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HAPIfork, eat slowly, lose weight: Eating too fast leads to poor digestion and poor weight control.The HAPIfork is an electronic fork that helps you monitor and track your eating habits. It also alerts you with the help of indicator lights when you are eating too fast. Every time you bring food from your plate to your mouth with your fork, this action is called a “fork serving”. The HAPIfork also measures how long it took you to eat your meal.
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Thyme: The herb is packed with numerous health benefiting phyto-nutrients (plant derived compounds), minerals and vitamins that are essential for wellness. Thyme has one of the highest antioxidant levels among herbs. It contains many active principles that are found to have disease preventing and health promoting properties. Its leaves are a source of potassium, iron, calcium, manganese, magnesium, and selenium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. Iron is required for red blood cell formation. The herb is also a rich source of many important vitamins such as B-complex vitamins, beta carotene, Vitamins A, K, E and Vitamin C and folic acid.
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The World Health Organisation is raising the alarm about high blood pressure on World Health Day 2013
High blood pressure or hypertension kills nearly 1.5 million people every year in South-East Asia making it the single-most important risk factor for noncommunicable diseases like heart attack and stroke
Between 2011 and 2015 the cumulative loss in productivity is projected to be US$ 7.3 trillion.
Most of these deaths can be prevented through healthy lifestyles, early detection and treatment.
For decades physicians looked at "120/80" as the ideal normal. Recently slightly lower readings like "110/70" are looked upon as healthy and in "normal" range.
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Green chilies are a good source of dietary fiber which helps to remove toxins from the body and prevents constipation
Green chilies contain a chemical called Capsaicin which improves the digestive system and also dissolves the blood clots. Capsaicin is also used as a drug for preventing wrinkles and other skin problems like acnes and pimples.
Capsaicin present in green chilies also helps in weight loss as it helps to burn calories.
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Flavoured instant oatmeal can be high in sugar and sodium and added sugar increases the number of empty calories and provides no nutritional benefit from vitamins or minerals. Swap it for whole rolled or steel cut oats. An old-fashioned whole oat is the entire grain minus its tough outer shell. Cut pieces from the inner part of the oat kernel.