Entries from December 2007

Are you taking chance with your healthy food – II

Date December 28, 2007

Going ahead on the last article, while opting for low calorie healthy products like fat free ice cream, make sure to have a look at the ingredients label. Although the stuff would have been made out of skimmed milk the sugar content may not have been controlled resulting into higher calories which would further convert [...]

Are you taking chance with your healthy food?

Date December 27, 2007

Have a quiet walk down your supermarket and chances are you will come across self appointed weight watchers who see normal food with disregard. Attracted by the fantasy of words and the visuals of getting into a sleaze pair of jeans, many of us get into the search of the perfect health food that will [...]

Are we ignoring the health of minds of our kids ?

Date December 19, 2007

With each passing moment as more and more cases instances of stress, aggression and depression come forth to light, the society as a whole needs to have a relook at our children’s behavioral health – mental and psychological. With growing incidents of childhood and adolescent aggression, depression and even suicide sounding alarmingly familiar we should [...]

Must Do’s for effective eye care

Date December 14, 2007

It is important to protect one’s as well as that of children’s eyes from the damaging rays of sun. Wearing sun glasses that block UV-A and UV-B rays are a healthy way of caring for your eyes. A failure to do so might result in a blurred eye sight and would require intervention of lasik [...]

Say No! to fat

Date December 13, 2007

Obesity, a resultant of an increase in fat in the body, is now a national health problem for many nations, developing as well as developed. One of the magazines has reported that in some of the developing nations the underweight citizens have more fat content than their over weight counterparts in other parts of the [...]

An eye for details can save your eye ! (eye care)

Date December 9, 2007

The correlation between the prevention of eye disorders and good nutrition is absolute positive. Worldwide studies have indicated that food consumption that is rich in the five nutrients can help protect the eyes from various eye disorders The five nutrients: Antioxidants, zeaxanthin and lutein Beta-carotene Vitamin C Vitamin E Zinc  Most of the fruits and [...]