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Wednesday, 7 March 2018

[www.keralites.net] What is Diabetes

What is diabetes, and how do I prevent it?

Diabetes is a condition in which the blood sugar or glucose present in the blood rises abnormally. This disease is caused when the pancreas do not produce enough insulin or the body stops responding to insulin. Insulin is a hormone which is required for the absorption of glucose by the cells in the blood. It is best to observe some simple precautions to effectively curb this disease:
1. Get Some Exercise
A good physical workout can help you prevent diabetes in many ways. Regular exercise helps you maintain a healthy body mass index (BMI) and also lowers your blood sugar. Exercise can also increase the sensitivity towards insulin. Aerobics and resistance training are some of the exercises especially helpful in preventing diabetes.
2. Increase Your Fibre Intake
Foods with high fibre content like apples, bananas, nuts, seeds and beans can significantly cut down the risk of diabetes. Fibre rich foods can also help lose weight by giving you a feeling of fullness.
3. Cut Down on Sugar
Intake of junk food which is high on processed sugars, salt and fat should be kept to the minimum. Home-cooked meals rich in vegetables and whole grains can help you lead a healthy life.
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Diabetes is among the most debilitating of lifestyle diseases, often the precursor to many other types of health disorders such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases and chronic illnesses of the eye.
4. Quit Smoking
The risk of developing diabetes is double in smokers than non-smokers. Quitting smoking will not only decrease your risk of diabetes, but of many other diseases as well.
5. Stop Alcohol
Binging on alcohol can lead to increase in body weight as well as blood pressure and triglyceride levels.
6. Balanced Diet
You can easily curb the risk of diabetes if you provide optimum nutrition to your body. A balanced diet is one of the classic and best ways to control your blood sugar and also your risk of diabetes.
7. Choose Good Fats
Polyunsaturated fats are regarded as good fats as they can help in lowering the risk of diabetes. These types of fats can be found in vegetable oils and oil from nuts and seeds.
8. Get Frequent Check-ups
Early detection of diabetes is one of the best ways to effectively prevent it from getting worse. Get your blood sugar levels tested every three months so that you can take extra precautions if chances of diabetes surface.
Type 2 diabetes is a result of sedentary lifestyle and a bad diet. If you follow a simplistic lifestyle which incorporates exercise and a balanced diet, then you can easily stay away from this disease.

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[www.keralites.net] THE HOLY QURAN

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[www.keralites.net] 10 Ways To Avoid Knee Surgery

10 Ways to Avoid Knee Surgery

Learn how to ease osteoarthritis and postpone surgery.S
If you have osteoarthritis, surgery is rarely a first resort. There are plenty of things you can do to avoid (or at least postpone) heading into the operating room. Take care of your knees with these solutions.
No-brainers:
Weight loss. For many, weight loss is a basic but crucial way to help avoid knee surgery. Shedding just 15 pounds can cut knee pain in half, according to a recent study presented at the American College of Rheumatology's annual scientific meeting. And should you need arthritis knee surgery later, you'll decrease your risk of complications and reduce strain on your knees, which will make

your rehabilitation go more smoothly.

Physical activity. The health of your knees depends on movement. Strong muscles support the joint and relieve pressure. Movement keeps tissues within the joint flexible, lubricated and replenished with nutrients that help healing. If you end up having knee surgery, the rehab will be easier if you start strengthening muscles before surgery. Walking is a great way to keep your knees healthy and pain free. Learn more about why exercise is so important if you have arthritis and hope to avoid knee surgery, and get some great ideas for maintaining motivation, stretching, safe moves and more.
No (or very few) side effects:
Braces. Prescribed by a doctor and fitted by a physical therapist, braces can improve the alignment of the knee, relieving pain.
Corticosteroid injections into the knee joint help to reduce inflammation, which can alleviate pain without causing side effects associated with oral corticosteroids.
Electrical stimulation may reduce pain by strengthening the quadriceps (the large muscles on the front of the thigh that help stabilize the knee joint), or it may even encourage regeneration of cartilage cells.
Hyaluronic acid injections, which supplement a naturally occurring lubricant lacking in the joints of people with osteoarthritis, may decrease pain and increase function for some people and help delay arthritis knee surgery -- although their use is controversial.
Acupuncture has been shown to relieve knee pain in some studies, but there is little good-quality evidence that it works better than placebo.
You'll likely take one:
Over-the-counter medications, such as the analgesic acetaminophen (Tylenol) and the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) or naproxen (Aleve), ease pain. But several recent studies indicate that some NSAIDs may delay healing of connective tissues such as cartilage or tendons.
Prescription medications are available to ease pain and decrease inflammation. Whether they improve tissues in the joint continues to be investigated.
Dietary supplements. The National Institutes of Health is funding a study to see whether the combination of glucosamine and chondroitin helps repair cartilage. The duo has been shown to reduce pain in people with moderate-to-severe knee pain – those who need it most.

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Tuesday, 6 March 2018

[www.keralites.net] GLIMPSE OF BUREAUCRACY WORKING - OUR TAX MONEY

Welfare laptop, washing machine shock SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the Union labour secretary to appear before it after expressing shock over "astonishing" details in an affidavit that said funds meant for the welfare of construction workers were being spent on buying them laptops and washing machines.

The affidavit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) also said that less than 10 per cent of the Rs 29,000-crore fund has been spent on the actual purpose.

A bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta said it was "shocking" and "extremely distressing" that the funds, collected by the government through a cess under a law for construction workers, were being "frittered away" and diverted.

The court then asked the labour secretary to appear before it on November 10 "to understand how the act was being implemented and why it was being misused, if not abused".

The court, which was hearing a public interest plea filed by a non-government organisation, had earlier asked the CAG to file a report on how the fund meant for the welfare of construction workers was being utilised.

The NGO, National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour, had alleged that the statutory cess levied on real estate firms for the welfare of construction workers was not being used properly as there was no mechanism to identify the beneficiaries.

The bench said the CAG had revealed a "shocking state of affairs" regarding the utilisation of the cess collected under the Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1996, and ordered that such exploitation of construction workers by states or welfare boards must stop.

"For example: we have been shown expenditure having been incurred for payment of entry tax/value added tax; expenditure incurred for purchase of washing machines for construction workers; expenditure incurred for purchase of laptops for construction workers, etc. This is really astonishing," the bench noted in its order.

"It is quite obvious from the above that the amounts are just being frittered away, if not defalcated by the concerned welfare boards," it said.

"Apart from the above, we find that huge amounts have been spent towards administrative expenses while the statute permits only five per cent expenditure towards administrative expenses."

The court observed that the law was "being misused" as the money collected for the beneficiaries was being diverted to labour welfare boards or state governments for other purposes.

"We may note that huge amounts have been collected in the region of Rs 29,000 crore and not even 10 per cent has been spent for the benefit of construction workers. The amounts, whatever has been spent, appear to have been spent for the purposes other than for the benefit of construction workers," it said.

This must be rectified at the earliest, the bench added, asking the secretary in the Union labour ministry to appear before it on Friday.

Earlier, in 2015, the court had expressed its displeasure over non-utilisation of Rs 26,000 crore (the amount at that time) by the Centre and various state governments, saying "it cannot get worse than this". PTI

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[www.keralites.net] For 31 years after his death, Dr. Homi Bhabha’s office room was unoccupied

The secular condolence ceremony for Homi Bhabha of which no photographs were found has remained firmly etched in the scientists' memory, and the religious one was forgotten.
On 24 January 1966, Homi Bhabha, physicist and founder of India's nuclear programme, died in a plane crash. The Kanchenjunga — a Boeing 707 aircraft — had crashed into the Glacier des Bossons of Mont Blac at 4,807 metres. Bhabha was on his way to Vienna to attend an Advisory Committee meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Conspiracy theories about the crash being triggered by a bomb circulated then, as they do even today. But how was the news received in the two institutions he founded in Mumbai? With deep distress and a numbing sense of disbelief that remains even now, decades after the event.
The institute had organised a condolence meeting almost immediately. And those who attended it recalled that Professor Rustom Choksi spoke. He was a member of the Tata Trust as well as the Council of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), which Bhabha had founded in 1945. The resolution that was passed spoke of Bhabha's patriotism, his leadership and his efforts "to build with unremitting toil and exalted vision that nobler India in which skilled technology in the service of man would give to the lowliest among us the beginnings of a decent life". These fine sentiments perhaps served to hold in check the intense anguish that many of those present felt.
In 2002, when I began the task of putting together the archives of TIFR, the condolence meeting and Choksi's speech was what most of the older scientists and administrators of the institute remembered until I found a set of photographs. These striking black-and-white photographs depicted a Parsi Uthamna ceremony in progress. On closer look, the ceremony seemed to be taking place right at the foot of the staircase of TIFR's library with everyone watching from the colonnade space outside.
The secular condolence ceremony of which no photographs were found had remained firmly etched in memory and the religious one had been forgotten.
Among the scientists, there seemed to be a slight sense of embarrassment about the religious ceremony being performed inside the hallowed portals of a science institute. Almost as if there was a schism between the two worlds that the two ceremonies represented. When pressed, many of the scientists told me that the Parsee ritual was only held to honour the wishes of Bhabha's mother (who was also the daughter of Ruttonbai and Framji Panday), Meherbai. She was close to many of the scientists at the institute. What came as a surprise was that she was close to some of the workers too who went to see her regularly and who met her even after Bhabha's death.
As G.V. Vasudevachar, Bhabha's laboratory assistant who had moved from IISc Bangalore to TIFR in 1945, recalled, Meherbai had said, "Vasu, Homi told me he would be back soon. Now he won't come back."
Indeed, the personal dimensions of the institution-building came through sharply in many recollections. But institutional memory had replaced such personal stories with official narratives about science and nationalism. In 1967, an exhibition on the life of Homi Bhabha was put together by his institute and displayed at Royal Society London. Later, this exhibition was put up in the auditorium foyer of TIFR. The auditorium was named the Homi Bhabha Auditorium and inaugurated by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on 9 November 1968.
What lurked beneath such objective acts of institutional commemoration was the fact that Bhabha's death had triggered inconsolable grief that was individual, subjective and only privately expressed.
Unnoticed by the world outside, another incident, deeply significant to the life of the institution, was passed over in silence. Bhabha's office at TIFR was never occupied by the directors who succeeded him. I learnt from Professor M.G.K. Menon, who became the director when Bhabha died, that he had felt emotionally unprepared to occupy the space where he had worked with Bhabha. Menon's successors too had a similar response. The office remained unoccupied until Professor S.S. Jha became director in 1997.
Bhabha's office with its furniture was moved into a museum-ised space in the auditorium foyer. Thus, 31 years after his death, Bhabha's office on the 4th floor of TIFR was once again occupied by the director of TIFR. Bhabha's desk, the bookshelves, his Eero Saarinen Tulip chair could now be viewed through the enclosing glass wall, evoking a strong and haunting absence.
What do the forgotten ritual and the unoccupied office tell us about institutions and their commemorative acts? Forgotten narratives often linger beneath official ones, that private reflections offer explanations very different from what are visible, public actions. But they also alert us to the inability of institutions to acknowledge and express grief and then engage meaningfully with the legacy that they have inherited.
Indira Chowdhury heads the Centre for Public History at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru. She wrote a book titled 'Growing the Tree of Science: Homi Bhabha and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research' in 2016.
Dear Vada Dasturji Khurshed Dastoor Saheb,
I feel that setting up of proper commission to inquire about the actual cause of his death in a mysterious circumstances is desirable. You being a member of minority commission can take up this matter with GOI.
Tandorasti
Homi

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Homi Jehangir Bhabha, popularly known as the father of Indian Nuclear Programme was a famous nuclear physicist. He was the founding director of two renowned research institutes- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). He was born to a rich Parsi family on October 30, 1909. He was bestowed with many honorary degrees and awards from many prestigious universities. He is known for his articles on quantum theory and cosmic rays.

Homi Bhabha graduated from Elphinstone College. He then attended the Royal Institute of Science until 1927 before joining Cambridge University. In 1933, he received his doctorate in nuclear physics with his paper 'The Absorption of Cosmic Radiation', winning him the Isaac Newton Studentship in 1934. Today is the death anniversary of the Homi Jehangir Bhabha. To commemorate the same here are some lesser known and interesting facts about him:

Many do not know that as a student Homi worked with a Nobel Prize winner. Yes, he worked with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen.
He donned many hats. He represented India at many conferences like Internation Atomic Energy Agency among others. He was also appointed as President of UN conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.
He was also offered a post in Indian cabinet back then. However, he rejected the same and instead acted as adviser (scientific) to former Prime ministers of India- Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shastri.
He received many awards. Bhabha was felicitated with Padma Bhushan (1954), Adams Prize (1942) and Fellow of the Royal Society...
Exactly fourteen days before Bhabha's death, former PM of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri died a mystifying death in Tashkent.
He was instrumental in finding out how India can extract power from its thorium reserves instead of uranium reserves which were less in quantity. This approach was new for all.
He was the one who identified and named the Meson particle. He also worked with one of the German Physicists to develop the Cascade theory to understand cosmic radiations.
He was not a typical scientist. He loved paintings, classical music, and opera among others. He used to live in a huge colonial bungalow in Malabar Hills. It was named as Mehrangir.

On January 24, 1996, he died in a mysterious air crash near Mount Blanc. Some theories claim that he was killed by CIA to paralyze India's nuclear programme. He was on his way to Vienna for a meet of Scientific Advisory committee. After his death, his brother was the custodian of his property and he gave away all his paintings, artifacts and furniture to the NCPA. Later the property of value over Rs 257 crore was sold off to the Godrej family for Rs 372 crores in 2014 by the NCPA.

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