Fasting for Weight Loss

by Neetu on April 30, 2011

First of all we need to know what fasting means. Fasting means not eating food for some time as we normally eat. Suppose we eat three times a day than eating two times a day is fasting. Not eating even one time is also fasting or not eating for whole day is also fasting. The idea behind fasting is that you don’t take your regular diet or you can say you decrease the amount of food which you intake.

So if you plan fasting for weight loss than you should first know the positives and negatives of fasting. Also you should know how much fasting you should do.

Does fasting helps in weight loss, how?

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First of all we should know the reason why your weight increases. Fat doesn’t increase your weight. Yes, it is a myth that consuming a lot of fat will make you fat and increase your weight. The fact is that it is carbohydrate that is responsible for increasing your weight.

Reason why Fat doesn’t makes you Fat:

Eating food that contains fat does not increase your weight but the food that contains carbohydrate increases you weight. The fat that you eat breaks into fatic acid and does not harm you. But when you eat food that contains carbohydrate it gives you a lot of energy and energy per se is not bad but more energy could lead to increase in weight. Read More

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What is Yoga Asanas?

by Neetu on April 2, 2011

Yoga Asana is the third limb of the eight limbs of Yoga. Yoga Asana is all about the union of your body, mind, spirit and overall consciousness.

Yoga asana describes the different types of body postures, attained by following certain steps. Yoga asanas is also known as yoga poses which are practiced for the overall health and well being of a person. Yoga asana strengthens your mind as well as the body. With the practice of different Yoga asanas, we can revitalize as well as invigorate our body, mind and soul. And if you want to reduce your weight than also yoga asans or yoga pose is very helpful because yoga postures burns fat and reduces cholesterol. In such a way there are very different benefits of yoga and Yogasana.

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Vrikshasana is one of the important asanas among the various yogasanas. Vrikshaasana comes from the word Vriksha which means tree and that is why this yoga pose/posture is known as the tree pose.

Virkshaasana or tree yoga posture teaches the quality of the tree. It teaches you to become strong, sturdy, balanced and grow continuously. Read More

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I don’t need to tell you again that the face attracts the maximum attention and so everybody takes very very special care of the face and when it comes to face, your eyes are the most important of all.

Eyes are the most important part of our face, body and life. There is not doubt that everyone wants to have beautiful eyes so that the look of their face is enhanced. But it is the bitter truth that the younger generation is suffering with under eyes dark circles problem and you wont be surprised that a lot of actors and actress too have dark circles under the eyes.

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Chakra Asana Yoga Pose, The Wheel Pose

by Neetu on March 16, 2011

Chakra Asana is one of the most important yoga asans or yoga poses. The other common name of Chakra Asana is the Wheel Pose, the urdhava- dhanurasana, raised bow posture.

How to do Chakra Asana:

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Almonds are fattening, think again!!

by Neetu on March 12, 2011

Almonds are not fatteningYes, if you were unsure about the benefits of almonds and asked yourself that are almonds good for you and thought that almonds will make you fat then you need to think again. If you consume almonds in the right quantity, almonds would not make you fat. In fact, almonds are the most nutritious of all nuts, almonds contain calcium, potassium and magnesium which helps in regulating blood pressure and osteoporosis.

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Hindu man teaches yoga at UP madrassa

by Neetu on January 3, 2011

Shortly after reciting ‘Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim’ from the Holy Quran, hundreds of students at a madrassa here fall in line for their first lesson of the day – yoga taught by a Hindu teacher.

Imdadul-Jamia-Uloom Madrassa in Karari town in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district has introduced yoga lessons for its 600-odd students. Read More

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Indian MP pushes compulsory yoga in schools

by Neetu on January 3, 2011

An MP in India is lobbying for a law that will make yoga compulsory in the country’s junior schools, where he says it will help with discipline, fitness and dealing with “computer-related stress”.

Satpal Maharaj, 59, from the ruling Congress party, said a recent trip to China had inspired him to push for the law, which would take yoga into India’s 217,000 junior schools where children begin their education at around five.

“We saw school children practicing Tai Chi Chuan (martial art) with great discipline in China and I thought, ‘We gave yoga to the world but we are ignoring it in India and we must bring it into our schools’,” Maharaj told AFP.

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How to deal with diabetes

by Neetu on December 29, 2010

Everyone fears diabetes and I am sure you must have come across at least one such person who was instructed by your doctor to work on his diet or to start doing morning walks or advised to lose weight immediately. I know many people who have diabetes and as soon as they discovered that they have diabetes, their lifestyle changed drastically. I was recently talking to a dietitian friend who said that if one is aware about the symptoms and conditions, dealing with diabetes would become easier and people would able to handle it effectively.

Now, I know and the world knows that Diabetes is one of the leading causes of deaths in India, US and other parts of the world. In India, there are more than 50 Million diabetics which is the largest contributor to the diabetics patient of the world. Read More

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