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More Exercise Is The Key To Sustain Weight Loss

More Exercise Is The Key To Sustain Weight Loss

Though experts are in agreement that regular exercise is essential for good health, but results a new study adds some more effort to it! 275 minutes of weekly exercise is what obese and overweight women require to lose weight and more importantly to keep the pounds off, the study suggests.

Keeping Food Diary Can Help You Shed Extra Pounds

Keeping Food Diary Can Help You Shed Extra Pounds

Here is good news for those heavyweight people who are desperate to shed extra pounds. Scientists at the Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore. have discovered an easy and powerful tool that may double a person’s weight loss.

Sleepwalking – The Quiescent Form of Execution

Sleepwalking or somnambulism is a syndrome typified by intricate actions that result in walking in sleep. Would you accept it as truth, if I were to tell you that people have driven cars, committed murders and even performed sexual acts while sleep walking? And the startling part is that they don’t remember anything the next morning. Nevertheless, somnambulism is not funny behaviour but an ailment that can’t be taken lightly.

That Shaking Leg Could Be A Problem! - RLS Know More About It

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) or Wittmaack- Ekbom’s syndrome is an overlooked neurological disorder which considerably affects both movement and sleep.

Watch Your Sleep! - You Could Be A Hypersomniac

You could be suffering from hypersomnia and might not even know about it. Better watch out your sleep patterns.

Rejuvenate Physically And Mentally with Detox

Think about those awful mornings when you spot acne on face or drag your lethargic and aching body out of the bed. Your metabolism is out of sync; you feel drained and lifeless. All that is needed is to 'Detox' and rediscover a new you.

Good News For Golf Lovers: Playing Golf Extends Life

Good News For Golf Lovers: Playing Golf Extends Life

According to a study from Europe's leading medical research institute, playing golf can prolong ones life by as much as five years. Golfers now have got another reason to swing balls into action and why not!

Cosmetic Dentistry: Makeup For Your Teeth

Does your crisp white shirt or dress match your teeth? Have you been smiling lately just to lose a date? Your yellow pearlies could be the reason. Move on, for cosmetic dentistry can rescue you from your discolored teeth. For you’re never fully dressed, without a smile.

Does Sleep Really Affect Body Weight?

Studies have found that the amount and quality of sleep you get, can affect the hormonesdefine that rule your appetite and hence you find it hard to maintain your weight when you are not seeping properly or when you sleep poorly.

Even A Little Exercise Goes A Long Way

Not active? Feel tired often?

If you are not very active and find that you are tired often, you might try walking, yoga, cycling, pilates or any other form of simple exercise. By being engaged in simple, regular and low intensity exercise sedentary people who consistently complain of fatigue can perk up their energy levels by 20 percent and ward off fatigue by 65%, according to a recent study by the University of Georgia.

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Weaning is the gradual replacement of breastfeeding with other foods and ways of nurturing. If done gradually, weaning can be a positive experience for both the mother and the little one.

ABC of Weaning

Weaning is the process of gradually introducing the infant to solid diet and reducing the supply of mother’s milk. A fully weaned infant derives all its nutrition from solid foods and is off breast milk completely.

    "It is not about money. No amount of money will give back my limb," said a 65 years old woman with diabetes (name withheld on request) who underwent limb amputation at the Gandhi Memorial & Associated Hospitals (GM & AH), India.

    People with diabetes lose more than money

    She couldn't have been right in conveying the message in the lead up to the World Diabetes Day, 14 November 2008, to prevent many diabetes-related complications that are extremely devastating.

      Aromatherapy – More Than Just Good Smell

      Aromatherapy is a form of alternative healing that makes use of volatile plant oils, referred to as essential oils, and other aromatic compounds obtained from plants for the overall physical and psychological well-being of a person.