Saturday, June 07, 2008

A banana a day keeps the doctor away

The Secrets of Banana's Peeled Off :)

A Professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression "going bananas" is from the effects of bananas on the brain. Read on: This is interesting. After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fibre. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes. But energy isn't the only way a ba
nana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.

PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Anaemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of haemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anaemia.

Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school (Englad) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation: High in fibre, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.

Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe...polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit !!!

Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!!

Courtesy: kganeshkumaran.blogspot.com



Wednesday, May 14, 2008

What kind of Driver am i?

Take this test!
From taking a crazy, country highway instead of the interstate to finding a new way to get to work, you're the kind of driver who likes to take chances. Unpredictable and interesting, you need the kind of car that handles well (quick-ratio power steering, anyone?), because you're definitely a lot to handle yourself. It's possible that sometimes people don't understand exactly where you're going or how you'll manage to get there, but whether it's that big project or a week-long road trip you're sure to arrive with a smile. The journey is half the fun, and you know just how to have it!

Everyone has to spend some days on the main roads, and you're no exception. You just have much more fun driving when you're blazing new paths. It's simple. We just hope we can keep up with you!



Friday, March 14, 2008

I Proudly Launch - ItechLegend Forums

Dear Friends,

I would like to take this time to introduce my newly created forum ItechLegend (http://forum.itechlegend.in ).

My goal is to provide the opportunity for all, my dear far and near friends out there to ride on synchronized mind waves over a vivacious sea of potential thoughts.

During the forum's construction, I had in mind to create a unique space where we can simply enjoy each other's digital presence, company with the absence of formality / locations and distances. While assigning many key areas as forum topics I chose those which are likely to be of common interest to evolve talks. Also if you want some TV or Radio ... you got it there, in a few clicks!!! If you have had enough of music and videos, you can always turn on to update yourself with some current affairs or keep in track with the latest happenings in real world as well as technology. Otherwise tap your fingers on your keyboards, stir up your inner self and guide your senses to send us your posts. Unleash your true self and reveal who you are, share your knowledge. This whole accomplishment will basically provide a means of communication to inform, share, discuss and learn.

I hope you will consider membership which is free at present and I invite you to visit. Once we meet there, I look forward to dissolve our boundaries and involve into various exciting activities!

And if possible... Try to bring people to this forum... The only reason why i build this forum is to bring people together...those of our frens who fall behind the worst firewalls of corporate giants and find difficult to send mails and check group mails and blogs can still be connected with this forum and share their feelings and emotions.

http://forum.itechlegend.in

(This link takes u to the portal page where u should click “index” to launch the forum index. “register” links also available as well for new memberships gaining complete access to forums content)

Once you register, navigate to Introductions and introduce yourself after which the forum is yours to view

P.S

1. To override corporate firewalls, I purchased “.in” domain to host this forum, so I believe corporate people wont find difficulty in accessing the forum. Yet, if it still gives you error. I am sorry; you have your home pc to reach our forums.

2. “That which is good is never finished”, so do our forum. We always have time to make the content rich and feel more professional


Note:

Business Details

Official Name : ItechLegend Forums

Hosted by : ItechLegend (Aravindh Narayanan)

Setup Cost : Tremendous time, innovative ideas and little money

Purpose : Bringing People Together

Targeted Customers : IT people, Students, entrepreneurs and people who find their hangouts over www, house wives and who not?

Language : Mostly Tamil people for certain special topics, yet no language barrier.

Tagline : “Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, his honor and greatness of this name shall be.”

Source : one and only WWW and its references.


Technical Details

Server : Linux

Scripts : Perl / JS

Languages : All website building languages including php

Database : mysql

Uptime : forever

Photo uploads : temporarily quota limited (use public image hosting servers (www.imageshack.us, www.flickr.com, www.google.com/picasa, www.servimg.com, www.photobucket.com)

Supported Videos : Google videos, YouTube videos, dailymotion videos and metacafe videos

Objects embedded : real, quick time, windows media, flash

Supported browsers : IE6 & 7, Firefox, opera and many (Best viewed on mozilla FireFox)

Waiting to be known among you,

As united by my forum,

Arvind – ItechLegend



Monday, February 11, 2008

How to Conference in Google Talk

Chat Rooms for Google Talk

PartyChat adds one of the many missing features from Google Talk: chat rooms. You need to add partychat@gmail.com as a friend and use commands to create a room or join an existing one. To make sure nobody joins your room accidentally, password-protect it.

PartyChat is like a group chat, except that it's less obtrusive and persistent across different login sessions.

For example, say your friends are in a party chat named "drivel". To enter the chat, IM partychat@gmail.com with the line "/enter drivel." After that, you'll receive messages sent in "drivel" from partychat@gmail.com and all messages you send to partychat@gmail.com will be broadcasted to your friends in "drivel."

If you log out of Google Talk and then log back in, you're still in the party chats you were in prior to logging out. To leave a party chat, IM "/leave" or "/exit" to the address you were chatting with (e.g. partychat@gmail.com).

Only Google Talk's gadget has an option for group chats, while PartyChat can be used in Gmail Chat, the desktop client or any other Jabber client.

Some useful commands:

/create chat_name [optional_password] - creates a new party chat. If you provide a password, then other users must give this password to enter the chat.

/join chat_name [password] - join an existing party chat. If the chat has a password, you must give the password to enter.

/alias [name] - give yourself an alias; if you do not specify a name, your current alias is removed

/commands - displays the list of commands


For more details: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/chat-rooms-for-google-talk.html

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How to conference call in GTalk ?

Open up a copy of google talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for google talk but at the end of it add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex. Open 2 instances of the software on every user's computer. After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

Possible problems: Google will try to connect you with others on the same instance. To fix this just open a new instance. It seems that google will try to take calls on the newest IM client.

Note: You can also make a conference call with more people, just have need to have one less instance than the amount of people that exist.


Check with this link : http://lpahome.com/call.html