All About Diet

Tricks to Stick to Your Diet While Eating Out


When you are sincerely following your diet and exercise routine, you want nothing to mess with it. But when close friends or family invite you for a meal out, it becomes hard to refuse, here are some tricks to stick to your diet while eating out.

1. Grab a fruit before you leave
2. Replace fizzy drinks with water
3. Savour your food
4. Check your salad dressing
5. Ignore complimentary snacks
6. Skip dessert

Sticking to your healthy diet routine might be difficult while eating out, but definitely not impossible. All it takes is a little self-control and making some smart choices


Glow your skin by eating colourful diet


A balance diet consisting of fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fat, protein, gives the accurate quantity of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants that keeps the skin nourished and young, says dermatologist. Consuming a diet that is rich in colourful fruits and veggies, can help protect against ageing of skin.

Red bell pepper and all citrus fruits, tomatoes are rich in Vitamin C, While green vegetables, bright orange vegetables, sweet potatoes have carotenoids. A balanced and nutritious diet is good for glowing complexion.


Right diet for hyperactive kid


Parents especially moms wonder about the right diet for hyperactive kids. They don't realise that feeding hyperactive kids with high sugar and caffeine content food will only make things worse.

Studies revealed that children with hyperactivity and deficit disorders have Essential Fatty Acids deficiency. So parents should ensure that their food intake will consist of milk, nuts, oranges,leafy greens and bananas.

Milk supports nervous system and cell membrane, nuts have calming effect. Oranges prevent cortisol boost and leafy greens will reduce stress. Banana will sustain energy.


Search begins to provide healthy diet for space dwellers


Will astronauts be able to grow enough food on Mars to maintain a healthy diet? How about growing food on Earth under extreme conditions?

These are the questions scientists are trying to answer by observing plant growth in microgravity on the International Space Station (ISS).

When a crew leaves the Earth's orbit to go into space, plants can recycle the astronauts' exhaled carbon dioxide and excreted water in addition to providing food, observed plant biologists working for "Petri Plants" - an investigation exploring the fundamental genetic mechanisms plants use to adapt to a microgravity environment.

"Plants give us insight into the fundamental nature of higher organisms, so learning about the metabolism of plants in response to a unique and challenging environment also tells us about ourselves," said Anna-Lisa Paul, the principal iinvestigator with the University of Florida.

The researchers designed Characterizing Arabidopsis Root Attractions (CARA) method to investigate the impact of light on root movements in microgravity and further explore the genetic responses of these plants.

The plant under investigation is Arabidopsis thaliana commonly referred to as Thale Cress.

The plant has adapted well in spaceflight environments on both the shuttle and space station.

For the CARA investigation, the arabidopsis seed was genetically modified with a green-fluorescence protein marker called GFP.

This allowed scientists to see how the plant responded to microgravity.

The plants were exposed to the diffused light present on the station by attaching the petri dishes, which included the seeds and a growing medium, directly on an inner wall of the space station.

This exposed the plants to the ambient lighting of the space station module in which they were housed.

"We were intrigued by the numerous light-sensing genes that are expressed specifically in roots in orbit, and the CARA experiments explored the role of these genes in orientation and cellular remodeling," Paul noted.

In these experiments, researchers found that light had a very profound impact on not only the direction of root growth but also the morphology or patterns of root growth.

The CARA investigation has been sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and supported by NASA.


garlic to your diet to boost your immunity


A garlic to your diet to boost your immunity a day for good health, garlic with its antiviral and antibacterial properties helps boost your immunity and keeps you looking fresh and healthy.  Here's how you can consume garlic without having to deal with that awful breadth.


Make your own vegetable or chicken broth soup at home and add garlic to it.

Make your own garlic drink , the smell of garlic makes it difficult to be consumed raw, so use other ingredients with an equally powerful taste.


Try garlic vinegar if you are dealing with a stubborn cold or  use it as a salad dressing or in other recipes that use vinegar