Category: Health
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Natural Beauty of Green
Ugadi, a festival all of us enjoy, is celebrated when the neem tree first flowers. This is just one of its significant feature of this universal plant. The benefits we reap are far more, such as, beautification, health and many others. Nowadays we focus more on our appearances and this is where trees and plants…
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Food Security in times of Climate Change!
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations defines food security is a situation that exists when all people at all times, have physical, economical and social access to safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy lifestyle. Environmental sustainability is also becoming an important concern…
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No Spectacles, No Contact Lenses, No Lasik!
The world is a beautiful place to live in. Colourful, beauty at every step, wonders happening at each stage and we the people are the performers on the stage. The performers need to make sure about a perfect stage. A perfect stage would come into being, only when the artists or spectators have a clear…
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Summer Fruits and their Many Health Benefits
Summer is the time to gorge on some delicious and nutritious fruits that are not available in any other season. Summer fruits are enjoyed by people of all ages throughout the world. Summer fruits are especially healthy, packed with fibre, minerals and vitamins. Some help to beat the heat, while some boost your immunity. Summer…
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Smoking Thrills but it also Kills
Take a break. Every looked around? What do we see the most? On an average everyday we get to see people- young, old, puffing the most deadly and poisonous substance into their lungs. Smoking is now a new trend, a hippy and cool fashion among the teenagers and youth. Be it happiness or depression, the…
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Where there is Smoke: Causes and Effects
Have you ever wondered what that grey blanket could be that envelops our sky nowadays? Well that is smog. Smog is nothing but smoke and fog. Smoke can be the result of natural incidents and man-made events. It is a fire by-product. Unfortunately smog is totally a man generated phenomenon. The smog menace has been…
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Dehydration- the lack of sufficient water in the body
The heat is on! Summer means trips to the beaches, picnics, and planning vacations with family, friends etc but on the other half, it also implies an increased risk of dehydration. With more time spent outside in the sun, there comes an increased risk of not drinking enough liquids. The high temperatures make it hard…
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Slum menance in Urban areas
Migration of people from villages in hope and desire to live a better life and enjoy the comforts offered by cities and metros is not a new story. They want to do little work and earn large sum of money. They want to move to urban areas and leave behind their ancestral land and get…
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Shining Capital City or World’s Most polluted City?
It would not be surprising at all to know that pollution is a central and perpetual problem in India. But it is definitely disheartening when we hear that a country as India so rich in culture and tradition has slipped by 32 ranks in the Global Environment Performance Index (EPI) in this year, 2014. India…
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How safe are we really @ home??
We spend one – third of our life sleeping but we spend our entire life breathing. We face a variety of risks in our everyday life. Driving cars, flying in airplanes, engagement in recreational activities, exposure to environment pollutants all pose varying degrees of risk. Some of these are simply unavoidable. We choose to accept…