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DIET

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HEALTHY EATING A healthy diet may help to prevent certain long-term (chronic) diseases such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. It may also help to reduce your risk of developing some cancers and help you to keep a healthy weight. This leaflet explains the principles of a healthy diet. It is general advice for most people. The advice may be different for certain groups of people, people with certain health problems or those with special dietary requirements. FOOD GROUP Your body needs energy to work normally and keep you alive. You obtain this energy from nutrients in the food that you eat - mostly, carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Minerals and vitamins are other nutrients that are also important in your diet to help your body stay healthy. It is important to find the right balance between these different nutrients to achieve maximum health benefits (see below). A balanced diet generally contains food from each of the following food groups: Starchy foods such as bread, rice, potato...
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BENIFIT OF EXERCISE

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  We all know exercise is good for us, but do you really know why?  There are too many benifits of doing exercise.  some of these are: Mood Booster Endorphins are a chemical naturally produced by the body, also known as “feel good” chemicals, endorphins boost your mood and exercise increase the levels of endorphins in the body. Endorphins also lower the risk of depression by 30%. Weight Loss Of  course  exercise has weight loss effects. Cardio, HIIT weight training, and walking are all types of exercises that can constitute weight loss. Weight loss is all about creating a calorie defict and you can increase the calories you burn from running or walking just a  mile  a day. Brain Health and Memory Regular exercise can improve cognitive functions.  Studies have shown that parts of the brain that controls thinking and memory have greater volume in those that exercise than those who don’t . In order to improve your mental capacity...
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MENTAL HEALTH

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We know the importance of physical fitness. And we have many options to develop it: with a trainer at the gym,  or walking and running outside. We all have our own way of doing activities  to maintain the health and well-being of our body. In this process we    develop muscles that help us function better in our day-to-day life. We get stronger, leaner, have more energy or endurance, and are less prone to accidents and injury.  Developing optimal health can bring more positive emotions, less stress , and a sense of achievement. The good news is, you can enjoy similar benefits from developing your mental fitness, too! WHAT IS MENTAL FITNESS? We may say that mental health is   having and maintaining a state of well-being and cultivating awareness of how we think, behave and feel.   Just as physical fitness provides  us with an increased ability to respond to life in all its richness, mental fitness helps in the same way. It provides us mor...
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NATURE ITS BEAUTY AND IMPORTANCE

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-By Aman kumar Jha “I declare this world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.”  The beauty of nature can have a profound effect upon our senses, those gateways from the outer world to the inner, whether it results in disbelief in its very existence as Emerson notes, or feelings such as awe, wonder, or amazement.  But what is it about nature and the entities that make it up that cause us, oftentimes unwillingly, to feel or declare that they are beautiful? “the simple perception of natural forms is a delight.”  When we think of beauty in nature, we might most immediately think of things that dazzle the senses – the prominence of a mountain, the expanse of the sea, the unfolding of the life of a flower.  Often it is merely the perception of these things itself which gives us pleasure, and this emotional or affective response on our part seems to be crucial to our experience of beauty.  Its importance Imagine a world where there are no trees, no blue...
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