**Know your local vegetable : Ridge gourd**

This is must vegetables for people with

- pre diabetes and diabetes
- cholesterol
- strained liver and gland functions
- Improves eye vision

Simple diet routine for diabetics

-Diet has pivotal role to play in its management and recovery of diabetes

- A high fibre Low grain (Low Carb) diet plan is seem to be doing wonders when associated simple brisk walking or jogging

1.Diabetics should follow mindful 5 times a day eating pattern with some fibre at each window

It can be a

- Breakfast -7AM
- Brunch-9.30AM
- Lunch- 1PM
- Snack 3.30 PM
- Early Dinner 7 PM

- This should be a must mindset change on their eating habit

2.Simple Mantra to keep your plate healthy is

- 50 % of fibres (Veggies, Diab friendly fruits ,Greens)
-30% of proteins (Nuts, Sprouts, Legumes)
-20% of unprocessed grains (Millets,Oat, Native Desi wheat,Red rice or Desi rice)

Why should we refrain from refined edible oils:

- Major factor of cardiovascular risk is caused by refined oils
- Study found,Even rats which were constantly fed food made out of refined oils have shown symptoms of hypertension & ischemic heart causing cardiovascular disability

Traditional Indian consumed oils made from locally available seeds like sesame, gingelly, groundnut and coconut oil

The dynamics of edible oil industry got disrupted after we adopted mass production / import of refined oils at lower cost to our wallet( costing our heart health)

Oils are essential dietary fat which were implicitly included In our food culture

Age old days,Oils were extracted at home and given the complexity of extraction it was used mindfully

Oils are excellent supplement if we know how much is too much

Refined oils are trade ploy to make you sick or reduce your life span early due to high chemical treatment and food processing

Refined oils are gateway for

- Obesity
- Hypertension
- Abnormal cholesterol/ Lipid profile
-Ischemic heart disease
-Cardio vascular risk / disability

Refined oil mafia are quite influential to fund a favourable study that refined oils aka healthy oils were meant to do good to your than trad cold pressed oils

As health is subjective to individual so does oils were subjective to region person lived (Tropical bio diversity)

Why we should avoid eating Morris /G9 banana :

Ever thought hought the following while buying bananas ?
☑️Banana in markets are so shining and evenly shaped
☑️ No mosquito or flies bothering fresh bananas
☑️ No ripened fragrance emanating from these banana

☑️ Tasting raw than it appears outside
☑️ No dots ever appeared on the banana
☑️ Neck of banana is so stiff so that banana pulp never withered off from the neck

☑️Neck of banana is never black or ripened

☑️Honest answer for above is these are genetically engineered banana features

☑️These are bananas grown from tissue culture saplings and does involve special engineering for texture, yield and even ripening time

☑️These are farmers friendly as these high yield

☑️ In my opinion these are just bananas by appearance and taste never in terms of nutrition as these are genetically engineered right from growing to ripening

☑️Cytogenetically engineered for high yield, short-term, disease resistance

☑️ These bananas can never match nutrients

My major concerns are below

☑️These banana trees can't bear offshoot by themselves would require tissue culture processed saplings from banana seeds (Monsanto greed)
☑️Pesticide are mostly injected on the plant
☑️Yield is thrice of normal and in half of time

Some preventive measures for Lumpy Virus affecting cattles

- Deworm using castor oil and turkeyberry / sundakka with jaggery

- Add neem powder, turmeric powder, shikakai powder in cows bathing water 1/2

- Make a paste using Turmeric powder, Neem powder ,coconut oil apply over feet ,face over stomach

- Put a dhoopa using dried neem leaves,loban and white mustard thrice daily

-Sanitize cowsheds using water diouted with rock salt and turmeric powder

- Soak fresh 2-3 handful tender neem leaves in 30 litre for 30 min mix with wheat husk/rice bran with handful jaggery to the cows

- Feed Agathi keerai sumptuously twice along with boiled or soaked channa dal to improve their immunity

- keep cowsheds floors near dry

- Watch the salivation of cows are usual and ensure they are hydrated thoroughly

- Wash green pastures using neem and turmeric water then feed

- Don't send out for grazing unknown areas

- Bath the cattle in brahmamuhurta do puja at sunrise

- Make cows to listen carnatic music

Its proven cows feel happier when they listen to music and appear less

How to lead a healthy lifestyle as prescribed in Ayurveda?

-Per Ayurveda, overall bio rhythm are determined by a unique balance of three dosha's (Vata, pitta & kapha) present in your own body.

So what are the various factors influences your overall good health?

A Thread.

Your overall good health is sum of

- Proper and Adequate Rest
- Excercise
- Meditation / Prayer
- Strong mind /Emotional resilience
- Nutritious Food

If you watch the order of the above food comes last in the list! Yes food become insignificant if all other are sorted!

Per Ayurveda, good health is taking control of your life routine and helps to makes you wise and capable of decision making – ranging from your food, your habits and your lifestyle

In short, good health means good lifestyle!

In Ayurveda, perfect health is defined as "a balance between body, mind, spirit, and social wellbeing"

Ayurveda emphasises balance and connecting towards your inner self than anything else when it comes to healthy life

-Per Ayurveda ,
All things in the universe, both living and nonliving, are connected.
-We are all initially connected within ourselves, to people surrounding us, to our immediate environment, and to the universe.

-Balanced connectivity ensures good health.

it seems to me that not many know that navalny is an avowed nationalist & racist and not just a blonde guy who likes to gently kiss his blonde wife before going to jail and watches “rick & morty”. so here’s a little thread and some of it is pretty personal.

here is navalny’s 2007 video. “a tooth without a root is called “dead”. a nationalist is someone who doesn’t want the russian root to be removed from the word “russia”. we have the right to be russian in russia, and we will defend it.”

i downloaded it to make sure it won’t disappear but it is still shared by navalny’s official youtube channel. btw, in this video, navalny is introduced in the caption as a “certified nationalist”.

here is another video navalny is not keen to share anymore, in which he compares muslims to cockroaches and flies and recommends shooting them with guns if swatters and shoes

here is a 2011 interview with navalny where he explains why he goes to the so-called “russian march”, a yearly nationalist gathering, and why he thinks it’s ok to collaborate with

is ADHD a mental illness ?

a thread

ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder - people with it are born with it and it cannot be altered because it's part of their brain structure and is seen on brain scans. ADHD is also linked to premature births and hypothyroidism during pregnancy, among other things

from the WHO website: "neurodevelopmental disorders are disabilities in the functioning of the brain that can affect behaviour, memory and/or ability to learn."

neurodevelopmental disorders are not caused by external/environmental factors. you cannot *develop* these conditions

mental illness is a general term for a health problem that significantly affects how someone feels/thinks/behaves. mental illnesses cause suffering to those who experience them, as well as often their loved ones. ADHD does not directly cause suffering.

neurodevelopmental disorders are not mental illnesses. ADHD however, does make it more likely for a person to experience mental illness. ADHD can cause dysfunction and stress, but more often than not this comes from lack of accommodation rather than the symptoms themselves.

Masks. A short thread. In June last year my GP advised me that wearing a mask even for a short space of time would be harmful for me on two fronts. One - I have painful rosacea on my face. It’s a horrible condition and it’s lifelong. I can at times look scary!

Putting on a mask simply makes it worse. Two - I have hypertension. Manageable and controlled. GP also advises that mask wearing even for short periods can raise cortisol levels and make them dangerous to me.

On that basis and given the dreadful treatment us non-maskers have to suffer and to appease the abusers I have three times asked my GP to issue me with a letter relating to my conditions.

On each occasion she has said that there is no need. Whilst she won’t admit it straight up, all conversations suggest she’s been told not to. I happen to agree that no-one should need to reveal their medical history to anyone other than medical professionals responsible for me.

I’ve researched mask wearing in relation to what they are supposed to be used for ref *Covid* - I’m no thicko - I prepare risk assessments (and I’m qualified to do so) every day (or did) - and the evidence *for* is weak. Very weak.

Folks, we need to talk about this Vitamin D trial. I have no stake in this game - take Vitamin D if you want but this pre-print is super sus.

The paper is presented as a randomized trial of vitamin D supplementation in hospitalized patients with COVID. Interesting and important question! And the results appear dramatic:

If true, this would be one of (if not THE most) effective treatments for COVID. But there are problems...

The first clue something is up is that the randomized groups aren't the same size:

It took me a while to figure out why this was, then I saw in the text that INDIVIDUALS were not randomized, WARDS in the hospital were.