Heart Touching Story #182 - Laughter is The Best Medicine

Laughter is The Best Medicine

Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as “terminally ill”. He was given six months to live. His chance for recovery was 1 in 500.

He could see the worry, depression and anger in his life contributed to, and perhaps helped cause, his disease. He wondered, “If illness can be caused by negativity, can wellness be created by positivity?”

He decided to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the funny movies he could find – Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. (This was before VCRs, so he had to rent the actual films.) He read funny stories. He asked his friends to call him whenever they said, heard or did something funny.

Want six-pack abs? Here are some diet tips you should follow

You may have heard the saying, abs are made in the kitchen, and not in the gym. Well, it’s true and without a healthy diet, no amount of exercise can help you lose weight. Ekta Tandon, who is a nutritionist at Fitness First chain of restaurants, lists out a few things you should know about eating for six-pack abs.

First things first – we all have abs but they are hidden due to the coverage of fat. In order to define and flaunt them, one must eat right and exercise.

Here’s how you can do it:

Eat small meals: The rule is to eat small meals at equal intervals. So if you are eating often and eating good food, you would not have cravings for any kind of junk food. It will also help regulate your body’s blood sugar, which stabilises the release of insulin. This helps promote the use of fat as fuel and helps prevent it from being stored in the body. When excess fat isn’t stored, the abs are more prominent.

How to do it: Eat three standard meals and three smaller snacks. For example:

Early morning: 1-2 glass water

8-9 am:  Breakfast

11-12 pm: Snack

1-2 pm: Lunch

4-5pm: Snack

7-8 pm: Dinner

9-10 pm (if hungry): Milk  

Why you should stop drinking bottled water

Why you should stop drinking bottled water

Do you tend to consume too many bottles of packaged drinking water? Here’s a good reason to stop doing so. A study performed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) reveals that you are exposed to a host of harmful chemicals when you drink packaged water. 

How was the study conducted?

The study was carried out at 18 different bottled water companies in Mumbai, where 5 samples  of 1 litre bottles were analysed.

Which harmful chemicals were found in the samples?

The study revealed the presence of harmful chemicals like bromate in samples where 1 litre of packaged water contained 27% bromate. (Read:Warning: Avoid reusing plastic mineral water bottles!)

How does packaged water harm your health?

Drinking of packaged water with high amount of bromate could cause diseases like cancer, stomach infection and hair fall.

What is the limit of exposure?

Ideally, only 10% bromate is supposed to be present in bottled water and, according to WHO, only 4 mg of bromate is needed for packaged water. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that they will go through the report and will take necessary steps to make packaged water safer for consumption.

Amazing Facts about Food (It's too funny !!!)

Here are some of the funniest and amazing facts about food.  Read them and enjoy.

100 pounds of rain water is required to produce a single pound of food from earth.  

ü  11.9 pounds of cereal are consumed by average American / Canadian per year

ü  Do you know that we get only one pound of coffee from one coffee tree?

ü  The fear vegetables is called as Lachanophobia

ü  Do you know that the French fries came from Belgium, but they are most popular in USA

ü  The number one selling snack in USA is the Potato chips

ü  Do you know that Russian children are given a birthday pie instead of birth day cake?