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Does Metabolism affect weight gain?

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  Metabolism is the interaction by which your body changes over what you eat and drink into energy. During this complex process, calories in food and refreshments are combined with oxygen to deliver the energy your body needs to work. When you are at rest , your body needs energy for all its "covered up" functions, like breathing, coursing blood, changing hormone levels, and developing and fixing cells. The quantity of calories your body uses to complete these fundamental capacities is known as your basal metabolic rate — what you may call digestion . It could be enticing to blame your digestion for weight gain . But since digestion is a characteristic cycle, your body has numerous mechanisms that control it to meet your individual requirements. Just in rare cases do you get exorbitant weight acquire from a clinical issue that eases back digestion, like Cushing's condition or having an underactive thyroid organ (hypothyroidism). Despite the fact that your digestion...

Does Corona Virus Spreads Through Food?

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There is no evidence to suggest that coronavirus is transmitted through food and there have not been any reports of transmission of virus through food. Coronaviruses requires a host (animal or human) to grow in and cannot grow in food . Hence proper cooking is required to kill the virus. It is important to maintain good hygiene practices for open food (unpacked food). However, it may be possible that infected food workers or consumers could pass the virus to food, by coughing and sneezing, or through hand contact. It is therefore important to strictly follow good personal hygiene practices like ·         proper hand hygiene ·         cough/cold hygiene practices ·         safe food practices There are some misconceptions related to food. Coronavirus is reported to have started from China in the wet markets where people come every day to shop for meats. It has been sa...