Category: Health & Fitness

I may have spent a lot of time making a case for eating millets, but the fact of the matter is that wheat remains one of the most widely consumed cereals since the prehistoric times. Wheat is easy to work Read more

In our last piece we had all but absolved dietary fat or cholesterol of the many accusations hurled at it, including being the root cause of cardiovascular diseases resulting from deposition of cholesterol plaques in the blood vessels. We left Read more

They are competent, versatile and successful – dynamic at work, and doting at home! They are the glue that hold many pieces of life together. Any tribute will fall short of the place women hold in our hearts and societies. Read more

Kapal – forehead; bhati – shining; pranayama – breathing technique Here’s a very powerful breathing exercise that not just helps you lose weight but also brings your entire system into a perfect balance. It is called Kapalbhati Pranayama or Skull Read more

You don’t always need equipment or a gym subscription to workout. You can use your own body weight as an excellent “equipment” for a full-body workout – anytime, anywhere. Getting health benefits from physical activity is easier than you think, Read more

Food items that are of little to no nutritional worth have been around for a very long time. I certainly remember eating junk food while growing up, so it’s safe to say that that these foods are hardly new. However, Read more

Vajrasana pose is a simple sitting yoga pose. Its name comes from the Sanskrit word vajra, which means thunderbolt or diamond. For this pose, you kneel and then sit back on your legs to take the weight off your knees. Read more

Laughter yoga is a unique style of yoga that involves laughing voluntarily. This new twist to the ancient practice of yoga is probably the only exercise routine that will leave you happier and healthier. It is an excellent cardio workout Read more

For close to five decades we have been led to believe that cholesterol is bad for our body, that it is a major causative factor for cardiovascular disease that is, coronary artery disease, strokes (“brain attack”) and related ailments. This Read more

One of my favourite awareness campaigns is to do with the fascinating ‘organ’ lodged within our gut. I refer to the body of microbes that inhabit the gut. Their weight (nearly 2 kg) and numbers (about 100 trillion of more Read more