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Live Long By Having Mediterranean Diet

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All of us must be familiar with the word "Meditate" where you try to understand yourself by sitting in a quiet room. But very less know about Mediterranean diet, and if you are woman and you are on Mediterranean diet you can live upto 15 years more and if you are a male you can expect to live 8 years more.  So what is Mediterranean diet ?  Mediterranean diet is a combination of vegetables ( any vegetable), nuts, fish, meat, olive oil, fruits along with very small amount of alcohol. If you are doing excercise daily and if you combine this basic food combination to your daily diet provided the condition that you don't smoke you can expect to live longer as much as 15 years. According to the study which was done in Netherlands at the university of Maastricht under the supervision of Piet van den brandt, who is epidemiology professor, observed almost 120,000 men and women together whose age ranged from 55 to 69 years during the year of 1986 and yes this was ten year stu...

Do You Want To Quit Smoking ?

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Those who smoke, once in there life time they do desire that they never had started smoking. Why people smoke ? Through my own personal experience from colleagues, friends, family members. People smoke because they want to get through that " Hard Time ". Hard time can be your studies, assignments, night shift job, you want to stay awake, you want a boost in your working, it can be any excuse which makes you to do smoking. According to statistics of smoking, there are nearly seventy percent of all smokers who want to quit smoking. This year 2011 forty percent of total smokers will try to quit smoking, by different methods like using nicotine patches, gums, cold turkey etc.  Smokers know that quit smoking is very difficult because of the cravings that occur which is very intense that can last up to three months, that makes them believe that it's impossible. One thing that you should keep in mind is that quitting depend...

How To Fight Depression

Whether you are doing job with deadlines, doing assignments of university, studying late at nights, coping with colleague, dealing with day to day chores, chances are always there that you will feel depressed due to demands made on you. We do lot's of things to reduce the depression by doing gym, taking medicines, taking coffee, doing dance, but most of the time we don't look at our diet which can help dramatically to reduce our depression after all if you take coffee or tea it helps to reduce depression, right ? So same concept apply's to diet, it has effect to build up muscles, grow fat, make us tall, our hair growth, and even make reduce or end the depression. If you eat meat, fish meat, pulses, eggs, or any other source from where you can get protein this will help you fight the depression. According to Ursula who is chairman of BDA ( British Dietetic Association ), he says that taking tryptophan which is one of basic building blocks of protein can help...