Including Tryptophan-Rich Foods May Not Increase Brain Serotonin

Tryptophan is one of the fourteen essential amino acids (building blocks of proteins) we need to get through food. (Examples of other essential amino acids are Tyrosine, Phenylanine, Valine, Leucine, ...   Read More

Posted by Mamta Singh on Mon, 09 Jan 2012        (0)        (4492)

Home Fitness

Getting fit does not necessarily need a gym membership or an elaborate home gym. You can exercise any where even with a busy schedule. Keep a swiss ball or a stability ball, in your living room. Whene...   Read More

Posted by Lachmi Deb Roy on Sat, 07 Jan 2012        (0)        (3465)

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

It is okay to be a little unhappy with the extra kilos before the year-end party, but you cannot hang yourself for not having the perfect body. Doctors who first started seeing this problem in the wes...   Read More

Posted by Lachmi Deb Roy on Wed, 04 Jan 2012        (0)        (3599)

Science behind Weight Loss

Weight loss can be made easy, if you know how to do it right. To increase muscle endurance, you should use your own body weight. The popular body weight exercises are push-ups, pull-ups, squats and lu...   Read More

Posted by Lachmi Deb Roy on Fri, 30 Dec 2011        (0)        (3381)

Obsessed with the idea of curbing your curly hair to pin straight permanently?

With media personalities sporting pin straight silky hair and increasing ads for such cosmetic products and treatments promising a silky straight hair, makes having a frizzy curly hair highly undesira...   Read More

Posted by Raja Nandhini on Wed, 28 Dec 2011        (1)        (8393)

Why I am hooked to Yoga?

I randomly decided to take up yoga in July 2010 when I was struggling with my weight and  needed some emotional boost up  because my husband was leaving on a foreign deputation for a year. I did not k...   Read More

Posted by Lachmi Deb Roy on Tue, 27 Dec 2011        (0)        (4027)

Eat Your Greens

We all know that they are loaded with nutrients and are ideal for weight management. Greens reduce the risk of heart diseases and cancer. Greens are low in fat rich in dietary fiibre, folic acid and v...   Read More

Posted by Lachmi Deb Roy on Sun, 25 Dec 2011        (0)        (3491)

Health insurance melt down in India likely!

Health insurance segment in our country has grown significantly over the past decade.This has been fuelled by escalating health costs in urban settings. The growth of large corporate hospitals has ske...   Read More

Posted by drketanvagholkar on Sun, 25 Dec 2011        (0)        (3699)

Are you a compulsive eater?

Sometimes we fail to understand the difference between true hunger and emotional hunger. Emotional eating is the main culprit for weight gain. I have seen for myself that I eat out of boredom. When I ...   Read More

Posted by Lachmi Deb Roy on Sat, 24 Dec 2011        (0)        (3827)

Dealing With Children

Young mothers these days are getting more and more ambitious in their career, so they are hardly left with any time to enrich and discipline the lives of their children. Every woman wants to be succes...   Read More

Posted by Lachmi Deb Roy on Thu, 22 Dec 2011        (0)        (3944)