Category: Healthy Living
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Artificial Sweeteners: Good or Bad?
Artificial sweeteners are, also called nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS)/low calorie sweeteners/intense sweeteners, recent addition to human diet. These sweeteners are increasingly popular as an alternative to sugar and provide more intense sweetness and fewer calories per gram. Use of these sweeteners is on the rise in beverages, dietary products, drugs, and mouthwashes due to increased incidence…
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Blood Glucose: Control it with Exercise
Sedentary lifestyle is spreading across the globe. Workplace routine, unavailability of exercise places, high screen time, and luxury lifestyle has contributed to increased sedentary time. Sedentary lifestyle increases the likelihood of high levels of glucose in blood in both healthy adults and diabetic patients. Can Exercise Effects Blood Glucose? Exercise and physical activity are major…
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Intermittent Fasting: What are the Benefits
Intermittent fasting or simply fasting means that you do not voluntarily eat for a period of time each day or week. Duration of fasting varies from twelve hours to days. Shorter duration fast can be carried out more frequently. For example in 14/10 fast, you fast for 14 hours and eat all your meals within…