Is your healthy regime not giving you wt. loss?

If despite of eating carefully and following a healthy regime,you have gained wt. or not lose any, then there must be something which is going wrong.One of the reason is that you may be overcompensating for all the efforts you are taking to lose wt. thinking that it won't show with your weighing scale.But actually you may not always know how much you are ingesting and how much you need to burn.

How fruits help in weight loss?

when it comes to losing weight,what you eat is as important as what you do not.And,eating fruits can be fabulous way to lose weight.Lets see
1. Fruit has fat metabolising enzymes that help to increase the rate at which fat is converted to energy.
2.Fruits also contains some hormones that boost up our metabolism.
3.Anti-oxidants present in fruits helps to keep our body energised
4.Fruits are low in calorie.Fibres present in fruit releases sugar in it slowly thus keep your belly full for long time keeping hunger pangs at bay.
5.Fruits are good detoxifying agents which helps flush out toxins from our body.

It is always advisable to have fruits in between meals and not with the meals.

Is it advisable to have iced cold drinks in summer?

We all are tempted to have ice cold drinks in summer to keep ourselves cool.But,do you know excess of iced cold drinks slows down our metabolic process?Our digestive system is like a fire that is responsible for converting food into energy. When the flames of our digestive fire are burning in a balanced way,we are able to assimilate all the good bits we need from our food whilst eliminating the not-so-good bits.. However drinking that iced-water effectively putting out the flames of your digestive fire. So drinks at room temperature is better over ice cold stuffs. It will be assimilated into our body much faster and make us feel rehydrated more quickly.

Your coffee habit, not coffee-bad for your health

Coffee being in controversy whether good or bad is constantly plaguing the mind of coffee lovers.
coffee when taken in right way,can actually help you on your way to good health.Few things to be avoided.

1. Don't drink coffee with your meals.Have it an hour after lunch,when you feel sleepy
2.Don't drink coffee after dinner.it may discomfort while sleeping.
3.you must know how much how much coffee you are consuming in a day.more than 400mg of caffeine can lead to upset stomach,irritability and insomnia.
4. Most of the people have a habit of drinking coffee to wake up from sleep.After a good sleep our cortisol levels are high for atleast 2 hours after waking up and dont need anything for alertness.
5. Real benefit of coffee can be relished if you drink it without sugar and milk or add plant based milk like almond milk,soy milk or coconut milk.

Healthy summer cool drink to quench your thirst-Aampanna

In summer we all want to drink something cool and healthy to beat the heat in summer. Carbonated drinks,sugar laden fruit juices are not the good options.In that case raw mangoes are good options which are not only good in taste
but are nutritious too.It contains ample vitamin C,vitamin A,vitamin B-complex,minerals like potassium ,magnesium and calcium and will help you regaining the minerals lost while sweating.It helps in healing of the stomach problems like indigestion, diarrhea, piles, dysentery, morning sickness, constipation and chronic dyspepsia.It also cleanses the human body, the intestines and increases the secretion of bile juice for better liver health.

so here is the recipe of Aampanna as your summer drink

Ingredients:

3 medium size green raw mangoes
1 tbsp roasted cumin powder
Black salt to taste
Salt to taste
2 cup water
1 tbsp Mint leaves (pudina patta)
Ice crushed
1 tbsp sugar
Direction:

Place the mangoes along with water in a sauce-pan and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes.Then remove from fire
Alternately you can pressure cook the mangoes with water till soft.
Let them cool and then peel the mangoes and get the pulp with the help of a spoon. Grind mango pulp along with water to a smooth paste.
In a pan take the pulpy mixture, add sugar and let it cook on flame till the sugar dissolves completely. Stir continuously lest you burn the mixture.
Remove from fire and add roasted cumin powder, black salt and salt.
Let this mixture cool down properly.
To make the drink : take a tall glass pour 1 -2 tblsp of the mango mixture and pour in chilled water till 3/4 th. Now add finely chopped mint and crushed ice.
Garnish with mint leaves and serve immediately.

Its the season of gourds.Lets make something interesting out of it.

Recipe of bottle gourd and brinjal roundels: serve for 2

Ingredients
Bottle-gourd medium-1/2
Brinjal round-1 medium
oil 1 tbsp
gram flour-2 tbsp
2 cloves crushed garlic
chaat masala to taste

Direction

Wash the brinjal and bottle gourd thorougly. Peel the bottle gourd. Chop the vegetables into roundels and keep aside dipped in water.Spread a thick layer of gram flour in a saucer or tray.Heat the non stick pan and smear it with mustard or olive oil.Take 2 pieces each of brinjal and bottle gourd.Shake away extra water and smear them in gram flour from both sides.Place carefully in the non-stick pan.Roast from both sides till brown with the help of a spatula.Serve hot with green chutney after sprinkling chaat masala and salt over the roundels.