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In today's highly busy schedules, it is essential that we take care of ourselves. What better way to ensure that than to eat more healthy?
In today’s highly busy schedules, it is essential that we take care of ourselves. What better way to ensure that than to eat more healthy?
With increasing work hours and load, and a generally ‘occupied’ lifestyle of work, social obligations and family it is often seen that individuals fail to keep up with a healthy, nutritious diet on a daily basis. The ease with which fast-food is available makes one more inclined to take the easy way out for ‘just one time’ instead of cooking something or investing time in our meals.
Here are 5 ways of eating healthier during a busy schedule.
The first rule towards eating right is, and always will be, drinking lots of water and keeping yourself hydrated. Always carry a water bottle with yourself, or make sure that you get up and go to that water cooler at regular intervals. This small action can do wonders for your body.
Include some raw foods in your diet. Raw foods are extremely nutritious and filling. However, make sure that they are washed properly because of the increasing use of chemicals in most farming. You can use vegetable purifiers which make raw vegetables and fruits free of contaminants like pesticides using ozone technology.
It is undoubtedly the most important meal of the day. Don’t just have a cup of coffee and feel like you’re done. Hence, a filling and nutritious breakfast can make your day.
Always try to have a simply cooked meal rather than something from a tin can into the microwave.
If you have problems cooking every day, cook in bulk and try storing pre-cooked meals for the coming week on weekends which you can relish without hassle in the following days. It will ensure that you eat healthy without having to shy away from cooking your foods too!
These are just some of the umpteen ways one can keep up with their health in a hectic schedule, do comment if you have any more suggestions!
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After some time, unable to bear it any longer, I signed off from the home lunch. My MIL must've heaved a sigh of relief because my portion of groceries would be saved!
Until I married I had never imagined even in my wildest dreams that my diet/ food intake could assume such alarming proportions and affect conjugal harmony. Having stepped into my marital home I discovered to my bewilderment that the four female inmates were frugal eaters. My spouse and his dad ate moderately well.
The family faced a dilemma: my requirement surpassed those of the ladies but most certainly couldn’t be clubbed with the men’s. Why? Simply because they were MEN. “How could you even think of it”? They snubbed me often. (Incidentally, the parents-in-law refused to accept contributions from either of us). They probably expected me to be demure and submissive since I was ‘‘eating off” their money.
So each morning as I left for work I was served three chapattis with a few spoonfuls of curry. Can you believe this curry catered to the ladies’ lunch the previous day, and dinner for all six inmates? The horror of horrors, it crept into my lunch box too. The chapattis made at the crack of dawn were fine till breakfast but by lunch, they turned leathery; the accompanying curry insipid, tasteless.
We can’t bombard impressionable young women in the name of enlightened entertainment to feed them the same drivel. At least let us not label misogynist movies as helping the cause of women.
I have watched at least 2 ‘purported’ trailblazing Bollywood movies in the recent past that left me with a feeling that I had taken part in the ice-bucket challenge all over again. This time around, however, without even the satisfaction of having supported a worthy cause.
Both the movies have about a 90% liking rate on IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes. Both are touted to ‘sensitively’ portray the taboo topics that seem to be mostly hidden underneath a layer of banana peels – dangerous to even tread nearby.
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Now we have cereals, white bread, jams, jellies, chocolate-hazelnut spreads, energy drinks and all that junk! There is something in the ready-to-eat category for every meal time, which come with loads and loads of sugar. Nutrition has seriously gone for a toss and many have hardly time to give it a minute’s thought.
Are you a woman who is trying hard to get in shape but doesn't get time for yourself amidst kids' and family's responsibilities? Here are 40 quick daily tips to help you stay healthy and fit all day long.
Are you a woman who is trying hard to get in shape but doesn’t get time for yourself amidst kids’ and family’s responsibilities? Here are 40 quick daily tips to help you stay healthy and fit all day long.
I understand that being a woman, your responsibilities are not ordinary. At times, we have to work like superwomen day and night, from handling office affairs to taking care of our kids.
And when you confuse staying fit with eating too little, it becomes even more difficult for you to be consistent in your efforts.