Benefits of Yoga for Your Health
Yoga offers a multitude of benefits that can significantly enhance both your physical and mental well-being. Here are some of the key health benefits of practicing yoga regularly:
Yoga offers a multitude of benefits that can significantly enhance both your physical and mental well-being. Here are some of the key health benefits of practicing yoga regularly:
Ugh, that feeling when you just can’t seem to shake a stuffy nose or cough! Let’s face it, mucus buildup is no fun. But before you panic, here’s some good news: mucus is actually your body’s superhero, trapping dust, germs, and anything else trying to mess with your lungs.
The problem comes when there’s just too much of it. So, how do we help our bodies clear things out and breathe easy again?
Hypertension is also called “High Blood Pressure” is a serious medical condition. It happens when the force of blood pumping through your arteries is too strong.
When your heart beats, it pushes blood through your arteries to the rest of your body, when the blood pushes harder against the walls of your arteries, your blood pressure goes up. Your blood pressure may be different at different times of the day. It is usually higher when you first wake up, after you exercise or when you are under stress.
It’s that time of the year! The exam time! The students and parents are working hard to prepare well for it. We bring you a few quick tips to beat the stress and make the most of these last hours.
1. Eat healthily
Eating the right food with regular intake boosts your concentration power, also helps to have a healthy mind and a balanced body. Avoid junk food as it slows you down. Eat plenty of fruits, leafy greens, sprouted grains to help in releasing tension and focus better. Almonds, nuts, seeds, cottage cheese, popcorn (not buttered) could be the stock up snacks at this time.
What is a smokers cough?
People who smoke regular develops a cough. This cough is caused by the body clearing out the chemicals that entered the airways and lungs through tobacco use.
If the cough is persistent, lasting for more than 3 weeks, it is known as a smoker’s cough. While the cough may begin as a dry cough, it can eventually produce phlegm. Other symptoms include a sore throat and chest pain.
In Ayurveda, a sutra has written that the sugar which is used to get them from food should not be disturbed to digests in the stomach. There should not be any other food that creates problem indigestion on natural sugar.
We all know this deep relation between the Diwali festival and UBTAN. Diwali is not completed if you had not applied ubtan and taken bath. What is ubtan? What kind of ubtan we should use? What should be the ingredients of ubtan? Why it is specially asked to use in Diwali? Can we use ubtan on regular basis? And so many questions must be coming in mind when we talk about UBTAN. So in this blog, I will try to answer all of these questions.
What is UBTAN?
UBTAN is a powder of 10-12 ingredients. This is used to scrub and wash your body.
Which kind of UBTAN we should buy?
You should buy UBTAN which has very small granules but not a too fine powder. It has to be freshly made. Don’t buy if it doesn’t have a strong fragrance of its ingredients.
Ancient Indian traditions have scientific reasons behind them. One such tradition is to have food on the floor. Yes, no dining tables!
BENEFITS:
HELPS INDIGESTION:
When you sit on the floor, you sit on crossed legs in Sukhasana. Sukhasana is a subset of Padmasana. Unlike Padmasana in Sukhasana, the legs are not interlocked but a posture is a form of Padmasana or mudra which helps in the reduction of gastric problems.
When you eat food while sitting on the floor, you bend forward and backwards to eat the food. This forward and backward movement activates stomach muscles resulting in the secretion of stomach acids that help digest food easily.
HELPS IN WEIGHT CONTROL:
Having food in Sukhasana helps in controlling weight gain. If you sit on the floor, your mind becomes calm, nerves are relaxed. This results in a better focus on food. A calm mind sends signals to the stomach to increase the secretion of stomach acids. Likewise, the stomach sends a signal to the mind that a sufficient amount of food has been consumed and thus saves you from overeating.
BODY EXERCISE:
Sitting on the floor instead of on chairs results in the exercise of body muscles- knees, thighs, stomach, upper and lower abdomen.
Sitting and getting up from the floor requires a lot of strength. In one of the studies, it has been found that senior people sitting in Padmasana or Sukhasana can stand up without any support. Thus having food on the floor enhances the life expectancy of such people.
PREVENTS PREMATURE AGING:
The benefit of eating on the floor results in the correction of body posture. Eating food while sitting in Sukhasana posture does not lead to shoulder, spinal cord and back problems thereby preventing premature ageing of the body.
STRONG HEART:
Eating food while sitting on the floor results in better blood circulation. Thus heart easily pumps blood to all organs. However, when you eat food at the dining table blood circulation is obstructed and the heart has to pump harder to ensure proper blood circulation. Thus eating on the floor reduces the risk of a heart attack.