Exercise plays a central role in building the muscles that support the back. This helps prevent back pain. At some point or other in our lives, most of us get back pain. While the cause for a majority of us can be upper or lower back pain during the course of day to day life, it can also be triggered by an accident, a sports-related injury or a congenital condition.…
Yoga is one of the most accessible ways to stay healthy and fit, as seen in the meteoric rise of this ancient practice in Western society. Of the countless benefits of practicing yoga routinely, one of them is a stronger core. A stronger core helps you prevent lower back pain, improves your posture and stamina, plus benefits your breathing and heart. Here are seven yoga poses that specifically target your…
Seriously, do you really need an incentive to stay healthy? With lifestyle diseases rapidly on the increase, we owe it to ourselves to do everything we can to ensure that we live healthy. I was diagnosed in Feb 2013 with type 2 diabetes. While diabetes runs in the family, and I was at risk anyway, there have been days when I have secretly felt guilty about helping that risk catch…
Detox is the buzzword today, and it can apply to physical, mental, and emotional detox. After all, it makes sense to get rid of any kind of toxins in order to enjoy good health. With reference to physical health, detoxification relates to the conversion of toxic substances into wastes that our body can naturally eliminate. Toxins in our body can come from the medication we take, our hormones, chemicals, food…
I still remember that day when my grandma brought her cousin home from her village. We lived in Mumbai at the time and it took us all to adjust to this new person in our family, since she was from a village in Tamil Nadu. Having lost her husband, she was struggling with depression and my grandma did her best to help her back to the normalcy. From involving her…