Healthy habits

Healthy habits

  8:54 PM    Anand International

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Healthy Food  :

_ Eat at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day.

_   Avoid Fats & oils.

_   Avoid Salt & Sugar.

_  Benefits – Provides all necessary vitamins & minerals to your body. It helps to control your  weight. It helps to improve heart health.

_ Drink green tea, Eat almonds & walnuts.

_ ◦ Benefits –

 1.Green tea has got many vital antioxidants which helps to improve immunity & fights against ageing.

2. Dried fruits are important sources of vitamins, minerals and fiber in the diet.

3. Regular exercise is the easiest way to stay healthy.

_ ◦  Benefits –

1) help to prevent heart attacks and strokes

2) Reduces Blood Pressure in Hypertensive

3) Better Blood Glucose level control in diabetics.

4) Improves Calcium absorption & prevents osteoporosis

5) It postpones ageing.

6) A good stress reliever.

FIT formula for exercise

Frequency: 5-6 days per week.

Intensity: To achieve and maintain target heart rate i.e. 0.6 X (220- age)

Timings (Duration): 30-60 minutes per day.

Warming up and cool down for 5 minutes is must.

Medical Check Ups

_ Go for periodic medical check ups.

◦ Benefits –

1.    It helps in early detection of diseases.

2.    Prevention is not only better but also cheaper than cure

Not only children, adults also need vaccinations.

Contact your doctor fordetails.

◦ Benefits –

1.    Vaccinations are required to prevent certain2.    serious diseases in future

Maintain A Healthy Weight

Combine exercise with healthy diet & reduce your weight to normal.

_ Keep watch on your BMI (Body Mass Index). Normal BMI = 20 to 24.9

◦ Benefits –

1.    Healthy weight prevents diabetes, hypertension2.    and many other problems.

Avoid Tobacco Products

◦ Benefits - Your risk of coronary heart disease will be halved within a year and will return to a normal level over time. Cancers like Mouth Cancer, Lung Cancer can be prevented by avoiding tobacco products.

 

Do Yoga & Meditation daily

◦ Benefits - Relaxation techniques can be very useful in lowering your stress and anxiety levels. It helps in maintaining your good health.

Get enough sleep – Between 6-8 hrs sleeps is required. Not less

than 6 hrs and not more than 8 hrs.

◦ Benefits – Better Sleep –Better Life. It helps in recharging your body for

next day. It improves memory. It also helps in weight management. It is

observed that person who sleeps less have more chances of weight gain.

 

Always think positively.

◦ Benefits - Positive thinking helps in reducing stress level & prepare us to

face the difficult movements in better way.

 

Smile is contagious, so share this de-stressing activity with others who appear to be under stress.

◦ Benefits – It relaxes the whole body. It boosts immune system. It releases

endorphins – body’s natural feel good chemicals.

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What is Yoga

What is Yoga

  9:38 AM    Anand International

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Are you crazy about yoga !

 

The reason why most people do yoga is that it makes them feel better and in shape. The different poses and postures make their body healthy. Yoga for most is the best way to relax and unwind. If you want to keep your body in shape, this might be the best exercise for you. 

Did you know that yoga is good to fight certain illness that may come? 

 

There had been researches which proved that yoga helps you to control anxiety, reduces asthma, arthritis, blood pressure, back pain, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue, epilepsy, diabetes, headaches, stress and many more.

Yoga has a lot of benefits and advantages. 

All in a day’s work, it can reduce tension and stress. Of course after a heavy day, you will feel that your muscles have been stuck up and you will feel wasted.

• If you do yoga, your self esteem will be higher. It is important to gain more confidence inside and out so that you can face people with no worries.
• Yoga is good for the body in increasing your muscle tone, strength, stamina and flexibility.
• If you are too fat and conscious about your body figure, yoga can help you lower your fat and keep your body in shape. Yoga exercises can burn excess fat and give you the desired figure that you want.
• If you need time to relax and forget your responsibilities, yoga will be good to improve your concentration and enhance your creativity. Yoga helps you to think more positively away from all anxieties. If you have a fresh mind, you can think of good things and apply it easily.
• Your body needs to relax once in a while. Sometimes, work can leave us wasted and exhausted. During the heavy days, we may not find time to unwind because work is still on our tail. Yoga can help you create a sense of calmness and well being.
• Yoga exercise helps you improve a good circulation. Your organs and veins need to be exercised for it to function properly.
• Yoga can help stimulate your immune system and keep you away from diseases. If you have a good immune system, you can be sure that you are free from sickness.
• Some people do yoga to be enlightened. They believe that yoga will help them bring up their spirit and keep them relieved. Yoga works differently for people be it spiritual, emotional, psychological, mental and physical.
• People think that yoga is only for spiritual people. But that belief is wrong. Even if you are not that religious, you can do yoga. You will see and feel the difference at the same time find out how it works for you.
• Due to the pressure and demands of life, we become stressed out and we forget the essence of life. We tend to lose touch with the ones we used to spend time with, even ourselves.
• We find ourselves rushing most of the time with the deadlines and hassles we need to keep up with. This leaves us a small time to wander and have that physical awareness.

These are the few things that yoga can provide. Once in a while, find time to dedicate a part of it to yourself to relax and unwind which only yoga can give.

 

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Anti Aging Tips

Anti Aging Tips

  7:45 PM    Anand International

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1. Use UV screening cosmetic products

• If you protect your skin from the sun’s rays only in the summer, when you’re sunbathing, you must know that this singular habit isn’t an effective barrier against wrinkles. 
• Sun exposure is the main factor of skin aging. 
• Some experts actually estimate that about 80% of aging is due to sun effects. Even more, sun exposure can cause skin cancer after the age of 50. 
• Protection must be adapted depending on each type of skin. People with very light skin color need to use UV screening creams all year round. 
• If you’re using these kind of products daily there’s a chance that your skin will have less wrinkles or sun-caused spots.

2. Eat fruits, vegetables and fish every day

• Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and you’ll do your skin a very big favor! Lacking vitamins is the next major cause of body deterioration. 
• You must pay attention to your meals more often, by that meaning you have to supply it with antioxidants (vitamins A, E, C and selenium), zinc and copper. 
• You need a daily quantity of 60 miligrams of C vitamin (about as much as an orange has). It is recommended to give up sweets, meat and fat-rich food. 
• Don’t forget breakfast! It’s well known that even a piece of bread and butter or some cereals with milk will help your digestive system deal with the food more efficiently. Besides that, it also make you less hungry between the meals.

3. Drink more liquids!

• Correct body hydration helps keep your skin young. Drink natural juices as much as possible, mineral water and tea. 
• Avoid consuming too much black tea and coffee. 
• In the summer your body will need up to 6 liters of fluids while in the cold season 1.5-2 liters will do the job.

4. Give up smoking

• Both nicotine and alcohol “steal” the skin’s vitamins and minerals thus leaving it dehydrated and exposed to wrinkle conditions. 
• Smoking should be definitely forbidden because it directly affects the skin, large part of the toxins being eliminated through it. These factors contribute to the whole body aging, also increasing the risks of cancer, arthritis and osteoporosis. 
• Alcohol in moderate quantities isn’t as harmful as tobacco is, unless there’s strict recommendation against it from your doctor.

5. Take it easy!

• It has been proven that chronic stress increases the aging process' speed. Don’t forget the 3 eights rule: have 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work and 8 hours of relaxation each day. It sounds impossible, right?
• Try yoga, meditation, massage or aromatherapy. You can use oils that create a peaceful sensation such as lavender. 
• Can't get enough sleep? You should try harder, otherwise your efficiency at work will suffer, you’ll do a lot of mistakes and you'll get old quicker. 
• Try harder to spend quality time with your friends, in a relaxing environment. Laughter has its benefits!

6. Use quality makeup

• If the cosmetic products you’re using are carefully picked, they are specific to your skin type and you don'’t "forget" to remove your makeup every night, they won't harm your body.
• Instead, quality makeup protects the skin from harmful actions of the surrounding environment.

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