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Best Time of the day to drink water True saying " Water is not the source of life. It is life ", " Water runs life ". Just like car needs oil to work properly our body needs water so that it can function properly. One can stay without food but not without water. Well we all know that we have to drink at least eight to nine glasses of water daily and we also know the benefits of drinking water. We always keep water bottle or water jug near us so that we keep on drinking water. But do you know the optimal time to drink water? Do you know that drinking water at specific time intervals can help boost your overall health? So let's see the best time of the day to drink water. 1. Drink water after getting up in the morning  Always drink one or two glass of lukewarm water after getting up in the morning. Drinking water on an empty stomach helps to get rid of toxins from the body. It cleans, purifies and activates your internal body organs.

Breathing tricks while doing exercise Have you ever felt shortness of breathe while doing any sort of exercise. The feeling of gasping for air after doing any heavy work out. This condition is annoying as it doesn't allow you to practice further even if you want to. Some people think that they are weak others think that they are getting older. But do you know that proper breathing can reduce your problems to zero. You just need to focus on your breathing. It can help you to recover more quickly from high intensity workout. Your lungs brings oxygen to your body to provide you energy and remove carbon-dioxide. When you do exercise your heart pumps oxygen to your working muscles. When your muscles work harder, your body uses more oxygen and produces more carbon-dioxide. To withstand this demand, your breathing increases in order to provide more oxygen to your body. Your circulation also increases to take oxygen to the muscles so that they can work. So getting out of

Foods affecting bone health Your body continuously produces new bones and replaces older ones. This process is faster at younger age but as you grow older you lose more bone mass than you gain. Bone mass is the amount of minerals mostly calcium and phosphorous in certain volume of bone. Bone mass is used to diagnose osteoporosis disease. Osteoporosis is a bone disease which occur when your body uses too much bone tissue resulting in weak and brittle bones. Your bones becomes so weak that they could break easily even after a simple sneeze or a fall. There are certain foods that helps to keep your bones stronger and healthier. If you want to know then read this article "Calcium Rich Food For Stronger Bones " . This article will also tell you in what quantity these food should be consumed on daily basis. In order to protect your bones from getting weaker you need to avoid or limit certain kind of food. Let's discuss which food are bad for your bones. Hig

Simple push ups to try at home and how to do them Push-ups is an exercise done by raising and lowering the body with the help of arms. Push-up strengthen muscles of your chest, forearms, biceps, triceps, shoulder, lower back and abdomen. This is the type of physical activity which is very simple and you can do it anytime and anywhere. It also required very less time. Normal push-ups Take distance in both your hands in such a way that your chest comes in middle and it will be easier for you to move your body up and down. Your head, your buttocks and your spine should be straight and neutral. Your core, your hips and your thighs should be tight. Take distance in both your legs because if you keep your legs close to each other you will have to put lot of strength and stability in your push-ups. Your legs should be on your toes. Beginners should stay in this position until their hands becomes stable and they get confidence to move ahead.  Slowly bend your elb

Calcium Rich Food For Stronger Bones Bones provides structure to your body and enables mobility. They protect your vital body organs. There are in all 270 bones present in human body at the time of birth and they gradually reduce to 212 separate bones with increasing age. Bones are made up of collagen and calcium phosphate that provides strength and hard framework. To strengthen your bones further you need extra calcium which you can get from food. But your body also needs vitamin D in order to absorb that calcium. Calcium is not only used by your bones , they are also used by your body cells including muscles, heart and nervous system. If your calcium intake is low, your body will take calcium from your bones to ensure normal cell function. It can leads to weakening bones or osteoporosis. An adult need at-least 1000 mg of calcium daily and older people needs 1200 mg of calcium per day. Foods that are rich in calcium are mentioned below Milk One cup of milk

6 Reasons Why Prolong Sitting Is Dangerous Now a days we spend most of our time in sitting on a chair or couch either for doing any activity or just sitting idle. Our everyday activities like studying, office work, watching television or computer related work etc are designed for sitting at one place. Global studies shows that an average person sits for 7 hours per day. But do you know how long a person should sit in a whole day? A person who sits for 4 hours a day is at low risks than a person who sits for more than 4 to 8 hours a day. Also a person who sits for more than 8 hours a day is at very high risks. Sitting has short term as well as long term effects on our body and our health. 1. Reverse exercise effects You do exercise because you want to keep yourself fit. But sitting whole day after exercise will cause a reverse effects on your body. Whatever hard work you have done will be wasted. 2. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) D.V.T. is a blood clot that occurs in

13 best motivation tips for exercise Just planning of doing any exercise makes us exited but that excitement level doesn't last all the time. For few weeks you will feel that excitement but soon you realize that what was keeping you motivated before for doing exercise is suddenly nowhere to found. From inside you always wants to make exercise your daily routine that's why you are searching for something that drives you towards it or something that always gets you moving. Like an athlete, whose motivation comes from a desire to compete and win. Some people gets motivated by their desire to live healthy life and some others by their desire to lose weight. But sometimes this goal is not enough to drive you towards exercise. There are many reasons why you feel demotivated. But one of the main reasons you don't feel like doing exercise is your body pain which occurs after doing exercise. This pain lasts for an hour a day or a week. This pain mostly triggers in t