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Diabetes and it's Preventive measures.

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  Dr Sneha Honrao - YouTube India is one of the leading country where diabetic patients are increasing day by day. It is need of time to know why many people are suffering from the diseases such as diabetes.  This is the disease which are not only suffered by old age people but also young adults and children too. This disease is spreading on large scale due to lack of awareness and lack of knowledge about how we can prevent ourself from such kind of diseases. Diabetes is a life style disorder. Now a days people have hectic schedule or not following proper Dinacharya ( Daily routine) and ritucharya ( seasonal routine). The main cause of diabetes are overweight, obesity, inactive lifestyle. Other causes of this disease are hormonal imbalance, improper secretion of insulin. Diabetes means when our blood glucose level is high. Blood glucose is main source of energy which comes from food we eat. The insulin hormone secreted by organ pancreas helps the glucose to enter in our Cell a...

Luxurious utensils for kitchen as well as for Health

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Dr Sneha Honrao - YouTube We all know that market is full of decorative utensils. But we should know which utensils are decorative , luxurious as well as good for our health.  Use of BPA line cans which contains Bisphenol A, which is linked to several health issues such as cancer, infertility, obesity and diabetes. This Bisphenol A is found in hard plastic such as water bottles, eye glass lenses, baby water or milk bottles, sports equipment’s etc. This hazardous chemical enters in our body through such food containers and water bottles of plastic. Therefore, it is always advisable to avoid use of plastics. This will also be a great initiative for saving our environment. If complete stoppage of use of plastic is not possible then at least use BPA free materials may be started. Small initiatives like carrying cloth-bag while going to market will be useful for avoiding use of plastic bags. Store food stuff such as grains in non-plastic material like earthen, o...

Healthy soup for winter

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Dr Sneha Honrao - YouTube In winter season the energy of human being is more compare to other season of the year. To maintain this health we need to intake heathy and nutritive food . Soup is one of the good example to have in winter season which contain maximum nutrition.  Sipping steaming hot soup in winter can keep you and your family warm and tasty. Soup is the powerhouse of nutrition.  Soup is easy to prepare in short time. We always have a soup in warm state or lukewarm state which helps to releive congestion from throat specially in winter. Soup contain rich source of nutrition as it is prepared from vegetables.  Regular intake of soup will help to increase your appetite too. Soup also help for weight loss as it has low calories and high nutritive value. Soup helps to reduce weakness , dull ,low feeling issues. According to Ayurveda soup is prepared in ratio of 1: 18 as 1 part should be vegetables and 18 parts should be water. Boil the mixture till the time where w...

Why to do Abhyang or body massage with oil for improving health in winter?

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  Dr Sneha Honrao - YouTube Winter season is the season where our skin start becoming dry and rough day by day. We need to keep hydrate and moisturize our skin especially in winter season. In this season we sometime naturally drink less fluid which ultimately affect our skin and whole body parts due to dryness in our body where our skin get rough ,dry ,black patch, as well as hair fall ,dry nostrils etc. To get rid of this problem we need abhiyang  snan and body massage with oil substances such as coconut oil, almond oil, sesame oil, ghee etc. According to Ayurveda oil Abhyang can be done in three different forms  1. Sit in bath tub fill with oil. 2. Massage whole body with suitable oils. 3. Pour oil on forehead (Shirodhara) or whole body parts. There are many other different forms where we can keep our skin moisturize. We can do such small things daily which is mentioned in Ayurveda. 1. Apply 2 drops of deshi cow ghee early in the morning daily to keep your nostrils mois...

How to protect your health from Winter Season?

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  Dr Sneha Honrao - YouTube Winter Season is known as healthy season from all seasons of the year. Our digestive fire is strong during this season. Reason behind this is mentioned in Charak Samhita as follows  शीते शीतानिलस्पर्शसंरूध्दो बलिनां बली । पक्ता भवति हेमंते मात्राद्रव्यगुरुक्षमः।।                                               (चरक) When cold wind moves in surrounding it also touches our body where this cold wind block the fire inside our body instead of throughing out of our body. Hence our digestive fire increases in our body. So in this season we should have heavy intake of food or food which takes long time to digest. Our Indian tradition create a great example of this in the form of Diwali festival. Where we eat snacks such as laadoo, chivda, sweets, dry fruits etc. This snacks are heavy and healthy to our body specially in winter season. In Ayurveda...