WHO defines physical activity as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. Physical activity refers to all movement, including during leisure time, for transport to get to and from places, or as part of a person’s work. Worldwide facts: • More than a quarter of the …
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Winter Blues Inflammation
Inflammation refers to our immune system’s response to any kind of irritant or foreign body, including infections, injuries, and toxins. It is basically our body’s attempt to heal itself by fighting against foreign bodies. Various white blood cells of our body react when the body is invaded by bacteria, viruses, …
Read More »Diet for the Convalescent Age-old Wisdom
Every time I fell ill when I was a child, my aunt fed me only boiled parwal, toast, and milk. That was her standard diet for the sick and the convalescent. It must have worked, since I always recuperated quickly. And, being a firm believer in wisdom of the ages, …
Read More »Yoga, Meditation, and Health, a Robust Blend of Vitality
Yoga and meditation are some of the most transcendental terms used. These days, we have been noticing a lot of trendy things relating directly to these practices. Yet, these are not something that millennials on Instagram have made trendy. There is so much of individual research claiming that regular yoga …
Read More »Bye, Bye Fat, Thank You Shape Up
Completing 18 long years since Shape Up Slimming Center launched a health movement in Kathmandu in the year 2002, Lima Adhikari, CEO of Shape Up Slimming Center, shared the story of how the venture became as successful as it is now. Before founding the fitness centre, Lima came from a …
Read More »Somebody’s Food, Somebody’s Poison
Many people exhibit chronic food sensitivity reactions to specific food antigens. Unlike the immediate effects of IgE-mediated allergy, IgG-mediated food sensitivity reactions may take several hours or days to appear. Controlled removal of the problem foods from the diet will, in many cases, lead to rapid improvement in the …
Read More »Is Naturopathy All It’s ToUted To Be?
Medical treatment has become ever more reliant on allopathy techniques to manage health related complications. However, many forget that medicine didn’t begin this way. Naturopathy is in line with traditional practices that have long been known to Asia and is now being preferred by a population looking to heal …
Read More »The Ancient Art of Ayurveda
Ayurveda is often defined as a ‘cultural life science’, or a ‘culture-based health system’, and so one may not find everything on the subject as strictly codified as other sciences. That is not to say that there are no documents pertaining to this ancient science, but still, a lot of …
Read More »The Keto Diet
Low-carbohydrate diets were first introduced in medicine as the Atkins diet during the 1970s, where Dr. Robert Coleman Atkins (October 17, 1930 – April 17, 2003), an American physician and cardiologist, recommended a diet based primarily on fat and protein sources, and limited the carbohydrate intake only from vegetables. After …
Read More »Eat Food not Nutrients
Jane Maxwell, 75, one of the writers of Where There Is No Doctor had been to Nepal two years ago and stayed with me for one month. She was very happy to have rice and vegetables and various lentils and other hot food morning and evening. She was surprised that …
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