With the mobiles and new culture, hello is gone and hi has come.
Everything seems to be undergoing radical change in this age of globalization and the phone manners just happen to be the latest additions to this ever growing list. a recent survey , based on 2000 phones users in Britain, found that a third of young people aged 18 to 24 admitted to answering such as " hi" " yo" or " ya" instead of the good " hello"
when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 , he answered it with the greeting " Ahoy-hoy" that was used as a greeting on ship radios at the time.
however, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison did not like the maritime term and invented ' HELLO" which was recorded in the dictionary in 1883.
well, each to his own, shall we say?

EXCESSIVE CELL USAGE MAY LEAD TO CANER

Excessive use of cellphones may lead to possible health hazards, including cancer,r a US expert has warned.

director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Dr Ronald Herberman, issued an advisory to about 3,000 faculty and staff about that possible health risks involved with the use of he gadget.

the director says the evidence is still controversial but he was convinced that there are sufficient data to warrant for an advisory.

several other experts say that the warning is premature as studies have not conclusively proved that excessive use of cellphones leads to cancer.
it also recommends children to avoid using cellphones except in emergencies.

RAF GUNNERS WHO JUMPED OFF PLANE REUNITED AFTER 64 YEARS.

WORLD WAR II AIR GUNNERS LESLI FAIRCLOTH AND DOUGIE JORDIN SHOOK HADS AND PARACHUTED OUT OF THEIR STRICKEN RAF BOMBER ON JUNE 27, 1944 . EACH ASSUMED THE OTHER HAD BEEN KILLED.

As they stood looking into the pitch black sky over enemy territory, World War II air gunners, Leslie Faircloth and Dougie Jordin shook hands and parachuted out of their stricken RAF bomber. each assumed the othe had been kiled trying to escape back to Britain and neither man expected to see his comrade again. bust astonishingly--years after rthey last laid eyes on one another--Faircloth and Jordin have been reunited.
while researching his father's war service, Faircloth's sonPaul, 53 , managed to track down Jordin and organize a meeting.
The pair, who were both air gunner, and five other crew were returning from a midnight bombing mission when two of the plane's engines started overheating and failing.

MAKE YOURSELF ++++

Choose apparel that fits well. Classic T-shirt and jeans, is an ever popular look. However, a cute, fitted T-shirt and fitted sweats to short look a lot better than baggy T-shirt and an over-sized bottom.
Make sure your hair is near and polished. Accessories always look better when everything else is in order.
Add earrings. Simple studs of hoops are great accessories for college apparel and don’t make you look too over done for class.
Create dimensions with bangles. Put tow or three bangles on one wrist to add complexity to your outfit.
Choose a cute athletic pair of shoes so you can be both chic and comfortable.
Don’t select just any handbag. Choose one that is comfortable and functional yet fashionable.
Think about all of these items on a daily basis and make it your norm to accessories. You’re sure to get looks of envy.

RURAL AND THE URBAN

The rural folks may not be savvy with cell phones and computers, but college youths from the countryside in India are physically fitter than their city counterparts. And it must be assumed that this may be true for the other nations also.
An extensive survey study made by an Indian university covering 32000 students in 114 colleges has revealed that students from rural areas living in the pristine countryside, on healthy home grown food have over 50 percent less health problems like obesity, blurred vision, dental decay and high blood pressure than the city bred college goers.
Why?
Anemia caused by iron deficiency is the only problem plaguing village girls. If the urban youth is struggling with obesity, flab is hardly a bother with the rural. Village youths say they owe it all to the pure, unpolluted air they breathe and the natural healthy food they eat.
Here the subjects revealed that they usually use the neem sticks to brush their teeth.
They do not eat the junk food.
The rural students commented during the study that their friends from urban areas are not physically very strong and get tired easily.
The study concluded that village boys and girls are brought up on a healthy diet of pure milk and unadulterated pulses and grains since childhood, which contributes to their good health.
In cities, most youngsters’ start eating junk food at a very early childhood age, spoiling their health, stress is more in urban areas.

ULTRA MOBILES.

A Dutch company has squeezed a display the size of two business cards into a gadget no bigger than other mobile phones, by making a screen that folds up when not in use.
The 5 inch display of Polymer Vision’s “ Readius “ is the world’s first that folds out when the user wants to read news, blogs or email and folds back together so that the device can fit into a pocket.
Polymer Vision, spun out of Philips, whetted the appetite of gadget fans more than two years ago when it showed off a prototype.
Now the gadget is in production and will go head to head with Apple’s I phone and Amazon’s ebook reader Kindle when it hits stores mid-2008.
The customer gets the large display of e- reading, the super battery life of e-reading and the high end connectivity and the form factor and weight of a mobile phone.
This dream device, which the company planned to build within 5 years, was a mobile phone with an 8 inch color display that could show video.

NORDIC WALKING A CHANGE IN YOUR VACATION

NORDIC WALKING is becoming popular alternative to jogging.
This sport is similar to the training required for cross country skiing. but without snow or skis, but using special walking stick like poles.
Brisk walking with the poles is not only good for the legs but for your whole body.
The poles support part of your body weight and this takes pressure off the joints.
This is especially very popular for hikers and trekkers in the mountains, but people may enjoy in the wilds also.
Supported by the poles you should walk along briskly with slightly longer strides than in normal walking.
The body should be taunt and the posture slightly forward leaning.
The arms swing forward alternately; the poles hit the ground slightly behind the forward heel and pull through the full length of the stride.
Give yourself a good forward impetus with the poles and then open your hand fully.
The loops hold the pole in position for a moment and then you renew your grasp.

STRESS MANAGEMENT

When a material is subject to a load, the material gets stressed.
The induction of stress in the material is proportionate to the stress and as long as it is within the elastic limit, what is referred to as tolerable strength.
Students of engineering would be familiar with these concepts.
In mathematical terms strain=stress/elasticity.
Strain can be reduced either by reducing the adverse effects of the sources of stress and increasing the strength of the material, or both.
Every one of us is subject to stress.
How successful you are in coping with stress depends on how you prepare your system- body, mind, and soul, to meet with challenges in a way that it is within your tolerance threshold.
Understand stress and find ways to overcome it.
The sources of stress are at work, home and society.
Lifestyle plays an important role.
Temporary relief could be obtained by drinking alcohol or coffee, using tobacco, or eating favorite foods.
However, they might eventually add to the problem.
Stress could induce depression, withdrawal and anger.
Diseases like peptic ulcers, asthma, diabetes, cancer and coronary heart disease are also the outcome of stress.

TOOTH FOR AN EYE

An eye fro an eye and a tooth for a tooth, goes the Biblical expression.
But some doctors modified this slightly and used a tooth to give a blind man is eye back.
In a treatment that spanned five months, doctors restored sight in one Mr Ansari’s left eye using his own canine tooth, its root and surrounding bone.
The 50 year old, after tow years of being without vision in both eyes, could on Saturday recognize colours, shapes and count fingers at a distance of two feet.
The MOOKP which evolved 40 years ago in Italy depends on the patent’s canine tooth. It is used as a tissue to fuse a plastic cornea with the rest of the eye.
The contraption actually a silver of the tooth and the poly methyl metha acrylate (PMMA) cylinder reaches the retina, and optical vision is established.
A simple cornea transplant from the dead persons can fix their problem, but it does not work for all.
Some may be in the list of these unfortunates.
The message is simple for corneally blind persons.
There is a ray of light at the end of the tunnel.

ACNE – THE UNINVITED AND UNWANTED GUEST ON YOUR FACE.

Most people, particularly the young, of both sexes who have reached or going thru adolescence have those unwanted acne on their faces, sometimes scaring the face.
Some few people only luckily rarely or never seem to be touched by this problem where as for some it is a terrible invader.
For majority of teens this is that they have to deal with.
Acne is a something that nobody precisely knows the basic cause but the process can be determined.
Under our hair there are follicles, they produce oil called sebum which normally functions to prevent the skin from drying and skin infections on the face, which is most exposed part of the body.
But when sebum can’t make a way out because of hair follicles are blocked, they become a culture medium of bacteria.
The skin inflation is a sign of this phenomenon.
As pimples develop the skins becomes inflamed, and it stand so even after the pimples burst or heals, leaving a scar.
The remedies are various smoothing lotions available curing this infections. But one must again take care to see that these lotions do not have negative effects.
Turmeric power and lotion or paste with or without milk cream does have the benefits of smoothing effect but they cannot prevent new burst of acne.
In spite of science developing, preventing measures for acne have not been invented, not it can be clearly decided why this happen during age of puberty, or some people may face the most and some people of the same family may have negligible degree of acne problem. .

SIGNS OF PREGNANCY

The onset and degree and signs of pregnancy will vary from woman to woman. Many women experience them within the days of conceptions; others take a few weeks before pregnancy. And the lucky few feel no discomfort at all.
Some early pregnancy symptoms can be felt once implantations occur, 8 to 10 days from ovulation and will lessen after the first trimester.
Nausea and vomiting may come as early as a week into the pregnancy. Many women experience morning sickness even in the afternoon or evening, or even throughout the day.
The exact reason for this could not be still be located, but eating small meals or eating an apple or a glass of milk tends to lessen the nausea.
Breasts may be very tender, swollen and start to enlarge, the nipples start looking darkened in color.
Pregnancy causes the uterus to swell and it will start to enlarge for the growing fetus immediately. The growing uterus puts pressure on your bladder making you feel the need for frequent urination.
Light bleeding may occur around the same time you would have gotten your menstrual period. Do not be mistaken it for period.
When standing in one place the woman may feel dizzy or even faint. The growing uterus compresses major arteries in your legs which cause your blood pressure to drop.
Pregnancy hormones will also slow down bowel functions to give maximum absorption time of vitamins and nutrients.
Some problems of irritability and heartburn may also show up.
And of course if you think you might be pregnant you should see a good doctor.

KEY TO CANCER DRUG USE PINPOINTED

Scientists have discovered why a treatment for ovarian cancer only works in half of the patients who have it.
Pacitaxel shrinks ovarian tumors but Cambridge University researchers found that patients lacking a specific type of protein tend to be a immune.
Cancer Research, U K , who funded the survey along with the Medical Research Council, said it will help ensure drugs are given to those likely to benefit.
There are 7000 cases of ovarian cancer diagnosed in the U K each year.
Pacitaxel is part of a family of drugs called taxanes originally derived from yew trees.
The researchers examined ovarian cancer cells and data from 20 patients. They found those who did not respond to Pacitaxel had lower levels of a protein called TGFBI in their pre-treatment samples.
And further analysis revealed that cancer cell death rate was higher following treatment where levels of TGFBI were high.

KNOW YOUR SKELETON

If you have ever seen a real skeleton or fossil in a museum, you might think that all bones are dead. Although bones in museums are dry, hard, or crumbly, the bones in your body are different.
The bones that make up your skeleton are all very much alive, growing and changing all the time like other parts of your body. Almost every bone in your body is made of the same materials.
When you were a baby, you had tiny hands, tiny feet, and tiny everything! Slowly, as you grew older, everything became a bit bigger, including your bones.
A baby's body has about 300 bones at birth. These eventually fuse (grow together) to form the 206 bones that adults have. By the time you are about 25, this process will be complete. After that happens, there can be no more growth- the bones are as big as they will ever be.
All of these bones make up a skeleton that is both very strong and very light. Strengthen your skeleton by drinking milk and eating other dairy products like low-fat cheese or frozen yogurt. They all contain calcium, which helps bones harden and become strong.
Be active! Another way to strengthen your bones is through exercise like running, jumping, dancing and playing sports.
Be kind to your bones and they will treat you right.

WEIGHT LOSS FOR VEGETARIANS

A 100% vegetarians diet is undoubtedly the best choice for the weight loss aspirants.
A vegetarian diet consists of vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains. Since they all have almost low fat, this makes an ideal for the weight losers.
But there are some risks also; the vegetarians rely upon the full-fat dairy products like whole mils and cheese to make out the animals proteins. If one wants to use the milk products, and it is necessary also, than make a careful choice of low fat products. Also use the cooked vegetables, boiled vegetables, microwave vegetables, instead of fried to get rid of fat and calories.
This will save hundred of calories and many grams of fat.
There is some problem also being 100% vegetarian.
By not eating any fat products, the vegetarian fat-free diet has a low-satiety value, especially , the persons who has decided to change from mixed diet or non-vegetarians to full vegetarians diets. The person may start over-eating in an attempt to feel full and therefore the person may end up adding the weight instead of losing.
So try to keep your fat 30% of the calories you need.
So study your diet and a balanced diet of fat and non-fat diet works the best, do not go to the extremes.
And last but not the least.
No weight loss program works unless you do some moderate exercise.

SHOPPING BLUES---AN EXPERIENCE.

Shopping has been always been a delightful experience for every woman, spending countless hours, watching products which you may need and which you may never need, purchasing something which has a huge discounts and bring home the loads of it.
If women liked shopping, then equally men despise it, and even if men like shopping they call it research rather than shopping.
Admittedly most men do not like shopping, with some exceptions.When a shopping appeal has been filed the men shall find out every excuse to avoid the shopping expeditions.
After a lot of coaxing and cajoling the men may proceed but in the form of an escort or a living teller machine rather.
Some malls have invented a new way of making shopping an agreeable experience, they have set a crèche for men, with newspaper, TV and tea café.
The experience has been successful and men would rather accompany their wives, straight to part away in the shopping mall, each one to their own targets.Bringing men for shopping has an advantage, when the minds of wives is divided for the selection of the two or three things appearing same , the help of men can be taken, and the decisive vote is obtained.
Another benefit being if the articles voted by the men turns out to be bad choice , the blame can be turned on them.
So enjoy shopping with your men.

THIAMIN - VITAMIN B -1 - YOUR MORAL BOOSTER---BERIBERI

VITAMINS are organic molecules that work in wide variety of capacities within the body.
The distinguishing features of vitamins are that they generally must be supplied in the diet.
Thiamin or Vitamin B1 is a water soluble vitamin.
Vitamin B 1 is rapidly converted in to its active form known as TPP in the brain and liver by specific enzymes.
Sunflower seeds, peanuts, wheat bran beef liver, pork, sea-food, egg yolk, all contain excellent amount of thiamin.
Thiamin helps body cells convert the carbohydrates in to energy. It also helps body for the conversion of extra glucose into fat.
Thiamin is a moral booster; it maintains proper nerve impulse transmission, and smooth functioning of brain activity.
Thiamin is also antioxidant; it prevents harms from alcohol, smoking and pollution.
The deficiency of thiamin is very apparent, loss of appetite, weakness and tiredness without apparent reasons, paralysis and nervous irritability, loss of weight and insomnia.
The much know disease BERIBERI is a thiamin deficiency diseases , found when the diet is rich in carbohydrates , but thiamin deficient.

VITAMIN C ---BOOST UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM

There are some viruses which attack the human body even for the best cared persons. And there are some biological things, which occur with age, you can hide them, slow their progress.
Had you been to vacations lately? Then you must have noticed that cold and fatigue have come with you.
Although, common medicines over the counter is a common things, there is something which is very cheaper and handy and too without any side effects.Vitamin C from citrus, especially from limes where is abundant.
Though Vitamin C does not prevent the cold in fact there is no cure to cut the cold cycles immediately, but Vitamin C shortens the cycle of cold.
And Vitamin C is also stress killer, it is well known as the body’s immune system booster.
But that is not enough Vitamin C has something more to mention. When the person is under stress, a particular hormone namely Cortisol is produced, which quickly releases the energy to fight the stress. But then Cortisol’s long presence can also bring negative effects.
Vitamin C even out this Cortisol and keeps it under limit.
So next time if you feel tired instead of taking some medicines, take some juice of oranges, lime, lemon and make yourself fit again.
Nature has made enough arrangements for the humans and vegetation to support each other.

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS----ATTACKS TO NERVOUS SYSTEM BY BODY’S OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM

Our nervous system has two factions, the spinal cord and the brain.
Immune system is a nature’s gifts that guard our whole body including the nervous system against virus and anything that body treats as foreign.
But what happens if the immune system of the body treats our nervous system as a foreign and attacks , this particular disease is known as Multiple Sclerosis or in short MS.
In short MS is a autoimmune disease.
Most people catch MS in their 20 to 40 years ages and is more common in women rather than men.
The signs are very common and sometimes confusing with other diseases, like extreme fatigue, changes in sensations, difficulties with coordination with actions and speech, constipation etc.
Unfortunately the cause factors for MS has still could not be concluded, though risk factors have been identified. It could be best concluded a result of two things, environmental and genetic factors.
MS is not hereditary though genetics may play some decisive role in determining the susceptibility of the MS.
MS is a very slow progressing disease and that majority of the persons affected by MS are not forced to use wheel chair.
MS may have different types of versions in different persons, and the acuteness may also differ, some attacks are discrete and so are progressing in very slow way.
MS is very difficult to diagnosis in the first stage, in fact, it can be diagnosed only when the person is examined and other possibilities are ruled out one by one.
Since the cause of MS is not certain, the cure is also difficult. In fact , there is not sure cure for MS.
But some measures like acupuncture, yoga, massage etc may reduce the severity of the attacks and prevent permanent disability from the disease.

A REAL GIFT – LESSONS FROM THE INNOCENT.

In every country, every religion festivals are celebrated with vigor and zeal, amid gathering of relatives. At the end of the festival or a day, a feast is arranged, and gifts are exchanged. The youngsters receive the toys from the elders and elders are also given the gifts or respects.
These days, the very central idea of gift has changed; the extravagant amount of money is spent for gifts. It is generally believed that more costly the gift is the more love and affection can be symbolized.
But a small event in my family changed my very philosophy of the life.
Here, in India, we celebrate Diwali with as fervor as much people in western countries celebrate Christmas.
As is the custom, I decided to take a visit to my mother who is 70 years old and who is staying with younger brother. (In India, parents stay with the sons, they are rarely left to stay alone.) I have purchased a rather costly purse for my mother which I even then doubted if shall be used.
After meeting my mother, I gave my mother the purse and joking told she can keep her money in it while shopping, which she replied she rarely goes.
When we were talking , my younger son who is 12 years, took something from his pocket and gave to his grand mother, and surprising grand mother was crying with tears of joy.
When inquired my younger son told me that he gave her a small bottle of Vaseline and told her that she can rinse her hands with it when there is too much cold and her hands get dried up.
It was really a very touchy situation.
It opened my eyes.
Are we all become too robot like?
The very essence of a festival is exchange of love and consideration, and today we have made it a exchange of merely gifts.
How many of us really give at least a few hours if not daily at least on some festivals to some charity institutions, or visit some general ward patients (who can not afford the higher bed charges.) or give a small box of sweets to boys in orphan house who probably taste it very rarely.
Really we must change our philosophy on gift giving and festival celebration.

ASTHMA – AN INTERUPTION IN YOUR LIFE

Every moment that we sleep or work, our lungs are working inhaling and exhaling. The tubes which carry air in and out are also working smoothly for the efficient working of the lungs.
However, sometimes it may happen that these tubes may not be able to function temporarily or frequently affecting the function of the lungs.
But every time, one can to be termed as asthma, since the tunes may have infected due to various reasons, like common cold or pollution in which case the tubes may return to normal function with or without medications.
Hence, we must watch out if the malfunctioning of these airways is a permanent feature i.e. asthma or a temporary feature.
There are some common sings of asthma.
While working, one shall feel coughing, wheezing, a continuous, coarse, whistling sound in the respiratory airways during breathing, tightness in the chest or shortness of the breath.
While sleeping, the symptoms are more apparent, coughing and heaviness in the chest does not allow one to sleep easily. These symptoms are more acute during cold season and early mornings.
Asthma can be termed as the inflammation or swelling of the airways so that the breathing in and out becomes difficult.
Inflammation of swelling is the common response of the body when injury or infection occur , but in asthma the case is that this inflammation or swelling is frequent and does not resolve on its own according to normal system of body. It must be medicated.
The whole line of medicines is designed to control the inflammation of the bronchial tubes.