weight as your New Year’s resolution, make these easy changes to your pantry. 1. Portion nuts in snack-sized bags. Sure, you know that nuts are a healthy snack — we’ve certainly recommended eating these crunchy taste treats often enough throughout this book. Here’s … Read more
Being healthy is not always about deprivation and working out. Simpler ways exist, and among the easiest path to health is the spice route. British researchers are the latest to add to growing scientific evidence that popular Indian spices and tubers such as garlic, turmeric, onions and ginger protect against … Read more
A new Saint Louis University study has revealed that a chemical that gives curry its zing holds promise in preventing or treating liver damage from an advanced form of a condition known as fatty liver disease.
The chemical, curcurmin, is contained in turmeric, a plant used by the Chinese to make traditional medicines for thousands of years.
The recent study has highlighted its potential in countering an increasingly common kind of fatty liver disease called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
