Tag: healthy eating

Enjoy the Thrill of True Joy and Happiness

DMUSA News

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the walk of true joy and  happiness, living free of all resentment is the absolute must ingredient. Primarily because resentment and happiness can not exist in a human heart at the same time. Harboring  resentment is absolutely disastrous in the human life and foolish because this form of anger,regardless of the seeming cause, always comes back like a boomerang and harms the resentful person and never the person who one is angry with. One way to look at resentment is the person who has a resentment  is like a…

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Food for Thought: Why We Shouldn’t Count Calories

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 6 minutes To maintain health, humans must have a constant supply of nutrients to feed the cells in the body. Maintaining a steady but dynamic state requires that we acquire sufficient varied nutrients regularly from the foods we consume. Nutrients are absorbed in the form of molecules and ions into the bloodstream, where cells absorb them and utilize them to perform their functions. This process requires the use of energy, just like what happens in a factory that manufactures goods.  It is this use of energy that produced the rationale for creating…

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Trick or Treat: The Really Scary Sugar To Fear This Halloween

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 5 minutes For many, the overwhelming access to sugar is a scary fact about Halloween and all the upcoming holidays. Added sugar is often thought of as the cause of weight gain, obesity, and diabetes. “Added sugar” is actually what you need to be concerned about.  Added sugars account for about 17 percent of the total calorie intake of adults and up to 14 percent for children, according to a recent study.  Many people are confused about whether added sugar is the same as sugar (glucose) in your bloodstream. The answer is…

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