**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 wear Bindi / Kumkum / Tilak ??

- Wearing Bindi / Kumkum /Tilak on our forehead is not just symbol of religion or culture

- it's has profound impact on your health and wellbeing

- Why this is practiced even for new born babes

- It's a ancient health hack

- As per ayurveda forehead is a key biological region which has major role to play both over your mind , body and spirit

- Forehead has sensory nerves which helps to detect the earths magnetic field by our brain

- it has deep connect towards your subconscious mind

Per Ayurvedic texts our forehead is gateway for our energy/ kundalini

Marma chikitsa a branch of Ayurveda which is similar to reiki or pranic healing starts the therapy from the muka / face especially with herbal paste being applied over the forehead

Same references are found in accupressure and traditional Chinese medicine

- Applying gentle pressure over forehead by wearing bindi / kumkum/ Tilak helps to keep key pineal gland hale and healthy

As per Hindu culture, sadashiva holds the sacred and fierce third eye over this region

For normal man, it's a key technique to activate your key chakra - the Ajna chakra

This is soul reason any hindu Pooja or vedic procedure emphasizes wearing a Tilak over this region

My ninety year old client called me for a clarification.. He is a upsaka of Shri Karthikeya ..

Sharing his prayer advice to me if you believe in divine intervention / support - Small thread

Subramanya bhujangam :

Set of Sanskrit Shlokas resembling serpent shape was written and composed by Shri adhi Shankara acharya by praying to Bhagavan Karthikeya at a place called tiruchendur in tamilnadu

- Shri Adi Sankara composed this hymn of 33 verses, in the peculiar Bhujanga metre, noted for its sinuous movement like that of a serpent.

-The Shloka is full of piety, spiritual exaltation and sung when Shri adishankara himself was undergoing life threatening illness

Shloka verses include the disease name itself in it

"When all my senses have calmed down, When I have lost my intelligence,
When I am not capable of any movement, When my throat is full of phlegm..."

"When my body is shivering due to fear, And when my soul is preparing to depart,
Without any one to help me, Oh Lord of mercy, please come fast,
For I want to be in thine presence, Lord Guha"

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)

How to identify pure ghee

According to ayurveda, ghee itself is a medicine and medicated ghee are widely used as medicine

Ghee is a essential good fat and helpful in
- Laser sharp cognition
- Good Bone health
- Proper Digestion

There is lots of adulteration happening with ghee due to increased demand for unpasteurised milk and reduced cow population

Cows were part of every Indian household now it's hardly a family member

Most of diary based ghee are buffalo ghee / imported oil fats or vegetable fats

*dairy

So how check it's purity

- Teaspoon test

Take a teaspoon of ghee heat the teaspoon on lowest flame like diya or birthday candle or burning cowdung dhoop top

Pure one will melt in two seconds and turns dark brown

Adulterated one will take more than a minute to melt and it will turn yellow instead of dark brown as butter and ghee contains artificial food colour for yellowish texture

1/23 We haven't had a lot to celebrate during this pandemic. But achieving the milestone of offering vaccine to the over 70s, health and care workers and the most clinically vulnerable just before target date is a huge cause for celebration, given the scale of the achievement.

2/23 When Margaret Keenan got her first jab in Coventry on December 8th last year, who’d have thought that, by Valentine’s Day, we’d have vaccinated over fourteen million people across the UK in just ten short weeks? Amazing, extraordinary and truly, really, world class!

3/23 I’ve been struck by how much joy and relief has been brought to those doing the vaccinations and those receiving them. A GP told me yesterday that nothing had given him greater pleasure in his long career. And that the patient's relief was sometimes overwhelming.

4/23 It's vital to recognise the extraordinary contribution of the staff and volunteers who have made this happen. One of my close family had their jab yesterday and was in awe of the volunteer standing outside in the freezing cold for a four hour shift meeting and greeting.

5/23 What I wanted to share in this thread was the slightly untold story of some of the extraordinary challenges the NHS has had to overcome to deliver this target. Requiring superhuman effort from NHS leaders and staff, way beyond the call of duty. Five challenges set out below.

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

Autistic behaviours that are generally discriminated against, despite being harmless and just how we are.

A thread🧵

1. Stimming - repetitive physical movement to help regulate our stress levels. They feel nice and are really helpful but people seem to hate to see it. #autism

2. No eye contact. We generally find this too intimate and intense, and will avoid. It can even cause pain if forced. But people don't trust us even though we inform them we're autistic. #autism

3. Sitting in 'odd' positions. We're often very bendable - remember Ehlers-Danlos syndrome is a common comorbidity - and loads of feel more comfortable in slightly contorted positions. People always comment 'you can't be comfy like that'.

Yes. Yes I can. #autism

4. Stammering when excited. We can get so passionate about some subjects that we struggle to get the words out as they all get caught in the annoying bottleneck of actually having to leave our mouths. But it irritates people, makes them assume we're somehow lesser. #autism

Once again I'm reminded that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The recent push by a large number of autistic people to 'own' their diagnosis and try to raise acceptance and dispel harmful myths has kicked up a minority of autistic people to fight against this.

This may seem bizarre - who fights against improved acceptance? - but actually has clear roots in the ongoing culture war the West seems engaged in. The identity positive autistic movement, of which I am a part, is viewed by some as another manifestation of 'wokeness'.

This is the right-wing definition of 'wokeness', of course - ie a modern equivalent of the pejorative take on political correctness, but it's definitely at the core of this 'neurorealist' movement - the idea the autistic community is being hijacked by 'woke lefties'.

They believe that the push for acceptance of neurodiversity and rejection of the medicalisation of autism is misguided and drawing attention away from those autistic people who, in their view, need more help and intervention.

The trouble is, this view is pretty much baseless. Firstly, there is little evidence that autistic advocates who push for acceptance are in any way harming autistic people who require more help and support. Second, the view effectively silences those of us who are able to share.