Friday, May 9, 2008

How to melt away your fat ……..forever

How to melt away your fat ……..forever

Stop skipping meals –

Slashing one meal per day from your menu seems like a logical way to peel off some weight . For instance, if you stop eating breakfast (typically 500 calories ), you’ll cut 3500 calories in seven days , roughly the amount needed to burn off 500 grams .

Trouble is, what you miss at one meal you often more than make up for at the next . Actually skipping any meal can lower metabolism , which normally speeds up to help digest food . Let’s say your body at rest burns 600 calories daily . If you skip breakfast , you use up 80 fewer calories per day . But if you eat breakfast , your sluggish metabolism revs up to burn those 80 calories . After about 15 months you can burn an extra 35,000 calories , the equivalent of five kilos .

Go vegetarian twice a week –

Dr. Dean Orrish in California has discovered that low-fat vegetarian diet can trim the waistline . “A small chocolate bar and a bunch of fresh broccoli have roughly the same number of calories . After eating the candy bar you probably won”t feel full. But you’llfell stuffed if you eat the broccoli .

Luckily you needn’t be a full time vegetarian to lose weight . Start by replacing meat in two meals per week .Substitute diced vegetables –bringal, mushrooms, capsicum – for the meat in some dishes or load up a pot of mixed vegetable curry instead of meat . Two meatless meals a week could save you 550 or more calories per week – five kilos in 16 months .

Don’t cut too many calories –

You must eat less to lose weight ,but don’t go overboard on cutting calories. Otherwise the body senses impending “starvation”, slows down metabolism and conserves energy by functioning on fewer caliries . This “fuel efficiency” mode will make it harder for you to lose weight .

Dance the night away

Most people think of dancing as a social activity. But dancing is also an aerobic exercise that burns calories . So instead of going out for dinner and a movie, why not try ballroom dancing or any kind of dancing . Do ballroom dancing (which burns 200 calories per hour) for two hours every weekend and you’ll peel off five kilos in about 21 months .

Eat slowly

The average person wolfs down a meal in 12 minutes . But that can lead to overeating. “it takes about 20 minutes for the stomach to signal the brain that body is full .”

Stop late-night munchies

A key obstacle to dropping extra kilos is after-dinner snacking . “If you’ve had a tough day at the office or trouble with the kids you may eat more than normal to unwind” says medical researcher John Foreyt. He suggests you plan your evenings so you’re away from tempting situations .Take an adult-education course or go for a walk .If you can’t distract yourself from eating , try noshing on a low-calorie snack like a piece of fresh fruit.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Things you can do with …….. mouthwash

Clean a computer monitor screen : Apply with a damp ,soft cloth &buff dry. Remember to use only on glass screens, not liquid crystal displays as the alcohol can damage the material used in LCDs.

Cleanse your face :
Check the ingredients to make sure it does not contain sugar ; then wash your face & rinse . Dab a cotton wool ball with mouthwash & gently wipe your face. Youn could feel a pleasant , tingling sensation . Then rinse the face & feel fresh .

Treat athlete’s foot:
Apply mouthwash on affected area several times a day .It will sting a bit but athlete’s foot should respond after a few days . Toenail fungus may take up to several months .

Add to wash water :
Smelly socks get rid of bacteria & fungi if you add a cup of alcohol based sugarless mouthwash during the wash cycle .

Cure underarm odour :
To nget rid of odour causing bacteria, dampen a cottonwool ball with a sugarless , alcohol-based mouthwash & swab your armpits . If you’ve just shaved your armpits , wait a day before trying this .

Disinfect a cut : Use an alcohol –based mouthwash to disinfect the skin. Remember that the mixture ,in its early days was successfully used as antiseptic to prevent infection after surgery .

Get rid of dandruff : To treat a bad case of dandruff , wash your hair with your usual shampoo , then rinse with an alcohol-based mouthwash . You can follow with an ordinary conditioner .






Thursday, May 1, 2008

Sensitize our cops………

Alas ! one more life was sacrificed to the insensitiveness of our cops .Boy Ravi was returning from his duty in a call-centre at wee hours about 5.40 AM .His bike smashed into the divider and his head got struck with its iron-railing . At 5.45 police control room was informed of the accident and the cops arrived after some time . But the hard luck of the boy was that accident occurred at Delhi-Noida border & the cops kept deciding under whose jurisdiction the said place was till about 7.15 the family members of the victim arrived the spot & carried him to hospital only to get him declared brought dead .

Just think , this is not a rare type of incident . Such unfortunate moments may befall on anyone at anywhere & what if the victim is someone our very own .

Shouldn’t we as humans understand the value of each & every life & help the unfortunate one who afterall might be someone’s loving husband , affectionate father or brother or the only son without whom someone’s whole world is going to be dark & terrible . So during the training period of the cops , they should be made to understand the human sufferings too .