The Cooling foods article dealt with the need to eat different types of foods for different seasons & as promised, friendly-tips is back with two healthy summer recipes.

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In this article we are going to see two delicious summer recipes, a simple cold soup & a fantastic drink; both of which can be made with simple ingredients available in the summer season.

Quick summer recipe No 1 : Indian Raw Mango Cooler ( Aam Ka Panna)

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Forex tip for beginners

Forex market might look quite lucrative, but trading in forex needs a lot of precautions. May be even more than Stock market. This is mainly because of the power of leverage. In most forex platforms you can leverage your money upto 200 times. While this means more money for you if your tarde does well, this also means that you are risking more with each trade. Here are few tips for beginners with e-toro.

1)      Do not, DO NOT trade with real money unless you have mastered the forex trading with demo account. I believe that e-toro is the simplest to understand trading platform for fx trading. You can download the free demo account of etoro by clicking the link below.

Click here for a free forex practice account

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Summer foods that cool our body

Summer of 2010 is just settling in. Yahooanswers are already getting clogged with questions on nose bleeding, sleeplessness & indigestion.  Such questions get many sympathetic responses but very few address the root cause of the problem i.e. body heat. We need to eat differently in summer as compared to winter. In fact one needs to eat cooling foods in summer

Tell tale signs that your body is heating up is when you notice any of these symptoms:

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Walking & Jogging are the most basic forms to lose weight & if consistently done will surely reap untold benefits.   Internet is littered with debate on benefits on Jogging vs walking. All this started after a study conducted in1994 suggested that one burns more calories by walking.  This is not entirely true; Jogging will undoubtedly burn more calories if done for same amount of time as walking. This does not mean that jogging is a better for weight loss. One area when walking wins hands down is, less chance of injury. If one is on the heavier side or older side walking is a much safer alternative. One should also realize that walking can be as beneficial as jogging if done for extended period of time. (Calories burnt in a 30 minute jog may be similar to calories burnt in a one hour walk)

Click here to read the latest research paper on jogging & walking…

Let’s look at some benefits of walking:

• Weight loss. (I say that walking & weight loss are directly proportional)
• Increased muscle mass
• Lower risk of cancer diabetes, cancer & stroke
• Improved cholesterol levels
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I received many mails & queries on my previous article of forex trading. I presume some of you have already downloaded the free demo version of etoro forex trade. If not , you may download it now by clicking this link : free etoro demo forex trading software. I find etoro to be the best forex trading system in the market.

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How do you plan your body building routines? Do you depend 100% on your trainer or do you source information from net. Are these sources reliable?  There are many articles in the net that are written just to promote a product. The first body building myth I wish to shatter is:

1. An excessive amount of protein is a must in body building diet:

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If you are exploring online earning opportunities where one can earn 1000′s  of dollars from your home PC; trading forex online could be the option you are looking for.  The word trading is usually associated with risk, due the ups & downs of the stock market. Here, we are not talking of stock trading but trading in foreign currencies through forex platforms.

Forex markets are a much safer bet than stock due the facts mentioned below:

• Unlike stock market, up or down forex signals does not affect your earning potential. When a currency pair is going down one can make profit by selling it & vice versa when the currency pair is going up.
• The forex market stays open throughout the day; this increases the earning potential & decreases the risk.
• Most online forex accounts come with a stop loss mechanism. This means that you can never loose more money than that you have invested in that particular trade. We can also manually set much lower stop loss levels.
• One need not pay brokerage or commission charges for forex trade.
• Personally, I like the leverage in forex trade (also known as FX trade). In stock market one can get a leverage of 2:1 whereas forex brokers give you a leverage of up to 400:1. This means that smaller investments can get higher returns. (Higher leverage also means higher risk)

The challenge that we face is to learn to the new skills like – forex trade, forex signals, forex calendars & decipher forex charts & forex news.

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One of the causes of back pain is weak bones, which initially leads to osteopenia & later to osteoporosis.  Osteoporosis is usually detected very late. Some times a lower  back pain or a nagging  upper  back pain reveals that we have osteoporosis. According to international osteoporosis foundation, one in three women & one in every three men in India suffer from osteoporosis. It’s sad because most of these can be prevented by proper nutrition.

The old theory of drinking lots of milk & eating soya daily may not be enough! Americans are known to eat a lot of calcium rich diet, despite this osteoporosis & the resulting back pain is a major health problem there.

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Healthy Breakfast is the secret to burning double the fat in a regular day. Simple tweaks to the daily recipe can change regular breakfast recipes into healthy recipes. The secret here is to change the type of carbohydrates one consumes during the breakfast. Not all carbohydrates are bad. In fact unrefined carbohydrates are good for us. Unrefined cards like fruits, whole grains & certain lentils are rich in fiber & thus digest slowly. This will also make us eat right during the day as one is less likely to feel hungry.

I am a big fan of Indian breakfast. Most popular Indian breakfast items are a combination of cereals & pulses. This combination provides carbohydrates & protein; both of which are important at the start of the day. To top this, these breakfast items are fermented too. Fermentation coverts carbohydrates & sugar into beneficial acids, thereby increasing the nutritive value of these breakfast items.

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“Preventive maintenance is better than breakdown maintenance” – any good management school will teach you that. The statement is true for living healthy too. The good news here is that we can be our own maintenance engineer! Let’s look at some healthy living tip !

One just needs to monitor these 4 elements daily to be in the pink of health. I call it the “4 F’s”

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