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HOW TO PRACTICE MINDFUL EATING?

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  HOW TO PRACTICE MINDFUL EATING? In this uncertain time, it’s important to do something that reduces stress and keeps you happy. Our all-out attention to our food, physiologically changes how we process and assimilate our food. Additionally, it gives a sense of fulfillment to the feast. Mindful eating is a way to deal with food that centers around people’s attention to the food they eat and their experience of the same. It has little to do with calories, sugars, fat, or protein. Mindful eating has no specific purpose. It is likely to help someone lose weight, but the main intention for mindful eating is savoring the moment, food, and giving full attention to what you are eating. It helps you control your eating habits. Mindfulness is a type of reflection that encourages you to perceive and adapt to your feelings and actual senses. Wondering what happens if we are not mindfully eating? If we are not paying attention to our meals, we tend to eat more and end up feeling hungry sooner...

Diet and Lifestyle Modification for PCOS

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  PCOS: A sedentary lifestyle challenges I and my school friend, Lily has always been conscious about our skin, but every month there’s one beautiful gift that our hormones give us aka A-C-N-E, a four-lettered word, but it is significant enough to put you through mental trauma. Trust me when I say this Lily and I have spent hours applying face masks, creams, and whatnot. Luckily it worked for me at times and thanks to learning nutrition I understood the reason for my ACNE quite well and worked on it. But recently, Lily called me quite tensed and worried.   She said, “Shreya I am diagnosed with PCOS what shall I do?” As her close friend and a nutritionist, I did help her with some dietary tips. Later on that night I got another DM (Instagram slangs) from a client saying she is diagnosed with PCOS. The next day Maa said, her colleague’s daughter is pre-diabetic and has irregular periods for few months!! “Is there any way diet can help her?”   That day I realized so ...