HEADACHE ? EAT FISH
Eat plenty of fish -- fish oil helps prevent headaches.
So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.
HAY FEVER ? EAT YOGURT
Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season.
Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily.
TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA
Prevent build-up of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invading..Green tea is great for our immune system)!
INSOMNIA (CAN'T SLEEP ?) HONEY
Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.
ASTHMA ? EAT ONIONS
Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes. (when I was young, my mother would make onion packs to place on our chest, helped the respiratory ailments and actually made us breathe better).
ARTHRITIS ? EAT FISH
Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system)
UPSET STOMACH ? BANANAS - GINGER
Bananas will settle an upset stomach.
Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.
BLADDER INFECTION ? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE
High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.
BONE PROBLEMS ? EAT PINEAPPLE
Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple.
PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME ? EAT CORNFLAKES
Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.
MEMORY PROBLEMS ? EAT OYSTERS
Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.
COLDS ? EAT GARLIC
Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.)
COUGHING ? USE RED PEPPERS
A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy.
BREAST CANCER ?
EAT Wheat, bran and cabbage
Helps to maintain estrogens at healthy levels.
LUNG CANCER ? EAT DARK GREEN & ORANGE AND VEGGIES
A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.
ULCERS ? EAT CABBAGE
Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers.
DIARRHEA ? EAT APPLES
Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment)
CLOGGED ARTERIES ? EAT AVOCADO
Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE ? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL
Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too.
BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE ? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS
The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.
Kiwifruit: But mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E & fibre. It's Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.
Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.
Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits &protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you..they're high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young.........blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health field........they get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies)
Orange : Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 - 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.
Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients
found in watermelon are Vitamin C &Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn suv rays)
Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content.Papaya: is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion)
Guava:- is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation.
Tomatoes: are very good as a preventative measure for men, keeps those prostrate problems from invading their bodies.
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
I am back
I am back after a long weekend(which sucked big time). Out of four days I was sick for almost all the days.. Weather was horrible and nothing on TV or movie hall..
But in a way it was good as I had real good quality time with my hubby dear. It was like sleep - eat - drink -sleep ... And load of Friends on TV.. Joey , Rachel, Ross, Monica , Phebe and chandler have become like part of our family now.
I remember my hubby saying this holiday reminds him of this college days. Chalo at least some one had good time..
Now I have loads of blogs to read.. Will catch u guys later..
But in a way it was good as I had real good quality time with my hubby dear. It was like sleep - eat - drink -sleep ... And load of Friends on TV.. Joey , Rachel, Ross, Monica , Phebe and chandler have become like part of our family now.
I remember my hubby saying this holiday reminds him of this college days. Chalo at least some one had good time..
Now I have loads of blogs to read.. Will catch u guys later..
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Unwanted Guest...!
Today morning I got up thinking some thing is wrong.Had a glass of water it tasted funny.. Made regular morning tea with normal sugar .. it tasted funny also.. cook tiffin for my hubby and gave it to him when it touched my hand he said ur having Fever... Yes the unwanted guest is Viral fever... Not feeling good at all.. Plus cant take medication as I am allergic to Paracetamol.. So my father in-law suggested anti- allergy which makes me sleepy...
I will be off for sometime.. long weekend is just round the corner , I don't want to be sick on weekend or else hubby dear will find one more reason for not going out..! Well our plan was to go to the south end beach lets see.. will update on tue what all did I do.
Ok guys time to sleep guess medicine has started his job ..
Happy blogging..! have a wonderful weekend...!
I will be off for sometime.. long weekend is just round the corner , I don't want to be sick on weekend or else hubby dear will find one more reason for not going out..! Well our plan was to go to the south end beach lets see.. will update on tue what all did I do.
Ok guys time to sleep guess medicine has started his job ..
Happy blogging..! have a wonderful weekend...!
Monday, 6 April 2009
21 Things
ONE.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO.
Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE.
Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR.
When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.
FIVE.
When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye..
SIX.
Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN.
Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT.
Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE.
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN.
Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE.
Talk slowly but think quickly.
THIRTEEN.
When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'
FOURTEEN.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN.
Say 'God bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson .
SEVENTEEN.
Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY.
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY-ONE.
Spend some time alone.
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO.
Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE.
Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR.
When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.
FIVE.
When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye..
SIX.
Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN.
Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT.
Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE.
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN.
Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE.
Talk slowly but think quickly.
THIRTEEN.
When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'
FOURTEEN.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN.
Say 'God bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson .
SEVENTEEN.
Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY.
Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY-ONE.
Spend some time alone.
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
Friday, 3 April 2009
Heaven on Earth
Today I watched Deepa Mehta's new movie Heaven on Earth . Movie is about Chand, a young Indian Punjabi woman who finds herself in an abusive arranged marriage with an Indo-Canadian man.
Everything is new to Chand, everything is unfamiliar including the quiet and shy Rocky who she meets for the first time at the Arrivals level of Pearson Airport. Chand approaches her new life and her new land with equanimity and grace, and at times the wide-eyed optimism of hope—her first snowfall is a tiny miracle of beauty, and the roar of Niagara Falls creates the excitement of new beginnings.
But soon optimism turns to isolation as the family she has inherited struggles beneath the weight of unspoken words, their collective frustration becoming palpable. A controlling mother who can’t let him go, a sweet but ineffectual father, and a sister whose two children and unemployed husband are also a burden. All live with Rocky and Chand in a two-bedroom house in the suburbs of Toronto. To make matters worse, Rocky is expected to find the money to bring his extended family to Canada. Unable to express his anger, he finds other ways to release it and it’s Chand who bears the brunt of his repressed rage.
Trapped in a world she cannot comprehend and unable to please her husband, Chand is desperate. Hope comes in the form of Rosa (Yanna McIntosh), a tough and savvy Jamaican woman who works alongside Chand in a factory where immigrant women from all over the world clean and press dirty hotel laundry. Rosa sees past the make-up that covers Chand’s bruised face. Realizing Chand has nowhere to turn, Rosa gives her a magical root advising her “to put it in whatever he drinks.” The root is supposed to seduce the one who takes it, making them fall hopelessly in love with the person who gives it to them. Chand’s attempts with the magic root lead to surreal incidents and her life gradually begins to mirror an Indian fable involving a King Cobra. As the lines between fantasy and reality converge, Chand and Rocky come face to face with each other and themselves.
Its so strange to see till today educated women are victims of domestic violence. There was one interesting scene where her mother-in-law tells her. Husband beating a wife is part of married life. In today's world also people think wives are stress reliever . I think its very common in Indian Villages but to see the same situation in Canada was shocking . Be it any place women still have to suffer.
One of my childhood friend also is facing the same problem.Her husband was fine with her for initial one year but after he daughter was born he changed.God knows what happened.He hit her very badly only 2 months after her daughter was born.She had decided to separate from her husband .Her husband told her I can give you divorce only on one condition you wont remarry or else I will take our daughter back from you.She spoke to her brother and parents about it but poor girl,her parents advised her to ADJUST .. I was shocked.I told her how can your parents do this to you they should support you.She said to me what can I do.. you tell me I have nowhere to go.I felt so helpless that moment. Its been more almost one year I have no contact with her . She is not allowed to call her parents nor her parents can call her. She mails me sometimes secretly.
I wish god gives her strength to handle all this.....
This movie really is a shocking fact of woman's life.
Everything is new to Chand, everything is unfamiliar including the quiet and shy Rocky who she meets for the first time at the Arrivals level of Pearson Airport. Chand approaches her new life and her new land with equanimity and grace, and at times the wide-eyed optimism of hope—her first snowfall is a tiny miracle of beauty, and the roar of Niagara Falls creates the excitement of new beginnings.
But soon optimism turns to isolation as the family she has inherited struggles beneath the weight of unspoken words, their collective frustration becoming palpable. A controlling mother who can’t let him go, a sweet but ineffectual father, and a sister whose two children and unemployed husband are also a burden. All live with Rocky and Chand in a two-bedroom house in the suburbs of Toronto. To make matters worse, Rocky is expected to find the money to bring his extended family to Canada. Unable to express his anger, he finds other ways to release it and it’s Chand who bears the brunt of his repressed rage.
Trapped in a world she cannot comprehend and unable to please her husband, Chand is desperate. Hope comes in the form of Rosa (Yanna McIntosh), a tough and savvy Jamaican woman who works alongside Chand in a factory where immigrant women from all over the world clean and press dirty hotel laundry. Rosa sees past the make-up that covers Chand’s bruised face. Realizing Chand has nowhere to turn, Rosa gives her a magical root advising her “to put it in whatever he drinks.” The root is supposed to seduce the one who takes it, making them fall hopelessly in love with the person who gives it to them. Chand’s attempts with the magic root lead to surreal incidents and her life gradually begins to mirror an Indian fable involving a King Cobra. As the lines between fantasy and reality converge, Chand and Rocky come face to face with each other and themselves.
Its so strange to see till today educated women are victims of domestic violence. There was one interesting scene where her mother-in-law tells her. Husband beating a wife is part of married life. In today's world also people think wives are stress reliever . I think its very common in Indian Villages but to see the same situation in Canada was shocking . Be it any place women still have to suffer.
One of my childhood friend also is facing the same problem.Her husband was fine with her for initial one year but after he daughter was born he changed.God knows what happened.He hit her very badly only 2 months after her daughter was born.She had decided to separate from her husband .Her husband told her I can give you divorce only on one condition you wont remarry or else I will take our daughter back from you.She spoke to her brother and parents about it but poor girl,her parents advised her to ADJUST .. I was shocked.I told her how can your parents do this to you they should support you.She said to me what can I do.. you tell me I have nowhere to go.I felt so helpless that moment. Its been more almost one year I have no contact with her . She is not allowed to call her parents nor her parents can call her. She mails me sometimes secretly.
I wish god gives her strength to handle all this.....
This movie really is a shocking fact of woman's life.
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Jab we Met after 20 years..!
Today I got this as a fwd mail from one of my friend.
Oh! the last 20 years has gone so sooner,
The great college days, I started remembering,
Seems like only yesterday I finished engineering.
Seeing my class mates, after 20 years,
My eyes were filled with tears,
Everyone has changed a lot,
No one escaped nature's plot.
Guys who were smart and handsome,
have become bald and buxom,
Girls who used to fill our dreams,
Almost brought out screams.
Saw the girl, whom once I thought as my life,
oops!, today she is somebody Else's wife,
after years, talked to her for a little while,
learned she is happy, that made me smile.
Entered our class' Mr. Romeo,
Who has played many a cameo
We started teasing him together,
About what all he did to-get-her,
Project reviews to campus interviews,
Nicknames to last bench games,
Cultural rehearsals to love proposals,
Short term crushes to class room blushes.
Everything was fresh in our mind,
Wished life could rewind,
Laughed, played and rejoiced,
Once again we became girls and boys.
Chatting and laughing, we all were in elation,
Till the painful moment of separation,
It was time to part,
returned with a heavy heart.
Today life is full of commitments,
and too many worries,
But those cherished moments,
Will live forever in our memories
Oh! the last 20 years has gone so sooner,
The great college days, I started remembering,
Seems like only yesterday I finished engineering.
Seeing my class mates, after 20 years,
My eyes were filled with tears,
Everyone has changed a lot,
No one escaped nature's plot.
Guys who were smart and handsome,
have become bald and buxom,
Girls who used to fill our dreams,
Almost brought out screams.
Saw the girl, whom once I thought as my life,
oops!, today she is somebody Else's wife,
after years, talked to her for a little while,
learned she is happy, that made me smile.
Entered our class' Mr. Romeo,
Who has played many a cameo
We started teasing him together,
About what all he did to-get-her,
Project reviews to campus interviews,
Nicknames to last bench games,
Cultural rehearsals to love proposals,
Short term crushes to class room blushes.
Everything was fresh in our mind,
Wished life could rewind,
Laughed, played and rejoiced,
Once again we became girls and boys.
Chatting and laughing, we all were in elation,
Till the painful moment of separation,
It was time to part,
returned with a heavy heart.
Today life is full of commitments,
and too many worries,
But those cherished moments,
Will live forever in our memories
Gmail now has Indian Languages..!
Today while surfing net I found out very interesting thing and I thought of sharing it with all. Many of you might already know about it.
Gmail has also been enabled for Indian languages. Long, long overdue. It’s already available for Orkut and Blogger (Google associates); and also for Word Press platform on which this blog is operating on.
Gmail is now available for five Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. It’s on by default for Indian users, but if it’s not, then you need to go to Settings and thenGoogle Mail display language and enable it. Then from a drop down menu you have to select the language of your choice. Then when you go to Compose, you will find an icon of the first letter of the language you chose. These are inevitable innovations as technology is made more accessible to more and more people in the world. A long, long way to go still.
Now I guess we don't have to write a mail in Hinglish or any Indian version of English. I am very happy for those who cant read English . Even today there are many elderly people who cant write in English, its bringing web closer to them.
Gmail has also been enabled for Indian languages. Long, long overdue. It’s already available for Orkut and Blogger (Google associates); and also for Word Press platform on which this blog is operating on.
Gmail is now available for five Indian languages — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. It’s on by default for Indian users, but if it’s not, then you need to go to Settings and thenGoogle Mail display language and enable it. Then from a drop down menu you have to select the language of your choice. Then when you go to Compose, you will find an icon of the first letter of the language you chose. These are inevitable innovations as technology is made more accessible to more and more people in the world. A long, long way to go still.
Now I guess we don't have to write a mail in Hinglish or any Indian version of English. I am very happy for those who cant read English . Even today there are many elderly people who cant write in English, its bringing web closer to them.
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