Know the benefits of eating breakfast but unable to eat? Here are 7 tips.

In a day, it is recommended for an individual to eat three meals; breakfast, lunch and supper. This ensures that we supply our body with its fuel, food. Among these three meals, breakfast is considered the most important. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because the energy stores of the body needs refill after embarking on an involuntary fasting during the night. Starting the day on low energy can make us to easily lose concentration, lethargic, irritable etc. Breakfast also provides us the energy to sustain us till lunch reducing the number of times we will go for snacks. Additionally, eating breakfast will help not to make an individual desperately hungry to eat just anything, consequently helping the individual to make the...

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Feeling tired and looking for an energy booster? Here are 7.

We are six months into 2015 and fatigue might be setting in so where do we get an energy booster? It is mostly believed that consuming energy drinks, taking vitamins supplements, detoxing or eating special foods mostly termed as superfoods will boost or help us to regain energy but these are not the best  ways to do so. While manufacturers of energy drinks claim that energy drinks boost energy, what the consumer may not be told is the fact that  the energy drink is most likely to contain high amount of caffeine and sugar. Consuming more caffeine is associated with nervousness, abdominal pain, irritability, anxiety, stomach upsets and consuming high amount of sugar is mostly likely to lead to weight gain, which is a high risk...

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Stomach discomfort as result of milk? Here are 5 tips to reduce it.

Do you experience stomach discomfort (diarrhea, bloating, abdominal pains and flatulence)  and are sometimes nauseous few hours after taking milk, other dairy products or any drink that contains lactose? Then you could be Lactose Intolerant. Lactose Intolerance refers to a condition where the lactose, a type of sugar mostly found in milk and other dairy products cannot be digested by the body. Lactose Intolerance is caused by the body's inability to produce enough of the Enzyme Lactase to aid in the breakdown of lactose in the food consumed. Consequently, not all lactose in the food consumed is digested for absorption and hence passed on to the colon where bacteria (these are not harmful and is not in your colon as...

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