Tag: superfoods
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World Heart Day – 10 Superfoods for a Healthy Heart
When it comes to heart health, most people swing into action when a blood test result brings worrisome news, but that approach is short sighted. If you really want to make a difference to your heart health and increase your stamina, you have to think ahead, especially when it comes to your diet. Eating healthy…
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7 Indian superfoods that should be a part of your diet
To most of us, superfoods mean exotic foods such as kale, broccoli, blueberries, acai berries, Greek yogurt and olive oil. Recent research, however, shows that traditional Indian food items also deserve superfood status. These 7 local and traditional foods rank higher than exotic items any day: Ghee Once dismissed for its “fatty” nature, ghee today…
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5 reasons that raw jackfruit is a superfood
Jackfruit is one of the least known superfoods. It means many things to many people. Like the five blind people who explored the elephant, jack fruit means five different things depending on where you grew up in India. It can be a fruit, nut, vegetable vegan meat or a carbohydrate. Most people from the South…
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These 10 options in the office pantry will make snacking guilt-free
You pack a healthy lunch to take to work but by the time three o’ clock rolls around, you’re craving a snack. Your head tells you that you must choose protein-rich snacks but your tongue wants a taste of the cake, chocolate or crisps. Make the mid-afternoon slump easier on yourself by stocking the office…
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Can the right diet help beat diabetes?
With as many as 50 million people suffering from Type-2 diabetes, India is the diabetes capital of the world. The burden is expected to increase further in the years to come with the WHO estimating a spike of 58 percent, from 51 million people in 2010 to 87 million in 2030. But what is diabetes?…