The top five cancer-causing foods…
1. Hot dogs
Because they are high in nitrates, the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can’t live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.
2. Processed meats and bacon
Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.
3. Doughnuts
Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.
4. French fries
Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process. They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams.
5. Chips, crackers, and cookies
All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.
BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS
1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
The main causes of “LIVER DAMAGE” are:
1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener.
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver.
Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.
We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to ’schedule.’
DO TAKE CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH……
Poovar is a small coastal village in the Trivandrum district of Kerala state, south India. This village is almost at the southern tip of Trivandrum and there is not much distance from here to the Kerala – Tamilnadu border. This village has a beautiful beach which attracts tourists. There are also some good tourist resorts.
Poovar lies very close to Vizhinjam, a natural harbor. Poovar has an estuary which connects with the sea during high tides. The 56km Neyyar River passes through Neyyattinkara taluk into the Arabian Sea near Poovar. It’s natural beauty enables it to be a quiet tourist spot.
Poovar was a trading center of timber, sandlewood, ivory and spices. It is believed that the trading ships of King Solomon landed in a port called ‘Ophir’, which is figured out as Poovar. Poovar has been one of the ancient Muslim settlements along the western coast of India.The Central Mosque here is believed to been built by Malik ibn Dinar and his missionary team, more than 1400 years ago.
Poovar Beach
Nearest Airport : Trivandrum International Airport – 20km, Nearest Railway Station : Trivandrum Central – 22km, Nemom – 12km, Nearest Harbor : Vizhinjam – 14km
Paraniyam, Near Poovar
Paraniyam is located around 24Km from Trivandrum, and 3Km from Poovar on the Poovar-Kanjiramkulam-Trivandrum Road.. The Paraniyam YMCA, Govt HSS and CSI Paraniyam Church are the major institutions here.
CSI Church Paraniyam
Sadya means banquet in Malayalam (the language spoken in Kerala, India).
A Sadya is a big feast associated with a special occasion, such as a marriage, birthday, childbirth etc. A Sadya is traditionally a vegetarian meal served on a plantain or banana leaf; people eat sitting cross-legged on the floor. Sadhya can have up to 24 dishes served in it.
The dishes are plain boiled rice, many curries, papadum, plain yogurt or buttermilk, banana or plantain chips, and two or more sweet dishes. The curries are made of different vegetables and have different flavourings. They can be made of yogurt, bitter gourd, mango, jaggery, etc. The reason for including so many dishes in the Sadya is to ensure that the diners will like at least two or three dishes.
Coconut, being abundant in Kerala, is used in almost all dishes. Coconut milk also finds various uses in cooking. Coconut oil is used for frying.
There is a specific place for each item on the plantain leaf. For example, the pickles are served on the top left corner and banana on the bottom left corner. Thus, the waiters can easily identify the requirement of the diner by just looking at his leaf.
There are variations in the menu according to the place and the religion. Some communities include non-vegetarian dishes in the sadya. Although custom was to use traditional and seasonal vegetables, it has become common practice to include vegetables such as carrots, pineapples, beans in the dishes. Onion and garlic are not typically used in the sadya.
The sadya is usually served as lunch. Preparations begin the night before, and the dishes are prepared before ten o’ clock in the morning on the day of the celebration. On many occasions, sadya is served on dining tables, as people no longer find it convenient to sit on the floor.
All the dishes are served on the plantain leaf; it requires a special skill to eat the food. The whole palm and fingers of the hand have to be used in the form of a ladle to lift the food from the leaf and eat it without spilling it.
Traditionally, the people of the neighbourhood spent the night helping the cooks in works like scraping coconut and cutting vegetables. These people also volunteered to serve the food to the guests. This lent a personal touch to the occasion. Enterprise and urban demands on time and space have now made it possible for the work to be contracted to professional catering services.
The meal is always followed by vettila murukkan, chewing of betel leaf with lime and arecanut. This aids in digestion of the heavy meal and also cleanses the palate
Courtesy: Wikipedia
The Election Commission on Monday announced the dates for the 15 Lok SABHA options that will be held in five phases from April 16 to May 13. The Voting dates are 16th April, 23rd April, 30th April, 7th May and 13th May. The Lok sabha election 2009 result will be declared on 16th may 2009.
Gopalaswami said that the 124 constituencies will vote on April 16, followed by 141 on April 23, 107 April 30, 85 on May 7 and 86 on 13 May. 714 million people are eligible to vote in this election. There will be a total of 828,000 voting stations using the 1.1 million electronic voting machines across the country.
The dates were announced after the three-member Election Commission met under the Chairmanship of Gopalaswami in New Delhi on Monday. All election-related procedures will be completed before May 28. Counting will take place on May 16, and the next government is formed on 2 June.
Lok Sabha Election 2009 Schedule :
Date for Lok sabha election Phase 1 : 16 April 2009
Lok Sabha Constituency : Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand.
Date for Lok sabha election Phase 2 : 22 April 2009
Lok Sabha Constituency : Manipur
Date for Lok sabha election Phase 2 : 23 April 2009
Lok Sabha Constituencies : Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tripura.
Date for Lok sabha election Phase 3 : 30 April 2009
Lok Sabha Constituency : Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Daman and Diu, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim.
Date for Lok sabha election Phase 4 : 7 May 2009
Lok Sabha Constituency : Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, West Bengal.
Date for Lok sabha election Phase 5 : 13 May 2009
Lok Sabha Constituency : Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Puducherry, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Chandigarh.
To the delight of all malayalies worldwide, Kerala-born sound engineer Resul Pookutty notched up an Oscar award for Sound Mixing in the movie Slumdog Millionaire at the grand awards ceremony held at Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles Sunday night.He hails from Vilakkupara village in Quilon district and is the first malayaly to receive the prestigious award.
Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs M.A. Baby has announced that the State government would honour him at a function in the capital.He personally visited the hero’s native place to congratulate his family members and distributed sweets to the residents.Congratulatory messages from political, cultural leaders and celebrities (including the Chief Minister) have been pouring in from all parts of the state and country.
