We all know that drinking eight glasses of water in a day is a non-negotiable factor for good health. Human beings can’t store water, therefore they must replace any that is lost. Water is the highway that moves nutrients and wastes between cells and organs. It carries food through digestive system, transports nutrients to cells and tissues, and carries waste out of our body. Since water is so crucial for our wellbeing, naturally the quality of water matters. Experts all over the world agree that mineral water is better than packaged drinking water, which is purified through the Reverse Osmosis process. The R.O. water purification method involves forcing water through a semi-permeable

Find quick, easy and highly nutritious summer drinks for natural energy boost. Take these before or after exercise, between meals, or you can even replace a meal with these when you’ve no time to eat. Lemon with soda water: – Lemon juice with soda is best chiller for summers and it has very good effect on our health too. It works like a miracle for our digestive system more than anything else.  So keep fit with a shot of chilled lemonade this summer. Mango Juice or Aam Panna: – Easy to prepare, mango juice has numerous health benefits. Containing high level of antioxidant, mango juice in particular helps in cleaning your blood. Drink it alone or you can prepare a mix

Summer is a time when we tend to drink a lot to replenish the liquid and the needed body salts lost from sweating. Avoid those fizzy, carbonated drinks that you see all around you available from every roadside shop, food mall or grocery store. Those are just empty calories. Also avoid heavily sweetened drinks as they don’t seem to quench your thirst, but stimulate it. With a little research and a dash of creativity, a whole world of refreshing drinks awaits you. Natural drinks like lassi, nimbu pani, iced tea, cold coffee, fresh fruit juice are all good for health and also nourishing and refreshing.  Here is a quick lowdown on these: Ice tea: Iced teas can be made from many

Change of season especially as the weather turns warm, causes an increased spate of water-borne diseases. “Technically, water borne diseases mean any disease that spreads via contaminated water. Water can get contaminated because of many reasons and all these reasons overlap with poor hygiene,” explains Dr. Anil Arora, senior consultant gastroenterology with Ganga Ram Hospital. Diseases like typhoid, hepatitis, gastroenteritis and cholera come under waterborne diseases. Instances of water-borne diseases go up with rain-showers. This happens when home-water supply pipe lines get contaminated with sewer pipe lines. Once this happens there is an outbreak of an epidemic condition.

Come summers and beer becomes the beloved beverage of boys. If you’ve been glugging way too much beer and are feeling guilty about it, My Health Guardian will help you atone your guilt. While, in modern times alcoholic drinks gained a bad reputation, this was not always the case. Traditionally, beer had been drunk because it was a hygienic drink—boiled and fermented–thus it was devoid of disease causing microbes. If you go down in history beer was the first alcoholic beverage known to the mankind. However, who was fortunate enough to drink the first beer is not known. History proves that mankind settled and began growing grains to drink beer first, bread making came later.

Mohit Jagati takes a swig of an energy drink when he has to sail through important meetings at unearthly hours set as per the schedule of overseas clients. Rishabh has been going to gym. One day his trainer asked him to have half a can of energy drink before a session of intense workout. He did and found that he could workout for longer period. Energy drinks have added caffeine and other ingredients that their manufacturers claim increase stamina and “boost” performance. They’re designed for students, athletes and anyone else who wants an extra energy kick. Yet, the question remains. Are energy drinks as innocuous as they are touted to be? Or, is there more to eyes?

According to legend, around 2700 B.C. a Chinese emperor sat under a tea shrub, and a few leaves fell into his cup of hot water. Eureka! Green tea was born. Now, modern research has found that this type of tea contains one of the most promising anticancer compounds ever discovered. The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. In her book Green Tea: The Natural Secret for a Healthier Life, Nadine Taylor states that green tea has been used as a medicine in China for at least 4,000 years.  Magic that EGCG weaves What makes green tea a healing herb and distinctly different from its close

Water is crucial to life. Humans have no capacity to store spare water, so we must quickly replace any that is lost. Water is the highway that moves nutrients and wastes between cells and organs. It carries food through digestive system, transports nutrients to cells and tissues, and carries waste out of our body in urine. Watery fluids act as shock absorbers, lubricators, and cleansing agents. For example, amniotic fluid cushions and protects the foetus, synovial fluid allows joints to move smoothly; tears lubricate and cleanse the eyes, and saliva moistens food and makes swallowing possible Water Excretion We continuously lose water through various routes—exhaled air, perspiration,

  There is a new buzzword in the realm of weight loss: meal-replacement-shakes (called as MR). It promises to battle bulge and keep it off, gives you the convenience of drinking up your meals for people on the go and is safe for diabetics too. Now, you can drink yourself skinny and stay that way. Users claim it’s a fool-proof way to weight loss. Raghav works as Marketing Manager in a retail chain. His job involves meeting up with clients in different places of the city. His day starts late and he leaves home after a sumptuous breakfast. But, the real trouble is what should he snack on during the daytime? If he packs fruits, in this weather they don’t stay right in the car, and he

Studies have revealed that women who drink more than five glasses of water everyday are less likely to die of heart attack than those who drink less than two glasses. Name any ailment and your doctor recommends drinking plenty of water along with medication. It is that vital for our body. Water- our lifeline constitutes the major part of our body. Almost 2/3 of our body weight comprises of water. The composition of our body is like – blood is 83% water, muscles are 75% water, brain is 74% water and bone is 22% water. Extremely essential for our survival, it ensures the smooth functioning of body systems but still we ignore its importance by not drinking enough. It is extremely