colour your diet - Red Colour for heart health -8th

Red Colour for heart health

What they contain: A powerful antioxidant called lycopene and anthocyanins. Also vitamins A and C.

Why you should eat more: Lycopene can protect your skin from sun damage and cuts your risk of heart disease and certain forms of cancer. Some studies show it eases asthma. They also greatly benefits the circulatory system by helping build healthy cell walls. This improves blood pressure, organ function, and circulation.

Examples of red foods include tomatoes, watermelon, beets, and red bell peppers. 

Fruits like pomegranate,strawberries, raspberries, cranberries and cherries.

Try: Sipping soup or juice made with tomato, beet,watermelon. Add pomegranate to salads, poha, upma or cornflakes, oats.

Colour your diet - White for immune system

White for immune system 

What they contain: 
White natural foods have a wide range of beneficial nutrients, such as anthoxanthins, sulfur, allicin and quercetin. 

Why you should eat more:

These substances boost the immune system because they are anti-viral, anti-fungal, and anti-inflammatory, which helps the body fight infections.

Examples of white foods include garlic, onions, cauliflower,mushroom,banana, pear and  radish.

Try: Tucking in to some in-season potatoes, mushrooms or adding a crushed onion, garlic clove to soups, stews and stir-fries.

Colour your diet - Orange colour for cancer prevention

Colour your diet

Orange colour for cancer prevention

What they contain: 
These are packed with the antioxidant Beta-cryptoxanthin and betacarotene, which our bodies transforms into Vitamin A.

Why you should eat more: 
Betacarotene protects your eyesight, helps your skin and can lower the risk of getting cancer. Beta-cryptoxanthin can help maintain the respiratory tract and ease inflammation caused by arthritis.These nutrients aid in the prevention of infections by supporting an important part of the immune system: our mucous membranes.

Examples of orange foods include carrots, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes,peaches, mangoes, peppers, pumpkin and oranges.

Try: Swapping your Sunday desserts for sweet potatoes, and steaming your carrots to unlock those nutrients.

Colour your diet

Colour your diet 

 

Just like Navratri is filled with colours  eat your way to a better health, add some colour to your plate to ward off health and beauty problems – from heart disease to wrinkles.

Recent research suggests that if your plate looks like a little piece of the rainbow, with fresh vibrant colours, you could be reaping the benefits of a healthy meal.

Eating brightly coloured fruit and vegetables can keep you fit and healthy and protect against certain cancers, arthritis, heart disease, cataracts and even premature ageing,

Keep watching this space to know how to put a rainbow on your plate.....Each day we will put up the benefits of each colour so keep watching ....Njoy Navratri

October 4 World Smile Day

The World Smile Day is celebrated on October 04, 2013. The idea of World Smile Day was coined and initiated by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts. He is known to have created the yellow Smiley Face in 1963. The World's first World Smile Day was held in the year 1999 and has been held annually since.

After Harvey died in 2001, the "Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation" was created to honour his name and memory. 

The slogan of the Smile Foundation is "improving this world, one smile at a time." 

So Stop what you are doing

Take a break and “SMILE”

Sugar fact

 Sugar fact

One teaspoon of sugar is extracted from a stalk of sugarcane one metre in length.

The average person today consumes more sugar in two weeks than a person a century ago would have eaten in a whole year. That’s a junk food fact!