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Balanced Eating: A Guide to a Healthy Ramadan Diet πŸŒ™

By Dr Rajarshi Mitra Maintaining a balanced diet during Ramadan is essential for your overall health and well-being. This guide, crafted by Dr. Rajarshi Mitra, a Laparoscopic Surgeon in Abu Dhabi, provides practical tips and advice on how to eat healthily during Ramadan, including what to eat during Suhoor and Iftar to stay energized and nourished throughout the holy month. Read on to discover how you can observe Ramadan while prioritizing your health. Understanding Balanced Eating for a Healthy Ramadan Diet What Does Balanced Eating Mean During Ramadan? As Dr. Rajarshi Mitra, a Laparoscopic Surgeon in Abu Dhabi with extensive experience in patient care, I often emphasize the importance of balanced eating, especially during Ramadan. Balanced eating during Ramadan means consuming a variety of foods from all food groups – carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals – in appropriate proportions. This helps ensure you receive all the necessary nutrients to maintain energy leve...

Ayurvedic Face Wash For Summer 🌞

Looking for a natural boost to your skin-care regimen? Look no further! Loaded with cleansing and rejuvenating Ayurvedic herbs, this face wash is just the ticket for sultry summer days.  Not only is the skin the largest organ of the body, but its porous nature absorbs roughly 64 percent of what we slather on. So it’s of utmost importance that what we put on our skin is high quality and of food grade. Think of your skin as ingesting and digesting the majority of what it comes into contact with. Used in many gluten-free alternatives these days,  chickpea flour  is the base for our face wash. Loaded with zinc, this chemical element can help ward off infections that lead to acne.  Chickpeas  are astringent in nature, and aid in reducing excess oil by balancing out the skin’s sebum.  Chickpea flour  is also known to treat hyper-pigmentation of the skin and is commonly used in India to minimize unwanted facial hair.  Let’s take a look at the therapeutic...

Spices Guide

The selected  spices  improve the bioavailability of nutrients and phytochemicals in the body.  Spices  also have unique healing power. So, spices also help in the treatment of several health conditions. Spices improve appetite, digestion, and metabolism. Therefore, spices are an important food group in our  dietary guidelines . KEY RECOMMENDATIONS Variety:  Include a variety of  spices  in your diet. Tolerability:  Choose according to your body tolerance. If some spices are not suitable for you, you should not eat. Appropriate Amount:  Eat in the right amount. Eating less may not be beneficial. Excess intake of some  hot spices  may cause burning. 7 Daily Herbs:  Eat  Turmeric ,  Black Pepper , Long Pepper,  Ginger ,  Cumin  Seeds,  Green Cardamom  and  Cinnamon  daily. Weekly Herbs:  Any two of  Asafoetida ,  Clove ,  Fenugreek seeds , Mace,  Nutmeg ,...

10 Grooming Tips Every Man Should Know πŸ‘¨

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40 ? Do these 8 Things Now !

At 40 , many of us have a million things on our plate. Our kids are still young and demanding, our parents are still around and need some help, our jobs still take a big chunk out of us – and there are so many niggling issues our body keeps bringing to the table, including difficulty in  losing weight . The 40 Checklist Much as we’d like to think of us as being the same when we were 30, we aren’t. Our body is changing, or rather, it’s  aging , and as it ages it tends to degrade itself, inside out. From cholesterol to increased risks of cancers and strokes, from visible wrinkles to chronic aches and pain that just won’t go away – 40 is the time for you to sit up and take stock of your health so that your body can last many more healthy decades to come. So if you are 40, or nearing it – here’s a checklist of things to do to make sure your body -- and you -- can be at your healthiest… M...

Home Remedies For Diabetes

            There has been a speedy increase in prevalence of  diabetes  around the world. The reason behind it might be hereditary, eating habits, sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes has three types. Diabetes Mellitus Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus Type-2 Gestational Diabetes Diabetes mellitus  type-2 is a major health concern. The sedentary lifestyle plays a significance role in the development of type-2 diabetes. It accounts 90% of people suffering with diabetes. Type-1 diabetes is a condition in which body will not produce insulin whereas type-2 diabetes is a condition in which body does not produce enough of insulin or the insulin that has been produced will not function properly. Popping pills regularly or taking other treatments is not a permanent solution for curing diabetes. In fact, there is no permanent cure for this condition. However, controlling your blood sugar levels by making few changes in your lifestyle can help you lead a normal lifes...

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Natural Home Remedies For Minor Burns πŸ”₯

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Spring Detox Smoothie

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Ayurveda for Moving into Spring 🌺

     According to Ayurveda, one of the keys to maintaining health is to practice ritucharya—seasonal routines. Adjusting our daily self-care rituals to seasonal changes helps us maintain balance and reminds us that we are a part of the natural world. Spring is ruled by the kapha dosha , whose qualities are heavy, cool, soft, dense, stable, solid, and cloudy. To adjust for the season , consider the following practices: Wake with the sunrise . One of the best practices to minimize the heavy quality of kapha in the mind and body is to wake with the sun (around 5:30 am this time of year). Dawn is ruled by vata and is light, clear, and subtle. Get moving. When kapha is dominant in the day, the muscles are strongest between 6:00 and 10:00 am. Get outside for a brisk walk or do some vigorous yoga to melt away excess kapha. Kapalabhati pranayama is a great way to stoke the fires of digestion. Eat lighter foods. In the winter months, we naturally gravitate to...