Category: Healthy Life

Love-struck couples must be preparing to celebrate Valentine’s Day and show their affection for one another as Valentine’s Week gets underway. While this day offers the possibility to make your loved one feel special, it also brings a duty to both of you to ensure a long and healthy life for each other. Since it has been more than a month past the new year and if you haven’t been able to keep up with your new year’s resolutions, Promise Day is the ideal time to follow them up. So, make these few key couples promise for a better life,…

How long you live is determined by everything from genetics to lifestyle choices. But one factor determining life expectancy has become glaringly obvious too: the toxic stress load.“It’s been hiding in plain sight for decades,” Tamen Jadad-Garcia and Dr. Alex Jadad, author of Healthy No Matter What: How Humans Are Hardwired to Adaptwrote in a TIME article. The toxic stress load (TSL) is two-fold. It refers to the physical and mental reactions people experience after stressful events, especially longer-term ones, coupled with the “allostatic load” or physical consequences from continuous toxic stress. “The TSL is the term that describes…

How many evenings have seemed endless due to the constant over-analyzing we do in our minds? If you belong to the category of “overthinkers”, you understand exactly what we mean. A simple and innocent thought can very easily become inflated and end up being a torture of our psychology. Most problems are created by ourselves in the first place, due to the fact that we often allow them to creep into us, focusing on the worst case scenario and not on their solution. This is how a person who analyzes everything functions. Except that in this case even an insignificant…

Deepika Padukone, a well-known Bollywood actress who strongly supports mental health recognition, has demonstrated a significant interest in Japanese philosophies that promote a joyful and vigorous lifestyle. Deepika is an advocate for mental health and has bravely shared her struggles with depression. She frequently shares her insights and ideas on social media to promote awareness and support for mental health issues. Her posts provide encouragement and assistance to those who need it. Japan’s Longevity and Deepika Padukone’s InspirationIn recent posts, Deepika Padukone introduced her followers to two Japanese concepts: Ikigai and Kaizen. These philosophies have resonated with her experiences…

SDG 2 calls for ending hunger and achieving nutrition security for all through increased access to healthy diets. Today, 3.1 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet – that is 40 percent of the global population. But what is a healthy diet and how much does it cost?    A healthy diet goes beyond just the consumption of sufficient calories. It meets the nutritional standards set by national dietary guidelines, with sufficient diversity and quantity within and between food groups to achieve nutrient adequacy and protection against diet-related diseases. To measure access and affordability of a healthy diet, the Food Prices…

Don’t we all want to know the recipe for a longer life with excellent physical and mental health? While many blame genetics when things go haywire, it’s pertinent to understand that lifestyle is the most crucial factor in improving life expectancy. Lifestyle is an amalgamation of our diet, sleeping patterns, physical activity, and mental health, among other things. Out of these factors, our eating patterns are fundamental. So, if you have yet to cultivate healthy eating habits, don’t worry. It’s never too late to adopt a longevity lifestyle. in the book’The Blue Zones American Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to…

Owner, Zoe McKenna has created a vast selection of Match drinks from the ‘Golden Tummy Honey’ (honey, turmeric, Matcha) to ‘Matcha Made in Heaven’ (Matcha, pink pitaya, coconut milk, vanilla, maple). Photo: Anastasia FastaScotland’s first matcha inspired bar opened its doors in Edinburgh last week, selling a variety of hot and cold drinks that its owner says is a much healthier alternative to coffee. Edinburgh entrepreneur, Zoe McKenna, first discovered the wonders of matcha a few years ago with plans to open a unique Matcha café being a ‘background thought’ for the last year. Now the mother of three…

AS summer approaches, many of us are thinking of ways we can shed the pounds – and fast. But it’s sometimes hard to shift through the mountains of weight-loss advice to find what actually works.1 The fitness expert shared ten tips you should stick to daily in order to lose weightcredit: Getty Bodybuilder, Joe Delaney, is here to cut through the noise. In a recent video, Joe, who’s also a personal trainer, shared ten tips you should stick to daily in order to lose weight. Losing weight is not a glamourous, grandiose activity, it’s the “cumulative result of small,…