It's another new day and you wake up hungry, as you had a good night sleep and feel fresh. Sometimes, the kitchen-cooking flavors make you more hungry and you get ready for breakfast. Let's find out more about our early-morning eating habits. Give a good-start to your metabolism,  helping you burn calories throughout the day.  You definitely need energy to focus particularly when working from home during this lockdown period.  Otherwise, you keep eating more later in the day. Studies have also shown that eating timely morning meal, safeguards your health by promoting better memory and concentration.  It also lowers the levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol,  and lower the chances of getting diabetes, heart disease, and gaining weight. Vitamins in Breakfast Not only there's a rich supply of vitamins and nutrients from healthy foods like dairy, grains, and fruits, but it also takes care of your energy levels all through the day. Ideal time for breakfast Ideally, best time

Today for my breakfast I had bread omelette and a bowl of fruit salad. Is that a balanced diet? What's for breakfast today? You say this most often.  Quite an interesting activity in the morning. Savory, delicious and healthful breakfast in regional cuisine or continental or intercontinental,  everything gets on to your platter, its so much satisfying. If south Indians love idli, dosa, vada, pongal, North Indians love parata, puri, curry, chole, bhature and much more. Its the taste and the health, surely. Especially,  early morning breakfast keeps you active, healthy and leaves you fresh all through the day. Sometimes, you want to try something new and that is certainly to try the western cuisine. Bread, omelette,  fruit salad. Its a perfect combination. It has excellent protein, carbs, vitamins and minerals that's most essential for your body in the early morning break time. What exactly is a balanced diet? Let's find out. Balanced diet consists of a variety of different t

Kabasura Kudineer Choornam is based on ancient tradition preparation.  It is mostly used in treating some of the common, seasonal, respiratory ailments such as flu and cold. Consuming Kabsura Kudineer Choornam treats ohelm, dry and wet cough and fever. The choornam or the powder has the following medicinal properties: - Anti-inflammatory  - Analgesic - Anti-viral - Anti-bacterial - Anti-fungal - Antioxidant - Hepato-proactive - Anti-pyretic - Anti-asthmatic - Immunomodulatory  Several resaerch studies have proven that the choornam reduces the swelling in the air passages. And the antibacterial and antipyretic cure fever. Known as Siddha medicine having 15 herbal ingredients,  each of them has certain specific and significant features of its own. Additionally, this churnam is extensively popular for boosting the lungs, improving respiratory systemand takes care of infections like cough, cold, fever and other respiratory conditions. It is mostly consumed as a decoction. When not to have

South Indian idli or steamed pan cakes are very popular and found favor across many countries.  The preparation of idlis is quite easy made with lentils and semolina batter fermented overnight and the method of steaming is actually the best secret. The soft, spongy and white colored steamed idlis are just so appetizing. Does everybody enjoy the taste? Idlis are loved for their soft and squishy texture. When served hot, these are perfect appearing as small, circled, white in color, taste fabulous. Perfectly loved by everyone irrespective of age, did you know infants also love the taste of idlis? That's right. Babies love idlis. Let's find out about the caloric value of idlis: - One idli has 33 calories - Carbohydrates 29 calories - Proteins 4 calories Could you feed bananas to a seven month baby? Doctors prescribe that you start solid from the third or fourth month onwards as infants begin to enjoy and recognize the taste. However, bananas should start from the age of six months

Are you experiencing dry and dull hair?  Would you like to try something new and different that works wonderfully to the health of your hair? Awesome. While there are many good hair packs available, try banana and papaya hair pack that is the best home remedy and can be easily prepared at home. How to prepare hair mask? 1. Mash ripe banana 2. Add 2 tsp of extra virgin olive oil 3. Mix well 4. Mash papaya  5. Mix it with mashed banana 6. Apply the mask to the hair 7. Allow it to sit for 45 minutes 8. Give a shampoo and rinse well. Benefits: If you are looking for strong, long and healthy hair, apply papaya and banana hair mask. It nourishes your hair and makes you look good. With plenty of antioxidants, minerals, nutrients and fibres,  papaya and banana hair mask is the best choice for hair care. - adds volume to your hair - prevents hair loss and balding - prevents hair thinning - fights dandruff - acts as a natural hair conditioner - controls split ends - prevents premature greying of

Do you love green banana? That fresh, firm, and fiber skin definitely catches your heart that you want to try some new recipe for your meal. While there are wide varieties of recipes available - stir fry, make a curry, starter, appetizer and much more with green banana, you would like to know what are the health benefits behind the use of green banana. Here's what it has: - Complete vegetable rich in fibre.  Fibre is good in detoxifying your body and reduces solid wastes. - Excellent for heart functioning. Similar to ripe bananas,  green bananas are rich in potassium. - Green bananas are full of dietary fibres. - This is also an excellent source of vitamins - Excellent vegetable for diabetes - Works as a weight loss vegetable.  Add it to your daily meal in some form and enhance your health. Now let's find out about ginger: With excellent history, ginger has come a long way as a taste enhancer, and is considered as a home-remedy for many seasonal and common ailments like cold, c

Soon as you get into shower,  you look for your shampoo to give your hair a thorough wash. Absolutely true. You want to keep your hair neat, silky, soft and smooth. As we interact with everyday environment,  our hair goes through a lot of trivial situations. It may catch dandruff, dryness, get itchy, oily, sticky, catch dirt and all other pollutants. You won't be able to.do anything except start searching for a good shampoo and begin testing it on your hair for finding a relief. How would you choose which shampoo is good for you? May be you look for best product description, reviews,  videos and also consult a good dermatologist.  While all of these are perfectly alright, let's find out what shea butter shampoo does. Do you have dry hair? Let's find out how Shea Butter Shampoo can protect you - Shea butter protects against hair loss. - It acts as a softener and anti-irritant. - It moisturizes dry and itchy scalps - It also contains anti-inflammatory properties that help in

Water vaporizer adds water vapor to the air. It makes the air moist to combat dryness making it most useful and easily available home remedy for many seasonal ailments that cause drynose, skin dryness or congestion. #1.Why it is used? Have you noticed a vaporizer in use for conditions like cold, bronchitis, allergies or any other? Some people ise it really well and draw a complete benefit. Sometimes congestion is seen as a very difficult condition, and with the use of a vaprizer, you can add some moisture to thr air thereby making the moist air reduce the nasal stuffiness.and relieve irritated sinuses. But a word of caution when you have lersistent allergies.  Better to avoid the use of a vaporizer. When cold and flu symptoms appear, you are also likely to experience sore throat and nasal congestion. Using a vaporizer may ease throat irritation and congestion by adding moisture to the air. Dry air with cold temperature may transmit viruses making the infection mo

Did you come across anyone sharing about their joint pain? Sure,  it occurs among all age groups. From kids to seniors. It is likely to occur. Let's find out more about joint pains - -  why do they occur - what's the remedy - how to get treated #1. Joint Pains - Why do they occur? Arthritis or joint inflammation is a condition that affects joints, tissues that surround joints and other connecting tissues and this is called as rheumatic condition.  These rheumatic conditions involve: - pain - ache - stiffness - swelling People who are affected with this are mostly among adult age group with 65 or older, but it can also affect all age groups including children. #2. Home Remedies Knee pain is considered as most common condition and sometimes this may be recognized as short-term and long-term. Short-term knee problems do not pose any risk as with the help of home remedies you can recover. When to put on a knee cap?  19 knee care oils that can help you find relief from joint pain So

Did you think of knee caps for your mom, dad or grand parents? What are your thoughts on this? I have talked about the benefits of using knee care oils in my previous blog post.  Now let's find out how knee caps can offer better protection and care. #1. What is a knee cap? WebMD defines knee cap as  " The kneecap, or patella, is the bone that covers your knee. It helps give the joint strength and structure, which allows your legs to bend and turn safely." Different types of knee caps available help to fit you and take care of your knees over a period of time. This helps in doing your walk without a difficulty, in both stepping up and down and also in climbing stairs etc. Many of its users find it not only an economical method, but also a long lasting relief to protect and safeguard uour knees from regukar wear and tear.  Because, as you know we use a lot of our knee strength on a daily basis irrespective of age qe belong to. It is likely that we may unknowingly hurting ou

Kneel pain oil for old age can keep you stay safe from further knee pain issues. Safeguarding and protecting muscle health is essential with relaxing, walking, daily exercise and diet.  We will look into the knee health in detail in this blog post specifically with the topics like - what are the foreseeable ailments that may crop in the process of aging and what kind of changes we experience in our body etc. Knees - how do they age? Cartilage is an elastic and smooth tissue, a foam padding that offers a lot of protection to the ends of long bones at the joints and it is a structural component. With so much of activity going on with knees on a daily basis, knees go through a lot of pressure at every step. They carry 1-1/2 times of your body weight. So, they go through wear and tear over the time resulting in weakness. There are two shock absorbers in the knees. Namely, pads of cartilage called menisci begin to deteriorate along with the articular cartilage that protects the ends of leg