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Showing posts with label Diet Plans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diet Plans. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 February 2021

How Seniors Can Boost Well-being and Feel Great

     

How Seniors Can Boost Well-being and Feel Great



Seniors
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This year has been a challenging one, which is why it’s more important than ever to focus on feeling your absolute best. Whether you’re planning on staying close to home or venturing out, this guide courtesy of Fitness Mantra Hub will help seniors learn how to boost their well-being, from maintaining a nutritious diet to exercising regularly and decluttering the house.


Nutrition for well-being 

  • One of the most effective ways to quickly boost your well-being is by switching to a healthier diet. While there’s no one-size-fits-all diet, there are some basic guidelines to follow to optimize your physical and mental health. 

  • Did you know that some foods have the power to ward off depression? There are several foods that have proven mental health benefits: avocados, bananas, sweet potatoes, and walnuts all have incredible depression-fighting qualities. 

Nutrition-for-Wellbeing
Nutrition-for-Wellbeing
  • Avocados are an excellent source of healthy fats and contain dozens of vitamins and minerals. Folate is one such beneficial nutrient, which helps improve mood and alleviate depression. Bananas are another natural source of feel-good nutrients — they’re rich in potassium, an essential mineral that may help regulate mood. Bananas also naturally contain serotonin, a mood-enhancing neurotransmitter. 


  • Sweet potatoes are superfoods as well, with nutrients such as beta carotene, fiber, and vitamin A. They contain magnesium, which helps alleviate anxiety and can help regulate sleep. If you need a healthy snack, reach for walnuts as these contain high levels of omega-3 fatty acids that reduce inflammation.


Importance of exercise

 

  • For seniors, getting sufficient exercise can be tricky. Many seniors don’t enjoy going to the gym, and many types of exercise may feel too difficult and thus, out of reach. However, there are low-impact forms of exercise that are great for seniors, such as yoga and pilates. 
Importance-of-Exercise
Importance-of-Exercise

  • Yoga has numerous health benefits for seniors, helping improve flexibility, circulation, and energy levels. You don’t have to be a master yogi to get the benefits — even short beginner sessions will help plant the seeds for change within your body. Start by looking online for yoga classes and consider working with a private online teacher who can help assess your postures and offer some guidance. 


  • Pilates, like yoga, can help improve mobility for seniors. Some pilates classes are done using machines, but there are many pilates classes that can be done with minimal equipment at home. Seek out online mat classes to get started. 

  • Along with yoga and pilates, walking, light running, and hiking are great exercises for seniors. A little gentle cardio will help boost heart health and the fresh air will help release feel-good endorphins. Invite a close friend to join you, and you’ll take care of mood-boosting socializing needs as well.


Cleaning your home

 

  • One of the often-overlooked areas of well-being is your immediate environment: your home. Many underestimate the negative power of a cluttered or dusty home. If you’re noticing more stress or conflict in your home, try doing a deep cleaning to help eliminate negativity. 
Clean-your-home
Clean-your-home


  • First, declutter your house and create space. Open windows to let in the fresh air, and keep countertops clean. Once you’ve cleaned, consider burning sage (known as smudging) to help clear the air. 

  • When you’ve decided it’s time to revamp your health and well-being, use this guide to help you. Start with your diet and aim to include depression-fighting foods such as avocados, bananas, sweet potatoes, and walnuts, as well as working with nutrition experts from Optimal Wellness Solutions to establish a new meal plan designed just for you. Get some exercise by doing low-impact workouts such as yoga or pilates. Finally, clean your home if you’ve experienced higher levels of negativity — open windows, burn some sage, and enjoy the peace that follows.


Monday, 15 February 2021

5 WAYS TO MAKE WEIGHT LOSS EASIER

5 WAYS TO MAKE WEIGHT LOSS EASIER


Losing weight can be an uphill battle, especially when you have no clue where to start…
Do yourself a favor and skip the fad diets, stomach wraps, and diet supplements.
Here are 5 simple things to focus on if sustainable fat loss is your goal.

Limit Processed Foods: These are higher in calories and not very filling, which can lead to hunger and eventual overconsumption. (No, it’s not the chemicals or preservatives that are stopping your fat loss.)

Protein At Every Meal: Successful dieters incorporate protein into almost all of their meals. Protein is very filling, has a high thermic effect (aka you burn more calories just from digestion), and helps to build and repair muscle tissue.
Losing-Weight

Avoid Liquid Calories: Drinking your calories in the form of liquids like juices, sodas, alcohol, etc. are a big no-go when it comes to losing weight. As for the same reason above, the added calories that accompany these drinks are not very satiating, often leaving you hungry with an appetite for more.

Keep Yourself Busy: Staying busy helps to prevent mindless eating. Go for a walk, read a book, do some push-ups, play with your dog, etc. Find a productive way to preoccupy yourself!

Be Active: Physical activity like formal exercise, cleaning, yard work, walks, etc. will all aid your fat loss by increasing your total calorie burn for the day (and, of course, keep you out of the kitchen). Focus on these 5 simple habits, and you will be well on your way to better results. ⠀ If we added a 6th to the list, what do you think it should be? Post your replies in comment section


Friday, 21 October 2016

How to Maintain Weight: Not a Frequently Asked Question

How to Maintain Weight: Not a Frequently Asked Question
How to maintain weight is a very important question that sadly, is NOT asked by many. The normal trend in the fitness industry is to either ask ‘how to lose weight’ or ‘how to gain weight’. These general questions are then accompanied by a few other related questions. But very few ask about how to maintain weight.
Once you lose weight or gain weight, your happiness knows no bounds. But what about maintaining your weight? This is the simplest, yet, most difficult part.
  
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THE REAL CHALLENGE LIES IN WEIGHT MAINTENANCE, NOT IN WEIGHT LOSS

Without wasting any more time, let us take a peek at the 7 aspects you need to keep in mind on how to maintain weight loss, and not allow the lost weight to creep in.
  • How to Maintain Weight #1: Continue Exercising

The most vital aspect of maintaining your weight is exercising, getting yourself involved in physical activities and staying active. Losing weight and being happy about it does not mean you will get back to your sedentary lifestyle and forget all about exercising. EXERCISING IS MOST EFFECTIVE FOR WEIGHT MAINTENANCE.
  • How to Maintain Weight #2: Careful Eating

Careful eating is the second-most vital aspect of maintaining weight. Whatever dieting you did for weight loss or fat loss, it has taught you food and eating management. Now, how to maintain weight would involve that knowledge and how you would keep following those guidelines told to you at the time of weight loss. No overeating, no filling yourself with food, no empty stomach for long.
  • How to Maintain Weight #3: Use Small Plates while Eating

Don’t start eating from big plates; it makes you eat more for sure. Keep the “small plate” eating habit and you can maintain your weight easily.
  • How to Maintain Weight #4: No Skipping Meals

Please don’t skip meals, especially breakfast. Don’t go back to your old practice of skipping breakfast, now that you have lost the desired weight. Make sure to eat 3 hearty meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner—in controlled portions, in moderation.
  • How to Maintain Weight #5: Water is your Friend

Do not forget to drink minimum 8 glasses of water on regular basis – be winter, be summer. This is a must. Water helps in getting rid of harmful toxins from the body and this is absolutely necessary.
  • How to Maintain Weight #6: Healthy Sleeping Pattern

To maintain weight, you need to fix a healthy sleeping pattern. Also, make sure your sleep timings do not fluctuate. For example, 10 pm to 4 am/5 am—try maintaining this time. Time fluctuations, over time, would cause unnecessary health issues.

Wrap Up

How to maintain weight is not an out-of-the-world task! MOTIVATION is the key. Keep yourself motivated all the time; don’t depend on others to motivate you. Then it will lead to your depression.
Article Original  Source:  OBESITY CENTRAL
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Saturday, 14 May 2016

Fitness Tips #1

Sunday, 1 May 2016

Diets Tips for Diabetics



Diets Tips for Diabetics

Diabetes  is when your blood sugar or glucose levels are higher than  normal. A diabetes diet is simply a healthy eating plan that is high in nutrients, low in fat and added sugar, and moderate in calories. It is a healthy diet for anyone! The only difference is that you need to pay more attention to some of your food choices—most notably the carbohydrates you eat.

Sample-Diabetic-Meal-Plan
Sample-Diabetic-Meal-Plan
One of the best ways to manage this is to incorporate in your diet natural food items that are good for your health. This, however, is not the end all and be all of your regimen. This should be coupled with regular check-ups as well as exercises to ensure that you are giving your body the necessary attention and keeping the disease in check., it can be managed very well if one were to only take care of a few essential dietary habits.


Here are some dietary habits that are perfect for those suffering with diabetes

1: G0-Leafy


One of the best options for those suffering from diabetes is to indulge in a plant-focused diet with a generous helping of fruits, legumes and nuts.


Leafy-Diet-Diabetics
Leafy-Diet-Diabetics
Make yourself a promise to have at least one salad a day, don’t make it just a part of the meal, make it the meal itself. Fresh fruits and seasonal vegetables are the perfect way to get a nice filling meal and tingle your taste buds while at it.You can add some low-fat hung curd to your salad just to give it some texture,add it to a whole grain pasta and you have a delicious salad ready.



2. Switch to olive oil:

Olive oil is a very healthy, not to mention, delicious supplement for regular cooking oil. Research has shown that olive oil can reduce the blood glucose levels, triglyceride levels and LDL cholesterol levels.



Olive-Oil
Olive-Oil

Olive oil has a unique effect on cholesterol, which is beneficial for diabetes patients as it helps in stemming the onset of diabetes related cardiovascular diseases. Make sure you get virgin or extra virgin olive oil.



3: High-fiber diet:


Carbohydrates have a huge part to play in not only the amount of energy you have but also your blood glucose levels. Fiber rich diet takes time to break down and provides you a gradual release of energy and keeps you from getting hungry too soon. It also improves your digestive and metabolic processes.

Fiber-Foods
Fiber-Foods

It is essential to restrict your intake of refined foods and focus on high-fiber complex carbohydrates. Because these foods keep your glucose levels even because of slow digestion they keep your insulin levels even.



4: Focus on healthy fats:

Yes, as counter-intuitive as it may sound, there are healthy fats and you know them.Unsaturated fats like that which come from plant and fish are actually very good for you. The omega-3 fatty acids in fish and flax seeds, are great for your body and can fight inflammation.


Healthy-fats
Healthy-fats

Saturated fats found in coconut oil or whole-milk dairy products is not the same as that found in processed foods. Nuts, avocados, fruits are a great source of healthy fats.



5: Find non-starchy vegetables:

Common vegetables like eggplant, tomatoes, beans, asparagus, okra, turnips, are all non-starchy vegetables. These vegetables can be used more often in your diet as they have a low starch content which can help control your blood glucose levels.


Non-starchy-vegetables
Non-starchy-vegetables

This does not mean you have to stop eating other vegetables, it just means that the proportions change, it can help you savour those other vegetables even more.


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Monday, 25 April 2016

What should be the diet chart for a beginner to build muscles?


What should be the diet chart for a beginner to build muscles?


As most of us start gym but every time one question is there in mind what will be my diet chart in order to build muscles.

so in this blog we are going to suggest you what need to be included in your diet chart that helps in gaining good muscles.


Balance-Diet
Balance-Diet

As when we start doing exercise our body need more nutrients that helps in building body, so you need to include Carbs, Protein and some amount of FATS.

Composition percentage will be approximately as :

Carbohydrates - 45 to 50%
Proteins             -  30 to 35%
Fats                   - Remaining %


Lets us discuss these points in more detials:

1: Carbohydrates

If you ask about protein from any body builders then will tell you easily and you will get in-depth content to know about protein but if you ask from same person about carbohydrates, i think you won't get that much clear response.





Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates

Most of the time we overlooked carbohydrates in our diet plan, as most of the people are not aware much about Carbohydrates improtance for muscles building.

So its important to know what carbohydrates content need to be included in your diet plan and in how much quantity and when to have.

we will discuss more about carbohydrates in details in our next blog.

So here i am going to list out some Carbohydrates rich foods and Fruits that helps  in gaining good muscles.
  • Oatmeal (old fashioned or Steel Cut)
  • Brown rice (love basmati, a long grain rice)
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Multi grain hot cereal (mix or barley, oats, rye, triticale, and a few others)
  • White potatoes with skin (glycemic index be damned!)
  • 100% whole wheat bread
  • 100% whole wheat pasta
  • Beans and lentils (great for healthy chili recipes)
  • Cream of rice hot cereal
  • Quinoa
  • Pumpkin
  • Butternut squash
  • Fresh beets
  • Watermelon:
  • Apple:
  • Bananas:
  • Mango
  • Oranges
so you can include any of these rich carbohydrates sources and they will help you in gaining good results.

Best one is to have Oats meals, as it not only gives energy to your body but taking proper breakfast daily is linked with many health benefits like weight control and lowers body cholesterol levels.

How to prepare Oats recipe click here


2: Proteins


  • Milk: If you can digest milk , consume around 1 to 2 litre in 2 to 3 shifts a day, either in morning or evening. Mix with some protein supplements like Protinex or Nestle Resource High Protein. Both are great sources, and palatable. ( 25 gm protein ).
protein
protein

  • Eat pulses, rajma, chickpeas with chapati, these are easily available in market at cheaper rates.
  • You can have milk with black Chickpeas soaked in water. Chickpeas are high in protein contains 20gm protein in 100gm of chickpeas.
  • Drink Soya milk once a day , natural flavor ( 200ml pack has 7 gm protein , low calorie ).
  • Use  multi grain flour chapati's ( Soya, barley,maize).
  • You can have raw paneer or paneer curries  as paneer is high in protein contains 20gm protein in 100gm .
  • Chapati has protein,salads have protein,oatmeal has protein, muesli has protein. Generate combinations as per your taste.
  • Include a whey protein shake ( 2 scoops a day, one scoop contain 25 gm of protein ). But start whey protein shake after 2 -3 months of workout.
  • Peanut butter : High protein content and a great source of good fats.
  • Lentils:-great source of protein. Lentils boiled contain around 9g of protein in 100g of lentils .
  • Cottage cheese:-Take combination of fruits and cottage cheese for more 11g protein in 100 g of cottage cheese.
  • Beans like kidney , baked bean, soya bean. It contain approx 21g of protein in 100g of beans.
  • Peanut butter:- Take with apple for better result. 25 g protein in 100 g of it.
  • Greek yogurt with fruits. It contain 10g of protein.
  • Leafy greens
  • Nuts:-Great source of healthy unsaturated fatty acid , protein(20g ) and fibre.


  • Almonds:- contain 21g of protein.
  • Sweet potato 1.6g protein and other nutrients are present for better muscle growth and fat loose .
  • Protein bar 25 g protein.
  • Whey protein 25-30 g protein
  • Avocado 2g protein and other nutrients like vitamin D, calories, sodium, potassium etc.
  • Chicken breast 31 g protein.
  • Fish 22 g protein.
  • Brown rice: 2.6 g protein

3: Fats

Fats are vitally important for bodybuilders, as they aid with growth and development and mineral absorption and act as a source of energy.

 Healthy fats are monounsaturated fats, such as the kind found in nuts,nut beans, nut milks, olive oil and avocado, as well as polyunsaturated fat found in oily fish and seeds.

monounsaturated-fats
monounsaturated fats





Fats to Avoid

Saturated fat, found in animal meats, butter and full-fat dairy, can raise your risk of developing heart disease.



Tuesday, 3 November 2015

How to gain weight naturally?????????????

As most of the time we heard people are asking how to reduce weight, but there are many lean people in this world who genuinely wants to add some extra pounds of weight to their body.


Stop-Junk-FoodMany of us think simple solution for this problem is to "eat whatever you want", but if you want to gain weight, don't rely on high-calorie junk foods that aren't nutritious. Choose foods that are nutrient-dense and energy-dense whenever possible.


The best way to gain weight is to include healthy and nutritious products in your meal plans. Here are some healthy foods that we are going to suggest you that will  help you in gaining body weight.



1: Corn Bread.

Corn bread is rich in carbohydrates, and one piece of it contains approximately 328 calories.
Corn-Bread-weight-gain
2: Cheese 
Cheese is concentrated milk, so it is high in protein, calcium, fat, cholesterol and cheese calories.
Cheese are high in fat and protein  thus, helps to gain weight. It can be added to any of your meal making it delicious.
cheese-weight-gain

3:Bananas and dried fruits
One banana contains approximately 100 calories. Not only are bananas rich in carbs and nutritious, they're also great for workout fuel.
You can gain quick calories by eating dried fruits instead of fresh fruits because they have more calories and are still very nutritious.
banana-dried-fruits-weight-gain

4:  Potatoes and beans
Potatoes are rich sources of carbohydrates and complex sugars. Consume as grilled or baked potatoes for quick weight gain. Beans are good protein substitutes for vegetarians.

Potato-beans-weight-gain

5:Lean Red Meat and salmon
If you are putting hard to gain weight then enjoy some lean red meat. Steak contains a ton of protein and iron. But food experts warn that not all steak cuts are made equal. You want the fatty cuts where
Lean-Red-Meat-and-salmon
the meat is marbled. These cuts of meat will contain more calories, but they’ll also be way more delicious too. It is high in cholesterol and thus it’s not healthy. To increase weight and proper protein collection, two portions of salmon should be taken every day.

6. Whole Fat Milk
Dietitians say that when trying to gain weight substitute the skim milk with whole fat milk as it is high in vitamin D and A. Even you should enjoy your cereals or coffee with this milk.
Milk-weight-gain



7: Vegetable Oils and nuts
Many vegetable based oils also have concentrated flavor, so you can use less when cooking. Also, oils are safe to use as it doesn’t burn at high temperatures, unlike butter which burn.Nuts are a great snack for gaining weight. According to foodies, they are full of fat and nutrients, but also contain a great deal of fiber. Eating only a handful of nuts can keep you full for hours. Not all nuts are equal for fiber though.

Vegetable-oil-nuts

8: Whole Wheat Bread
From childhood we are eating white bread only but it is not good for your health. Instead of it eat whole grain bread as it consists of fibers and minerals and makes you full for longer time.

whole-wheat-bread


9:Tropical Fruit and Avocado 

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but tropical fruit can help you gain weight. Fruits like mango, papaya, bananas, and pineapple are high in sugars and help to gain weight. You can also enjoy a shake or smoothie with this fruits.
 One half of an avocado contains 140 calories, but also contains high levels of potassium, folic acid, and vitamin E. Avocado also is filled with B vitamins.

Tropical-fruits



10: Whole eggs
It is economical and loaded with protein, vitamins A,D, E and good cholesterol. Eggs are all-natural and provide one of the highest quality proteins of any food available.
Eggs-whole-weight-gain

One egg provides more than six grams of protein, or 13 percent of the recommended Daily Value (DV). Egg whites contain more than half (four of the six grams) of an egg’s protein


The above mentioned healthy food will not only help you in gaining body weight and also provides all nutrients required for body.


"Eat clean and stay fit"