HAVE YOU ADDED THESE SUMMER FRUITS TO YOUR DIET?

Always try to make the most of the season’s produce by adding delectables fruits to your summer diet

The oppressive heat and sweltering water conditions have made life difficult for everyone. Because of the hot weather, people of all ages are experiencing various challenges. An easy way to battle the heat is by including fresh fruits and vegetables as part of your diet. Summers are killing and the best way to treat us with a cool breeze of freshness is nothing but the Summer fruits which are not only delectable but extremely good for your health.

Seasonal summer fruits appear during the season, serving the dual purpose of hydrating and cooling the body. They provide a lot of vitamins and water, which is necessary to battle the heat. These fruits should be included in everyone’s diet, especially that of older people, during this hot season.

Here are the fruits I am talking about:

COCONUT WATER

A Coconut is the edible fruit of an edible palm It improves your endurance. Coconut meat contains large amounts of medium chain fatty acids, a type of saturated fat that is much easier for the human body to digest than animal fats. Give you better oral health. It also contains antimicrobial properties. Help you lose weight. It can be eaten as food or used as medicine. Coconut is taken by mouth for bladder stones, diabetes, high cholesterol, and weight loss. In foods, coconut is used in various preparations.

ORANGES

In addition to being rich in vitamin C, oranges also contain potassium and nutrients, which help treat muscle pain and cramps. Oranges also help build strong immunity and enable the body to fight diseases. In addition to vitamin C, oranges have other nutrients that keep your body healthy. The fibre in oranges can keep blood sugar levels in check and reduce high cholesterol to prevent cardiovascular disease. Oranges contain approximately 55 milligrams of calcium or 6% of your daily requirement.

WATERMELON

Watermelon is one of the best fruits to consume in the summer. It has a high water content, which keeps the body hydrated. It is also rich in lycopene, which protects the body from sun damage. Also, watermelon is an antioxidant that helps break down harmful free-oxygen radicals. It prevents kidney injury and therefore, is a kidney-friendly food.

KIWIS

Like oranges, kiwis are rich in vitamin C and delight to the taste buds. They have a cooling effect on the body and contain vitamins, potassium, and fibre. Kiwis are high in dietary fibre and provide a variety of health benefits. This tart fruit can support heart health, digestive health, and immunity. The kiwi is a healthy choice of fruit and is rich in vitamins and antioxidants.

Above are the fruits which are beneficial in one way or the other, entirely securing your body from harmful toxins that enter your body from different sources. Be mindful of eating the fruits for good health, be prudent in taking care of your body, and be alert to eat right! Because it never matters how good you look from the outside what actually matters is if everything is good from the inside. So get some summery fruits for yourself and treat your inner organs with good health and happiness.

Thank you for reading!

Sweta”ka”

Health and Healing

ARE YOU AVACADO HEALTHY?

EAT HEALTHY. THINK BETTER
David

WHAT IS?: The avocado tree of the Lauraceae family is native to America and is cultivated from Mexico to the Mediterranean climate. This is a leafy tree up to 20 feet high with a trunk diameter of 60 cm.

THE FRUIT: Although it’s not nearly as sweet as many other fruits, the fruit is a drupe, it falls under the definition of the fruit with greenish and thin skin whose taste is reminiscent of walnut and has a very oily pulp, commonly used as food.

NUTRITION AND HEALTH: Raw Avocado flesh is 73% of Water, 15% of Fat, 9% of Carbohydrates and 2% Protein. In a 100 gm reference amount, Avocado supplies 160 calories and is a rich source of several Vitamins B and K with moderate contents of Vitamin C and E also Potassium. Although costly to produce, nutrient-rich avocado oil has multiple uses as in salads or cooking not to mention in cosmetics and soap products as well.

THE SEED: Unsaturated fatty acids contain Vitamin E

MEDICINAL USE

Antitussive- Use to prevent or relieve cough

Antigripal- Remedy for flu

Cholagogue- An agent to promotes an increased flow of bile

Emollient- Helps in smoothing the skin

Aphrodisiac- Helps to stimulate sexual desire

Emmenagogue- Helps stimulates or increase menstrual flow

Antidiarrheal- Provide symptomatic relief for diarrhea

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THE LEAF: The phytochemical compounds in avocado leaves instill relaxation and calmness in many parts of the body and mind. This can result in easing headaches, muscles soreness and even asthma. The tea can reduce the stiffness in respiratory muscles that are causing uncomfortable asthma symptoms.

ALSO CONTAINS: Dopamine, Serotonin, Flavonoid

USES: Leaves are the best used for anti-inflammatory, antidiarrheal, astringent, healing, antiseptic, resolvent and relief in cough.

So these were a few benefits of Avocado and its leaf. Not a superfood but nothing less than that. Highly recommend this to add to your diets and food habits. One fruit and lots of benefits are rare to find and Avocado is one of them.

Thank you for reading this!

healthy and stay safe!

Sweta”ka”

Health and Healing

WHAT HOME MADE FACE MASK CAN DO AND CAN’T DO

Wearing a mask is not only important, it’s life -saving
– Bryan Health

Vaccination for the Pandemic is almost covering people each day globally giving a sigh of relief on one hand but on the other hand my dear readers it’s happening again. We have to live with the fact that it’s not going to get over anywhere soon. Till when it’s going to last, no answers to that? No one knows! As per reports from John Hopkins University, this will probably get over by 2024, till then; everyone should know that we have to take care of ourselves and our loved ones. No matter if you are being got vaxxed twice.

Don’t ever think if you are vaccinated you can’t come in contact with the virus. Yes, you can! All you have to do is wear a mask and wash your hands without fail. As the news of third-wave hitting Europe and the USA already doing rounds we should be more careful now and keep ourselves ready for the next wave. So to keep that in mind as masks are becoming mandatory in most places. We should behave more responsibly and lessen this COVID spread by doing our bit.

By now I assume most of us have already developed a habit of sanitizing hands and wearing a mask. For me it has become my second nature trust me, I never leave my house without a mask. And for fashionable people like me, clothing and fashion brands introduce amazingly beautiful masks and so on. But meanwhile, people also created homemade masks; kudos to the people who created these masks at home. But these masks come with certain precautions and care.

Wearing a homemade facial covering/non-medical masks is becoming a fast norm worldwide. WHO reminds us that wearing them has not only been prevents COVID but also protects the person wearing them and is not a substitute for physical distancing and hand washing.

Home-made masks can be useful for a short period of time; when physical distancing is not possible in public settings, inside shops, malls, offices, grocery stores, or using public transit.

When choosing homemade facial covering/ non-surgical masks, it is important to know how to put them on, take them off and clean them to ensure they simply do not become a germ/virus trap attached to your face.

According to Health Experts Worldwide non-medical masks/ face covering should:

Allow for easy breathing
Fit securely to tie or ear loops
Maintain their shape after washing and drying
Be changed as soon as possible/damp or dirty
Be comfortable and not require frequent adjustment
Be made of at least 2 layers of tightly woven material fabric (cotton linen)
Be large enough to completely and comfortably cover the nose and mouth without gaping

The very important thing that you should always keep in mind:

The non medical face masks/face coverings should not be shared with others or be placed on anyone or unable to remove them without assistance or anyone who has trouble breathing.
They should not impaired or secured with tape
They should not be made of plastic or be made exclusively of materials that easily fall apart as as tissues
Should not be place on children under 2yrs of age

Remember homemade masks may not be effective in blocking virus particles that may be transmitted by coughing, sneezing, or spreading of virus particles because of a potential loose fit of the material used. When putting them or taking them off, do not touch the front of the mask/covering and avoid touching the mask while it is on your face.

I hope you keep that in mind because COVID is now part of our lives and we have to keep stopping the spread by wearing masks as this is the big game-changer in the fight from COVID.

Stay happy, stay blessed and stay safe!

Thanks for reading😊

Sweta”ka”

Health and Healing

ARE YOU PLEASANT OR UNPLEASANT?

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. –
Mahatma Gandhi

This is way more imperative than any other thing in this world to ask yourself this question are you Pleasant or Unpleasant? The answer is nowhere else, it’s within you. You think you go out or look around for this answer! No, the answer is right inside you. The whole world is full of pleasant and unpleasant experiences, it is full of various pleasant and unpleasant things, it is full of pleasant and unpleasant times. I am paraphrasing this pleasant /unpleasant again and again to make sure that by the end of the post you should profoundly understand what I mean and the purpose of this post. Sometimes paraphrasing words like these are not only for your own good also beneficial for others and for those around you. Trust me I am not saying this for writing sake, it’s truly has a perspective.

So here I am asking one simple question to all my avid bloggers and readers who are reading this. Are you pleasant or unpleasant in your life?

And by this I mean that are you living your life pleasantly which means joyfully, happily, enthusiastically, confidently, peacefully, lively or Unpleasantly that means depressingly, anxiously, sadly or unhappiness is crept all the way into your soul, worried, crying on things which are not at all important and not in our control.

People say life is a mix of both, no my friend that is not what my opinion is! What my percept is, are you content in your life irrespective of what is happening around you and most importantly within you? For instance, something that happened you never wanted should have ever happened. Are you at peace within yourself? Or you are roaming with your thoughts here and there keeping yourself at the tumult, restless, and afflictive state. Do you juggle with them daily? And by the end of the day realized that you wasted another day on something which is not in your control and will never be! I know this happens and it happened to all of us we are no exceptions here for anything, more or less everyone has to face the rough times and enjoy their share of happiness. It’s part of our lives. Simple!

Always remember no one is going to ask you this that how you perceive, you have to ask this question to you every single day to make sure your inner being is nurtured, it’s convivial it’s at peace and not perturbed or fidgety it’s going with a flow and not trying to swim opposite current waters because this will lead you in the most exhausting situation, you will be so tired, drained and most importantly at severe unrest which will follow all unpleasantness and then you all don’t have an option to live but many to die.

This life is freakingly beautiful all you have to add lots and lots of alacrity and less and less of adversity and this way you can throw out all the negative thing in your life slowly and steadily. Remember this, if you are feeling uncongenial in your life you are not going to release it at once because it didn’t creep in you at this moment so It will take lots of sweetness to shove it out of your life and make your life bittersweet but most importantly a beautiful experience! and that can only be done when you are a jovial person. So drop the unpalatable from your life try to see good in what’s happening and try to invest your thoughts in more meaningful processes of life.

I wish you all to be Pleasing people and make this world a beautiful place not only for you but for others who are living in it with you. Once pleasantness is all there you will love everything around you, you will see how beautiful everything will become as all the unpleasantness is replaced by pleasantness in the whole process and that gives your life a real meaning to enjoy it not just to exist.

Health and Healing

HAIL KALE

“Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying: “Thank you!”.
Karen Salmansohn

For me health is above everything, like all the good and excellent things you can ever think of, I put health on top of my list. Without good health you are just alive you are not living it to the full.

Once you get to know about the benefits of a healthy body you realize nothing can beat that. So in order to be healthy, we need to focus on nothing else but what we are eating. Ninety percent of our health benefits depend upon what we intake. You know what they say ” you became what you eat”

And yes, I personally believe whatever exercise routine you follow, whether it’s a gym, yoga, or jogging… a major game-changer is always your diet. So it’s always really important to know what actually you are eating and what benefits you will get from it. Among various healthy foods and superfoods, I want to talk about the most nutritious one.

Move on from Spinach, there’s is a new power food that is packed with tons and tons of health benefits. It is none other than Queen of Greens, KALE

BENEFITS

Kale is a leafy vegetable from the cabbage family. According to a nutritionist, one cup of Kale contains:

5g of Fiber

15 percent of calcium

Vit B6 (pyridoxine)

40 percent of magnesium

180 percent of Vit A

200 percent in Vit C

1020 percent of Vit K

Also present in small amount are Vit E and Iron, Zinc, and Folate.

The flavonoids reduce the risk of some cancers, and its antioxidants slow down tissue wear and tear. Due to its low-calorie content and cholesterol-lowering abilities, kale offers excellent cardiovascular support.

Kale is a frilly deep green leaf in a loose, lettuce-like bouquet, it tastes like cabbage, but with a sharper taste than spinach. Always choose firm, crisp leaves with a moist hardy stem and vibrant color. Avoid yellowish kale, it’s too mature. Store unwashed and chilled in an airtight bag for up to 5 days.

HOW TO EAT

Coarsest stems in kale need to be removed before use, but thin stems; can be cooked with the leaves, If you’ve chosen a young kale bunch, you can remove stems ad toss them in a salad with lime juice. The juice will cook the kale in about 15 min while leaving it crisp. In other dishes, Kale tastes best when steamed, braised, or stir-fried. So any green vegetable ever made more sense to you? I don’t think so?

Hoping you enjoy this absolutely nutritious superfood and will take very good care of yourselves.

Thank you so much for reading . Stay Healthy folks!

Sweta”ka”

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HAVE YOU ADDED THESE SUMMER FRUITS TO YOUR DIET?

ARE YOU AVACADO HEALTHY?

WHAT HOME MADE FACE MASK CAN DO AND CAN’T DO

ARE YOU PLEASANT OR UNPLEASANT?

HAIL KALE

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