Category: Healthy Eating

Sodium intake and health

Holiday season is known to wreck our healthy eating habits. We indulge in food products laden with salt not realizing that consumption of these salt-rich food products will skyrocket the intake of sodium beyond the recommended limit. It is generally seen that people consume much more salt than is considered healthy during holidays. Researches have revealed that in the holiday… Read more »

Omega-3 fatty acids for prevention of psychotic disorders

Preventing psychotic disorders by using antipsychotic medicines is often considered to be controversial. Studies have revealed that long chain omega-3, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) may prove to be useful in dealing with various psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia. Various research works have time and again stated that Omega-3 PUFAs are mostly good for health and do not have any adverse effects…. Read more »

Have a cigerette with that cup of coffee

There are many people who truly believe the dieting myth that stimulants help them to lose weight by working as appetite suppressors. People believe that things such as caffeine and nicotine serve to quench their cravings for food. Though this is a dieting myth, it is not completely false. Caffeine and nicotine do in fact work this way by releasing… Read more »