From the world of science…
Can men suffer from osteoporosis?
2 million of the 10 million Americans living with osteoporosis are men. Get regular bone scans after age 50 if you have low testosterone levels, have had a bone fracture after age 50, take a glucocorticoid for asthma or smoke or drink heavily.
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Before the discovery of insulin in 1921, physicians would often put their patients on starvation or semi-starvation diets, recommending they eat only food such as oatmeal.
(Me: Thank heavens, this blessed country was then ruled by the British and there were no anti-science NGOs then, else these worthies wouldn't have allowed the entry of synthetic or bovine/pig insulin into India claiming it was interfering with nature…)
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Onions contain flavonoids, which act as antioxidants and have immune-enhancing properties.
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Having sex a least once a week significantly boosts your body's immunity to colds and other infections.
(Me: hey, wot's this sex all about? Being an Indian, haven't heard anything about it…)
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Mindchow
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Line Maro
Looks like you dropped something, My jaw!
(Me: more likely, the jaw dropped by a Tyson's-like left hook or upper cut..)
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Man to wife: "If the doughnut has 400 calories and the hole has 0 calories, that averages out to only 200 calories!"
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Did you hear about the accountant with insomnia?
He decided to try counting sheep, but he made a mistake and was up all night trying to find it!
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Weird world…
Woman slaps cop in bid to give up smoking…
Sacramento: A California woman has been arrested for investigation of battery after she allegedly slapped a sheriff's deputy because she wanted to go to jail in order to stop smoking.
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Only in India…
'Goat puja' goes viral..
Railway minister Pawan Bansal on Friday sought divine intervention by feeding a goat and holding a pooja with his wife at their home. Priests and astrologers said the "appeasement" of a white goat on 'amavasya' (new moon day) could change his fortune.
Hours later, however, Bansal was sacked.
(Me: that a person holding a high ministerial post at the highest governing body – the union cabinet – believes that a goat puja could absolve him of the serious corruption charges against him doesn't redound to the credit of our country's government. Instead, he could have found a convenient goat to pass the blame on, for desired result. Lolz..
The bottomline is, Gods or pujas with or without reciting mantras cannot make your wishes or dreams come true. You have to work to make it happen..)
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"Wit is educated insolence" – Aristotle
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News of the day…
It's official. Canada has a mini India…
Toronto: At nearly 4% of its population, Canada hosts the highest percentage of residents of Indian origin in the Western world.
(Me: that so many of our countrymen have to migrate (if not flee!) and live in another country to eke out a living betrays the pathetic state of affairs here, yet, on the contrary, we seem to unseemly gloat over it…)
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