Healthy Mantra for diwali

Healthy mantra for Diwali
Make moderation your mantra this diwali a festival that's synonymous with binge eating.

Have sweets and fried snacks in small numbers. Savour mixture and sweets over weeks, at leisure. One Diwali sweet won’t kill you. Although one after every meal, one every hour, and just one more and than you don’t realize you have finished almost one box full. Please don’t over do it,where most people go wrong is to eat a Diwali sweet every time one passes in front of them.

Share, share, share! With your friends, office colleagues and co-workers,with people who are not as privileged as you.The smile on their face will surely light up your diwali !!

#moderation #healthydiwali
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World Smile Day

World Smile Day

World Smile Day is celebrated on the first Friday in the month of October every year. The message of the World Smile Day  is "Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile."

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”

#WorldSmileDay #shilpsnutrilife
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Sugar free mithai

All about SUGAR FREE Mithai

Festive season setting in, do sugar free mithais sound like an ultimate solution? But beware – though such items are devoid of added sugar they still have calories and carbs. They are mostly high in saturated fats, oils, transfat and mawa.

Also make sure that the artificial sweetener used in such commercially prepared products is safe for consumption, attimes may be used in amounts more than prescribed to get the desired sweetness.

Also look out for ingredients like honey, corn syrup, fructose syrup, liquid glucose, jaggery, peanut butter etc as all these contribute to a lot of calories.

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#festivalspecial #sugarfreemithai #eatright #gifthealthy

Sharad Purnima

Sharad Purnima, also known as Kojaagari Purnima, is celebrated on a full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashwin.

On Sharad Purnima, the moon and the Earth are very close to each other. The rays of the moon have some healing properties which is said to nourish the body and soul of an individual.

That is why food kept in the moonlight on Sharad Purnima is considered equal to Amrit (the immortal drink) or elixir. Hence, people  prepare kheer and keep it open under the moonlight throughout the night of Sharad Purnima. The next day it is consumed by all the members of the family as it becomes 'Amrit' according to local beliefs.

The practice of drinking cold milk and rice flakes  during this fast has its origins in science. Sharad ritu brings in very hot days and cool nights. During this weather, ‘pitta' or acidity becomes predominant in our body. Consumption of milk & rice flakes is a good remedy for ‘pitta'. Thus, it is customary to consume cold milk and rice flakes on Sharad Purnima.

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The salt satyagraha

Have you taken the pledge. ...this GANDHI JAYANTI .....let's take the SALT SATYAGRAHA pledge by reducing it by 30%.

Do you know the recommended daily salt allowance by WHO is 5gm or 1tsp a day.

#saltsatyaraha #Shilpsnutrilife

Gandhi Jayanti

Gandhiji’s message “Eat simple food”

According to Gandhiji, "when food submerses the body, and through the body the soul, its relish disappears, and then alone does it begin to function in the way nature intended it to."

Gandhi never had a problem with being overweight. He followed a strict vegetarian diet and frequently cooked his own simple food, which was locally produced.

He ate this simple food from a small bowl, a reminder to eat moderately, and at the same time he ate mindfully, often accompanied by prayers.

We should eat to live and work, Gandhiji felt earnestly. He propagated that we should consider food as energy, even a medicine that is required to keep our body healthy and fit for work.

So eat simply and moderately.

#HappyGandhiJayanti

Nutrition for elderly

October 1 The International Day of the Elderly – Age Gracefully

India’s elderly face a serious risk for chronic diseases, according to Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) by the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted last year among males and females aged 50 or older.

Almost three in four men aged 50 and above have high risk waist hip ratio or abdominal obesity that greatly increases cardiovascular disease risk, while over four in five women suffer the same.

Getting adequate nutrition can be a challenge as you get older. With age, the number of calories you need begins to decline. Every calorie you consume must be packed with nutrition in order to hit the mark.

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#Seniorcitizen #Elderlynutrition #Agegracefully