If you want to lose weight, how you eat is just as important as what you eat, says alternative medicine practitioner Pallavi Yawalkar
If you are watching your weight there’s a golden rule -- food should satisfy hunger, and should never turn out to be an over-indulgence. Choose to eat “mindfully”. This means eating with full attention or eating with awareness. When you do that, you enjoy your food much more – and that to, without overeating! Mindful eating helps you feel sa... Read More

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Maintain good health by knowing your prakriti, the physical and psychological qualities that nature gave you, says Ayurveda exponent Yogitha Bali
Traditional medicinal systems view the individual
    as a whole —constitution,
    suscep tibility to disease, mental
    status , lifestyle and other factors,
    before prescribing treatment. This
    has been... Read More

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Women dash to the doctor when they fall ill because they actually are sick more often, a new study has found. Scientists led by Davide Malmusi, of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona, found that women did report health problems more often. However, they also suffered from a higher rate of chronic diseases.

The researchers disproved the theory that women tend to over-report health problems or pay more attention to their symptoms than men.

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London: The number of people with anxiety disorders has more than quadrupled in four years. Some of this could be explained by an expansion in counselling services and increase in mental problems triggered by financial uncertainties.

But some said doctors had become too quick to "medicalise" feelings of distress - and to label people as suffering from psychiatric disorders when their anxiety was a normal response to pressures they were facing.

Statistics from the NHS Info... Read More

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Post-menopausal women should think twice before going in for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) because it is tied to breast cancer globally, reveals a study.

The study by McMaster University researchers, that found consistent evidence that use of HRT is linked to breast cancer globally, comes at a time when more women are asking for this medication to control hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause.

The rising trend is at odds with a US Women's Health Initiative (WHI)... Read More

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