Posts Tagged ‘ Food ’

Dec
03

There is a thin line of difference between eating good food and eating healthy food. Good food is the one, which suit our tongue but healthy food enhances our longevity. The primary objective of eating is to sustain our life contrary to popular perception. Food provides our body with nutrients, which helps us to grow. Your body needs 40 different varieties of nutrients which can’t be provided by a single food.

Our daily food selection should include bread and other whole-grain products like fruits, green vegetables, dairy products, meat, poultry, fish and other kinds of protein foods and we should intake these according to the requirement of calorie in our body. Surveys show that most people don’t eat all these foods in right proportion; instead they eat lots of fatty food, which causes an increase of weight and as a result people become quite prone to diabetes and other heart related problems. But that doesn’t mean that one should totally leave eating spicy food but a proportion & balance is important. For example Japanese food has proper balance while American and sub-continental food lacks that balance. So everyone without a hurry should sit down and enjoy the food and then he or she should think whether he or she is eating the right proportion of food or not. This the key is to build a healthy eating habit. So finally you should eat ‘proper food’ in ‘proper proportion’ so that you can stay healthy; afterall health is wealth.

Jun
04

Genome for god?

by admin

Biotechnology is a foreign world to many, so much so that all that most of us can relate to this particular field is the range of controversies than the actual subject matter itself. Biotechnology seeks to harness modern technology in the quest of a ‘better life’ for all of us from the genome alteration to cloning.

It is no wonder that most of the religious institutions today are firmly set against this field in particular, because they see it as an example of man trying to build ‘Babel’ all over again. But to some, their fixed positions has more to do with the fact that religious institutions are fast losing their hold on mankind as a whole as technological advances are made in all the fields including that of Biotech.

One can say that Biotechnology got a new life with the creation of ‘Dolly’ the first cloned sheep. That particular experiment took place in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 22nd of February 1997. It was a total success and dolly lived on for about 6 years after that.

That experiment alone sent shock waves through all the religious institutions with each of them claiming that Man has crossed a boundary he was never meant to cross. But religious statements aside, that experiment in particular proved to the world the efficacy of Biotechnology and today it continues to play a very important role in all of our lives. From developing the latest strain of disease resistant rice to utilizing stem cells to further medical research, Biotechnology has come a long way, from the dark corridors and dingy rooms. It has evolved to become a very lucrative field for many a scientist and one that the rest of the world is counting on to come to its aid. The modern era has more to do with Biotechnology than it has to do with any other field of science, with the sole exception being that of information technology.