Ways to Gain Weight

Now in this era of modern fast foods and obesity there are people who are trying to gain weight. The problems with obesity is so much that we forget to talk about underweight or skinny people. Now here in this article i am trying to mention some of the ways to gain weight.

To gain weight you need to make your eating habbit a bit smarter. Hmm... what do i mean by that... I mean you need to calculate the amount calories you eat, the frequency of your meal, what type of diet you are including in your meal i.e protiens, carbohydrates or fats. Are you exercising or not.

1. Frequency of meals is very important. You can divide your meals in six parts... three large meals each alternating with small meals. You should plan this in such a way that you never remain hungry for more that 4-6 hrs.

2. Exercise particulary the anaerobic ones i.e the resistant exercises help to build muscle mass... so it is very important that you do some exercises. This will help you to become muscular rather than overweight with nothing but fat which would again be a problem and youll start looking for ways to loose weight :D.

3. Do include high protien meal after the exercises which will help the muscles to get the resources to expand. Some of these food include red meat, soya, pulses like dal, fish, low fat dairy products, almonds etc.

4. Doing all these please Do Stay Away From Junk Food as they containg nothing but excess amount of trans fat which are bad for health.


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Food That Burn Fat

Now a days obesity is a very big problem, with all those junk fast food around which don't do any good to health but they are certainly rich in high cholesterol and trans fats which are very bad for health and especially for heart. Fast food should certainly be avoided. There are many food that can help you loose weight and keep you fit. Some of these food are listed below:

1. Citrus Fruits and other fruits that are rich in vitamin C. Vit C is an antioxidant that helps in maintaining the lipid profile by decreasing the amount of oxidised LDL in the body. Oxidised LDL tends to get deposited in the blood vessel leading to diseases like atherosclerosis which is the basic foundation for other diseases like myocardial stroke and angina and some other diseases. It also certainly does help to reduce fat in the body. Be sure to include cirtus fruits like oranges, lemon, kiwi in your diet.

2. Vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, spinach are very low in carbohydrate content and thry also stop coversion of glucose to fats in the body.

3. Spices like turmeric, chillies and cardamom. Turmeric with its active component curcumin helps in reducing bad cholesterol and decreases blood clotting on regular intake.
Cardamom is a thermogenic herb that increases metabolism in the body and helps burn fat. It is believed that it also has soothing affect on digestive system and helps in propper digestion of food.
Chillies have capsaicin that increases metablic rate of the body and thus helps in burning fat.

4. Garlic: Garlic has a sulphur containing compound called allicin which has antibacterial actions, and also decreases unhealthy fats.

5. Nonvegetarians should avoid eating red meat as it contains a lot of fat. They should rather eat chicken, which is white meat and contains very less fat.

6. Eggs have dietary cholesterol which are important for the body as it reduces endogenous cholesterol production. It is rather good to eat one or two eggs a day than not having at all.

7. Pulses like dal, jwar, bajra etc are low on fats and highly nutrtious.

8. Honey It is a home remedy for obesity. It mobilises the extra fat deposits in the body allowing it to be utilised as energy for normal functions. One should start with about 10 grams or a tablespoon, taken with hot water early in the morning.


Please do try to add these food items in your diet as they have multiple properties i.e. not only fat lowering but also most of them help in improving circulation in body. Do add suggestions in form of comments what else to added in the list make the list complete.

Stress and Acne: Are They Related???

Here in modern world, stress is the most common problem a person would have because it leads to so many other diseases the list of which would never be complete. It influences health in a large spectrum of ways. Recently in a study it has been found that it can flare up an acne reaction in an already acne prone patient. Although the exact mechanism is not know, it increases the receptors in skin for different stress hormones. These hormones increase the sebum production. Eventually sebum mixes with dead skin and block the pores leading to acne cyst or comedone formation. The study was done on few college students (around 20-22) with acne during exam period and increased acne pimple was noted.

Stress doent lead to new acne formation, but flares up the old ones. These acne cant be treated only with stress relieving unfortunately, but some anti acne cream like benzoyl peroxide etc or isotretinion tablet for resistant cases are used.

Stress: How It Affects Sex Life

Stress is a major problem in this modern era, especially with our hectic work environment. Stress can affect many aspects of our life and cause many illnesses like insomnias, stomach problems, mental problems. Not only these but stress has major effect on sexual life also.

How does stress affect libido:

When we are under stress our body releases different hormones like cortisol, adrenalin which prepare our body for fight or flight reaction. Cortisol has many effects on our body one of which is decreased libido that is decreased desire for sex.

Apart from physical stress there is mental stress which is more common now a days and is increasing more and more. Mental stress can be related to work, money, how to pay your monthly electricity and phone bill and more importantly your Internet and Cable Tv bills :D.These stresses lead to low mood and ultimately to depression. In this case you are not able to concentrate on what you are doing, and also you loose interest in almost everything else which you enjoyed earlier including sex.


What to do??

Hmm... this is a difficult part as there are thousands of solutions available and still remain ineffective as they entirely depend on individual ability to cope with stress. Its only you who can relieve your stress. Others can only give advices. As of me all I can say that you can relieve your stress by doing something which you like, something which cheers you up even in sad mood, whichever activity it is, it will surely make you stress free. Rest all those yoga, excercises and everything else depends on you, if you wanna do it... do it, if dont then no harm done. I hope i helped. Enjoy life..:)

Earwax: A Common Problem

Excessive earwax production is a fairly common problem in day today life. It may cause some hearing loss if it gets impacted, may cause infections, irritation in ear.

Ear wax is made up of secretions from sebaceous gland ( which are present in the outer 1/3 rd of external auditory canal), cerumin, hair, dird, desquamated cellular debris. It plays a protective barrier role in ear canal. It lubricates the ear canal and entrapes any foreign material that happens to enter the ear canal.

 Normally a small amount of ear wax is produced which later dries up and is expelled out of ear due to movements of jaw. But in some people there is higher production of wax than normal which forms a plug. It may later dry up and form a hard impacted mass.

These people may complain of decreased hearing (as impacted wax causes a hearing loss of 30db), ringing in ear. They might develope some sort of infection.

Dont use ear buds to clean these impacted wax ( infacted ear buds should usually be avoided in general) as it may push the wax further inside the canal.

Do consult your doctor. He may advice to go through a procedure called Syringing in which luke warm water is injected in the canal an when water comes out it takes the wax plug out with it.

In case of hard impacted wax plug which is hard to remove by syringing it is softened by sodabicarbonate ear drops, hydrogen peroxide, liquid paraffin, or olive oil. Paradichlorobenzene 2% ear drop is available commercially.