Striking Out RSI Before It Strikes You

You may be blue collared or white collared, if you are a 21st century worker you would have heard about RSI or in its expanded avatar - Repetitive Stress Injury. Wikipedia also mentions it as cumulative trauma disorder (CTD), occupational overuse syndrome, or work related upper limb disorder (WRULD). All these subscribe to one singular [...]

8 Positive Ways to Overcome Anxiety

Perhaps, it is the best lesson children can teach us. A child is never anxious. He has no work related deadlines to fuss over, he has no disgruntled boss hovering over every act of his (i.e. if you disregard ‘parents’) and he has no fear of tomorrow. What a lovely situation to be in. But [...]

Have A Lungful of Life - How to Breathe Right

“Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.”
-   Chuang Tzu
Have you ever looked at a diagrammatic cross-section of a lung?
I bet you have wondered that it looks like an upside down leafless ‘autumn’ tree. Well, that’s how our respiratory system is. From the nasal cavity, the air travels down the trachea (the breathing [...]

10 Exercises for Choosing a Good Gym

If Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t enough when I was growing up, now I have Page 3 models to gawk at and feel a bit woebegone about the muscular state of my appendages. Agreed that the gym has become a temple for many, but I hadn’t ever managed to really put myself through the grind. But looking [...]

6 Confessions of an Exercise Fanatic

I believe that most of us inhabit the saner side of humankind. I can’t see myself and for that matter most of the homo sapiens out there with a natural predilection for waking up with the birds and happily taking the tortuous path for a jog. I like my sybaritic pleasures and sleeping is certainly [...]

For The Love of Cucumbers - A Dieter’s Delight

Let’s ask ourselves this…
After a heavy intensive bout of exercise, which food would one like to have that is not only a thirst plus hunger quencher but also does not add to our calorie count? Cucumis sativus or just call it the ‘cucumber‘.

The humble cucumber has been a dieter’s delight for long. Under its green [...]

4 Simple Ways To Become Healthier Today

Everyone wants to live a long, healthy life but when it comes down to will power most of us fail. But it’s not as hard as you may think to become twice as healthy in just one day! I’m not saying you’ll turn into superman overnight by doing these four things but your body will [...]