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Panch meaning five and amruth meaning a nectar for immorality — panchamruth, the traditional prasad, given out during poojas — typically uses five ingredients, which are all mighty good for your health!
Panchamruth — Ingredients:
COW’s MILK – 1 cup
We all know it’s super healthy! It has calcium, proteins, carbohydrates, fats and minerals.
YOGHURT – 1 cup
Researchers have claimed that if a person wants to keep his body slim then his lunch should be the biggest meal of the day while dinner should be the lightest.
According to research, the body’s ability to make use of the sugar in food fluctuates throughout the day, in tune with the body’s own clock.
And if this is disturbed then it is easy to put on weight.
The US researchers studied mice but they believe that people can benefit from timing their meals to be in tune their body clock.
Professor Carl Johnson, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, carefully measured levels of insulin – a hormone which plays a key role in the conversion of the sugar in our food into energy – and found that rather than amounts of insulin staying relatively constant over time, there was a clear pattern, with the animals finding it harder to deal with sugar when they’d usually be asleep.
High-fat, high-sugar foods not only cause obesity and promote heart disease, but they can also contribute to conditions like osteoporosis by weakening bones, according to researchers.
If this trend continues, this overlooked ‘silent robber’ will begin to cripple large numbers of at-risk baby boomers, said researchers at the University of Michigan and the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute.
While this high-fat, high-sugar diet trend and the subsequent risk of osteoporosis are climbing frighteningly fast, there’s hope, said Ron Zernicke, dean of U-M’s School of Kinesiology and a professor of orthopedic surgery and biomedical engineering.
The medical community and the public can reverse this trend by confronting the problem head-on and immediately, through diet, exercise and, in some cases, medication.
A new study has found that eating fatty and sugary foods causes chemical changes in the brain even before obesity occurs, suggesting that going on a diet might be similar to going through drug withdrawal.
The study was conducted by Dr. Stephanie Fulton of the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine and its affiliated CRCHUM Hospital Research Centre.
“By working with mice, whose brains are in many ways comparable to our own, we discovered that the neurochemistry of the animals who had been fed a high fat, sugary diet were different from those who had been fed a healthy diet,” Fulton explained.
“The chemicals changed by the diet are associated with depression. A change of diet then causes withdrawal symptoms and a greater sensitivity to stressful situations, launching a vicious cycle of poor eating,” she stated.
Avoid soft drinks, as they could alter the way your body burns fuel and make it harder still to lose weight, says a study.
“This study proves our concerns over sugary drinks have been correct. Not only can regular sugar intake acutely change our body metabolism,” said Hans-Peter Kubis of Britain’s Bangor University, who led the research.
“In fact, it seems that our muscles are able to sense the sugars and make our metabolism more inefficient, not only in the present but in the future as well,” Kubis added.
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The researcher warned that soft drinks can compromise long-term health and advised people to substitute it with plain water instead.
Regularly quaffing sugar-sweetened, low-calorie sodas is likely to spike risk of a stroke, but intake of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee seems to lower it, a study reveals.
The study is the first to examine soda`s effect on stroke (when brain is deprived of blood supply) risk. Previous research has linked sugar-sweetened beverage consumption with weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gout and coronary artery disease.
`Soda remains the largest source of added sugar in the diet,` said Adam Bernstein, study author and research director at Cleveland Clinic`s Wellness Institute, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported.
`What we`re beginning to understand is that regular intake of these beverages sets off a chain reaction in the body that can potentially lead to many diseases – including stroke,` added Bernstein, according to a university statement.
Fat is the most concentrated source of energy. We could all do with eating a 
lot less than we do, even ‘good’ fats such as olive oil should be used sparingly. Fat comes from meat products, fish, chocolate, biscuits or chips as well as oils that we use in cooking.
A healthy diet should provide no more than 35 per cent of the total calories consumed from fat. For the average man this is approximately 90g of fat per day and for women it is around 70g per day. Fats supply the body with fat-soluble vitamins and essential fatty acids.
Muscle fitness drives super athleticism, especially when their cells efficiently utilise sugar as a fuel source, a study reveals.
Conversely, exercising improves the muscle`s ability to take up sugar from the bloodstream and burn it for energy.
On the flip side, conditions that reduce physical activity, such as obesity or chronic disease, reduce the muscle`s capacity to burn sugar.
A new study from Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) unravels a mechanism that re-programmes metabolic genes in muscles to boost their capacity to use sugar, the journal Genes & Development reported.
Some fruit juices contain so much sugar that they actually increase the risk of certain cancers, rather than preventing them.
Cut back on buying foods and beverages with added sugars. If you don`t buy them, your kids won`t get them very often. Eating too many sweet treats can contribute to tooth decay and overweight. So, it is important for kids, and adults, to limit eating sugary foods and drinks.
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