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Nowadays, it is pretty much hard for people to maintain a proper diet due to their busy lives. Only with balanced diet you can be sure of your body getting nutrients that are provided by you eating wide variety of foods. For ensuring the safety of your health, it is very important for you to maintain a balanced diet as it provides the body’s organs and tissues with the required nutrition, which is needed for its proper functioning. With adequate diet you are able to prevent many kinds of chronic health conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes. Here are some tips which would help you in maintaining a healthy balanced diet.

1) Plan Your Meals
You can make sure you are having a well balanced diet by writing out your meals which you will be having each week. Make sure you include different foods that are healthy and nutritious in your diet every day. Also you need to be sure in including foods from each food groups like protein, fruits, vegetables, grains and dairy, as various important nutrients are present in each food groups that are required for the proper functioning of the body.

2) Stock Fresh And Healthy Foods
After planning your meals, you need to see to it your kitchen is stocked with healthy and fresh foods as it would be much easier for you to prepare your healthy meals and also maintaining a proper diet. Making a list of healthy grocery items is good as it would make shopping much easier for you. For those of you confused in what to buy for retaining your diet, canned beans, canned tuna or chicken, unsalted canned vegetables, 100% whole grains like quinoa, 100% whole wheat pasta, brown rice and nut butters can be bought for getting an easy and balanced diet. Stock up your pantry with fresh vegetables and fruits, diary that are low in fat and lean proteins like fish, chicken or lean beef.

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Including healthy foods in your diet is the best way of ensuring your body retains all the nutrients which is very necessary for the body in generating new cells, getting rid of toxins and also for functioning properly everyday. Now eating healthy foods can even prevent in causing imminent diseases like cancer or diabetes from occurring. Those of you all are looking for a weight loss diet do not have to worry about sacrificing your favorite food but just need to opt for a healthy cooking.

By eating the right type of foods and through regular exercise, you will be able to control weight gain. But for eating healthy, you need to know which foods would be best for your diet. Different types of foods go through various metabolic ways in the body. The foods taken by you can have immensely various effects on hormones, hunger and also on how many calories you burn. So here are some foods that would help you have a healthy weight loss diet.

1) Greens
Spinach, swiss chards, collards, kale and a few other leafy vegetables have several properties that can help you in maintaining a perfect diet. Leafy vegetables are rich in fiber and have low calories and carbohydrates. Including green vegetables to your diet is a perfect way of increasing the amount of your meals without any calories getting increased. They are nutritious and have a very high content of minerals, antioxidants and vitamins.

2) Eggs
Even though eggs were once feared in bringing cholesterol, now recent studies have shown that they don’t negatively affect the blood cholesterol and do not cause heart attacks. Eggs are considered to be one of the best foods that you can eat in order to lose weight. They are rich in healthy fats, protein and have very less calorie. The yolk is packed with nutrients.

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In today’s world, technology plays an important role in bringing about changes in our lives. Many of the medical breakthroughs that you all have today wouldn’t have been possible, if more technologies were not invented. Due to the hard work done by researchers, doctors and scientist, you are able to treat various types of conditions and diseases. Once their researches have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the cure or treatments are made available to the public. These breakthroughs may change or even save a person’s life. Now let us look at some of the newest breakthroughs of 2016, which would change the outlook of medicine forever.

1) Mini Pacemaker
It can be fatal for the person who is suffering from a heart anomaly. People with this type of heart condition are fitted with a pacemaker, which are usually very effective, but placing them can be an insidious procedure. There is also a chance of the wires of the pacemaker that are connected to the heart of getting infected, which may cause serious complications. But now with the invention of the mini pacemaker, it is possible for a person to undergo this procedure without any surgery. The mini pacemaker requires no wires, thereby reducing the rate of infection. The pacemaker is implanted on to your heart by use of a catheter that pushes the implant all the way through the femoral vein.

2) Super Pills For Controlling High LDL Cholesterol
The risk of getting heart attacks or any other heart related problems are high if you have high cholesterol level. But now, two drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors are found to stop a gene called PCSK9 that creates cholesterol. The pill helps in reducing the LDL level by at least 50% and can reduce the risk of heart attack and any other heart problems.