Friday 16 February 2018

[www.keralites.net] The misunderstood potato

 

 The Misunderstood Potato
All the people who don't like eating vegetables have one thing in common- their love for anything potatoes.
Potato is one such vegetable that tastes yummy in every form - mashed, baked, boiled, sweet, fried, you name it. Unfortunately, it has been given a bad reputation due to the misconception that it makes you fat, increases blood sugar, and causes heart problems and other health issues.
Like they say, 'Blame the player, not the game' same way, 'Blame the method, not the potato!' Very few realize that it's the form in which we eat potatoes that matters more. Most of us choose fried and salty variety like French fries, cutlets, chips etc. but if eaten in baked/ roasted form it can prove to be really healthy.
Energy: Potatoes are starchy carbs which provide energy instantly. It's a great snack when feeling weak, famished or tired. Since it is digested easily it is a boon for patients, babies and aged individuals who cannot eat hard food.
Digestion: Potatoes have good amount of soluble fiber and with the skin it also provides insoluble finer which prevents constipation, reduces cholesterol and helps you feel fuller longer.
Blood pressure: They are also a good source of potassium which helps control blood pressure and reduce water retention as well.
Gum problems: There is a very high amount of vitamin C in potatoes which can prevent gum bleeding. Vitamin C is also necessary for collagen formation which helps heal the skin, wounds and bone cartilages.
Cell building: The vitamin B6 content of potatoes is required for formation of new cells in the body and also for normal brain functioning.
Heart diseases: Potato skin contains lot of phyto chemicals which which help protect against cardiovascular-disease by lowering levels of bad LDL - Cholesterol and keeping arteries fat-free.
Eat them the right way and you will never disregard them.
Did you Know? A bite of Potato is eaten before a meal. This helps the tongue become clear of any taste in your mouth and let's you fully enjoy the taste of food you are going to eat!
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[www.keralites.net] Yoga and its dangers

 

Please note: This is the opinion of Dr.Lawrence Wilson
 YOGA AND ITS DANGERS
by Lawrence Wilson, MD
., The Center For Development
Yoga, which means union, is a proud tradition of the Orient that was developed over thousands of years as a way to achieve superior health and mental development. Unfortunately, in my experience with thousands of people who practice yoga, modern-day yoga is hurting people more than it is helping them. As a result, I cannot recommend it at all for those seeking to improve their health, except perhaps for the most gentle restorative exercises or postures.
Many people ask why I would make such a harsh and blanket statement. The reason is that I have observed that yoga today causes subtle injury to everyone's body who practices it. The injuries are to the soft tissues such as tendons and ligaments, but are also to the third chakra or abdominal area. In addition, the vegetarian diet often recommended with it is very harmful, as well. This causes a toxic and malnourished condition.
The result is that those who do yoga are hardened by it, weakened by it, and often become a little more angry and rigid in a way that harms their later spiritual development. You may not notice this problem, but it is occurring in all cases of people who do yoga on a regular basis, even just once a week. This is why I discourage yoga in all cases, along with most pilates and other yoga spin-offs. The spinoffs are less harmful, however, especially if they do not resemble yoga very much. The only yoga I can recommend is extremely gentle restorative yoga, as this does not seem to cause damage.
I know these assertions are the exact opposite of what is claimed for yoga. People say it calms them down, makes them more flexible and more happy. However, while it may seem this way, more is going on that is not helpful. Here is more detail on the problems of yoga today.
PROBLEMS WITH MOST PRESENT-DAY YOGA INSTRUCTION AND CLASSES
The problems include:
1. Damage to the abdominal area, or third chakra area of the body. This is quite subtle, however, and will not be noticed by most people. Oddly, drinking reverse osmosis water and doing hatha yoga or physical yoga poses have a similar effect of spinning the third chakra or energy center faster, and backwards.
This causes a person to become more stubborn, more judgmental and often angrier. It reduces one's health, even though one may appear to feel better and stronger. It is an ego strength, not a true strength, and this is the problem with it. Unfortunately, it affects women more, perhaps than men, as the women generally have a weaker third chakra to begin with.
2. Upward-moving energy. This means that instead of moving energy downward through the body, from the head to the feet, most yoga teachers either do not discuss the subject at all, or get it backwards. This is extremely harmful to the body at the deepest levels.
For example, breathing upwards from the earth into the head is absolutely harmful. Likewise, moving energy from your center out your arm or even an outstretched leg is harmful. 
The effect is to further unground a person. Most yoga students are already ungrounded to a degree, as this is the norm, and this tendency of yoga makes them much worse. A good teacher could avoid this, but they are extremely rare.
The reason for this problem is an unusual one: the intensity of the earth's magnetic field has diminished. This is quite important. One idea that needs testing would be to do your yoga on a magnetic pad. These are sold commonly and the best is made by Magnetico, though others are probably okay, too.
However, do not buy a magnetic pad to sleep on, as these cannot duplicate the earth's magnetic field, no matter what the manufacturer's claim. None of the brands are recommended for sleeping on, but one could try it for yoga and contact me if you want to try this.
3. Physical injuries of many kinds. Most people, both students and yoga teachers, suffer soft tissue injuries during yoga classes due to the tightness of their tendons, ligaments, joints and other body structures. Most of the time, this damage goes unnoticed until later in life when it is difficult to reverse..
This may not seem important, but it can be very much so. Yoga is not a substitute for chiropractice, for example, or for Rolfing or other soft tissue bodywork. Yet many are taught and believe that yoga will solve everything when it is not true.
4. Not enough focus on rest and relaxation. Too many classes stress how many poses one can do in an hour, and how many classes a week one can take. The worst is "power yoga", and some pilates classes that are even more vigorous.
The best yoga classes focus on relaxation and ease. This is what people need the most, and it is the safest. Only the very relaxing yoga class is safe at all.
5. Incorrect dietary and lifestyle suggestions given during yoga classes and in yoga books. Often the dietary recommendations are backwards, such as vegetarianism, raw foods, nuts and seeds, and similar suggestions. These were appropriate in the past, and were taught by many of the great yoga masters. However, today this is dangerous and wrong advice, I would maintain. It might help your yoga for a while, but it is harmful for overall health today and tends to shorten one's lifespan.
6. Poor or missing aspects of training. One of the worst problems is that the teachers never even learn the poses correctly. It takes years of working on one pose to really do some of them right. This means that the students do not even have a chance of doing the poses correctly.
Real yoga teacher training takes years, and almost all training programs are woefully inadequate. There are very few exceptions to this today, especially in America where everyone is in a hurry to learn and do things. However, the training in India, even, is not that much better in most cases.. Older methods are repeated without much understanding of people's needs today.
A second part of faulty training is the teacher must walk around the class the entire time, or at least look around, to make sure the students are doing the poses right. If not, the teacher must rush over and correct the posture before the student does too much damage to the body. This, also, rarely happens in most yoga classes. It is impossible if the class is larger than about 10 students, as most are.
7. Social, sexual and other pressures and distractions that occur in yoga classes and in yoga training schools. These include such problems as peer pressure to do more poses, and to do them deeper than one can comfortably tolerate. Other distractions that endanger students include trying to impress a sexy teacher, "bouncing" in poses, showing off, feeling guilty for stopping when you feel pain, showing off your body parts with sexy clothing, checking out the girls and boys in the class, and others.
These may seem like minor problems, but they are distractions that can lead to even more injuries.
8. The yoga 'identity'. Another common problem is a tendency to view doing yoga as a "new identity". This idea is heavily promoted, as though you are a better person because you do or know yoga. This is nothing less than a type of cult. A cult occurs when one loses individual reasoning and judgment, in favor of a new group identity.
Part of this cult-like quality seen in some yoga participants is to think of hatha yoga as a "spiritual path". This is not the truth, no matter what anyone says. It is a set of exercises designed to change or alter the body in certain ways. Efforts to make more of yoga than it is lead to overdoing, wrong intent, and other problems.
Certain personality types are more prone to these problems. They include anyone who is a hard driving, focused and/or a competitive achiever. Yoga classes are full of these people, as they come to relax. However, they compete in this with their friends and others, and it tends to defeat the whole idea of relaxing and gently moving the body in new ways.
9. Too often, yoga is mixed with all sorts of questionable practices and beliefs. This is related to the two problems just above. Beware of yoga meditations, yoga diets, yoga breathing exercises, yoga music, yoga incense, and so on. Too often, these are not helpful at all, but are promoted as being part of yoga and therefore beneficial. Once again, hatha yoga is simply a set of physical exercises designed to move the body in rather unusual ways to achieve certain goals. It happens that today these goals are not as helpful as they once were.
10.. Yoga addiction. This may sound odd, but I have encountered it on a number of occasions. Just as exercise can be addictive, yoga can be, as well, for certain personality types. The nature of the addiction is similar to exercise addiction. That is, a person finds that he or she must continue to do a lot of yoga, or vigorous yoga every day or two, or one begins to feel depressed, exhausted, or develops other symptoms such as weight gain or aches and pains. 
Because yoga is thought to be so beneficial, the person does not realize that it has become an addiction. In fact, the person needs energy and yoga "revs them up" and gives a certain energy, and relieves unpleasant symptoms, as well, such as aches and pains, or depression feelings. Soon the person is lying to themselves and others that yoga is wonderful, when in fact it has just become a way to avoid depression, fatigue or other symptoms.
SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF CERTAIN KINDS OF YOGA PRACTICES
Bikkrum yoga causes more injuries than most others. The reasons for this are not always clear, but may include:
· The hot room stimulates the body in some ways, even though it relaxes it in other ways.
· One thinks one is more flexible and relaxed due to the warmth, when it is not the case in many instances. 
· The yoga routine is often fast and vigorous to encourage sweating. This is the most dangerous kind of yoga class.
Only if one is very careful with bikkrum yoga, can it be a more healthful type of yoga. All the rules above must be strictly observed, especially relaxing during class all the time, and stopping if one feels any pain or discomfort.
Other types of yoga that cause more injuries are any that move fast, try to fit in a lot of poses, or do not rest a lot between poses.
The only type of yoga classes I would recommend are those called restorative yoga. Even in these classes, one must be careful and one must work with an older, experienced teacher, if possible, who walks around the room often checking everyone, and who is not caught up with doing the class himself or herself.
IS YOGA NEEDED AND HELPFUL TODAY?
The simple answer is no. It is not helpful at all for the type of mental and spiritual development discussed on this website. If it were needed, we would incorporate it. In fact, it gets in the way in all cases. 
For exercise, take walks or hikes, bicycle on safe streets away from traffic and pedestrians, or swim gently now and then in a clean lake, ocean, river or hot spring, but not a pool full of chlorine and other chemicals. Treadmills, gentle weights and other spa equipment is okay, as is playing tennis or other sports, provided you rest often and do not become exhausted or injured.
If you love going to exercise classes, find a very gentle restorative yoga class or simply an exercise class, perhaps designed for seniors so it is extra gentle.. That is all that is needed.
Also, as one feels better due to a nutritional balancing program, be especially careful of the great temptation to return to doing yoga the old way.
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[www.keralites.net] When the Children Left

 

 WHEN THE CHILDREN LEFT
When the children left...
Very nice article .. must read: The below article is written by a lady Mrs. Chithra Vishwanathan,who's a famous Cooking expert...
Really a good read!
When my daughter, elder one of my two children got married 
left the house,
I felt as if I could not let her leave me..
Having a daughter a son,
I know what both mean, but differently ..
Once my daughter reached her teens
I had started feeling as if my daughter was a "physical extension" of me !
So when she was leaving home to set up her own nest,
it was as though
I was losing a limb...
The next time she came for a short stay with us,
I was astonished how her priorities had changed.
( of course we must have given the same shocks to our own parents ! ).
When she said Amma,
she meant her MIL not me!
I imagined that she was always in a hurry to go back to her house 
not stay with me for a few more days..
That was the first time,
it dawned on me that
I have to start practising detachment in attachment...
Two years after
my daughter's marriage,
my son left for higher stdiues to U S.
Having experienced a child's separation once,
I was better equipped emotionally.
I plunged head long into various classes held in the city starting from vedanta to healing to ikebana -
I just wanted to be away from home..
since my husband was a 7-7 worker
a workaholic.
My son used to write how he was missing my home cooked food,
how he was waiting to come back to live in Chennai with us etc...
After a few years, he did come back
we got him married.
He started living separately with his wife 
we were also happy that they wanted to be independent from the beginning...
But now,
it was all changed !
When in the U S,
he missed my cooking, now if I called him to come over with his wife for a meal,
it was always some excuse like
" oh, amma, we have other plans for the day,
please don't mistake us if we don't drop in today " !
I could see that his priorities had also changed completely..
We talk in theory so many things 
give advice to others etc
but when it comes to your own children,
acceptance comes very late 
next step is just leaving them undisturbed
in every way,
-
mainly without advice from our end.
It was at that time, I made the following lines as my
" new profile":
In all my relationships , rather interactions , I give my best.
I work hard to mature 
cherish them.
My attachment with them is complete.
However , I remain detached in the sense that I do not expect them to reciprocate my affection.
Most importantly ,
I make a conscious effort ,
not to interfere or pass judgements on the lives they choose to lead.
My concern for my near dear ones will not fade with my detachment.
If you let go of the ones you love ,
they will never go away –
this is the beauty of attachment with detachment !
I have learnt to love let go.
This dictum has developed tolerance in me.
When I let the people live the way they want to ,
I learn to accept them for what they are.
Most importantly ,
I learn to tolerate the world around me 
this tolerance brings in me a sense of peace contentment.
I ask God to guide me in being loving , compassionate , tolerant understanding when
I interact with others.
If a person wants to share a thought or concern with me
I want that person to feel comfortable to do so.
I want to remain peaceful approachable to others.
Before I speak , I pray to God to give me the right words so that I express myself clearly with consideration to others.
Since both my children live in Chennai, I follow this very strictly, you know why !
Now I have realised that we start growing mentally much more only after the children leave the house 
we have to tackle the emotional vacuum,
that arises, along with age-related problems .
I find this is the most testing period for a woman,
as well emerging successfully is a slow process.
I specially dedicate this post to my friends,
who are totally dependent on their children's lives,
to nurture their own selves emotionally.
Please develop your own interests, hobbies etc, however mundane they seem to be..
We must learn
To love whatever we do
instead of
Doing whatever we love !!
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[www.keralites.net] AMAZING PHOTO

 

I find it amazing that this photo, taken so many years ago, actually still exists!
And now, someone has put it on line for all of us to see.
This INCREDIBLE picture was taken in 1918.
It is 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge, in Iowa .
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEN!!!!!
What a priceless gift !!!!!
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