Blog Posts - The Fresh Diet

Freeze Treat
Beat The Heat With Home-Made Ice-cream.
Summer vacations are on! And, there is nothing much to do except figuring out how to keep the little ones preoccupied.
DesiDieter experts are mums with naughty children themselves. This is how they are keeping themselves cool and the kids busy this summer, m
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5 Mantras To Quick Weight Loss From DesiDieter Plans.
Limit Sugar Intake. Sugar is empty calories and is absorbed quickly in the body and immediately provokes Insulin to convert glucose to energy. Restricting on sugar will deprive your cells of quick energy and along with daily physical activity may help stored body fat to start burn out.
Here are 5 t
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Healthy Heart Tips For Women and Children:
THEME OF WORLD HEART DAY IN 2013 was ‘Take the road to a healthy heart’.
World Heart Day was on 29th September 2013; the importance of a life-course approach to the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) with a focus on women as well as children. Healthy children lead to
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Healthy Pizza Sandwich
Are you “on a diet” and hence avoiding regular pizzas like the plague and are left craving for it? Here’s a perfectly healthy Pizza Sandwich that you can sink your teeth into without feeling guilty:
Ingredients: (Serves 2)
Double fibre/100 % whole wheat bread: 4 slices
P
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Calories - The Good, Bad, Ugly!
Everybody wants to ‘go on a diet’. Everyone knows that ‘you have to watch your calories when you diet’, but not everyone understands what exactly ‘calories’ are/mean! Most people associate calories with only junk food/ sweets/chocolates as they know that they
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Increase Your Fiber Intake
Fiber is as important in diet as protein and vitamins. Eating 30 gms of fiber a day is necessary to keep heart diseas at bay.
What is Fiber?
Fiber refers to carbohydrates that cannot be digested. Fiber is present in all plants that are eaten for food, including fruits, vegetables, grains, and legu
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Eat Italian, Live Longer
Mediterranean is the way to diet. It is a known fact that the diet from Tuscany is known to prevent heart disease and is also healthy for weight maintenance. But I wonder, why it is observed that the Western as well urban Asian population is growing large by feasting on pastas and pizzas?
Something
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A Family that Eats Together Stays Healthy
We love our family. We earn for our family. We cook for our family. We should EAT one meal with our family daily.
A family that eats at least one meal together has many health benefits to it:
Improves Family Bond - Sitting and sharing a meal increases love and respect for the family.
Meals ar
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Happy Raksha Bandhan!
How to avoid the unhealthy calories on Rakhi?
Rakhi / Rakshabandhan is incomplete without sweets and feasting on home cooked heavy food is mandatory. Avoiding the desserts and excess calories is difficult. For those on a mission to eat healthy and lose weight, it is a cumbersome task to say no to &
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Care during Pregnancy & Lactation
Although good nutrition throughout one’s life is important, for a woman it becomes a cause for more concern when she is pregnant and later when she is lactating. The body undergoes several changes during these two phases of life and thus the nutritional requirements also increase during these
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Eat Healthy This Ramazan
The Muslim Holy month of Ramadan (or ‘Ramzan’ in India) is the important month of the Islamic calendar, when Muslims fast during daylight hours.
Those who are physically able to, are required to fast each day of the entire month, from sunrise to sunset.
Here are some tips for e
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Pregnant Aishwarya Rai. What should she be eating?
This article is dedicated to all the beautiful mothers-to-be who are sharing their pregnancy term with celebrity Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
The ecstatic grandfather has spilled the beans - Aishwarya Rai is pregnant. Pregnancy is bliss to all and a wonderful phase for would-be parents. There are lots o
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Kareena Kapoor Likes This 'Green'
Broccoli
Broccoli is very low in saturated fat and cholesterol. It is also a good source of Protein, Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol), Thiamin, Riboflavin, Pantothenic Acid, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus and Selenium, and a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Vita
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Reduce Salt intake in Food you Eat
Salt is the major source of sodium in our diet and affects our health directly. Salt is added to food preparation at home, to commercial preparations and some also prefer taking it on table. Commercial preparation or outside food is the hidden sources of common salt. When you are suggested to be on
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Coconut Water- Perfect Beverage for Summers
The health benefits of drinking tender coconut water are under limelight these days.
Nutritionists recommend drinking the water from this nut frequently, especially in summers because:
It is a low sugar drink but rich in electrolytes that are lost during sweating.
Coconut water has de
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Salt is high in Processed Foods
Health experts are worried about increasing intake of salt. We are eating more salt and are unaware of it. Access consumption of sodium causes hypertension, heart diseases, obesity, stroke and heart attack, stomach cancer and may also aggravate asthma and osteoarthritis. High level of salt in childr
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Are you a Locavore?
A friend once asked me "Are you a Locavore?" Well, omnivore and carnivore is heard of but Locavore; what does that mean? I modestly ignored her question but got set to exploring what is this new diet buzz about.
My research got me to learn that "Locavore is a pe
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