Category: Health
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Effective Waste Segregation and Management- a Dire Necessity
Can you imagine a world where the quantities of wastes have expanded to such extents that people are living amidst overflowing landfills, breathing in air laden with pollutants and toxic gases and drinking contaminated water? It’s a terrifying image, isn’t it? Then it’s time to pause and think upon our actions because we are not…
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What Rubbish!
Around 2 years ago, I visited Germany. It was a short trip; I spent just a little over a week there. But that little outside excursion, out of our beloved country, told me a lot! Of course, travelling will open your eyes to the vast differences that arise between cultures. But that is not what…
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Organic Clothing: The Next Big Thing
We finally are a little ahead of the time that saw massive destruction and abuse of the nature. This is just the beginning of the phrase where people will actually go ahead and stand against anything which is harmful to the environment. However, this is happening less in concern and more in desperation. It’s the…
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Oriental Medicine and Its Advantages
Oriental medicine can be defined as the natural method of healing as developed by certain countries in the Asia or more specifically, East Asia and provides an alternative to chemotherapy or treatment by chemicals. The countries that practice and are very much involved in the process are the Asian countries like China, Korea, Japan and…
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Fight Fatigue with YOGA !
In the race of life, Humans are trapped for the fulfillment of human needs and materialistic wants .The people living in 21st century would quickly invest in the properties and would think a million of times to invest in his health .Rapid growth of industries –concrete jungles increases the pollution and adulterates the healthy…
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Make the Best of Your Money: What to Do Of Shopper Bags
Do you know that every year, around 720-1200 crore litres of oil is used in the production of plastic bags? And that each person uses about 1200 plastic bags a year? Phew! Talk about the oil crisis in countries!! Everywhere you turn, you see plastic bags strewn carelessly on the roads, just like that! As…
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Sustainable Urbanization: A Matter of Desire or Desperation?
In very simple words, urbanization is what happens as a result of industrialization, modernization and socio-economic and cultural growth. It is like as more people leave villages and farming and come to settle in cities, urbanization happens. People come and settle down around places where money, wealth, services and opportunities are centralized. Though this process…
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Urban Heat Island: What Are They?
Firstly, to begin with let us define what urban heat islands are. Urban heat islands are metropolitan areas of land that are warmer or higher in temperature than their surrounding rural areas due to human activities. According to the US environmental protection agency “The annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people…
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Coca Cola Vs Crops: Luxury Vs Necessity
Till date, we have heard of innumerable conflicts over water exploited by two countries, two states, two districts and by two villages, but here we get to know about environment degradation by two varied economic activities. As envisaged by environmentalists the third world war would be unveiled by water. However, a hundred years ago there…
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The Benefits Of Cycling for Health and Environment
Mumbai is a motorist’s city. I’ve been living here 20 years, but it took me only my first 3 to realize this fact. Petrol is cool, Diesel is smart, and CNG is the bare minimum. No-fuel is for the no-brainers, and the fashionably-challenged. Much better a crisp shirt than neon tights, right? Wrong. “Wrong, you…