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It is a given fact that unhealthy eating and living a sedentary life can adversely affect your heart, but even sitting for long hours can affect it. 
 The heart diseases are on the rise and growing annually at 9.2%. According to the National Commission for Macroeconomics and <keyword id="6354750" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="health">Health</keyword> (NCMH), the heart diseases in people grew to 6.1 million from 2.7 million in 2000. 
 
One of the major reasons for this rate is increased BMI, which then leads to diabetes and high lipid levels too. 
 Also, <keyword id="3176191" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Obino">Obino</keyword> conducted a 'Mobile Heart Health Survey' in India and the findings reveal how lifestyles affect men and women differently. 
 
Obino stated links between a largely sedentary lifestyle and the rise of obesity in India, one of the leading causes for heart ailments worldwide. 
 
“Over the last few years, we have been witness to the continual upward spiral of growing heart health concerns in India. And conducting this study brought forth what we suspected all along. A delay in seeking help as well as an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, even amongst the youth is propogating the rise of heart-related ailments in India” said Ritu Soni Srivastava, Founder, Obino. 
 On <keyword id="51518" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="World-Heart-Day">World Heart Day</keyword>, we bring you how our heart’s health is getting affected.

Here’s why heart woes are rising in India

Ritu Soni Srivastava struggled with her health and weight issues post pregnancy and when she went for a traditional weight loss treatment, Ritu found it quite expensive and inconvenient. 
 
This gave birth to Obino- a DIY weight loss coaching mobile app, which is like your personalised weight loss coach. 
 
Ritu founded this mobile app keeping in mind the struggles she faced while losing weight as she wanted people to have access to instant motivation and whole information on weight loss and holistic living for healthy choices are made at least 30 times in a day. 
 <keyword id="3176191" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Obino">Obino</keyword>, which was launched in 2014, is not like any other weight loss mobile application where content is aggregated from different sources. Here, you have well-qualified personalised coaches, dieticians and trainers who understand your body type, daily routine and then recommend you exercises and diets. 
 
“Obino’s coaches engage with the customers round-the-clock and inculcate healthy habits in them by teaching them how to manage their own health, which will be beneficial for them in the long run,” said Ritu. 
 
One of the Obino users, Sasmita, lost seven kilos and nine inches in two months. 
 
“I was all excited to see what unfolds next. Obino has helped me to be accountable for my health and I can see the difference,” she said. 
 
Whether you are in traffic, meeting, resting at home, etc, coaches at Obino tell you what to eat and when to eat, as per your convenience. All you need to do is chose a plan for yourself on the mobile app and get started. 
 
Obino has paid packages for coaching between Rs 499 and Rs 1,499 per month. 
 
“We want to help people. We all know about the weight loss struggles. We help people get started on the journey of achieving their health and weight loss goals,” said Ritu. 
 
Manna Healthcare, which runs Obino, raised funding from RoundGlass Partners, which is a US-based VC funding firm. 
 
“As the product grows and scales, the future challenges will be achieving the same high-quality, high-touch coaching experience but for millions of users,” said Ritu. 
 
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This DIY weight loss coaching app is the next thing you should have in your smartphone

As Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> rightly said, yoga relaxes the mind, improves quality of life and helps in attaining wellness. Apart from burning calories, yoga curbs emotional eating, enables one to eat healthy. Yoga improves your metabolism and gives you better digestion. To improve your lifestyle, one has to practice <keyword id="640204" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yoga-asanas">yoga asanas</keyword> every day to get the maximum benefits such as strengthening of the muscles, improving circulation, boosting immunity, etc. In case you are looking for effective weight loss along with overall wellness, you also need to control your diet and make healthy eating a part of your everyday life. A team of yoga experts at Obino, which is a mobile health and weight loss coach, have handpicked 6 yoga asanas and spelled out a healthy diet to follow to lose weight. Here you go!

6 yoga poses which will help in weight loss and the diet you should follow

It is important to take up a physical activity or to exercise to stay fit and lose weight. You can also make exercising fun by doing HIITs, zumba, pilates, etc so that staying fit doesn’t become a bore or a task. 
 One of the new routines you can include in your fitness regime is <keyword id="3044495" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Walking-Backwards">walking backwards</keyword>. Yes, this is something we did as children for fun but if you include this into your exercise routine, it can show some amazing results. 
 Physiotherapists at Obino, which is a mobile <keyword id="6354750" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> and weight loss coach, say one should keep few things in mind before walking backwards. They suggest walking on a flat to avoid falling and keep looking over your shoulders to keep a check of anything in your way. 
 
Walking backwards, as per the physiotherapists, improves heart activity and helps in losing weight 
 Here are 4 reasons why you should take up <keyword id="4358500" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="back-walking">back walking</keyword>

4 reasons why you should consider walking backwards for losing weight and gaining strength

If one of your resolutions for 2016 was to lose weight or stay healthy and you were keeping up with it, you must have tried various diets in the year. 
 People are over the GM diet now and year 2016 saw several <keyword id="16161" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dieting">dieting</keyword> trends that broke the internet. From Apple diet to cheese diet, many fitness freaks were experimenting with various diet regimes and some even lost oodles of weight. 
 
“Year 2016 definitely was the year for diet-focused weight loss. We saw it all this year, from enquiries on fad diets to mono-fruit diets, to actual spectacular weight loss by a healthy and balanced eating regimen, we can safely say that 2016 was the year of the diet,” said Ritu Soni Srivastava, Founder, Obino, which is a mobile health and weight loss coaching app. 
 
One of the crazy diets that were followed in 2016 was the apple diet. “You must have heard of 3 day or 5 day apple diets to get rid of those extra kilos pretty quick. All one has to do is hog onto as many apples as they want so there’s no fear of getting hungry,” said Ritu. 
 
Here are other crazy diets are people went mad over in 2016:

Heard of Apple
diet? 5 crazy diets people went gaga over in 2016

When it comes to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=weight+loss&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">weight loss</a>, we believe in anything and everything that is trending and also start following it. We believe in crash <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=diets&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">diets</a>, GM diets, etc blindly as they give us instant results. 
 
Sometimes we become so obsessed with weight loss that we don’t think about exercising and fall in prey of crash diets only to ruin our own <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=health&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">health</a>. 
 “With the recent advances in access to various channels of media, falling prey to following any fad/crash diets to lose weight has become an in thing. Nutrition information just keeps floating everywhere,” said Priya Jain, Head <keyword id="6354750" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="health">Health</keyword> Coach at Obino. 
 
But, we should always remember that we all have a different body type and it is important to read the fine prints, weigh the pros and cons, before following any trend. 
 
“People often concentrate just on the weight loss numbers and totally forget about body’s nutritional status,” said Jain, whose team at Obino calculated the ill-effects of fad diet. 
 Here are some of the <keyword id="3387803" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="popular-diets">popular diets</keyword> that have started a trend but on the nutrition scale, they perform badly. 
 
1. Raw Food Diet – This diet involved chewing all the day and suggested that cooking reduces nutrition levels. Well, it should be noted that cooking also enhances some nutrients available. These set of people continue to get benefitted from the nutrients enhanced with the rawness, and simultaneously keep missing the other set of nutrients available in cooked foods. All in all, it’s neither a sustainable diet nor does it give sustainable weight loss effects. 
 
2. Gluten Free Diet – It is understandable that people who are allergic or sensitive to gluten will avoid it, but what about the rest? “Normal people whose staple has been gluten based for donkey’s years have started following this diet in the hope of losing weight. They land up losing weight since the staple changes completely for them, however the weight loss effects don’t continue for long, unless healthy eating habits are instilled,” said Jain. Consequently, they either hit a plateau or the weight bounces back. 
 
3. Ketogenic Diet – As per Jain, this diet is an effective way of treating epilepsy as a humongous range of evidence based studies are there to back it up. Here, the body uses ketone bodies generated from fat as a source of fuel instead of glucose. This soon transformed into a diet trend. “Recent trend of following a ketogenic diet for weight loss can make people lose weight since there’s a shift in the fuel use in the body; with an addition of various medical problems to their bags like hypoglcemia, hypercholesterolemia, high uric acid levels, kidney stones, etc. Moreover, the preparation of ketogenic diet is an extra item on the to-do list too; since it’s the exact opposite of our usual diet, one cannot eat from the family pot,” said Jain, who rated this diet 1 out of 10. 
 
4. Blood Group Diet – What is your blood group as this diet is based on an understanding that foods you eat react with your blood type and hence specific blood groups are allowed specific food groups only. “However, there’s no evidence that this principle brings about weight loss effects. The only weight loss effect might be seen due to the diet being too restrictive, rather than being healthy,” said Jain. 
 
5. Detox Diet – If you over-indulged in a party the previous night and you are guilty about it, don’t compensate for it by eating only fruits or soup the next day. “Trust me, compensation in such forms could land one up in a soup, since it’s a vicious cycle. Many people complain of acidity, headaches, fatigue with even one day of such diet. If continued for longer durations, can lead to severe nutrient deficiency,” said Jain. 
 
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