Folic Acid Protects offsprings from colon cancer new research find
Folic acid supplements given to pregnant and breast-feeding females, reduced the rate of colon cancer in their offspring by 64 percent, based on mice studies.
The research, led by Young-in Kim, gastroenterologist at St. Michael's Hospital, is the first to find that folic acid supplements at the level ingested by women of childbearing age "significantly protects against the development of colorectal cancer in the offspring."
Folate is known to help make DNA and help it replicate. Natural folate is found in grains and dark, leafy vegetables, reports the journal Gut.
"It appears that giving folic acid during pregnancy and lactation reduces DNA damage and suppresses the proliferation of cells in the colon," Kim said, according to a St. Michael's statement.
"It actually increases the stability of the DNA and this might be one of the mechanisms of how folic acid in utero may protect against colon cancer."
The amount of folic acid to which foetuses are exposed has increased dramatically in North America in the past decade.
Women are routinely advised to take folic acid supplements before becoming pregnant and while pregnant to prevent neural tube birth defects such as spina bifida.
Since 1998, the Canadian and US governments have required food manufacturers to add folic acid to white flour, enriched pasta and cornmeal products as a way of ensuring women receive enough of the B vitamin.
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May 28, 2011
Source – IANS
Keyword Tag – Folic Acid Benefits
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
No Protection to heart even if consume, eat less salt. Reduced Salt Consumption Kills says new research
No Protection to heart even if consume, eat less salt.
Reduced Salt Consumption Kills says new research
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (May 4), reports that among 3,681 study subjects followed for as long as 23 years, the cardiovascular death rate was more than 50 percent higher among those on who consumed less salt.
The study found no evidence that dietary salt causes those conditions to arise.
The researchers concluded that their findings, “refute the estimates of computer model of lives saved and health care costs reduced with lower salt intake” and they do not support “the current recommendations of a generalized and indiscriminate reduction in salt intake at the population level.”
People who ate lots of salt were not more likely to get high blood pressure, and were less likely to die of heart disease than those with a low salt intake, in a new European study.
The findings "certainly do not support the current recommendation to lower salt intake in the general population," study author Dr. Jan Staessen, of the University of Leuven in Belgium, told Reuters Health.
The researchers used data from two different studies, incorporating a total of about 3,700 Europeans who had their salt consumption measured through urine samples at the start of the studies.
Staessen and his colleagues broke the participants up into three groups: those with highest and lowest salt intakes, and those with average intake.
None of the participants had heart disease at the outset, and two thirds had normal blood pressure.
They were followed for an average of 8 years, during which researchers determined
How many of them were diagnosed with heart disease,
And in a smaller group, how many got high blood pressure.
The chance of getting heart and blood vessel diseases did not differ in the three groups. However, participants with the lowest salt intake had the highest rate of death from heart disease during the follow up (4 percent), and people who ate the most salt had the lowest (less than 1 percent).
"It's clear that one should be very careful in advocating generalized reduction in sodium intake in the population at large," Staessen said. "There might be some benefits, but there might also be some adverse effects."
According to CBS News, Belgium scientists discovered the following:
• The lowest sodium intake patients had a 56 percent greater chance of death from heart attack or stroke than the group who used salt the most frequently.
• Low sodium intake was not associated with improved health.
The findings are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
But we know that FDA and other agencies even our doctors recommend us reduction in salt content in our diet.
They tell us eat less salt it will reduced the chance of heart attack.
But now this is the study finding which does not support the claim.
Both are exactly opposite to each other.
A new Belgium study about salt consumption may challenge the dietary guidelines
Best solution and idea is that Reducing salt may still be a good idea for people who already have high blood pressure or who have had heart problems in the past
Suggested Reading –
Part One – Know the 75 Useful Tips and uses of Salt -Salt Useful Uses and Tips –
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-one-know-75-useful-tips-and-uses.html
Part 2 – Know 44 useful tips and uses of salt
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-2-know-44-useful-tips-and-uses-of.html
Know about Salt - The white poison
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/know-about-salt-white-poison.html
Reality views by sm-
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Keyword Tag – Salt Blood Pressure Relation Salt intake more or less
Source –
http://jama.ama-assn.org
http://www.reuters.com
Reduced Salt Consumption Kills says new research
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (May 4), reports that among 3,681 study subjects followed for as long as 23 years, the cardiovascular death rate was more than 50 percent higher among those on who consumed less salt.
The study found no evidence that dietary salt causes those conditions to arise.
The researchers concluded that their findings, “refute the estimates of computer model of lives saved and health care costs reduced with lower salt intake” and they do not support “the current recommendations of a generalized and indiscriminate reduction in salt intake at the population level.”
People who ate lots of salt were not more likely to get high blood pressure, and were less likely to die of heart disease than those with a low salt intake, in a new European study.
The findings "certainly do not support the current recommendation to lower salt intake in the general population," study author Dr. Jan Staessen, of the University of Leuven in Belgium, told Reuters Health.
The researchers used data from two different studies, incorporating a total of about 3,700 Europeans who had their salt consumption measured through urine samples at the start of the studies.
Staessen and his colleagues broke the participants up into three groups: those with highest and lowest salt intakes, and those with average intake.
None of the participants had heart disease at the outset, and two thirds had normal blood pressure.
They were followed for an average of 8 years, during which researchers determined
How many of them were diagnosed with heart disease,
And in a smaller group, how many got high blood pressure.
The chance of getting heart and blood vessel diseases did not differ in the three groups. However, participants with the lowest salt intake had the highest rate of death from heart disease during the follow up (4 percent), and people who ate the most salt had the lowest (less than 1 percent).
"It's clear that one should be very careful in advocating generalized reduction in sodium intake in the population at large," Staessen said. "There might be some benefits, but there might also be some adverse effects."
According to CBS News, Belgium scientists discovered the following:
• The lowest sodium intake patients had a 56 percent greater chance of death from heart attack or stroke than the group who used salt the most frequently.
• Low sodium intake was not associated with improved health.
The findings are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
But we know that FDA and other agencies even our doctors recommend us reduction in salt content in our diet.
They tell us eat less salt it will reduced the chance of heart attack.
But now this is the study finding which does not support the claim.
Both are exactly opposite to each other.
A new Belgium study about salt consumption may challenge the dietary guidelines
Best solution and idea is that Reducing salt may still be a good idea for people who already have high blood pressure or who have had heart problems in the past
Suggested Reading –
Part One – Know the 75 Useful Tips and uses of Salt -Salt Useful Uses and Tips –
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-one-know-75-useful-tips-and-uses.html
Part 2 – Know 44 useful tips and uses of salt
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-2-know-44-useful-tips-and-uses-of.html
Know about Salt - The white poison
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/know-about-salt-white-poison.html
Reality views by sm-
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Keyword Tag – Salt Blood Pressure Relation Salt intake more or less
Source –
http://jama.ama-assn.org
http://www.reuters.com
Friday, April 29, 2011
Endosulfan Ban India agreed and accepted in Stockholm world convention
Endosulfan Ban India agreed and accepted in Stockholm world convention
In past India was not ready to ban Endosulfan even after knowing the bad effects,
side effects of Endosulfan pesticide.
Now India accepted in Stockholm world convention that the pesticide Endosulfan is a health hazard.
India also agreed to a phased out ban with an exemption for some crops.
In next 10 Years Slowly India will phase out the use of health hazard pesticide Endosulfan.
Before this Indian Government always said that there is no proof that the Endosulfan is health hazard even after knowing it.
But in this convention China also supported the ban on Endosulfan.
Food and Agriculture Association of the UN stated it is hazardous.
Currently 84 countries have banned the Endosulfan drug.
Money is not important, important is human health.
Suggested Reading –
What is Endosulfan pesticide? Ban Endosulfan Pesticide.
Under Stockholm Convention Endosulfan will get globally banned.
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-is-endosulfan-pesticide-ban.html
Reality Views by sm-
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Keyword Tag – Endosulfan Ban Side Effects India UN Ban China Ban
In past India was not ready to ban Endosulfan even after knowing the bad effects,
side effects of Endosulfan pesticide.
Now India accepted in Stockholm world convention that the pesticide Endosulfan is a health hazard.
India also agreed to a phased out ban with an exemption for some crops.
In next 10 Years Slowly India will phase out the use of health hazard pesticide Endosulfan.
Before this Indian Government always said that there is no proof that the Endosulfan is health hazard even after knowing it.
But in this convention China also supported the ban on Endosulfan.
Food and Agriculture Association of the UN stated it is hazardous.
Currently 84 countries have banned the Endosulfan drug.
Money is not important, important is human health.
Suggested Reading –
What is Endosulfan pesticide? Ban Endosulfan Pesticide.
Under Stockholm Convention Endosulfan will get globally banned.
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-is-endosulfan-pesticide-ban.html
Reality Views by sm-
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Keyword Tag – Endosulfan Ban Side Effects India UN Ban China Ban
Monday, April 25, 2011
What is endosulfan pesticide? Ban Endosulfan Pesticide. Under Stockholm Convention Endosulfan will get globally banned.
What is endosulfan pesticide? Ban Endosulfan Pesticide.
Under Stockholm Convention Endosulfan will get globally banned.
Under Stockholm Convention Endosulfan may get banned permanently by saving our Indian farmers and farm workers also.
The POPRC nominated endosulfan to be added to the Stockholm Convention at the Conference of Parties (COP) in April 2011
The EPA announced that the registration of endosulfan in the U.S. will be cancelled
Environmental Protection Agency declared Endosulfan as Unsafe.
Endosulfan is banned in more than 63 countries including European Union, Australia and New Zealand, and other Asian and West African nations
Endosulfan was banned in New Zealand by the Environmental Risk Management Authority effective January 2009
Australia banned endosulfan October 12, 2010
But in India Endosulfan is used and manufactured in large quantities.
It is produced by Bayer CropScience, Makhteshim Agan, and Government-of-India–owned Hindustan Insecticides Limited and other few companies.
India the world's largest user of endosulfan, and a major producer with three companies
1. Excel Crop Care,
2. H.I.L.,
3. Coromandal Fertilizers
Producing 4,500 tonnes annually for domestic use and another 4,000 tonnes for export.
India is strongly opposed to adding endosulfan to the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
An organochlorine insecticide first registered in the 1950s,
endosulfan can be used on a variety of vegetables and fruits, on cotton, and on ornamental shrubs, trees, and vines.
Endosulfan has no residential uses.
Crops with the highest use in 2006 – 2008 included tomato, cucurbit, potato, apple, and cotton.
Endosulfan is an organochlorine insecticide that can be used on a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, cotton, and ornamental plants. It has no residential uses.
Household exposure is not of concern because endosulfan is not approved for residential uses in America.
According to Scientific American, endosulfan “is a chlorinated insecticide that is chemically similar to DDT, which was banned nearly 40 years ago in America.
Like DDT, endosulfan builds up in the environment and in the bodies of people and wildlife, and it is transported around the world via winds and currents.
Nearly all other organochlorine pesticides already have been banned in USA.
Endosulfan is used on crops such as vegetables, fruits, and cotton. According to The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] the use of endosulfan is not harmful to humans through dietary exposure, but new research shows that it poses “unacceptable risks” to farm workers and wildlife due to inhalation and contact with skin.
Data developed since 2002 has shed additional light on the risks faced by workers who apply endosulfan and those who harvest crops and conduct activities in fields after the pesticide is used.
Risks faced by workers are greater than previously known, in many instances exceeding the Agency's levels of concern.
Endosulfan can travel long distances from where it is used.
For example, a 2008 report by the National Parks Service found that endosulfan commonly contaminates air, water, plants and fish of National Parks in the U.S.
Most of these parks are far from areas where endosulfan is used.
People may be exposed to residues of endosulfan through food and drinking water, human milk. Damage will depend how much Endosulfan has been used.
Endosulfan is volatile, persistent, and has a high potential to bio-accumulate in aquatic and terrestrial organisms. A large body of scientific literature documents endosulfan’s medium- and long-range transport on a global scale and subsequent accumulation in nearly all environmental media. Through the process of global distillation, endosulfan is present in air, water, sediment, and biota thousands of miles from use areas.
The human effects are largely unknown but tests on lab animals have shown that endosulfan is toxic to the nervous system and can damage the kidney, liver and male reproductive organs.
Endosulfan is also a xenoestrogen a synthetic substance that imitates or enhances the effect of estrogens and it can act as an endocrine disruptor, causing reproductive and developmental damage in both animals and humans.
Researchers studying children from an isolated village in Kasargod District , Kerala, India have linked endosulfan exposure to delays in sexual maturity among boys
The researchers concluded that "our study results suggest that endosulfan exposure in male children may delay sexual maturity and interfere with sex hormone synthesis
Endosulfan has been banned in Kerala since 2005 in view of the grievous ill-effects of its use in cashew plantations in Kasaragod, including nearly 500 deaths and chronic health problems among the population.
The Pollution Control Board of the Government of Kerala, prohibited the use of Endosulfan in the state of Kerala on 10 November 2010
A 2007 study by the California Department of Public Health found that women who lived near farm fields sprayed with endosulfan and the related organochloride pesticide dicofol during the first eight weeks of pregnancy are several times more likely to give birth to children with autism.
Synonyms – Endosulfan
1.115-29-7
2.BENZOEPIN
3.BEOSIT
4.BIO 5,462
5.CHLORTHIEPIN
6.CRISULFAN
7.CYCLODAN
8.DEVISULPHAN
9.ENDOCEL
10.ENDOSOL
11.Endosulfan
12.ENDOSULPHAN
13.ENSURE
14.ENT 23,979
15.FMC 5462
16.1,2,3,4,7,7-HEXACHLOROBICYCLO(2.2.1)HEPTEN-5,6-BIOXYMETHYLENESULFITE
17.alpha,beta-1,2,3,4,7,7-HEXACHLOROBICYCLO(2.2.1)-2-HEPTENE-5,6-BISOXYMETHYLENE SULFITE
18.HEXACHLOROHEXAHYDROMETHANO 2,4,3-BENZODIOXATHIEPIN-3-OXIDE
19.6,7,8,9,10,10-HEXACHLORO-1,5,5a,6,9,9a-HEXAHYDRO-6,9-METHANO-2,4,3-BENZODIOXATHIEPIN-3-OXIDE
20.1,4,5,6,7,7-HEXACHLORO-5-NORBORNENE-2,3-DIMETHANOL cyclic SULFITE
21.HILDAN
22.HOE 2,671
23.INSECTOPHENE
24.KOP-THIODAN
25.MALIX
26.NA 2761
27.NCI-C00566
28.NIA 5462
29.NIAGARA 5,462
30.5-NORBORNENE-2,3-DIMETHANOL, 1,4,5,6,7,7-HEXACHLORO-,CYCLIC SULFITE
31.OMS 570
32.RCRA WASTE NUMBER P050
33.THIFOR
34.THIMUL
35.THIODAN
36.THIOFOR
37.THIOMUL
38.THIONEX
39.THIOSULFAN
40.THIOSULFAN TIONEL
41.TIOVEL
Support and demand ban on endosulfan pesticide in India.
Reality Views by sm –
Monday, April 25, 2011 – 6.50 PM IST
Keyword Tag – Ban endosulfan pesticide
Source –
http://www.epa.gov
http://www.scientificamerican.com
http://en.wikipedia.org
Under Stockholm Convention Endosulfan will get globally banned.
Under Stockholm Convention Endosulfan may get banned permanently by saving our Indian farmers and farm workers also.
The POPRC nominated endosulfan to be added to the Stockholm Convention at the Conference of Parties (COP) in April 2011
The EPA announced that the registration of endosulfan in the U.S. will be cancelled
Environmental Protection Agency declared Endosulfan as Unsafe.
Endosulfan is banned in more than 63 countries including European Union, Australia and New Zealand, and other Asian and West African nations
Endosulfan was banned in New Zealand by the Environmental Risk Management Authority effective January 2009
Australia banned endosulfan October 12, 2010
But in India Endosulfan is used and manufactured in large quantities.
It is produced by Bayer CropScience, Makhteshim Agan, and Government-of-India–owned Hindustan Insecticides Limited and other few companies.
India the world's largest user of endosulfan, and a major producer with three companies
1. Excel Crop Care,
2. H.I.L.,
3. Coromandal Fertilizers
Producing 4,500 tonnes annually for domestic use and another 4,000 tonnes for export.
India is strongly opposed to adding endosulfan to the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
An organochlorine insecticide first registered in the 1950s,
endosulfan can be used on a variety of vegetables and fruits, on cotton, and on ornamental shrubs, trees, and vines.
Endosulfan has no residential uses.
Crops with the highest use in 2006 – 2008 included tomato, cucurbit, potato, apple, and cotton.
Endosulfan is an organochlorine insecticide that can be used on a wide variety of vegetables and fruits, cotton, and ornamental plants. It has no residential uses.
Household exposure is not of concern because endosulfan is not approved for residential uses in America.
According to Scientific American, endosulfan “is a chlorinated insecticide that is chemically similar to DDT, which was banned nearly 40 years ago in America.
Like DDT, endosulfan builds up in the environment and in the bodies of people and wildlife, and it is transported around the world via winds and currents.
Nearly all other organochlorine pesticides already have been banned in USA.
Endosulfan is used on crops such as vegetables, fruits, and cotton. According to The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] the use of endosulfan is not harmful to humans through dietary exposure, but new research shows that it poses “unacceptable risks” to farm workers and wildlife due to inhalation and contact with skin.
Data developed since 2002 has shed additional light on the risks faced by workers who apply endosulfan and those who harvest crops and conduct activities in fields after the pesticide is used.
Risks faced by workers are greater than previously known, in many instances exceeding the Agency's levels of concern.
Endosulfan can travel long distances from where it is used.
For example, a 2008 report by the National Parks Service found that endosulfan commonly contaminates air, water, plants and fish of National Parks in the U.S.
Most of these parks are far from areas where endosulfan is used.
People may be exposed to residues of endosulfan through food and drinking water, human milk. Damage will depend how much Endosulfan has been used.
Endosulfan is volatile, persistent, and has a high potential to bio-accumulate in aquatic and terrestrial organisms. A large body of scientific literature documents endosulfan’s medium- and long-range transport on a global scale and subsequent accumulation in nearly all environmental media. Through the process of global distillation, endosulfan is present in air, water, sediment, and biota thousands of miles from use areas.
The human effects are largely unknown but tests on lab animals have shown that endosulfan is toxic to the nervous system and can damage the kidney, liver and male reproductive organs.
Endosulfan is also a xenoestrogen a synthetic substance that imitates or enhances the effect of estrogens and it can act as an endocrine disruptor, causing reproductive and developmental damage in both animals and humans.
Researchers studying children from an isolated village in Kasargod District , Kerala, India have linked endosulfan exposure to delays in sexual maturity among boys
The researchers concluded that "our study results suggest that endosulfan exposure in male children may delay sexual maturity and interfere with sex hormone synthesis
Endosulfan has been banned in Kerala since 2005 in view of the grievous ill-effects of its use in cashew plantations in Kasaragod, including nearly 500 deaths and chronic health problems among the population.
The Pollution Control Board of the Government of Kerala, prohibited the use of Endosulfan in the state of Kerala on 10 November 2010
A 2007 study by the California Department of Public Health found that women who lived near farm fields sprayed with endosulfan and the related organochloride pesticide dicofol during the first eight weeks of pregnancy are several times more likely to give birth to children with autism.
Synonyms – Endosulfan
1.115-29-7
2.BENZOEPIN
3.BEOSIT
4.BIO 5,462
5.CHLORTHIEPIN
6.CRISULFAN
7.CYCLODAN
8.DEVISULPHAN
9.ENDOCEL
10.ENDOSOL
11.Endosulfan
12.ENDOSULPHAN
13.ENSURE
14.ENT 23,979
15.FMC 5462
16.1,2,3,4,7,7-HEXACHLOROBICYCLO(2.2.1)HEPTEN-5,6-BIOXYMETHYLENESULFITE
17.alpha,beta-1,2,3,4,7,7-HEXACHLOROBICYCLO(2.2.1)-2-HEPTENE-5,6-BISOXYMETHYLENE SULFITE
18.HEXACHLOROHEXAHYDROMETHANO 2,4,3-BENZODIOXATHIEPIN-3-OXIDE
19.6,7,8,9,10,10-HEXACHLORO-1,5,5a,6,9,9a-HEXAHYDRO-6,9-METHANO-2,4,3-BENZODIOXATHIEPIN-3-OXIDE
20.1,4,5,6,7,7-HEXACHLORO-5-NORBORNENE-2,3-DIMETHANOL cyclic SULFITE
21.HILDAN
22.HOE 2,671
23.INSECTOPHENE
24.KOP-THIODAN
25.MALIX
26.NA 2761
27.NCI-C00566
28.NIA 5462
29.NIAGARA 5,462
30.5-NORBORNENE-2,3-DIMETHANOL, 1,4,5,6,7,7-HEXACHLORO-,CYCLIC SULFITE
31.OMS 570
32.RCRA WASTE NUMBER P050
33.THIFOR
34.THIMUL
35.THIODAN
36.THIOFOR
37.THIOMUL
38.THIONEX
39.THIOSULFAN
40.THIOSULFAN TIONEL
41.TIOVEL
Support and demand ban on endosulfan pesticide in India.
Reality Views by sm –
Monday, April 25, 2011 – 6.50 PM IST
Keyword Tag – Ban endosulfan pesticide
Source –
http://www.epa.gov
http://www.scientificamerican.com
http://en.wikipedia.org
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Know 46 Health Benefits of Onions Ayurvedic Home Remedies of Onion
Know 46 Health Benefits of Onions Ayurvedic Home Remedies of Onion
1.
Onion is known as Phalandu in Sanskrit. Hindi Name: Pyaj , Marathi Name – Kanda
2.
The herbaceous plant onion belongs to family “Liliaceae” and has latin name “Allium Cepa”.
3.
Onions are rich in certain sulphur-containing compounds.
4.
Onion normalizes vata and increases kapha and pitta.
5.
Onions are cooling topically but heating internally.
6.
Onions are antiseptic, antibiotic, carminative and antimicrobial.
7.
Onions are low in calories, fat cholesterol and sodium.
8.
Onions contain fiber potassium, Vitamins C and B and other nutrients.
9.
Remedy for common cold, cough, fever and sore throat –Juice of fresh onion with jaggery or onion juice with Honey will help you to cure sore throat and other conditions. For allergies also you can try the Onion Juice mix with Honey or Jaggery.
10.
Fever - cut a large white onion and just apply it on the forehead it will help you and save you from side effects until you visit the doctor.
11.
Bleeding from Nose – If someone is bleeding cut the onion and let the person breathe the smell of fresh cut onion. This will help to stop the blood or reduce it.
12.
White onions are recommended in bleeding disorders to reduce bleeding. Hence it is used in conditions like bleeding piles and bleeding through nose.
13.
Can not sleep – Start to eat daily one onion and surely this will help you to get a good night sleep. Good Home Remedy for Insomnia
14.
Onions help increase digestive juices thus helps to have good digestion.
15.
Burn wound, Bee bite also you can apply Onion Juice.
16.
Onions are effective against different types of head and neck cancer.
17.
Regular consumption of onions helps to reduce incidences of osteoporosis.
18.
Onions are effective or used in or used to treat diabetes. Onions increase the production of Insulin in body.
19.
Red onions help to remove the unwanted cholesterol from the body which causes heartaches and heartbreaks.
20.
Red Onions help to preserve and keep good cholesterol in body
21.
Daily eat one Red Onion and it will save you from coronary heart diseases
22.
Daily use of Onion helps like erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation and low libido.
23.
Onion seeds help to increase sperm count and sperm motility.
24.
Onions help to reduce pain and inflammation of joints in conditions like arthritis
25.
Cut two onions fry them using castor oil or sesame oil with turmeric when Onions become soft , get the clean cloth pour the soft hot onions into cloth , tie the cloth and start to apply or press or tie this cloth to the aching part of the body.
26.
Remove dark pigments and patches – Apply the Onion Juice mix with turmeric on face this will help you to remove dark pigments and patches
27.
Use of Onion juice is recommended in ear pain and blurred vision.
28.
For ear-ache or buzzing in the ear, heat the onion juice and put few drops in ear. This juice can also soothe an acute toothache.
29.
Onions help to prevent tooth decaying and reduce tooth pain.
30.
Onion has a rejuvenating effect on all tissues and body systems: the digestive, respiratory, nervous, reproductive, and circulatory systems.
31.
Onion Juice helps to get the rid of moles also, try them on mole not all the moles but in few types Onion Juice Helps.
32.
One spoonful of onion juice eliminates worms in the stomach of children.
33.
Onions improve the memory and strengthen the nerves.
34.
Regular consumption of onion reduces atherosclerosis.
35.
Regular consumption of onion reduces risk of colon cancer
36.
To get full benefits of Onion always try to eat Raw Onion, cut the Onion get the salt or chilly powder as per taste and eat it with Roti. Or Start to use Onion in Salads
37.
Red Onions help to correct menstrual disorders. Eat Raw Red Onions a few days before your period.
38.
How to make Onion Juice - Take 2 Onions cut them slice them, now pour half cup of water leave to macerate for two or three hours. Then drink 2 or 3 times a day.
39.
As an aphrodisiac: Steam a few onions, squeeze and extract the juice (half-a-cup), add two tablespoons of ghee. Drink daily on an empty stomach.
40.
Daily consumption of onion with raw sugar helps children to gain height.
41.
Applying onion juice on the hair eliminates lice. Apply Onion Juice to Hair it stops the Hair Fall also.
42.
Now When you will eat Onion Pakoda always remember above benefits and enjoy the Pakoda more.
43.
In South India Sambhar is made with small Onions its excellent dish to enjoy the benefits of Onions.
44.
Egyptians used onions to preserve mummies.
45.
100 Grams of Onion Contains - Water: 86 to 89 gms, Protein: 1.2 gm, Fat 0.1 gm Starch:- 9 to 11 gmsFibre: 0.6 to 1.70 gm. Minerals: 0.4 gmCalcium: 47 mg.Phosprous 50 mg Vitamin C: 11 mg Iron 0.7 mg. B Complex
46.
Every day how much Onion One should consume? Daily consumption of 100 Gms of Onion is advised
Please always visit the doctor. Home Remedies should be tried for one day only.
All the above tips are given to increase knowledge about Onion and benefits of eating daily Onions.
Reality Views by sm –
Monday, April 25, 2011
Tag Keyword – Onion Heath Benefits, Onion Home Remedies Onion Ayurvedic Home Remedies of Onion –
1.
Onion is known as Phalandu in Sanskrit. Hindi Name: Pyaj , Marathi Name – Kanda
2.
The herbaceous plant onion belongs to family “Liliaceae” and has latin name “Allium Cepa”.
3.
Onions are rich in certain sulphur-containing compounds.
4.
Onion normalizes vata and increases kapha and pitta.
5.
Onions are cooling topically but heating internally.
6.
Onions are antiseptic, antibiotic, carminative and antimicrobial.
7.
Onions are low in calories, fat cholesterol and sodium.
8.
Onions contain fiber potassium, Vitamins C and B and other nutrients.
9.
Remedy for common cold, cough, fever and sore throat –Juice of fresh onion with jaggery or onion juice with Honey will help you to cure sore throat and other conditions. For allergies also you can try the Onion Juice mix with Honey or Jaggery.
10.
Fever - cut a large white onion and just apply it on the forehead it will help you and save you from side effects until you visit the doctor.
11.
Bleeding from Nose – If someone is bleeding cut the onion and let the person breathe the smell of fresh cut onion. This will help to stop the blood or reduce it.
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White onions are recommended in bleeding disorders to reduce bleeding. Hence it is used in conditions like bleeding piles and bleeding through nose.
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Can not sleep – Start to eat daily one onion and surely this will help you to get a good night sleep. Good Home Remedy for Insomnia
14.
Onions help increase digestive juices thus helps to have good digestion.
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Burn wound, Bee bite also you can apply Onion Juice.
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Onions are effective against different types of head and neck cancer.
17.
Regular consumption of onions helps to reduce incidences of osteoporosis.
18.
Onions are effective or used in or used to treat diabetes. Onions increase the production of Insulin in body.
19.
Red onions help to remove the unwanted cholesterol from the body which causes heartaches and heartbreaks.
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Red Onions help to preserve and keep good cholesterol in body
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Daily eat one Red Onion and it will save you from coronary heart diseases
22.
Daily use of Onion helps like erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation and low libido.
23.
Onion seeds help to increase sperm count and sperm motility.
24.
Onions help to reduce pain and inflammation of joints in conditions like arthritis
25.
Cut two onions fry them using castor oil or sesame oil with turmeric when Onions become soft , get the clean cloth pour the soft hot onions into cloth , tie the cloth and start to apply or press or tie this cloth to the aching part of the body.
26.
Remove dark pigments and patches – Apply the Onion Juice mix with turmeric on face this will help you to remove dark pigments and patches
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Use of Onion juice is recommended in ear pain and blurred vision.
28.
For ear-ache or buzzing in the ear, heat the onion juice and put few drops in ear. This juice can also soothe an acute toothache.
29.
Onions help to prevent tooth decaying and reduce tooth pain.
30.
Onion has a rejuvenating effect on all tissues and body systems: the digestive, respiratory, nervous, reproductive, and circulatory systems.
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Onion Juice helps to get the rid of moles also, try them on mole not all the moles but in few types Onion Juice Helps.
32.
One spoonful of onion juice eliminates worms in the stomach of children.
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Onions improve the memory and strengthen the nerves.
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Regular consumption of onion reduces atherosclerosis.
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Regular consumption of onion reduces risk of colon cancer
36.
To get full benefits of Onion always try to eat Raw Onion, cut the Onion get the salt or chilly powder as per taste and eat it with Roti. Or Start to use Onion in Salads
37.
Red Onions help to correct menstrual disorders. Eat Raw Red Onions a few days before your period.
38.
How to make Onion Juice - Take 2 Onions cut them slice them, now pour half cup of water leave to macerate for two or three hours. Then drink 2 or 3 times a day.
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As an aphrodisiac: Steam a few onions, squeeze and extract the juice (half-a-cup), add two tablespoons of ghee. Drink daily on an empty stomach.
40.
Daily consumption of onion with raw sugar helps children to gain height.
41.
Applying onion juice on the hair eliminates lice. Apply Onion Juice to Hair it stops the Hair Fall also.
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Now When you will eat Onion Pakoda always remember above benefits and enjoy the Pakoda more.
43.
In South India Sambhar is made with small Onions its excellent dish to enjoy the benefits of Onions.
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Egyptians used onions to preserve mummies.
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100 Grams of Onion Contains - Water: 86 to 89 gms, Protein: 1.2 gm, Fat 0.1 gm Starch:- 9 to 11 gmsFibre: 0.6 to 1.70 gm. Minerals: 0.4 gmCalcium: 47 mg.Phosprous 50 mg Vitamin C: 11 mg Iron 0.7 mg. B Complex
46.
Every day how much Onion One should consume? Daily consumption of 100 Gms of Onion is advised
Please always visit the doctor. Home Remedies should be tried for one day only.
All the above tips are given to increase knowledge about Onion and benefits of eating daily Onions.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Boston Hospital performs first Full Face Transplant. Taxas man wiens receives first full face transplant
Boston Hospital performs first Full Face Transplant.
Taxas man wiens receives first full face transplant
Two Years ago Dallas Wiens of Fort Worth a Texas construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident.
The electrical accident in November 2008 left Wiens (WEENS), blind and without lips, a nose or eyebrows.
He has received Americas first full face transplant at a Boston hospital.
More than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital led by plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac performed the 15-hour operation last week on 25-year-old Dallas Wiens of Fort Worth, Texas.
Currently he is in good condition in a Hospital.
The transplant was not able to restore Wiens' sight, and some nerves were so badly damaged from his injury that he likely will have only partial sensation on his left cheek and left forehead, the surgeon said.
In Boston, doctors transplanted an entire new face, including a nose, lips, skin and muscles and nerves that animate the skin and give sensation.
Wiens will not resemble "either what he used to be or the donor," but something in between, said Pomahac
The donor's identity was not disclosed nor would the hospital say exactly when the surgery was done for privacy reasons.
The surgery was paid for by the Defense Department; the hospital has a $3.4 million grant from the military for transplant research.
Wiens had no insurance when he was injured; Medicaid covered about two dozen surgeries until his disability payments put him over the income limit.
The new law allowed him to qualify for coverage under his father's plan for the drugs until he turns 26 in May.
Then he'll be eligible to receive Medicare, which covers the disabled
As well as those over 65.
Dallas Wiens is the first American to receive a full facial transplant.
One year ago world’s first-ever full facial transplant, which restored facial features to Spanish man who accidentally shot himself in the face.
The world’s first face transplant a partial not full was done in France in 2005 on a woman mauled by her dog.
Watch YouTube Video where Dallas Wiens speaks about himself just wants to feel his daughter's kiss. Wiens, 24, suffered fourth-degree burns to his face when he touched a high-voltage power line -- and he lost all feeling to the face.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Taxas man wiens receives first full face transplant
Two Years ago Dallas Wiens of Fort Worth a Texas construction worker badly disfigured in a power line accident.
The electrical accident in November 2008 left Wiens (WEENS), blind and without lips, a nose or eyebrows.
He has received Americas first full face transplant at a Boston hospital.
More than 30 doctors, nurses and other staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital led by plastic surgeon Dr. Bohdan Pomahac performed the 15-hour operation last week on 25-year-old Dallas Wiens of Fort Worth, Texas.
Currently he is in good condition in a Hospital.
The transplant was not able to restore Wiens' sight, and some nerves were so badly damaged from his injury that he likely will have only partial sensation on his left cheek and left forehead, the surgeon said.
In Boston, doctors transplanted an entire new face, including a nose, lips, skin and muscles and nerves that animate the skin and give sensation.
Wiens will not resemble "either what he used to be or the donor," but something in between, said Pomahac
The donor's identity was not disclosed nor would the hospital say exactly when the surgery was done for privacy reasons.
The surgery was paid for by the Defense Department; the hospital has a $3.4 million grant from the military for transplant research.
Wiens had no insurance when he was injured; Medicaid covered about two dozen surgeries until his disability payments put him over the income limit.
The new law allowed him to qualify for coverage under his father's plan for the drugs until he turns 26 in May.
Then he'll be eligible to receive Medicare, which covers the disabled
As well as those over 65.
Dallas Wiens is the first American to receive a full facial transplant.
One year ago world’s first-ever full facial transplant, which restored facial features to Spanish man who accidentally shot himself in the face.
The world’s first face transplant a partial not full was done in France in 2005 on a woman mauled by her dog.
Watch YouTube Video where Dallas Wiens speaks about himself just wants to feel his daughter's kiss. Wiens, 24, suffered fourth-degree burns to his face when he touched a high-voltage power line -- and he lost all feeling to the face.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Ibuprofen Reduces Risk of Developing Parkinson's disease
Ibuprofen Reduces Risk of Developing Parkinson's disease
A new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers shows that adults who regularly take ibuprofen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), have about one-third less risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than non-users.
“There is no cure for Parkinson’s disease, so the possibility that ibuprofen, an existing and relatively non-toxic drug, could help protect against the disease is captivating,”
Parkinson’s disease, a progressive nervous disease occurring generally after age 50
It is hypothesized that ibuprofen may reduce inflammation in the brain that may contribute to the disease.
In the new study, Ascherio, lead author Xiang Gao, research scientist at HSPH and associate epidemiologist in the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and colleagues analyzed data from nearly 99,000 women enrolled in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital-based Nurses’ Health Study and over 37,000 men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
The researchers identified 291 cases (156 men and 135 women) of Parkinson’s disease during their six-year follow-up study (1998-2004 in women; 2000-2006 in men). Based on questionnaires, the researchers analyzed the patients’ use of ibuprofen (e.g. Advil, Motrin, Nuprin), aspirin or aspirin-containing products, other anti-inflammatory pain relievers (e.g., Aleve, Naprosyn), and acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol). (Although not an NSAID, acetaminophen was included because it’s similarly used to treat pain.) Age, smoking, diet, caffeine, and other variables also were considered.
“We observed that men and women who used ibuprofen two or more times per week were about 38% less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than those who regularly used aspirin, acetaminophen, or other NSAIDs,” Gao said. “Our findings suggest that ibuprofen could be a potential neuroprotective agent against Parkinson’s disease, however, the exact mechanism is unknown.”
These findings raise hope that a readily available, inexpensive drug could help to treat Parkinson’s disease. “Because the loss of brain cells that leads to Parkinson’s disease occurs over a decade or more, a possible explanation of our findings is that use of ibuprofen protects these cells.
If so, use of ibuprofen could help slow the disease’s progression,” Gao said.
The findings do not mean that people who already have Parkinson’s disease should begin taking ibuprofen, Ascherio added. “Although generally perceived as safe, ibuprofen can have side effects, such as increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. Whether this risk is compensated by a slowing of the disease progression should be investigated under rigorous supervision in a randomized clinical trial,” he said.
Support for the study was provided by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Intramural Research Program of NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
The study will be published online March 2, 2011, in Neurology and is scheduled to appear in the March 8, 2011, print issue.
Source –
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu
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Saturday, March 05, 2011
A new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers shows that adults who regularly take ibuprofen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), have about one-third less risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than non-users.
“There is no cure for Parkinson’s disease, so the possibility that ibuprofen, an existing and relatively non-toxic drug, could help protect against the disease is captivating,”
Parkinson’s disease, a progressive nervous disease occurring generally after age 50
It is hypothesized that ibuprofen may reduce inflammation in the brain that may contribute to the disease.
In the new study, Ascherio, lead author Xiang Gao, research scientist at HSPH and associate epidemiologist in the Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and colleagues analyzed data from nearly 99,000 women enrolled in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital-based Nurses’ Health Study and over 37,000 men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.
The researchers identified 291 cases (156 men and 135 women) of Parkinson’s disease during their six-year follow-up study (1998-2004 in women; 2000-2006 in men). Based on questionnaires, the researchers analyzed the patients’ use of ibuprofen (e.g. Advil, Motrin, Nuprin), aspirin or aspirin-containing products, other anti-inflammatory pain relievers (e.g., Aleve, Naprosyn), and acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol). (Although not an NSAID, acetaminophen was included because it’s similarly used to treat pain.) Age, smoking, diet, caffeine, and other variables also were considered.
“We observed that men and women who used ibuprofen two or more times per week were about 38% less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease than those who regularly used aspirin, acetaminophen, or other NSAIDs,” Gao said. “Our findings suggest that ibuprofen could be a potential neuroprotective agent against Parkinson’s disease, however, the exact mechanism is unknown.”
These findings raise hope that a readily available, inexpensive drug could help to treat Parkinson’s disease. “Because the loss of brain cells that leads to Parkinson’s disease occurs over a decade or more, a possible explanation of our findings is that use of ibuprofen protects these cells.
If so, use of ibuprofen could help slow the disease’s progression,” Gao said.
The findings do not mean that people who already have Parkinson’s disease should begin taking ibuprofen, Ascherio added. “Although generally perceived as safe, ibuprofen can have side effects, such as increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. Whether this risk is compensated by a slowing of the disease progression should be investigated under rigorous supervision in a randomized clinical trial,” he said.
Support for the study was provided by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Intramural Research Program of NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
The study will be published online March 2, 2011, in Neurology and is scheduled to appear in the March 8, 2011, print issue.
Source –
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu
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Saturday, March 05, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Short History, Invention of Cereal Foods
Short History, Invention of Cereal Foods
Cereals were invented as a Healthy Food.
What is the meaning of Cereal?
Which food is called as cereal?
Cereal is defined as
Grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food. The grain of such a grass. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.
Any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, rye, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, and millet
A grass, such as corn, rice, sorghum, or wheat, whose starchy grains are used as food. Cereals are annual plants, and cereal crops must be reseeded for each growing season.
In short Cereal is a type of breakfast food prepared from such grain.
Cereal or grain is a member of the grass plant family, with starchy seeds used for food. Common cereals are: wheat, rice, rye, oats, barley, corn (maize), and sorghum.
Cereals are used for both human and animal food.
Breakfast cereal is given or served with milk early in the morning before sending kids to extra classes or school.
Cereal is very popular breakfast food in America and has started to become very popular around the globe.
A breakfast cereal is usually eaten cold as a ready-to-eat meal and mixed with a liquid, such as milk or water exception to the rule are cereals such as oatmeal and porridge, which are eaten hot.
Short History or Invention of Cereal food –
CEREAL is a 6 letter word that starts with C.
First Cereal was invented in year 1829 by clergyman Sylvester Graham, the cereal was called as Graham cracker.
Graham cracker is a slightly sweet, usually rectangular cracker made with whole-wheat flour.
The first packaged breakfast cereal Granula was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson operator of the Jackson Sanitorium in Dansville, New York
The cereal never became popular; it was far too inconvenient, as the heavy bran nuggets needed soaking overnight before they were tender enough to eat.
The names “Granula” (trademarked by Jackson) and “Granola” (trademarked by Kellogg) were trademarked for foods consisting of “natural herb products crumbled and then baked until crispy.”
In 1860 Seventh-Day Adventists, who also believed in vegetarianism, founded the Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The Institute was later renamed the Battle Creek Sanitarium after its location in Battle Creek, Michigan.
At this institute, physician John Harvey Kellogg invented several grain-based meat substitutes.
In 1877, John Harvey Kellogg, invented a biscuit made of ground-up wheat, oat, and cornmeal for his patients suffering from bowel problems.
The product was initially also named "Granula", but changed to "Granola" after a lawsuit.
The bookkeeper and manger of the Battle Creek Sanitarium was John's brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
The brothers worked together to develop more grain-based vegetarian options
Accidental Invention of Famous Cereal by Kellogg Brothers –
1894 – Brothers used to make wheatmeal for patients.
To make it, they would run boiled wheat through rollers to create a very thin cracker-type sheet. They would then roast the sheet and grind it into meal.
One night that the brothers left a batch of boiled wheat out and forgot about it.
The next day, they ran it through the rollers to see if the stale wheat would be salvageable once it was ground.
Instead of a unified flat sheet, the wheat came out as flakes
They roasted the flakes and served them to their patients. They had an immediate success on their hands.
Kellogg had invented corn flakes.
In 1894 - Charles William Post started La Vita Inn.
There, he set to work on creating his own chicory coffee substitute and breakfast cereals.
1897 - Later he started to sell his own Granula - we know it today as Grape-nuts - an easier to chew derivative of Dr. James Caleb Jackson's original cereal.
Later he introduced own brand of corn flakes, which he called "Elijah's Manna". The cereal was a big seller... once he changed the name to Post Toasties.
In 1906, Will bought out his brother's portion of the cereal patents and went on to create the Kellogg Company.
Rice Krispies were introduced by Kellogg in 1929.
To avoid confusion with his competitors products, WK Kellogg had his name and signature scripted on each package of Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes along the explanation “The original has this signature"
In 1953, Kellogg's introduced Sugar Smacks, aptly named because it contained 56 percent sugar.
In the 1930s, the first puffed cereal, Kix, went on the market.
1941 - The introduction of the seven-ounce box of Cheerioats was a major event for General Mills."
Quaker Oats man became the first registered breakfast cereal trademark in 1877, breakfast cereals have been synonymous with characters like Tony the Tiger of Kellogg’s, the Trix Rabbit, and Post's Sugar Bear.
Because of Kellogg and Post, the city of Battle Creek, Michigan is nicknamed the "Cereal Capital of the World"
Cereal food means a healthy food, healthy breakfast.
Cereal Food and India –
Do you know which traditional Indian food is Cereal type of food?
Answer is Poha and milk, Dalia, idli, sambar, and vada
Poha is flattened rice flakes or wheat flakes and mixed with hot milk, sugar or jaggery
Dalia is made from whole wheat grits. Some people like sweet Dalia, and some people like salty Dalia.
Record shows that from 2300 to 1750 AC, wheat, barley, and rice were grown by inhabitants of northern India.
History of Every nation is great no one is superior to other.
Always compare present not past.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Cereals were invented as a Healthy Food.
What is the meaning of Cereal?
Which food is called as cereal?
Cereal is defined as
Grass such as wheat, oats, or corn, the starchy grains of which are used as food. The grain of such a grass. A food prepared from any of these plants, especially a breakfast food made from commercially processed grain.
Any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, rye, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, and millet
A grass, such as corn, rice, sorghum, or wheat, whose starchy grains are used as food. Cereals are annual plants, and cereal crops must be reseeded for each growing season.
In short Cereal is a type of breakfast food prepared from such grain.
Cereal or grain is a member of the grass plant family, with starchy seeds used for food. Common cereals are: wheat, rice, rye, oats, barley, corn (maize), and sorghum.
Cereals are used for both human and animal food.
Breakfast cereal is given or served with milk early in the morning before sending kids to extra classes or school.
Cereal is very popular breakfast food in America and has started to become very popular around the globe.
A breakfast cereal is usually eaten cold as a ready-to-eat meal and mixed with a liquid, such as milk or water exception to the rule are cereals such as oatmeal and porridge, which are eaten hot.
Short History or Invention of Cereal food –
CEREAL is a 6 letter word that starts with C.
First Cereal was invented in year 1829 by clergyman Sylvester Graham, the cereal was called as Graham cracker.
Graham cracker is a slightly sweet, usually rectangular cracker made with whole-wheat flour.
The first packaged breakfast cereal Granula was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson operator of the Jackson Sanitorium in Dansville, New York
The cereal never became popular; it was far too inconvenient, as the heavy bran nuggets needed soaking overnight before they were tender enough to eat.
The names “Granula” (trademarked by Jackson) and “Granola” (trademarked by Kellogg) were trademarked for foods consisting of “natural herb products crumbled and then baked until crispy.”
In 1860 Seventh-Day Adventists, who also believed in vegetarianism, founded the Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan.
The Institute was later renamed the Battle Creek Sanitarium after its location in Battle Creek, Michigan.
At this institute, physician John Harvey Kellogg invented several grain-based meat substitutes.
In 1877, John Harvey Kellogg, invented a biscuit made of ground-up wheat, oat, and cornmeal for his patients suffering from bowel problems.
The product was initially also named "Granula", but changed to "Granola" after a lawsuit.
The bookkeeper and manger of the Battle Creek Sanitarium was John's brother, Will Keith Kellogg.
The brothers worked together to develop more grain-based vegetarian options
Accidental Invention of Famous Cereal by Kellogg Brothers –
1894 – Brothers used to make wheatmeal for patients.
To make it, they would run boiled wheat through rollers to create a very thin cracker-type sheet. They would then roast the sheet and grind it into meal.
One night that the brothers left a batch of boiled wheat out and forgot about it.
The next day, they ran it through the rollers to see if the stale wheat would be salvageable once it was ground.
Instead of a unified flat sheet, the wheat came out as flakes
They roasted the flakes and served them to their patients. They had an immediate success on their hands.
Kellogg had invented corn flakes.
In 1894 - Charles William Post started La Vita Inn.
There, he set to work on creating his own chicory coffee substitute and breakfast cereals.
1897 - Later he started to sell his own Granula - we know it today as Grape-nuts - an easier to chew derivative of Dr. James Caleb Jackson's original cereal.
Later he introduced own brand of corn flakes, which he called "Elijah's Manna". The cereal was a big seller... once he changed the name to Post Toasties.
In 1906, Will bought out his brother's portion of the cereal patents and went on to create the Kellogg Company.
Rice Krispies were introduced by Kellogg in 1929.
To avoid confusion with his competitors products, WK Kellogg had his name and signature scripted on each package of Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes along the explanation “The original has this signature"
In 1953, Kellogg's introduced Sugar Smacks, aptly named because it contained 56 percent sugar.
In the 1930s, the first puffed cereal, Kix, went on the market.
1941 - The introduction of the seven-ounce box of Cheerioats was a major event for General Mills."
Quaker Oats man became the first registered breakfast cereal trademark in 1877, breakfast cereals have been synonymous with characters like Tony the Tiger of Kellogg’s, the Trix Rabbit, and Post's Sugar Bear.
Because of Kellogg and Post, the city of Battle Creek, Michigan is nicknamed the "Cereal Capital of the World"
Cereal food means a healthy food, healthy breakfast.
Cereal Food and India –
Do you know which traditional Indian food is Cereal type of food?
Answer is Poha and milk, Dalia, idli, sambar, and vada
Poha is flattened rice flakes or wheat flakes and mixed with hot milk, sugar or jaggery
Dalia is made from whole wheat grits. Some people like sweet Dalia, and some people like salty Dalia.
Record shows that from 2300 to 1750 AC, wheat, barley, and rice were grown by inhabitants of northern India.
History of Every nation is great no one is superior to other.
Always compare present not past.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Nutritional Importance of Millets – Jowar or Bajra Bhakri – Indian Common mans food
Nutritional Importance of Millets – Jowar or Bajra Bhakri
– Indian Common mans food
Main food - Africa and Asia
In Sri Lanka, Finger millet is called Kurakkan
Grown and consumed in Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Goa.
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh Ragi Balls are made and consumed with Sambar.
Maharashtra and Karnataka – Bhakri or Roti
Goa - satva, pole (dosa), bhakri, ambil (a sour porridge)
Fermented millet is used to make a beer and the mash is distilled to make liquor
Using Ragi even dosa, laddu and idly is prepared. But our Indian politicians are planning to make beer or liquor using Millet before constructing schools and medical collages.
MILLETS are small- seeded variety of cereal crops.
Millet looks like little yellow pearls
From ancient times we humans are using millet in our food.
Millet is also fed to birds and used as cattle food.
Millet is gluten free grain.
There are many varieties of millet, but the four major types are Pearl, which comprises 40% of the world production, Foxtail, Proso, and Finger Millet.
Millets are more nutrient dense than wheat and rice.
Normally one can use Millets in different ways while preparing food, but best option is in form of Rotis or Bread.
There are different types of Millets are available.
Sorghum (jowar),
Pearl millet [bajra]
RAGI (FINGER MILLET)
RAGI (FINGER MILLET) –
Used mainly in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Calcium content in finger millet (ragi) is nearly 350mg for 100g whereas in wheat and rice it is even below 50mg.
The average protein content of ragi is 9.8 per cent with well balanced essential amino acids composition along with Vitamin A, Vitamin B and phosphorous.
Ragi is also good for diabetics because of slow release of sugars to the body.
Because of High Fiber content Ragi helps person to tackle constipation, high blood cholesterol and intestinal cancer.
Pearl millet [bajra] –
Used mainly in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana
Bajra Roti is very famous.
Bajra Roti contains iron, phytochemicals that lower cholesterol, folate, magnesium, copper, zinc, and vitamins E and B-complex. It packs an additional punch since it contains all 13 essential amino acids
Bajra is good for bones and has higher energy content than other flours. It is also rich in calcium and unsaturated fats which are good for the body
It’s good to eat Bajra Rotis in winter.
Sorghum (jowar),
Used Mainly in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Haryana.
Jowar is rich in potassium and phosphorus and also has good amount of calcium with small amounts of iron and sodium.
Jowar helps to maintain heart, body weight and arthritis.
In short good points of Millet are
1. Low in saturated fat
2. No cholesterol
3. Very low in sodium
4. No sugar
5. High in manganese
6. Prevent Heart Failure Use Daily
Eating foods high in insoluble fiber, such as millet, can help women avoid gallstones, shows a study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Increasing consumption of whole grains and fish could reduce the risk of childhood asthma by about 50%, suggests the International Study on Allergy and Asthma in Childhood (Tabak C, Wijga AH, Thorax).
Eating or Serving Millet 6 times week helps postmenopausal women with high cholesterol, high blood pressure or other signs of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
If you got money to spend on always purchase Organic Millet.
Reason - more nutritional value
Bhakri and Pitla is a famous recipe in Maharashtra and Gujarat
How to make Jowar Roti –
Ingredients –
1. 1 and half cup of water
2. 1 cup Jowar flour
3. Salt as per taste
How to Prepare Bhakri –
Heat water
Add salt
When water starts boiling add the jowar flour
Then keep stirring and mixing it until water is absorbed.
Then knead into firm dough, make balls, use flour and make round or circle shape bhakri.
Using hands spread them give them round shape.
Then fry them on the heated tava.
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Sunday, February 20, 2011
Suggested Reading –
Recipe by Usha
Grain Enriched Methi Roti
http://sizzlingindianrecipes.blogspot.com/2008/09/grain-enriched-methi-roti.html
– Indian Common mans food
Main food - Africa and Asia
In Sri Lanka, Finger millet is called Kurakkan
Grown and consumed in Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Goa.
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh Ragi Balls are made and consumed with Sambar.
Maharashtra and Karnataka – Bhakri or Roti
Goa - satva, pole (dosa), bhakri, ambil (a sour porridge)
Fermented millet is used to make a beer and the mash is distilled to make liquor
Using Ragi even dosa, laddu and idly is prepared. But our Indian politicians are planning to make beer or liquor using Millet before constructing schools and medical collages.
MILLETS are small- seeded variety of cereal crops.
Millet looks like little yellow pearls
From ancient times we humans are using millet in our food.
Millet is also fed to birds and used as cattle food.
Millet is gluten free grain.
There are many varieties of millet, but the four major types are Pearl, which comprises 40% of the world production, Foxtail, Proso, and Finger Millet.
Millets are more nutrient dense than wheat and rice.
Normally one can use Millets in different ways while preparing food, but best option is in form of Rotis or Bread.
There are different types of Millets are available.
Sorghum (jowar),
Pearl millet [bajra]
RAGI (FINGER MILLET)
RAGI (FINGER MILLET) –
Used mainly in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Calcium content in finger millet (ragi) is nearly 350mg for 100g whereas in wheat and rice it is even below 50mg.
The average protein content of ragi is 9.8 per cent with well balanced essential amino acids composition along with Vitamin A, Vitamin B and phosphorous.
Ragi is also good for diabetics because of slow release of sugars to the body.
Because of High Fiber content Ragi helps person to tackle constipation, high blood cholesterol and intestinal cancer.
Pearl millet [bajra] –
Used mainly in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Haryana
Bajra Roti is very famous.
Bajra Roti contains iron, phytochemicals that lower cholesterol, folate, magnesium, copper, zinc, and vitamins E and B-complex. It packs an additional punch since it contains all 13 essential amino acids
Bajra is good for bones and has higher energy content than other flours. It is also rich in calcium and unsaturated fats which are good for the body
It’s good to eat Bajra Rotis in winter.
Sorghum (jowar),
Used Mainly in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Haryana.
Jowar is rich in potassium and phosphorus and also has good amount of calcium with small amounts of iron and sodium.
Jowar helps to maintain heart, body weight and arthritis.
In short good points of Millet are
1. Low in saturated fat
2. No cholesterol
3. Very low in sodium
4. No sugar
5. High in manganese
6. Prevent Heart Failure Use Daily
Eating foods high in insoluble fiber, such as millet, can help women avoid gallstones, shows a study published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Increasing consumption of whole grains and fish could reduce the risk of childhood asthma by about 50%, suggests the International Study on Allergy and Asthma in Childhood (Tabak C, Wijga AH, Thorax).
Eating or Serving Millet 6 times week helps postmenopausal women with high cholesterol, high blood pressure or other signs of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
If you got money to spend on always purchase Organic Millet.
Reason - more nutritional value
Bhakri and Pitla is a famous recipe in Maharashtra and Gujarat
How to make Jowar Roti –
Ingredients –
1. 1 and half cup of water
2. 1 cup Jowar flour
3. Salt as per taste
How to Prepare Bhakri –
Heat water
Add salt
When water starts boiling add the jowar flour
Then keep stirring and mixing it until water is absorbed.
Then knead into firm dough, make balls, use flour and make round or circle shape bhakri.
Using hands spread them give them round shape.
Then fry them on the heated tava.
Reality Views by sm –
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Suggested Reading –
Recipe by Usha
Grain Enriched Methi Roti
http://sizzlingindianrecipes.blogspot.com/2008/09/grain-enriched-methi-roti.html
Monday, February 14, 2011
Gonorrhea acquires, steals a piece of human DNA – A first Case evidence of stealing Human DNA found
Gonorrhea acquires, steals a piece of human DNA – A first Case evidence of stealing Human DNA found
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Rohypnol Drug Email is Hoax Email – Know Facts about Rohypnol Drug, Known as Date Rape Drug
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Congo CCHF) virus – Know the Treatment and How to prevent and control spread of Congo or CCHF Virus
Congo CCHF - virus – Know the Treatment and How to prevent and control spread of Congo or CCHF Virus,Infection
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Scientist Discover Way To create blood from human skin –
Scientist Discover Way To create blood from human skin
– Trials will start from 2012
The discovery is published on Nov. 7 in the journal Nature
Mick Bhatia, scientific director of McMaster's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, and his team of researchers have also shown that the conversion is direct.
scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.
This means that in future when people will need blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin to provide transfusions. Clinical trials could begin as soon as 2012.
The discovery was replicated several times over two years using human skin from both young and old people to prove it works for any age of person.
This research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute, the Stem Cell Network and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
Reality Views by sm –
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
– Trials will start from 2012
The discovery is published on Nov. 7 in the journal Nature
Mick Bhatia, scientific director of McMaster's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, and his team of researchers have also shown that the conversion is direct.
scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.
This means that in future when people will need blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin to provide transfusions. Clinical trials could begin as soon as 2012.
The discovery was replicated several times over two years using human skin from both young and old people to prove it works for any age of person.
This research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute, the Stem Cell Network and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.
Reality Views by sm –
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Part 2 – Know 44 useful tips and uses of salt
Part 2 – Know 44 useful tips and uses of salt
Reality views by sm –
Sunday, August 29, 2010
1.Boiling water - To reduce the cooking time one should add salt to water. Remember it will not make water boil faster.
2.One component of salt, sodium (Na), is involved in muscle contraction including heartbeat, nerve impulses, and the digestion of body-building protein.
3.The other component of salt, chloride (Cl) is also essential to good health. It preserves acid-base balance in the body, aids potassium absorption,
4.supplies the essence of digestive stomach acid, and enhances the ability of the blood to carry carbon dioxide from respiring tissues to the lungs
5.Iodized salt is used by 70% of the world’s population to protect against mental
6.Retardation due to Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD).
7.David Marine (1880-1976) is the "father" of iodized salt in the United States. As the result of research on endemic goiter and iodine deficiency by Marine and co-workers research, the Michigan State Medical Society, in 1924, launched a goiter prevention program using iodized salt, making iodized salt the first of what we now term “functional foods.”
8.Many countries fortify salt with fluoride against dental caries in situations where fluoridating drinking water is inappropriate
9.For cankers, abscesses, and other mouth sores, rinse your mouth with a weak solution of warm saltwater several times a day.
10.Mix salt and warm water, gargle to relieve a sore throat.
11.Salt help produce - chlorine, caustic soda and the myriad other products formed from these basic chemicals.
12.Chlorine is an effective disinfectant and bleach. We use it to keep drinking water safe. And swimming pools.
13.Salt is a grinding agent
14.Sodium chlorite is used in the textile industry.
15.Liquid sodium is used to cool nuclear reactors.
16.Metallic sodium is used to make brass and bronze.
17.To make glass, rayon, polyester and other synthetic fibers, plastics, soaps and detergents caustic soda is used.
18.sodium sulfate is used in the manufacture of pulp and paper, dyes and ceramic glazes
19.sodium carbonate is used in manufacturing glass, pulp and paper, and rayon
20.Hydrochloric acid is used in making synthetic rubber and in cleaning gas and oil wells
21.sodium nitrate is used in fertilizers and explosives
22.Salt is used for tablet and caplet polishing
23.salt is used for the production of intravenous saline solutions
24.salt is used for manufacturing hemodialysis solutions used for kidney machines
25.Removing blood stains - Soak the stained clothing or other cloth item in cold saltwater, then launder in warm, soapy water and boil after the wash. (Useonly on cotton, linen or other natural fibers that can take high heat.)
26.Washing spinach - If spinach is washed in salted water, repeated cleanings will not be necessary.
27.Stained cups - Rubbing with salt will remove stubborn tea or coffee stains from cups.
28.Cleaning sink drains - Pour a strong salt brine down the kitchen sink drain regularly to eliminate odors and keep grease from building up
29.Coffee - A pinch of salt in coffee will enhance the flavor and remove the bitterness of over-cooked coffee.
30.Salt and soda water will clean and sweeten the inside of your refrigerator. It won't scratch enamel either.
31.Salads - Salting salads immediately before serving will keep them crisp.
32.Egg – always boil eggs in salted water, this will make eggs peel easily second is poaching eggs over salted water helps set the egg whites.
33.Checking freshness and quality of egg – take a cup of water, and then add 2 teaspoonfuls of salt in that water. Now put the egg in this salted water, remember fresh egg will sink and if egg is not fresh it will float.
34.Browning – When we peel apples, pears and potatoes they loose their original color. So to keep their original color when we peel them we should drop them in cold lightly salted water.
35.Shelling pecans - Soaking pecans in salt water for several hours before shelling will make nut meats easier to remove.
36.Sugaring - A little salt added to cake icings prevents them from sugaring.
37.Greasy pans - The greasiest iron pan will wash easily if you put a little salt in it and wipe with paper.
38.Ovens - Salt and cinnamon take the "burned food" odor away from ovens and stove burners. Sprinkle spills while oven and burners are still hot; when dry, remove the salted spots with a stiff brush or cloth.
39.Extinguishing grease fires - Salt tossed on a grease fire on the stove or in the oven will smother flames. Never use water; it will only spatter the burning grease
40.Will we run out of salt? Answer is No
41.The enormity of the Earth’s underground salt deposits, combined with the saline vastness of the Earth’s oceans makes the supply of salt inexhaustible.
42.Soak pecans and walnuts in salt water for several hours before shelling to make it easier to remove the meat.
43.Soak toothbrushes in salt water before your first use; they'll last longer.
44.Use one part fine salt to two parts baking soda then dip your toothbrush in the mix and brush as usual to clean your teeth , to give them more shine
Suggested Reading –
1.Part One – Know the 75 Useful Tips and uses of Salt -
Salt Useful Uses and Tips –
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-one-know-75-useful-tips-and-uses.html
2.Know about Salt - The white poison
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/know-about-salt-white-poison.html
Reality views by sm –
Sunday, August 29, 2010
1.Boiling water - To reduce the cooking time one should add salt to water. Remember it will not make water boil faster.
2.One component of salt, sodium (Na), is involved in muscle contraction including heartbeat, nerve impulses, and the digestion of body-building protein.
3.The other component of salt, chloride (Cl) is also essential to good health. It preserves acid-base balance in the body, aids potassium absorption,
4.supplies the essence of digestive stomach acid, and enhances the ability of the blood to carry carbon dioxide from respiring tissues to the lungs
5.Iodized salt is used by 70% of the world’s population to protect against mental
6.Retardation due to Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD).
7.David Marine (1880-1976) is the "father" of iodized salt in the United States. As the result of research on endemic goiter and iodine deficiency by Marine and co-workers research, the Michigan State Medical Society, in 1924, launched a goiter prevention program using iodized salt, making iodized salt the first of what we now term “functional foods.”
8.Many countries fortify salt with fluoride against dental caries in situations where fluoridating drinking water is inappropriate
9.For cankers, abscesses, and other mouth sores, rinse your mouth with a weak solution of warm saltwater several times a day.
10.Mix salt and warm water, gargle to relieve a sore throat.
11.Salt help produce - chlorine, caustic soda and the myriad other products formed from these basic chemicals.
12.Chlorine is an effective disinfectant and bleach. We use it to keep drinking water safe. And swimming pools.
13.Salt is a grinding agent
14.Sodium chlorite is used in the textile industry.
15.Liquid sodium is used to cool nuclear reactors.
16.Metallic sodium is used to make brass and bronze.
17.To make glass, rayon, polyester and other synthetic fibers, plastics, soaps and detergents caustic soda is used.
18.sodium sulfate is used in the manufacture of pulp and paper, dyes and ceramic glazes
19.sodium carbonate is used in manufacturing glass, pulp and paper, and rayon
20.Hydrochloric acid is used in making synthetic rubber and in cleaning gas and oil wells
21.sodium nitrate is used in fertilizers and explosives
22.Salt is used for tablet and caplet polishing
23.salt is used for the production of intravenous saline solutions
24.salt is used for manufacturing hemodialysis solutions used for kidney machines
25.Removing blood stains - Soak the stained clothing or other cloth item in cold saltwater, then launder in warm, soapy water and boil after the wash. (Useonly on cotton, linen or other natural fibers that can take high heat.)
26.Washing spinach - If spinach is washed in salted water, repeated cleanings will not be necessary.
27.Stained cups - Rubbing with salt will remove stubborn tea or coffee stains from cups.
28.Cleaning sink drains - Pour a strong salt brine down the kitchen sink drain regularly to eliminate odors and keep grease from building up
29.Coffee - A pinch of salt in coffee will enhance the flavor and remove the bitterness of over-cooked coffee.
30.Salt and soda water will clean and sweeten the inside of your refrigerator. It won't scratch enamel either.
31.Salads - Salting salads immediately before serving will keep them crisp.
32.Egg – always boil eggs in salted water, this will make eggs peel easily second is poaching eggs over salted water helps set the egg whites.
33.Checking freshness and quality of egg – take a cup of water, and then add 2 teaspoonfuls of salt in that water. Now put the egg in this salted water, remember fresh egg will sink and if egg is not fresh it will float.
34.Browning – When we peel apples, pears and potatoes they loose their original color. So to keep their original color when we peel them we should drop them in cold lightly salted water.
35.Shelling pecans - Soaking pecans in salt water for several hours before shelling will make nut meats easier to remove.
36.Sugaring - A little salt added to cake icings prevents them from sugaring.
37.Greasy pans - The greasiest iron pan will wash easily if you put a little salt in it and wipe with paper.
38.Ovens - Salt and cinnamon take the "burned food" odor away from ovens and stove burners. Sprinkle spills while oven and burners are still hot; when dry, remove the salted spots with a stiff brush or cloth.
39.Extinguishing grease fires - Salt tossed on a grease fire on the stove or in the oven will smother flames. Never use water; it will only spatter the burning grease
40.Will we run out of salt? Answer is No
41.The enormity of the Earth’s underground salt deposits, combined with the saline vastness of the Earth’s oceans makes the supply of salt inexhaustible.
42.Soak pecans and walnuts in salt water for several hours before shelling to make it easier to remove the meat.
43.Soak toothbrushes in salt water before your first use; they'll last longer.
44.Use one part fine salt to two parts baking soda then dip your toothbrush in the mix and brush as usual to clean your teeth , to give them more shine
Suggested Reading –
1.Part One – Know the 75 Useful Tips and uses of Salt -
Salt Useful Uses and Tips –
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-one-know-75-useful-tips-and-uses.html
2.Know about Salt - The white poison
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/know-about-salt-white-poison.html
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Dengue Fever – Know Everything about Dengue Fever and Treatment Understanding Dengue Fever
Dengue Fever – Know Everything about Dengue Fever and Treatment
Understanding Dengue Fever
Reality views by sm –
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Dengue Fever is also known as breakbone fever.
Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS) are acute febrile diseases which occur in the tropics.
The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries.
The first record of a case of probable dengue fever is in a Chinese medical encyclopedia from the Jin Dynasty (265–420 AD) which referred to a “water poison” associated with flying insects.
The first recognized Dengue epidemics occurred almost simultaneously in Asia, Africa, and North America in the 1780
Dengue virus belongs to the family Flaviviridae, which includes the hepatitis C virus, West Nile and Yellow fever viruses among others.
Endemic meaning - A disease that occurs regularly in a particular area, as malaria does in many tropical countries, is said to be endemic.
Febrile diseases meaning - Any disease associated with or characterized by fever.
What is Dengue?
Dengue is a disease caused by any one of four closely related dengue viruses (DENV 1, DENV 2, DENV 3, or DENV 4).
You can be infected by at least two if not all four types at different times during your lifetime, but only once by the same type.
The viruses are transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito.
Dengue is transmitted to humans by the Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti or more rarely the Aedes albopictus mosquito, both of which feed exclusively during daylight hours.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a more severe form of dengue infection.
It can be fatal if unrecognized and not properly treated in a timely manner.
DHF is caused by infection with the same viruses that cause dengue fever.
(Myalgias and arthralgias—severe pain that gives it the nickname break-bone fever or bonecrusher disease)
How Dengue and Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is spread?
Dengue is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, particularly A. aegypti and A. albopictus.
Dengue is transmitted to people by the bite of an Aedes mosquito that is infected with a dengue virus.
The mosquito becomes infected with dengue virus when it bites a person who has dengue virus in their blood.
The person can either have symptoms of dengue fever or DHF, or they may have no symptoms.
After about one week, the mosquito can then transmit the virus while biting a healthy person.
Dengue cannot be spread directly from person to person.
Dengue may also be transmitted via infected blood products (blood transfusions, plasma, and platelets)
Possible factors for dengue fever spread include: Unplanned urban overpopulation of areas leading to inadequate housing and public health systems (water, sewerage and waste management) and Poor vector control, e.g., stagnant pools of water for mosquito breeding
Usual few Breeding grounds of dengue Mosquito are flower pot, flower pot plate, hardened soil of potted plants, collar of the western toilet bowl, gully trap, roof gutter, roadside drain and scupper drain etc.
Facts about the aedes or dengue mosquito –
Only the female aedes mosquito bites as it needs the protein in blood to develop its eggs.
The average lifespan of an Aedes mosquito in Nature is 2 weeks
The mosquito can lay eggs about 3 times in its lifetime, and about 100 eggs are produced each time.
The eggs can lie dormant in dry conditions for up to about 9 months, after which they can hatch if exposed to favorable conditions, i.e. water and food
The Aedes mosquito is easily identifiable by its distinctive black and white stripes on their body.
It prefers to breed in clean, stagnant water easily found in our homes.
What are the symptoms of the Dengue disease?
The principal symptoms of dengue fever are high fever, severe headache, severe pain behind the eyes, joint pain, muscle and bone pain, rash, and mild bleeding (e.g., nose or gums bleed, easy bruising).
Generally, younger children and those with their first dengue infection have a milder illness than older children and adults.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is characterized by a fever that lasts from 2 to 7 days, with general signs and symptoms consistent with dengue fever.
When the fever declines, symptoms including persistent vomiting, severe abdominal pain, and difficulty breathing, may develop.
This marks the beginning of a 24- to 48-hour period when the smallest blood vessels (capillaries) become excessively permeable (“leaky”), allowing the fluid component to escape from the blood vessels into the peritoneum (causing ascites) and pleural cavity (leading to pleural effusions).
This may lead to failure of the circulatory system and shock, followed by death, if circulatory failure is not corrected.
In addition, the patient with DHF has a low platelet count and hemorrhagic manifestations, tendency to bruise easily or other types of skin hemorrhages, bleeding nose or gums, and possibly internal bleeding.
There may also be severe retro-orbital pain, (a pain from behind the eyes that is distinctive to Dengue infections), and gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting coffee-grounds-like congealed blood, or diarrhea.
CLINICAL FEATURES - Sudden onset of fever, severe headache, myalgias and arthralgias, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia and hemorrhagic manifestations and occasionally produces shock and hemorrhage, leading to death.
What is the treatment for dengue?
The diagnosis of dengue is usually made clinically.
Dengue is diagnosed by a blood test.
There is no specific medication for treatment of a dengue infection.
Persons who think they have dengue should use analgesics (pain relievers) with acetaminophen and avoid those containing aspirin.
Aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should be avoided as these drugs may worsen the bleeding tendency associated with some of these infections. Patients may receive paracetamol, acetaminophen, and preparations to deal with these symptoms if dengue is suspected.
They should also rest, drink plenty of fluids, and consult a physician.
If they feel worse (e.g., develop vomiting and severe abdominal pain) in the first 24 hours after the fever declines, they should go immediately to the hospital for evaluation.
Increased oral fluid intake is recommended to prevent dehydration. Supplementation with intravenous fluids may be necessary to prevent dehydration and significant concentration of the blood if the patient is unable to maintain oral intake. A platelet transfusion may be indicated if the platelet level drops significantly (below 20,000) or if there is significant bleeding. The presence of melena may indicate internal gastrointestinal bleeding requiring platelet and/or red blood cell transfusion.
Is there an effective treatment for dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)?
As with dengue fever, there is no specific medication for DHF.
It can however be effectively treated by fluid replacement therapy if an early clinical diagnosis is made.
DHF management frequently requires hospitalization.
Most people who develop dengue fever recover completely within 2 weeks. Some, especially adults, may be tired and/or depressed for several weeks to months after being infected with the virus.
The more clinically severe dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndromes can result in vascular (blood vessel) and liver damage, and can be life-threatening.
How to avoid the Dengue Fever?
What precautions we can take to avoid the dengue fever?
There is no vaccine for preventing dengue.
The Aedes mosquito likes to bite in the morning and afternoons, often indoors or in the shade. The mosquito, Aedes species, is a day biter; so during daylight hours, in areas where mosquitoes are present, protect yourself by properly using anti-mosquito measures.
For Dengue spread only society and our local government, Municipal Corporation is responsible.
You must ask your local government and politicians to keep your area clean.
Remember Dengue will kill you. Politicians are our paid servants so we must ask them it is our right they are our servants.
The Dengue Mosquito lays her eggs, primarily artificial containers that hold water.
Items that collect rainwater or to store water (for example, plastic containers, drums, buckets, or used automobile tires) should be covered or properly discarded.
Pet and animal watering containers and vases with fresh flowers should be emptied and cleaned (to remove eggs) at least once a week.
This will eliminate the mosquito eggs and larvae and reduce the number of mosquitoes present in these areas.
Using air conditioning or window and door screens reduces the risk of mosquitoes coming indoors. Proper application of mosquito repellents containing 20% to 30% DEET as the active ingredient on exposed skin and clothing decreases the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes.
Wearing clothing is usually a good idea, especially long sleeves, long pants or skirts.
To keep from over-heating and from aggressive mosquito punctures one should wear loose-fitting clothes.
Dengue = Failure of Public health systems in your area.
Dengue = Failure of local government and failure to ask the politicians to do their duty.
Suggested Reading –
Ayurvedic Treatment Cure for Dengue Fever – Know 25 Dengue Natural Home Remedies
Below is the photo of dengue mosquito -
Understanding Dengue Fever
Reality views by sm –
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Dengue Fever is also known as breakbone fever.
Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS) are acute febrile diseases which occur in the tropics.
The disease is now endemic in more than 100 countries.
The first record of a case of probable dengue fever is in a Chinese medical encyclopedia from the Jin Dynasty (265–420 AD) which referred to a “water poison” associated with flying insects.
The first recognized Dengue epidemics occurred almost simultaneously in Asia, Africa, and North America in the 1780
Dengue virus belongs to the family Flaviviridae, which includes the hepatitis C virus, West Nile and Yellow fever viruses among others.
Endemic meaning - A disease that occurs regularly in a particular area, as malaria does in many tropical countries, is said to be endemic.
Febrile diseases meaning - Any disease associated with or characterized by fever.
What is Dengue?
Dengue is a disease caused by any one of four closely related dengue viruses (DENV 1, DENV 2, DENV 3, or DENV 4).
You can be infected by at least two if not all four types at different times during your lifetime, but only once by the same type.
The viruses are transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito.
Dengue is transmitted to humans by the Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti or more rarely the Aedes albopictus mosquito, both of which feed exclusively during daylight hours.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a more severe form of dengue infection.
It can be fatal if unrecognized and not properly treated in a timely manner.
DHF is caused by infection with the same viruses that cause dengue fever.
(Myalgias and arthralgias—severe pain that gives it the nickname break-bone fever or bonecrusher disease)
How Dengue and Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is spread?
Dengue is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, particularly A. aegypti and A. albopictus.
Dengue is transmitted to people by the bite of an Aedes mosquito that is infected with a dengue virus.
The mosquito becomes infected with dengue virus when it bites a person who has dengue virus in their blood.
The person can either have symptoms of dengue fever or DHF, or they may have no symptoms.
After about one week, the mosquito can then transmit the virus while biting a healthy person.
Dengue cannot be spread directly from person to person.
Dengue may also be transmitted via infected blood products (blood transfusions, plasma, and platelets)
Possible factors for dengue fever spread include: Unplanned urban overpopulation of areas leading to inadequate housing and public health systems (water, sewerage and waste management) and Poor vector control, e.g., stagnant pools of water for mosquito breeding
Usual few Breeding grounds of dengue Mosquito are flower pot, flower pot plate, hardened soil of potted plants, collar of the western toilet bowl, gully trap, roof gutter, roadside drain and scupper drain etc.
Facts about the aedes or dengue mosquito –
Only the female aedes mosquito bites as it needs the protein in blood to develop its eggs.
The average lifespan of an Aedes mosquito in Nature is 2 weeks
The mosquito can lay eggs about 3 times in its lifetime, and about 100 eggs are produced each time.
The eggs can lie dormant in dry conditions for up to about 9 months, after which they can hatch if exposed to favorable conditions, i.e. water and food
The Aedes mosquito is easily identifiable by its distinctive black and white stripes on their body.
It prefers to breed in clean, stagnant water easily found in our homes.
What are the symptoms of the Dengue disease?
The principal symptoms of dengue fever are high fever, severe headache, severe pain behind the eyes, joint pain, muscle and bone pain, rash, and mild bleeding (e.g., nose or gums bleed, easy bruising).
Generally, younger children and those with their first dengue infection have a milder illness than older children and adults.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever is characterized by a fever that lasts from 2 to 7 days, with general signs and symptoms consistent with dengue fever.
When the fever declines, symptoms including persistent vomiting, severe abdominal pain, and difficulty breathing, may develop.
This marks the beginning of a 24- to 48-hour period when the smallest blood vessels (capillaries) become excessively permeable (“leaky”), allowing the fluid component to escape from the blood vessels into the peritoneum (causing ascites) and pleural cavity (leading to pleural effusions).
This may lead to failure of the circulatory system and shock, followed by death, if circulatory failure is not corrected.
In addition, the patient with DHF has a low platelet count and hemorrhagic manifestations, tendency to bruise easily or other types of skin hemorrhages, bleeding nose or gums, and possibly internal bleeding.
There may also be severe retro-orbital pain, (a pain from behind the eyes that is distinctive to Dengue infections), and gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting coffee-grounds-like congealed blood, or diarrhea.
CLINICAL FEATURES - Sudden onset of fever, severe headache, myalgias and arthralgias, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia and hemorrhagic manifestations and occasionally produces shock and hemorrhage, leading to death.
What is the treatment for dengue?
The diagnosis of dengue is usually made clinically.
Dengue is diagnosed by a blood test.
There is no specific medication for treatment of a dengue infection.
Persons who think they have dengue should use analgesics (pain relievers) with acetaminophen and avoid those containing aspirin.
Aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should be avoided as these drugs may worsen the bleeding tendency associated with some of these infections. Patients may receive paracetamol, acetaminophen, and preparations to deal with these symptoms if dengue is suspected.
They should also rest, drink plenty of fluids, and consult a physician.
If they feel worse (e.g., develop vomiting and severe abdominal pain) in the first 24 hours after the fever declines, they should go immediately to the hospital for evaluation.
Increased oral fluid intake is recommended to prevent dehydration. Supplementation with intravenous fluids may be necessary to prevent dehydration and significant concentration of the blood if the patient is unable to maintain oral intake. A platelet transfusion may be indicated if the platelet level drops significantly (below 20,000) or if there is significant bleeding. The presence of melena may indicate internal gastrointestinal bleeding requiring platelet and/or red blood cell transfusion.
Is there an effective treatment for dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)?
As with dengue fever, there is no specific medication for DHF.
It can however be effectively treated by fluid replacement therapy if an early clinical diagnosis is made.
DHF management frequently requires hospitalization.
Most people who develop dengue fever recover completely within 2 weeks. Some, especially adults, may be tired and/or depressed for several weeks to months after being infected with the virus.
The more clinically severe dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndromes can result in vascular (blood vessel) and liver damage, and can be life-threatening.
How to avoid the Dengue Fever?
What precautions we can take to avoid the dengue fever?
There is no vaccine for preventing dengue.
The Aedes mosquito likes to bite in the morning and afternoons, often indoors or in the shade. The mosquito, Aedes species, is a day biter; so during daylight hours, in areas where mosquitoes are present, protect yourself by properly using anti-mosquito measures.
For Dengue spread only society and our local government, Municipal Corporation is responsible.
You must ask your local government and politicians to keep your area clean.
Remember Dengue will kill you. Politicians are our paid servants so we must ask them it is our right they are our servants.
The Dengue Mosquito lays her eggs, primarily artificial containers that hold water.
Items that collect rainwater or to store water (for example, plastic containers, drums, buckets, or used automobile tires) should be covered or properly discarded.
Pet and animal watering containers and vases with fresh flowers should be emptied and cleaned (to remove eggs) at least once a week.
This will eliminate the mosquito eggs and larvae and reduce the number of mosquitoes present in these areas.
Using air conditioning or window and door screens reduces the risk of mosquitoes coming indoors. Proper application of mosquito repellents containing 20% to 30% DEET as the active ingredient on exposed skin and clothing decreases the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes.
Wearing clothing is usually a good idea, especially long sleeves, long pants or skirts.
To keep from over-heating and from aggressive mosquito punctures one should wear loose-fitting clothes.
Dengue = Failure of Public health systems in your area.
Dengue = Failure of local government and failure to ask the politicians to do their duty.
Suggested Reading –
Ayurvedic Treatment Cure for Dengue Fever – Know 25 Dengue Natural Home Remedies
Below is the photo of dengue mosquito -
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Part One – Know the 75 Useful Tips and uses of Salt -
Part One – Know the 75 Useful Tips and uses of Salt -
Salt Useful Uses and Tips -
Reality Views by sm –
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Salt can be used as a medicine, in beauty treatments, in industries. Salt is very important and useful for human life. No other seasoning has yet been found that can satisfactorily take the place of salt. In fact, ancient wars were fought over salt deposits!
1.Gargling - Stir 1/2 teaspoon salt in glass of warm water for use as a gargle for sore throats
2.Cleaning teeth - Mix one part salt to two parts baking soda after pulverizing the salt in a blender or rolling it on a kitchen board with a tumbler before mixing. It whitens teeth, helps remove plaque and it is healthy for the gums.
3.Washing mouth - Mix equal parts of salt and baking soda as a mouth wash that sweetens the breath.
4.Bathing eyes - Mix 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a pint of water and use the solution to bathe tired eyes.
5.Reducing eye puffiness - Mix one teaspoon of salt in a pint of hot water and apply pads soaked in the solution on the puffy areas.
6.Relieving tired feet - Soak aching feet in warm water to which a handful of salt has been added. Rinse in cool water.
7.Relieving bee stings - If stung, immediately wet the spot and cover with salt to relieve the pain.
8.Treating mosquito and chigger bites - Soak in saltwater, then apply a mixture of lard and salt
9.Treating poison ivy - Soaking the exposed part in hot saltwater helps hasten the end to poison ivy irritation
10.Relieving fatigue - Soak relaxed for at least ten minutes in a tub of water into which several handfuls of salt has been placed.
11.Removing dry skin - After bathing and while still wet give yourself a massage with dry salt. It removes dead skin particles and aids the circulation.
12.Applying facial - For a stimulating facial, mix equal parts of salt and olive oil and gently massage the face and throat with long upward and inward strokes. Remove mixture after five minutes and wash face.
13.Removing tattoos -CAUTION-This is a medical procedure that can be done only by a physician. It is called salabrasion and requires several treatments by rubbing salt on the tattoo. Healing is required between treatments, but there is virtually no scarring
14.Treating varicose veins - CAUTION-This is another medical procedure called sclerotheraphy and is done by injecting a saline solution into the vein.
15.Salt tablets -- Pure 1 gram salt tablets for the preparation of saline or for use as a supplement to offset salt loss during heavy exercise [ under medical guidance ]
16.Extinguishing grease fires - Keep a box of salt handy at your stove and oven and if a grease fire flares up, cover the flames with salt.
17.Do not use water on grease fires; it will splatter the burning grease. Also a handful of salt thrown on flames from meat dripping in barbecue grills will reduce the flames and deaden the smoke without cooling the coals as water does.
18.Drip-proofing candles - Soak new candles in a strong salt solution for a few hours, and then dry them well. When burned they will not drip.
19.Removing soot - Occasionally throw a handful of salt on the flames in your fireplace; it will help loosen soot from the chimney and salt makes a bright yellow flame.
20.Cleaning fish tanks - Rub the inside of fish tanks with salt to remove hard water deposits, then rinse well before returning the fish to the tank. Use only plain, not iodized, salt.
21.Invigorating goldfish - Occasionally add one teaspoon of salt to a quart of fresh water at room temperature and put your goldfish in for about 15 minutes. Then return them to their tank. The salt swim makes them healthier.
22.Cleaning flower vases - To remove deposits caused by flowers and water, rub with salt; if you cannot reach the deposits to rub them, put a strong salt solution in the vase and shake, and then wash the vase with soap and water.
23.Keeping cut flowers fresh - A dash of salt added to the water in a flower vase will keep cut flowers fresh longer
24.Holding artificial flowers - Artificial flowers can be held in an artistic arrangement by pouring salt into the container, adding a little cold water and then arranging the flowers. The salt will solidify as it dries and hold the flowers in place.
25.Keeping patios weed-free - If weeds or unwanted grass come up between patio bricks or blocks, carefully spread salt between the bricks and blocks, then sprinkle with water or wait for rain to wet it down.
26.Killing poison ivy - Mix three pounds of salt with a gallon of soapy water and apply to leaves and stems with a sprayer
27.Keeping windows frost-free - Rub the inside of windows with a sponge dipped in a saltwater solution and rub dry; the windows will not frost up in sub-freezing weather. Rubbing a small cloth bag containing salt that has been moistened on your car's windshield will keep snow and ice from collecting
28.Anti-icing sidewalks and driveways - Lightly sprinkling rock salt on walks and driveways will keep snow and ice from bonding to the pavement and allow for easy removal. Don't overdo it; use the salt sensibly to avoid damage to grass and ornamentals.
29.Deodorizing shoes - Sprinkling a little salt in canvas shoes occasionally will take up the moisture and help remove odors
30.Boiling Water - Salt added to water makes the water boil at a higher temperature, thus reducing cooking time. (It does not make the water boil faster.)
31.Peeling eggs - Boiling eggs in salted water will make eggs peel easily
32.Poaching eggs - Poaching eggs over salted water helps set the egg whites
33.Testing egg freshness - Place the egg in a cup of water to which two teaspoonfuls of salt has been added. A fresh egg sinks; a doubter will float.
34.Preventing browning - Apples, pears and potatoes dropped in cold, lightly salted water as they are peeled will retain their color.
35.Shelling pecans - Soaking pecans in salt water for several hours before shelling will make nut meats easier to remove.
36.Washing spinach - If spinach is washed in salted water, repeated cleanings will not be necessary.
37.Crisping salads - Salting salads immediately before serving will keep them crisp
38.Preventing sugaring - A little salt added to cake icings prevents them from sugaring.
39.Improving boiled potatoes - Boiled potatoes will be given a fine, mealy texture by sprinkling with salt after draining, then returning them to the pan and shaking them back and forth quickly to get rid of the excess moisture.
40.If you plan on adding salt to boiling water for pasta or vegetables, wait until the water boils before adding it. Salted water takes longer to boil.
41.Cleaning greasy pans - The greasiest iron pan will wash easily if you put a little salt in it and wipe with paper
42.Cleaning stained cups - Rubbing with salt will remove stubborn tea or coffee stains from cups
43.Cleaning ovens - Salt and cinnamon take the "burned food" odor away from ovens and stove burners. Sprinkle spills while oven and burners are still hot; when dry, remove the salted spots with a stiff brush or cloth
44.Cleaning refrigerators - Salt and soda water will clean and sweeten the inside of your refrigerator. It won't scratch enamel either.
45.Extinguishing grease fires - Salt tossed on a grease fire on the stove or in the oven will smother flames. Never use water; it will only spatter the burning grease.
46.Improving coffee - A pinch of salt in coffee will enhance the flavor and remove the bitterness of over-cooked coffee.
47.Improving poultry - To improve the flavor of poultry, rub the fowl inside and out with salt before roasting.
48.Removing pinfeathers - To remove pinfeathers easily from a chicken, rub the chicken skin with salt first.
49.Cleaning tarnished silverware - Rub tarnish with salt before washing
50.Cleaning copper pans - Remove stains on copper pans by salting area and scouring with a cloth soaked in vinegar.
51.Cleaning coffee pots - Remove bitterness from percolators and other coffee pots by filling with water, adding four tablespoons of salt and percolating or boiling as usual.
52.Humidity and moisture will cause salt to clump and stick together. Add about ten grains of raw rice to the shaker to absorb the moisture and keep the salt flowing freely.
53.Salt pulls juices out of vegetables. This is a good thing for some watery vegetables like cucumbers and eggplant in some dishes, but if you want mushrooms to remain plump, add the salt at the end of cooking.
54.Do not store salt in silver containers. The chlorine in the salt reacts negatively with the silver, causing a green discoloration.
55.A solution of salt and turpentine restores the whiteness to yellowed enamel bathtubs and lavatories.
56.A paste of salt and vinegar cleans tarnished brass or copper. Strong brine poured down the kitchen sink prevents grease from collecting and eliminates odors.
57.Salt helps destroy moths and drives away ants. A dash of salt in laundry starch keeps the iron from sticking and gives linen and fine cottons a glossy, like-new finish.
58.A thin paste of salt and salad oil removes white marks caused by hot dishes or water from wooden tables.
59.Canvas: If a canvas bag or any bags develop a musty smell, deodorize them by sprinkling salt on the inside, zipping up the bag, and letting it sit overnight. Remove the salt in the morning, and then allow the bag to air out.
60.Rust: If rust develops on bike handlebars or tire rims, clean it away by making a paste of 6 tablespoons of salt and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Apply the paste to the rusted areas with a dry cloth, then rub, rinse, and dry the area thoroughly.
61.Oil spills: If you accidentally spill oil onto your garage floor, sprinkle salt on it and wait 15 minutes. The salt will help soak up some of the liquid and make cleaning easier.
62.To quickly heal your mouth, dissolve a teaspoon of salt in a small cup of lukewarm water and gently rinse your mouth with it. Do this 3 or 4 times a day.
63.Dissolve a little salt in the water for a vase of cut flowers to make them last longer. Recut the stem ends every 3 days, wash out the vase and replace the lightly salted water in it.
64.Sprinkle salt on raw eggs dropped on the floor to easily clean up the spill. After a wine spill, immediately cover the spill with salt and later you can rinse out the stain in cool water.
65.Mix 1 teaspoon of salt to 4 teaspoon of alcohol and apply to grease stains on clothing to remove them.
66.Mix equal parts salt with lemon juice and lightly scrub to remove light mildew. Clean tarnished brass and copper with paste made of salt and vinegar, thickened with a bit of flour, rinse and dry well.
67.Use salt to clean your discolored coffee pot.
68.While still hot, sprinkle a mixture of salt and cinnamon to remove offensive odors from your stove burners and oven and sprinkle a bit more salt in your oven before scrubbing clean.
69.Easily clean greasy pans with a paper towel and salt (do not use on Teflon coated pans).
70.To truly cleanse your home and free it of negative energy, utilize the properties of sea salt according to the Chinese art of feng shui. Place sea salt strategically for maximum effect in stabilizing the chi inside your home. Fill two small ceramic dishes or little bowls with the sea salt. Place these dishes at the northeast and southwest corners of the house. Every 2 months, exchange the used salt for some fresh.
71.Use only a little bit of salt, about 5 spoonfuls in a bucket of water. Mop the hard floors with this solution as often as you can
72.crystal salt lamps are effective in improving the air quality
73.Removing onion odors from hands - Rub fingers with salt moistened with vinegar.
74.Cleaning sink drains - Pour a strong salt brine down the kitchen sink drain regularly to eliminate odors and keep grease from building up
75.Brightening cutting boards - After washing them with soap and water, rub bread and cutting boards with a damp cloth dipped in salt; the boards will be lighter and brighter.
Continued -
Suggested Reading –
Part 2 – Know 44 useful tips and uses of salt
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-2-know-44-useful-tips-and-uses-of.html
Know about Salt - The white poison
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/know-about-salt-white-poison.html
Salt Useful Uses and Tips -
Reality Views by sm –
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Salt can be used as a medicine, in beauty treatments, in industries. Salt is very important and useful for human life. No other seasoning has yet been found that can satisfactorily take the place of salt. In fact, ancient wars were fought over salt deposits!
1.Gargling - Stir 1/2 teaspoon salt in glass of warm water for use as a gargle for sore throats
2.Cleaning teeth - Mix one part salt to two parts baking soda after pulverizing the salt in a blender or rolling it on a kitchen board with a tumbler before mixing. It whitens teeth, helps remove plaque and it is healthy for the gums.
3.Washing mouth - Mix equal parts of salt and baking soda as a mouth wash that sweetens the breath.
4.Bathing eyes - Mix 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a pint of water and use the solution to bathe tired eyes.
5.Reducing eye puffiness - Mix one teaspoon of salt in a pint of hot water and apply pads soaked in the solution on the puffy areas.
6.Relieving tired feet - Soak aching feet in warm water to which a handful of salt has been added. Rinse in cool water.
7.Relieving bee stings - If stung, immediately wet the spot and cover with salt to relieve the pain.
8.Treating mosquito and chigger bites - Soak in saltwater, then apply a mixture of lard and salt
9.Treating poison ivy - Soaking the exposed part in hot saltwater helps hasten the end to poison ivy irritation
10.Relieving fatigue - Soak relaxed for at least ten minutes in a tub of water into which several handfuls of salt has been placed.
11.Removing dry skin - After bathing and while still wet give yourself a massage with dry salt. It removes dead skin particles and aids the circulation.
12.Applying facial - For a stimulating facial, mix equal parts of salt and olive oil and gently massage the face and throat with long upward and inward strokes. Remove mixture after five minutes and wash face.
13.Removing tattoos -CAUTION-This is a medical procedure that can be done only by a physician. It is called salabrasion and requires several treatments by rubbing salt on the tattoo. Healing is required between treatments, but there is virtually no scarring
14.Treating varicose veins - CAUTION-This is another medical procedure called sclerotheraphy and is done by injecting a saline solution into the vein.
15.Salt tablets -- Pure 1 gram salt tablets for the preparation of saline or for use as a supplement to offset salt loss during heavy exercise [ under medical guidance ]
16.Extinguishing grease fires - Keep a box of salt handy at your stove and oven and if a grease fire flares up, cover the flames with salt.
17.Do not use water on grease fires; it will splatter the burning grease. Also a handful of salt thrown on flames from meat dripping in barbecue grills will reduce the flames and deaden the smoke without cooling the coals as water does.
18.Drip-proofing candles - Soak new candles in a strong salt solution for a few hours, and then dry them well. When burned they will not drip.
19.Removing soot - Occasionally throw a handful of salt on the flames in your fireplace; it will help loosen soot from the chimney and salt makes a bright yellow flame.
20.Cleaning fish tanks - Rub the inside of fish tanks with salt to remove hard water deposits, then rinse well before returning the fish to the tank. Use only plain, not iodized, salt.
21.Invigorating goldfish - Occasionally add one teaspoon of salt to a quart of fresh water at room temperature and put your goldfish in for about 15 minutes. Then return them to their tank. The salt swim makes them healthier.
22.Cleaning flower vases - To remove deposits caused by flowers and water, rub with salt; if you cannot reach the deposits to rub them, put a strong salt solution in the vase and shake, and then wash the vase with soap and water.
23.Keeping cut flowers fresh - A dash of salt added to the water in a flower vase will keep cut flowers fresh longer
24.Holding artificial flowers - Artificial flowers can be held in an artistic arrangement by pouring salt into the container, adding a little cold water and then arranging the flowers. The salt will solidify as it dries and hold the flowers in place.
25.Keeping patios weed-free - If weeds or unwanted grass come up between patio bricks or blocks, carefully spread salt between the bricks and blocks, then sprinkle with water or wait for rain to wet it down.
26.Killing poison ivy - Mix three pounds of salt with a gallon of soapy water and apply to leaves and stems with a sprayer
27.Keeping windows frost-free - Rub the inside of windows with a sponge dipped in a saltwater solution and rub dry; the windows will not frost up in sub-freezing weather. Rubbing a small cloth bag containing salt that has been moistened on your car's windshield will keep snow and ice from collecting
28.Anti-icing sidewalks and driveways - Lightly sprinkling rock salt on walks and driveways will keep snow and ice from bonding to the pavement and allow for easy removal. Don't overdo it; use the salt sensibly to avoid damage to grass and ornamentals.
29.Deodorizing shoes - Sprinkling a little salt in canvas shoes occasionally will take up the moisture and help remove odors
30.Boiling Water - Salt added to water makes the water boil at a higher temperature, thus reducing cooking time. (It does not make the water boil faster.)
31.Peeling eggs - Boiling eggs in salted water will make eggs peel easily
32.Poaching eggs - Poaching eggs over salted water helps set the egg whites
33.Testing egg freshness - Place the egg in a cup of water to which two teaspoonfuls of salt has been added. A fresh egg sinks; a doubter will float.
34.Preventing browning - Apples, pears and potatoes dropped in cold, lightly salted water as they are peeled will retain their color.
35.Shelling pecans - Soaking pecans in salt water for several hours before shelling will make nut meats easier to remove.
36.Washing spinach - If spinach is washed in salted water, repeated cleanings will not be necessary.
37.Crisping salads - Salting salads immediately before serving will keep them crisp
38.Preventing sugaring - A little salt added to cake icings prevents them from sugaring.
39.Improving boiled potatoes - Boiled potatoes will be given a fine, mealy texture by sprinkling with salt after draining, then returning them to the pan and shaking them back and forth quickly to get rid of the excess moisture.
40.If you plan on adding salt to boiling water for pasta or vegetables, wait until the water boils before adding it. Salted water takes longer to boil.
41.Cleaning greasy pans - The greasiest iron pan will wash easily if you put a little salt in it and wipe with paper
42.Cleaning stained cups - Rubbing with salt will remove stubborn tea or coffee stains from cups
43.Cleaning ovens - Salt and cinnamon take the "burned food" odor away from ovens and stove burners. Sprinkle spills while oven and burners are still hot; when dry, remove the salted spots with a stiff brush or cloth
44.Cleaning refrigerators - Salt and soda water will clean and sweeten the inside of your refrigerator. It won't scratch enamel either.
45.Extinguishing grease fires - Salt tossed on a grease fire on the stove or in the oven will smother flames. Never use water; it will only spatter the burning grease.
46.Improving coffee - A pinch of salt in coffee will enhance the flavor and remove the bitterness of over-cooked coffee.
47.Improving poultry - To improve the flavor of poultry, rub the fowl inside and out with salt before roasting.
48.Removing pinfeathers - To remove pinfeathers easily from a chicken, rub the chicken skin with salt first.
49.Cleaning tarnished silverware - Rub tarnish with salt before washing
50.Cleaning copper pans - Remove stains on copper pans by salting area and scouring with a cloth soaked in vinegar.
51.Cleaning coffee pots - Remove bitterness from percolators and other coffee pots by filling with water, adding four tablespoons of salt and percolating or boiling as usual.
52.Humidity and moisture will cause salt to clump and stick together. Add about ten grains of raw rice to the shaker to absorb the moisture and keep the salt flowing freely.
53.Salt pulls juices out of vegetables. This is a good thing for some watery vegetables like cucumbers and eggplant in some dishes, but if you want mushrooms to remain plump, add the salt at the end of cooking.
54.Do not store salt in silver containers. The chlorine in the salt reacts negatively with the silver, causing a green discoloration.
55.A solution of salt and turpentine restores the whiteness to yellowed enamel bathtubs and lavatories.
56.A paste of salt and vinegar cleans tarnished brass or copper. Strong brine poured down the kitchen sink prevents grease from collecting and eliminates odors.
57.Salt helps destroy moths and drives away ants. A dash of salt in laundry starch keeps the iron from sticking and gives linen and fine cottons a glossy, like-new finish.
58.A thin paste of salt and salad oil removes white marks caused by hot dishes or water from wooden tables.
59.Canvas: If a canvas bag or any bags develop a musty smell, deodorize them by sprinkling salt on the inside, zipping up the bag, and letting it sit overnight. Remove the salt in the morning, and then allow the bag to air out.
60.Rust: If rust develops on bike handlebars or tire rims, clean it away by making a paste of 6 tablespoons of salt and 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Apply the paste to the rusted areas with a dry cloth, then rub, rinse, and dry the area thoroughly.
61.Oil spills: If you accidentally spill oil onto your garage floor, sprinkle salt on it and wait 15 minutes. The salt will help soak up some of the liquid and make cleaning easier.
62.To quickly heal your mouth, dissolve a teaspoon of salt in a small cup of lukewarm water and gently rinse your mouth with it. Do this 3 or 4 times a day.
63.Dissolve a little salt in the water for a vase of cut flowers to make them last longer. Recut the stem ends every 3 days, wash out the vase and replace the lightly salted water in it.
64.Sprinkle salt on raw eggs dropped on the floor to easily clean up the spill. After a wine spill, immediately cover the spill with salt and later you can rinse out the stain in cool water.
65.Mix 1 teaspoon of salt to 4 teaspoon of alcohol and apply to grease stains on clothing to remove them.
66.Mix equal parts salt with lemon juice and lightly scrub to remove light mildew. Clean tarnished brass and copper with paste made of salt and vinegar, thickened with a bit of flour, rinse and dry well.
67.Use salt to clean your discolored coffee pot.
68.While still hot, sprinkle a mixture of salt and cinnamon to remove offensive odors from your stove burners and oven and sprinkle a bit more salt in your oven before scrubbing clean.
69.Easily clean greasy pans with a paper towel and salt (do not use on Teflon coated pans).
70.To truly cleanse your home and free it of negative energy, utilize the properties of sea salt according to the Chinese art of feng shui. Place sea salt strategically for maximum effect in stabilizing the chi inside your home. Fill two small ceramic dishes or little bowls with the sea salt. Place these dishes at the northeast and southwest corners of the house. Every 2 months, exchange the used salt for some fresh.
71.Use only a little bit of salt, about 5 spoonfuls in a bucket of water. Mop the hard floors with this solution as often as you can
72.crystal salt lamps are effective in improving the air quality
73.Removing onion odors from hands - Rub fingers with salt moistened with vinegar.
74.Cleaning sink drains - Pour a strong salt brine down the kitchen sink drain regularly to eliminate odors and keep grease from building up
75.Brightening cutting boards - After washing them with soap and water, rub bread and cutting boards with a damp cloth dipped in salt; the boards will be lighter and brighter.
Continued -
Suggested Reading –
Part 2 – Know 44 useful tips and uses of salt
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/08/part-2-know-44-useful-tips-and-uses-of.html
Know about Salt - The white poison
http://realityviews.blogspot.com/2010/04/know-about-salt-white-poison.html
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