Do not let your gut burn-Heartburns: Causes and control.

What are heart burns?:

When excess acids are produced in the stomach  for some reason or other they start leaking into oesophagus and throat regions leading to heartburns .In  normal digestion, the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) opens to allow food to pass into the stomach and closes to prevent food and acidic stomach juices from flowing back into the esophagus. 
Gastroesophageal reflux occurs when the LES is weak or relaxes inappropriately, allowing the stomach's contents to flow up into the esophagus. The acid flow can considerably disrupt the lives of the suffer by causing an irritating and uneasy feeling.This happens while they eat or drink and also affects their sleep badly.
The burning sensation can be which cn be mild/sporadic and severe or chronic heartburns are usually the symptoms of other diseases too that are related to stomach and gut like 

Peptic Ulcer,Gastritis and GERD. The severity of heartburn also depends on LES dysfunction as well as the type and amount of fluid brought up from the stomach and the neutralizing effect of saliva.

Who have them?

• Personality of certain people make them to susceptible to heartburns apart from above mentioned causes.
• People who are workaholic and stress-ridden are easily prone to the attacks.
• Most people have sporadic and mild attacks which are quick to correct and can be prevented .
• Some have chronic and severe attacks .In this case it is important to understand the root cause and prevent it right at the stage.
• Pregnant mothers commonly undergo this.It is normal.

Identify the condition earlier,it is better!

What are causes heartburns?

1. Not eating on time
2. Too much alcohol and smoking with irregular meal patterns
3. Large meals with less fluids
4. Lack of physical activity
5. Prolonged stress or tension
6. Junk food intake during the big meals times
7. Long courses of anti-biotics with relevant antacid courses.
8. Prolonged conditions of Insomnia.

What should you do to prevent heartburns?

• Eat proper 2 big meals and 2 small meals daily. Create time you will have great choices of food are available ,just search for them.Eat them.
• Take small and frequent meals. Always carry some ready foods like Bananas,apples or soft cookies handy if you are travelling.
• Daily exercises are a must even walking fro 30 minutes would do.
• Have lots of water a little more than what you usually have to ease out the bad feeling in the gut.
• Do quit your habits like alcohol and smoking immediately.Make a slow and a conscious change.
• A light walk after your dinner will be greatly helpful to avoid the nightmarish heartburns that disrupt your sleep.
• For severe cases of heartburns it is better to take help from antacid drugs.A course or two is greatly helpful till put your food style and lifestyle in place.
• Eat lots of fibre and specific fruits and vegetables are good in alleviating the symptoms.
• In case of severe heartburns stick to cooked and half—boiled foods and avoiding eating raw. Once the symptoms reduce you could eat any raw fruit and vegetable.
• Do Pranayama and meditation to release your stress.

Some home remedies are:

1. Keep some raw ginger juice and consume a tsp whenever you get the bouts.
2. Take a tsp of Jeera seeds with water that can ease out the digestion causing lesser acid secretion at a given time.
3. Also try eating an apple after big meals .The carbs in apple can ease the digestion.
4. Have lots of water intermittently between your meals
5. Aloe Vera juice and fennel tea also helps curing short term heartburns.

So take a chill pill and move on with right lifestyle and food style changes and do not let your gut burn…..

The right way to weight loss!

  Another year begins and so begins the never ending struggle to lose weight? 

 A goal misinterpreted!

Weight-loss mania has only created an industry more of woes now.Every time one wants to lose the options available are some these- mysterious diets,magical Powders,fascinating drinks, miraculous surgeries,extra-ordinary gadgets and crazy weight-loss programs from all kinds of brands local and international who safely tag them as 'healthy'.

                                   In most ideal cases one stats with a weight losing expedition and then finds himself suddenly hitting a road block with  a point of no return.All the while losing health and not weight. Even if you have been successful in losing those few flab  to your horror you might find everything coming back to you in double once you have stopped those regimens!

So here some weight loss myths which are busted, so trust me there would no more!

1. Crash Dieting:Simple, a crash diet is nutritionally imbalanced. It will lead you into troubles more than one. Eating one of those diets with only fruits, vegetables or juices can be detrimental to your health. You might lose some kilos here and there but it drains you of all the reserved energy and nourishment.
2. Missing meals:The most common myth is that missing meals can reduce weight. But it is actually other way round. It puts on weight and leads to you into obesity. If you miss one meal you then you tend to binge the next but might not burn the food you ate that is converted in to more fat. Always remember break-fast is a must. Every big meal should comprise at least 2 servings of complex carbs.
3. Dieting with ‘Sugar-free’ foods:The most dangerous myth about dieting is to go on Sugar-free beverages, sweets and artificial sweeteners  for weight loss.But all these contain Aspartame which can kill your heart’s health and in the long run invite Lifestyle disorders affecting you. It is better if you could use healthier sweeteners like Palm sugar, Agave sugar or honey instead.
4. Going without fat:A little fat is good for you. A total fat-free diet cannot reduce kilos in a big way. It is important to have foods with good fats like omega fatty acids and MUFA. Nuts like walnut, Avocado and olive oil are sources of good fats.
5. Curbing cravings:Another weight loss myth is to resist cravings .Whenever you are tempted to eat your favourite food, just go for it. But have small portion of the same. If cravings exceed too much then it will surely have a bad effect on your weight loss program!
6. Going for single food wonders: You might some natural and synthetic foods that claim to reduce your weight like 'magic'.But this risks your long-term health in the form of hormonal and physiological disorders.
7. Gym fantasies: I call them as 'Gym fantasies' .Workouts can do the job of weight-loss only if you continue them atleast for a year continuously.Never stop it all of a sudden unless the reason is unavoidable.If you plan it discontinue do it gradually by replacing activities of atleast 30% calorie burn out .Also be careful with your eating once you stop the workouts as you will be staying that 'hungry'.

 Some better ways are-
Weight-loss ideas at home with you:

1.Eat right food that suits your body
2.Exercise well to attain fitness not Abs.
3.Listen to your body and train your mind.

But stop the insanity,resolve to discover a new you! Focus on health not on weight.