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Hey Everyone! I hope y’all are doing well!

I just wanted to stop by and check on y’all, coz the whole “CORONA VIRUS” thing has got me a little paranoid!

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Here’s some little sunshine🌞 in the scary times of pandemic to brighten your day!
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5 Detox Water Recipes

Hey Everyone! I hope y’all are doing great! Well, keeping in mind the crazy “sunny” adversities, I guess, it’s time for some “Summer Relief” to be discussed in our weekly Healthy Food Series!

Water – is an integral part of our lives, making it impossible to live without! For centuries, medicinally, water has been advocated as the best natural detox available to mankind. Water carries nutrients to our cells, aids digestion by forming stomach secretions, flushes our bodies of wastes, and keeps our kidneys healthy. It also keeps our moisture-rich organs (skin, eyes, mouth and nose) performing well, it lubricates and cushions our joints, and regulates our body temperature and our metabolism.

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Healthy Food Series – Chia Seeds

Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Healthy Food Series yet again! *Happy Tuesday*

Keeping up with the trend of being cognizant of the food products that we in-take and continuing to strive for a healthier lifestyle, here comes my effort of familiarizing you all (and me too) with the latest food trends and well-being fads! Oh yes, looking good and eating healthy never goes out of STYLE!

Today’s star food product is – CHIA SEEDS!

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Healthy Food Series – Debunking Weight Loss Myths!

Happy Tuesday y’all! It’s time for the weekly Healthy Food Series!

Well guess what! We’ve successfully completed 4+ months of Healthy Food Series and I am super stoked about the success rate! From talking about “super foods” to actually evaluating the “real food benefits” – This ride has been fun!
Well, carrying on with the ritual of mindful eating habits and living a healthy life, here comes my latest post to a “healthful lifestyle” that not only keeps you appraised with the newest food trends but also helps you lose those extra pounds and (this time) break some myths!

1 OBESITY IS ABOUT WILL POWER, NOT BIOLOGY (HELL NAH!)

It is completely fabricated that weight gain/loss is all about willpower, or making a “choice” to do this or that. In reality – Obesity is a very complex disorder with dozens, if not hundreds of contributing factors. There are numerous genetic variables that have been shown to associate with obesity, and various medical conditions (hypothyroidism, PCOS, depression) that can increase the risk of weight gain. In addition, the body also has numerous hormones and biological pathways that are supposed to regulate body weight. These tend to be dysfunctional in people with obesity, making it much harder to lose weight and keep it off.
For example, being resistant to the hormone “leptin” is a major known cause of obesity. The leptin signal is supposed to tell your brain that it has enough fat stored. When the leptin isn’t managing to deliver its signal, the brain thinks that you are starving. Hence, provoking you to eat! Trying to exert “willpower” and consciously eating less in the face of the leptin-driven starvation signal is extremely challenging, if not impossible for many people.
Understand that, eating is driven by behavior, and behavior is driven by physiology and biochemistry and everything is not as plain as it looks.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that you should just give up and accept your genetic fate! Losing weight is still possible, it is just much, much harder for some people.

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Healthy Food Series – Flax Seeds

Hey Everyone! It’s time for the weekly Healthy Food Series on iScriblr!

I agree that eating healthy isn’t always easy! But committing to a healthy diet can be one of the brightest decisions you’ll ever make! Why? Well, not only can eating well make you look and feel better, it can also save you money on future health expenses! Keeping up with the fad of being cognizant of the health benefits and clean lifestyle, here comes my newest prop to a “healthful lifestyle!”

Our star of the day for Healthy Food Series is  – FLAX-SEEDS!

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How I Deal With Stress

We all feel stress in our lifetime! Dismally, stress is an inevitable part of our lives and there is nothing much that we can do about it, other than to stand up against it and fight back. There could be better days, there could be good days and on other days you are a chaos!

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Healthy Food Series – Cherries

Happy Tuesday y’all! It’s time for the weekly Healthy Food Series on iScriblr.

Well yes, here I am, yet again with another “super food” to wipe us all off out feet! Healthy Food Series on iScriblr has honestly been an informative and “social enriching” ride so far and I am ecstatic with the enlightening journey – which has not only been “health conscious” but super communicative and newsy at the same time!

Meet our star of the day for Healthy Food Series – CHERRIES!

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Ah, cherries!
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Healthy Food Series – Humor Me

Happy Tuesday y’all! It’s time for the weekly Healthy Food Series on iScriblr.

People, it’s been happy 3 months of this series and I am stoked about its success and acknowledgement. Thank you all for your inspiring words and encouragement. Yay! *happy happy dance!*
I agree that eating healthy isn’t always easy. But committing to a healthy diet can be one of the brightest decisions you’ll ever make. Not only because it is good for your health and makes you look/feel good inside out, but also because it helps save you money on future health expenses – making it an absolute, obvious “motivation potion” for our weekly Healthy Food Series! Yes, a perfect win-win situation where you have nothing to lose.

Well folks, today’s post for Healthy Food Series comes with a twist, or more precisely with some humor! Why so serious? Ha! May be I am just too happy today (Easter hangover) or may be it has been a while since I have shared some laughs. Whatever the reason, yes sir, this week, I am gonna tickle some funny bones!

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Yes, you ARE what you EAT! A “sexy beast” or a “sugary cupcake!”
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Healthy Food Series – Apple

Happy Tuesday y’all! It’s time for the weekly Healthy Food Series on iScriblr.

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Well yes, here I am, yet again with another “super food” to wipe us all off out feet! Healthy Food Series on iScriblr has honestly been an informative and “social enriching” ride so far and I am ecstatic with the enlightening journey – which has not only been “health conscious” but super communicative and newsy at the same time!

Our star of the day for Healthy Food Series is – APPLE!

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Healthy Food Series – Debunking Myths!

Happy Tuesday y’all! It’s time for the weekly Healthy Food Series!

Well guess what! We’ve successfully completed 3 months of Healthy Food Series and I am super stoked about the success rate! 9 super interesting and knowledgeable posts, with close to 1400 likes and 110 comments – Guys, we are on a roll! “Healthy Living” has never been this brilliant! Well, carrying on with the ritual of mindful eating habits and living a healthy life, here comes my latest post to a “healthful lifestyle” that not only keeps you appraised with the newest food trends but also helps you lose those extra pounds and (this time) break some myths!

1 SKIPPING BREAKFAST IS A GOOD WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT FASTER (HELL NO!)

There is no doubt about it , that as the first meal you eat in the morning, breakfast sets the tone for the rest of your day. Despite this, an estimated 31 million people skip breakfast every morning (NPD, 2011), with most saying they are too busy or just do not feel hungry. People sometimes erroneously believe that skipping breakfast is a good way to cut extra calories from their diet! (If only so!) Disastrously, this plan often backfires.
So what makes breakfast so important? One reason that breakfast is a critical meal is that it jump-starts your metabolism early in the day. The amount of time that passes between dinner and the first meal of the morning is the longest your body typically goes without any food. Eating right away implements your body with energy that controls your metabolism for the rest of the day (Consumer Reports, 2015). Additionally, people who skip breakfast tend to have increased levels of “ghrelin”, a hormone that has been associated with hunger. This may cause you to feel hungrier later in the morning, leading to overeating or an energy crash.
A healthy breakfast is a simple formula – complex carbohydrates plus protein plus fruit. Regarding complex carbohydrates – consider making steel-cut oats, buckwheat pancakes, whole-grain toast, bran cereal, oat bran muffins, or muesli. Then, add a source of protein (eggs, yogurt, a glass of milk, a protein smoothie, peanut or almond butter, or cottage cheese). Finally, add a piece of fruit to round out your meal. Walah! Get-set-go for an awesome “fully charged” day!

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