Over the past few decades, the statistics for diabetes has skyrocketed. In the US alone, over 50 million people have prediabetes. Getting diagnosed and checking if you’re prediabetes is crucial to preventing the onset on diabetes.The main reason things have reached this state is the because of the food we eat. The standard American diet is unhealthy and high in processed foods and hidden sugars. Our diets are wreaking havoc ...

Mindful eating is a practice that has gained a lot of attention over the last couple of years. Some people swear by it, while others ‘pooh-pooh’ the concept.So, what is mindful eating?In simple terms, it means paying attention to your body’s hunger signals and eating your food slowly and thoughtfully. In today’s rat race society, people just grab food on the go and gobble it down without much thought. There are ...

A couple of decades ago, cooking meals at home was the norm. In most cases, the family unit consisted of a husband who went to work and his partner would be a housewife who cooked meals for the family.Over time, as women gained more independence and started focusing on their own careers, it became a habit to buy meals from restaurants or just microwave TV dinners.The food manufacturing industry’s practices ...

The English poet, John Dryden once said, “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” Wise words.Adopting good nutrition habits and making them a part of your daily life will do more for your health and well-being than any fad diet, miracle pill, energy drink, etc.Below you’ll find a list of nutrition habits briefly mentioned. You’d have heard of most of them, and yet so few people ...

There’s a saying that, “Drinking water is like taking a shower on the inside of your body.” While this statement is light-hearted and mildly weird, it does hit home a very important point – you absolutely MUST drink enough water daily to stay healthy.While everybody knows this fact, most people do not practice it consciously. They merely drink when they feel thirsty rather than drink at intervals throughout the day.* ...