How much food is enough to eat

One of my reader sent me the below email
 

 

Hi There,  
Thank you for writing such a wonderful article on drinking water. I had many misconceptions about drinking water. I usually go for hours without drinking any water and at the end of the day I just gulp in water like the thirsty being. After reading your article I have promised myself to drink at the regular intervals and in sips.
 
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I have one request. Can you also contribute your thoughts on how much food is enough to eat?
 
Thanks,
Kritika

First of all thank you so much Kritika for dropping by on my blog. You are kind enough to put across your thoughts as honestly as you can. I really appreciate that and glad to know that my article was of help.
 
Coming back to today's article, How much food is enough?, my thoughts here....
 
                  
 
There are two kind of people. One who eat frequently than there are others who just take maximum of 3 meals in a day. Whichever way you follow, the key is that you should be filled with the required energy according to your body's requirements. There are ones who keep on eating irrespective of whether they are hungry or not while there are other who only eat when they are hungry.
 
First of all Back to basic point - Eat whenever you feel hungry.
 

There is the wide spread misconception that eating too much or eating many numbers of times in a day will result in making one fat.
 
Factors like the quality of food and type of food plays the equivalent role to increase the fatness in the body. For example, eating the low quality food or bowl full of chips will provide your body less energy as compared to the bowl full of sprouts. Eating chips will make you hungry at the faster rate than the bowl of sprouts.
 

 
When should we stop eating? As soon as we are filled with energy.
 
I would also like to add here that though I am the big fan of multi tasking. There are higher chances that you already know this if you know me personally or you are the vivid reader of my blog. There are so many things that we can multi task in order to improve the health and fitness. For eg: While brushing your teeth stand on your toes instead of standing aimlessly. This helps in strengthening the calf muscles and improves your balancing power. There are numerous benefits of doing multiple things at the time ranging from improving your concentration level to wrapping up the tasks faster.
 
However there is this one thing that I am totally against of clubbing it with anything else. For this particular thing, I myself do as well as ask others to follow the same ie do not ever multi task with anything else. Your focus and all your energy should be on this thing. In fact I believe we should even switch off the thinking process during that time. When we are eating we should be just be eating and nothing else.
 

 
Multitasking eating in simple words means we are dividing our attention into two or more things. Less attention towards eating brings many problems with it like overeating, indigestion, etc
 

What are the different tasks that we unknowingly do while eating that affect us?
 
Thinking
Talking
Watching Television
Work on Computers
Playing Games
Reading Messages

 

What is the best way to eat the food to maximize the digestive process?
 
First: be stress free and relax your mind.
Wash your hands
Sit in the comfortable position
Pray to God
Be thankful as you have food to eat in front of you. There are many, who go without meals for as long as weeks.
Look at the food and experience it.
Eat it slowly chewing properly each and every byte.
Stop it as soon as you feel that you are filled with energy.

 
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5 Ways to improve your eye's health

 
We are living in the era of busy life where we hardly have any time left for ourselves. There are hundreds and thousands of chores greet us every morning. And these chores continue till end of the day. In order to finish all the chores of the day, we have mastered one thing. That is Multitasking. We do not mind doing multiple things at a time to remain at the top position in the competitive world.
 
This is the reason, I am going to start the series of articles on how to multi tasks daily routine to maximize your health. Today I am going to list down the areas in which we can multi task certain things that can help to improve eye’s health.
 
                  
 

Multitask Eye Exercise while Brushing the teeth: We brush and floss twice on the daily basis. Instead of just brushing, why not club it with eye exercise? There are multiple of eye exercises which you can follow while brushing your teeth. To start with you can do all sorts of direction exercise like looking at left and then at right, look up and down. Now roll your eyes, make virtual alphabets and numbers with your eyes to strengthen the eye muscles. Most difficult is making virtual 8 with your eyes. You can also follow certain object and draw the outline with your eyes or follow the second’s hand with your eyes. Click here to view all eye exercises

 

Multitask Eye Care while taking Bath: So when you are standing in the shower and enjoying the bath, why not multitask in the way that can help to improve your eyes health. All the exercise mentioned in the above paragraph can be performed while taking bath. Apart from those, you can keep your face tilted backwards in a way that the water from the shower directly goes into your eyes. This way your eyes will get clean and your eyes will feel most refreshing and would thank you for the same.

 

 

Multitask while travelling: In addition to the ones that are mentioned above you can perform the distance exercise while travelling. Look as far as possible. Get your focus now as near as possible. You can try looking at your nose. That is the closet among all. After holding for couple of seconds, again look at the farthest position as possible. You can also try reading the banners of the shops which is proven to be good for eyes muscles. However avoid doing these exercises if you are the driver. Do not ever multitask anything while driving, not even talking on the phone.

 

Multitask when in Kitchen: There is enough of time that you can multi task while doing chores in kitchen. Whether you are washing vegetables or cooking it, or you are filling the monthly grocery in the boxes or clearing the mess up from the refrigerator, you will have enough of time to do something else. Why not club it with eye exercise? Ok so when cutting the vegetables try and focus on the utensil and draw the outline of the same. You can also do the same exercise while cooking. Draw the outline of cooker, mixing spoon, vegetables that you are cooling, etc. Cut onions. When tears flow down from your cheeks while cutting onions, it helps you to clear the eyes with any bacteria in it making it clean and clear.

 

 

Watching Television / Computers: Whether you are working on computer or watching television or messaging on mobile, after every 20 minutes take a break and give something else to do to your eyes. Blink as quickly or do the direction exercises as mentioned in the first paragraph.

 
Try these multitasking activities to improve your eye's health
 

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How Stock Market can inspire Fitness

How Stock Market can inspire Fitness
 

 
Hello Friends. How are you? I am on the learning spree since last couple of weeks. No, not learning about new exercise or dance moves, but about stock market. I am new to stock market and at the moment I am curious to know every little detail. I am learning various concepts related to stock market, indexes, stocks, how to monitor stocks and its movement, intra-day, short buying and selling, commodity market, derivatives etc. Yes I have heard all these words but hardly knew the meaning. However now I am taking keen interest in learning concepts one by one. I must say, stock market is such an addictive thing.

Well, also I would like to confess today that my sub conscious mind keeps on thinking about fitness throughout the day. While I am listening to CNBC or hooked at moneycontrol, in back of the mind I think of how I can utilize this time to remain fit. Yes, multi tasking is on the mind. I keep on thinkinig what can I learn from these sites that can help me to remain fit.

Anyways these are the few first things came in my mind with regards to fitness when I look at various stock related websites. Hope you will enjoy reading.

Constant Movement: We are all aware that stock moves up and down almost continuously during the market hours. More the movement, more they grab our attention. In the same way, we should move our body at the constant interval throughout the day. Make it the point to move for a minute after every twenty minutes. If you follow this rule, you are surely going to grab the attention.

Refresh: Automatic refresh functionality on the various sections of the sites like money.rediff.com and others give us one main fitness tip. In order to remain fit, we need to adopt the funda of refreshing. Refresh your mind of negative thoughts; refresh your body of harmful toxins, etc

                  
 

Blink: Any change in price gets blinking effect and highlighted to get our focus on that change. Blinking our eyes every now and then will get the focus back and helps to refresh our eyes.

Change the routine: Every day focus changes from one stock to another depending upon the news about those stocks. Same way we should change the routine to focus on including the variety of exercises. Not only would this help us to challenge each and every muscle but also to keep away the boredom as well.

Deep Breathe: Whenever the stock that I have invested in goes down, I take deep breathes. I am sure that would be the same with many who deal into stock market. Deep breathe helps in releasing the tensions. So next time when you are caught up in some tricky situation while working on the computer, take deep breathes.

 

Rhythm of Life: Timings are fixed. 9:15 opening bell, 3:30 closing of the market. Same way we should have our routine fixed. Right from getting up in the morning to eating food at regular intervals to exercise timings to going to bed at night, the timings should be fixed and strictly followed to maintain the rhythm of life. Following the fixed timings for the tasks has a good effect on the health in the long run.

Combination of Assets: Strong portfolio requires the combination of Different companies (small cap, mid cap, large cap), likewise strong body requires the combination of different exercise (low intensity, mid intensity and high intensity). Combination of Enduarance, Strength, Balance and Flexibility exercises make you beautiful and strong.

By the way if you have any stock related tips do share via comments.

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