Healthy Blog — health

Starting out a new year is the perfect time for a new beginning – a time to set new health goals and to challenge ourselves to be better. Sometimes setting new year resolutions can be exhausting, overwhelming and unrealistic. Often, we try to change too many aspects of our lives or set too many goals making it impossible to achieve them. Setting health and nutrition goals can be challenging, but we would like to give you some tips on how to kick-start your year with a bang and to set some new goals for yourself. Remember, the changes that you...

Let's start the new year fresh and healthy, first by debunking certain nutritional myths and second by simply eating healthier wholesome meals! When it comes to hot-button topics, proper nutrition is near the top of the list. While skimming through the news or a magazine, how many times have you come across a new snack, food or beverage that claims to protect you from disease or give you another health boost, like healthier skin or stronger bones? (I’m sure, at least a couple of times). We are constantly surrounded by the Internet which is booming with fad diets, dietary supplements, diet books,...

Practicing yoga poses is a form of moving meditation. Think of it this way: if you practice one of the yoga sequences from the Nike Training Club app every day, you’ll be exercising the body and calming the mind - two birds with one stone! Yoga as we know it is a sequence of postures, and is a great way to be physically active. When movement is paired with breath, this is called “Vinyasa”, a method that is very commonly practiced in all yoga styles and sequences. The Vinyasa method helps release toxins in the body, improve flexibility, build strength,...

So you’re either a newly diagnosed diabetes patient, or you’ve known about your condition for a while but you’re still struggling to manage it well. It can get difficult, in the overwhelming abundance of offerings in Dubai, to remember which foods to pick and which to avoid. It doesn’t help when things are labelled in a way to make you think that they’re “safe” and then they turn out to either spike your blood sugar too rapidly or leave you feeling faint. When the bare facts of food are laid out for you, your eating choices to control diabetes are...