Health Blog

    Help Your Child Get Enough Sleep   According to a recent study, 60% of children under 18, complain of feeling tired and 15% of them keep napping in the classroom. Inadequate sleep in children is a serious issue, as it negatively affects their educational and co-curriculum activities. An expert researcher on sleep-related disorders,  Carl E. Hunt,  from George Washington University School of Medicine, says, “Sweet and enough sleep is as important as a healthy diet for a growing kid.” But how to persuade children to sleep early and adequately? Here are few things you can do: 1)   Cut coffee at night  --- Discourage your child taking cola drinks after taking dinner. Keep an eye on his or her favorite street foods that may contain caffeine. 2)   Unplug your child from gadgets  ---  An hour before sleep time, do not allow your child to play video games or sitting before TV or computer. Rather persuade him towards more soft...

  Eat Healthy, Stay Happy   You would know the effects of a healthy diet on the physical body; a good diet promotes health and a bad one makes us sick. But do you know what we eat also affects our mental health and our emotions? It means our emotions not only respond to positive or negative situations but are also colored by the variety of foods we consume on daily basis. Latest medical research has been showing that our brains and nerves absorb the nutrients present in our daily diet more than any other organ of the body and we know our brains and nerves are the organs that regulate our emotional moods. Our brain absorbs three basic nutrients from the diet: 1) Vitamins and minerals 2) Enzymes and proteins 3) and Glucose. Hypo/Hyperglycemia and Our Moods A common reason of bipolar moods is low sugar levels in our blood. As the brain gets its energy from glucose, any sweet thing we eat does affect our mood swings. When we drink coffee or eat chocolate, it rapi...