Kids Workshop - Fighting the battle of junk vs healthy

 

Do you have a tough time dealing with your kids about healthy vs junk food eating. ...which often ends up landing you in a fix....then this is the right thing you are looking for. ..

Shilpsnutrilife along with Pooja wellness is conducting a kids workshop which will equip them to design their own meal plan.

Following are the key features

Fighting the battle of junk vs healthy

How to create a healthy eating plate

Tricky foods to keep you healthy

Create healthy recipe in minutes all by your own

Added bonus free dental check up

Also a half an hour session for parents as a take away gift...from 12:30am to 1:00pm wherein we will cover the jest of the programme .

Age group :- 8yrs to 13yrs
Timing :- 10am to 1pm

Registration :- Rs 499/-

Contact person:-
Trupti Valotia - 9869246752
Shilpa Mittal - 9870404042

Venue:- Sai krupa Banquet, Mhatre wadi, behind soni tower, opp Aditya institiute, 5mins walking distance from Kora Kendra, Borivali – west, Mumbai-400092

Assured gifts for all.

Sessions would be all interactive involving games, quiz, hands on. .Enroll your kids now. ..what are you waiting for.

Mrs Shilpa Mittal
Nutritionist and Diet Consultant
Founder Shilpsnutrilife - Diet and lifestylemakeover

Eat Healthy stay healthy say no to junk lifestyle

 Eat Healthy stay healthy say no to junk lifestyle

Would you ignore any of this?

Blood Pressure
Cholesterol
Blood Sugar
High Body Mass Index (BMI) (above 23)

Your body comes with key health indicators that let you know how healthy you are and what you can do to prevent problems down the road.

Pick one of the following options to get started

5 or more fruits and veges a day
2hrs or less of screen time, computer games, mobile games
1hr or more of physical activity
0 sugary drinks, more water intake

Eat Healthy stay healthy say no to junk lifestyle

National Childhood Obesity Week -7th -13 july 2014

       National Childhood Obesity Week

7th -13 july 2014

Our children are getting fatter with every passing year. Around 2 per cent of urban Indian kids are obese, 8-10 per cent of them are overweight, and the numbers are only growing.

Lets give a thought to this.......Child Obesity in India on the Rise

Obesity in children has tripled in the past two decades. The rate of development of mind and body in children decreases with junk food due to the empty calories it provides. A regular pizza provides about 800-1000 calories whereas a burger provides you with around 500 calories.

Pizza’s & Burgers  and junk food joints have become a hot spot for children now a days to fill their tiny stomach’s. Well, pizza’s & the burgers taste nice and exciting but are unable to provide the nutrition that is required for healthy living.

Researchers also warn that children who are fed with junk food have lower IQ than their counterparts who ate nutritious food.  Junk food decrease the efficiency which is important for children. Heart related diseases are growing with obesity and weight gain is normal for people on a junk food diet.

We need to come out of this general misconception esp in India that the obese child is a healthy child and the so called “ baby fat” will vanish as the child grows. 

Once the habit is developed for junk food, it gets very difficult to get rid of the addiction. To ensure that kids do not make this unhealthy lifestyle a permanent part of their life one should start inculcating good nutritional habits from the beginning. Ensuring enough physical activities is an equally important aspect of every child’s growth. In case you need professional assistance to get you started on a healthier lifestyle for your family contact us now before it is too late.

We have to pay the price for how we live and what we eat

 We have to pay the price for how we live 

and what we eat

The increase in our lifespan should be a blessing but our bad habits have turned it into a curse.

Modern day medicine is allowing us to live longer lives. Unfortunately, these long lives are not healthy lives. Our bad eating habits, sedentary lifestyles, and smoking have prevented us from enjoying the fruits of medical technology.

Today, even educated people do not understand the dangers say from faulty lifestyle and eating habits.

Well, we have to pay the price for how we live and what we eat

Gudi Padwa - Puran poli - Healthy??? Or Unhealthy???

Gudi Padwa - Puran poli - Healthy??? Or Unhealthy???

Gudi Padwa is around the corner, this festive season is incomplete without puran poli right. Puran poli is a classic Maharashtrian delicacy. It is a pan-griddled sweet bread stuffed with split yellow gram(channa dal) or red gram (toovar/arhar dal). 

It has various regional names like paruppu poli in Tamil, Holige or obbattu in Kannada, ubbati in Konkani. The taste also varies from region to region. It is sweet and is circular like a parantha. It is a festive dessert. The stuffing is called puran and the parantha-like bread is called as poli.


But..hold on if you think puran poli is bad think again every food has its merit and demerits, the key is to maintain moderation. 

Puran poli is supposed to be a high cal food, right... it is upto you to make it healthy, use whole wheat flour instead of maida, use ghee sparingly.

Lets look at its merit

Puran poli made with whole wheat flour is rich in complex carbs, fibre, gives B complex vitamins, certain minerals. Dals as we all know gives give good amount of protein, what you all will be surprised to know is that this combination of cereal ie wheat flour and protein from dals will provide you with good quality protein, which can be compared to egg which is considered as high biological value with almost 100% bioavailability i.e of excellent quality.This combination provides all the required amino acids which are building blocks of protein.

Futher it has lot of jaggery which contains iron, cacium, potassium, phosphorus, it is releases energy slowly, as it is digested slower than sugar. Further Jaggery also aids in digestion, as jaggery breaks and becomes alkaline in the digestive system.

Addition of Green cardamom powder , saffron, nutmeg powder, mace (javantri) powder which have essential volatile oils,boosts digestion and are antispasmodic, carminative, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial.

  

Go ahead and enjoy this festive delicacy…but keep it as festive delicacy and do not gorge on it, it is to be enjoyed only during festival season.

            ENJOY GUDI PADWA WITH PURAN POLI

Checklist to analyse your health status!!!

Checklist to analyse your Health status !!!

"Good health adds life to years", here is a checklist which will help you in analysizing how healthy you are!!!

1.Climb up to the 2^nd floor of your building and then check your rate of heart beat. 

If your beat is high and you are unable to catch your breath even after 2 minutes of deep breathing, your level of cardiovascular fitness is low.

2. Ask yourself when was the last time you ate a fruit.

  

3. Are potatoes the only vegetables in your house???

4. How much alcohol do you drink? Keep an eye on the amount and have a regular kidney check up.

5. If  you have a family history of diabetes, a annual blood sugar and insulin check is a must after the age of 26yrs.

6. If you lead a sedentary life regular blood pressure and lipid profile check up is needed.

7. If you are a frequent(>2 times a week) non-veg eater annual uric acid and lipid profile is a must.

8. Menopausal women, make sure you have an annual pap test (for cancer), mammography & bone density test for osteoporosis.

9. For young mother haemoglobin and calcium check ups will help control health problems after delivery.

10. Maintain a food dairy. Check things like how much sugar you consume in a day, how often you eat fried foods.

11. If you are unable to get enough sleep for more than a month, your body will be less able to regenerate itself and you will be more likely to suffer from breakdown

The best way to manage your health is to have a full annual check up done and also pay attention to signals your body sends.

World Health Day 7th april 2014 - The Mantra to a Healthy life

World Health Day 7th april 2014

The Mantra to a Healthy life

The Mantra to a Healthy life 

Eat healthy

Be active

Maintain a healthy weight

Manage stress.

WHITE JAMUN (WAX JAMBU) FRUIT

WHITE JAMUN (WAX JAMBU) FRUIT

Have been seeing this fruit on and off lately everywhere quite in abundance......thats white jamun,have you heard of it, its a variant of the black jamun, the tree produces white coloured fruit,commonly known as white jamun.

White jamun  is grown especially for its cooling nature that can be very refreshing and slaking on a hot day. They are pear-shaped structure, skin is smooth, waxy and thin that comes in varying colors ranging from white, pale green color, green, pink, rose red and crimson color. The fruit’s pith is snow white like.The fruit is crisp, almost crunchy and juicy in taste with a mild scented flavor, tasting mildly sweet. Often seedless fruit, you can eat these fruits out-of-hand, without any need to peel the skin.

Common names of the fruit include wax apple, love apple, java apple, chomphu, wax jambu, rose apple, bell fruit, makopa.

Uses Of wax apple

Fruits can be added in salad and the unripe fruits can be eaten with salt or dipped in a sweetish-spicy sauce.

It also tastes best when the fruits are soaked in salt water for 30 minutes. 

Raw fruits are used for for making wine and vinegar. 

The juice of ripe fruit is used for preparing jams, jelly, sauces and other beverages.

Health benefits 

Stops diarrhea & dysentery.

Relieves throat affections and other respiratory diseases.

  

Removes worms.

Vinegar made from the fruit gives relief in colitis,indigestion,stomach diseases. It relieves gas and improves digestion.

Many members of the Wax Jambu family have volatile oils which help in medicinal applications. The medicinal oil is present throughout the living tissue most of the Wax  Jambu species.

A 2008 study published in “Advances in Biological Research” also indicate the fruit’s phytochemicals have mild antibiotic and antifungal properties against staphylococcus, candida aureus and mycrobacter smegmatis.

Go ahead Njoy the fruit especially now when its in season