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5 Reasons Why You Must Include Kale in Your Diet
We bet you just cringed at the headline! ‘Kale’ seems to be the buzzword in any article talking about health and wellness, right? To be honest, we too had similar reactions reading about kale until recently when we started including it in our diets. It was during one grocery shopping visit at Walmart, when we said what the heck, let’s see what the fuss is about. After a week of having kale salads and smoothies, we have fallen in love with this wonder vegetable. Benefits of kale are indeed enormous. Plus, it isn’t as ‘boring’ in taste as it sounds! Are you wondering why it is talked of so much?…
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Top Excuses for Not Exercising and How to Beat Them
You can either have an exercise excuse or fitness results. You can’t have both. Luke Coutinho, MD Alternative Medicine & Founder, Purenutrition.me, hears various excuses for not staying fit. And he has answers for all of them! He shares with us top fitness excuses and ways to beat them. Losing weight is a serious commitment and requires extreme honesty with oneself and to the one he/she is accountable to. And lets be true. How many times do we come up (or hear someone) with excuses for not being able to workout, drink water, prepare homemade meals or even sleep on time? Maybe we have even lost count on that. We…
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Healthy Ways to Lose Pregnancy Weight
“Life would never be the same again. Welcome to motherhood,” wrote one of my dear friends when I became a mom previous month. To be honest, the statement brought excitement and fear simultaneously. I have been experiencing changes physically, emotionally and mentally since the time I conceived. I am aware things will fall in place slowly but losing pregnancy weight seems like a daunting task. So I turned to fitness expert, Luke Coutinho (MD Alternative Medicine & Founder Pure Nutrition) for his advice on healthy ways to lose pregnancy weight. Here’s what he had to say… Throughout the 9-month journey of pregnancy, a mother goes through a lot of physical…
