LOVE Chocolateeeee ......IT's good

Many people may not know it, but there are actually numerous health benefits of chocolate. The real, unadulterated form of chocolate, derived from the Theobroma cacao tree, is a heaven-sent super food that can keep us healthy even as we indulge in its delectable taste. Many overly processed chocolates are full of refined sugar and saturated fatty acids, but the real stuff is packed full of plant derived flavanols, full of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory constituents and health-boosting ingredients that do all sorts of amazing things for our bodies and minds. 

10 benefits to heart:

• In a 9-year study conducted by the Swedes, it was found that people who consumed chocolate just 1 to 3 times per month had a 26% lower risk of developing heart failure. If you normally give your sweetheart chocolate, consider making it dark chocolate to provide an extra bit of love to the heart muscle.

• A meta-analysis published recently in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews found that those who consume chocolate experience a reduction in blood pressure.

• Chocolate increases communication between opiate receptors in the brain as well as supports the production of dopamine, two hormones that increase happiness and contribute to feelings of elation.

• Real chocolate, or cocoa, is associated with decreased low-density lipoprotein levels and increased high-density lipoprotein levels. These are important for carrying cholesterol to the liver

• Chocolate has more than 300 identifiable chemical compounds that can provide amazing health benefits for the whole body.

• Eating chocolate releases the same hormones that our bodies make when we are in love: Phenylethylamine (PEAs).

• Raw cacao contains N-acylethanolamines that are believed to temporarily increase the levels of anandamide in the brain and enzyme inhibitors that slow its breakdown. This means we feel more relaxed when we eat chocolate.

• Eating chocolate increases our endorphins, the body’s natural pain killers.

• Raw cacao consumption can help with weight loss as it eradicates sweet cravings. The abundance of antioxidants can also help keep our metabolism running smoothly. An article in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry says you can enjoy cacao several times a week to boost weight loss.

• Cacao can be enjoyed in raw form as a powder, as cacao nibs, or as a dark chocolate bar minus the refined sugar and unhealthy fats. You can mix a little cacao with honey and cinnamon over low heat on the stove for a delicious sweet treat, with the combined health benefits of all three foods for a vitamin-packed dessert.

This article was written by Christina Sarich and originally appeared on Natural Society .

Recalibrate Your Life's Direction with.....

Sometimes we get lost on our path through life or even feel stuck. In those times, personal reflection and taking some time ask yourself the tough questions are what you need. This simple exercise only takes one hour and can help you refocus on where you want to go.

  

• If possible get out into nature where you can feel the natural pace of the earth and not the hyperactive and inhumane pace of modern life.
•  Write down the question "What would I do if I only had a week left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. 
• Write down the question, "What would I do if I only had a month left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. 
• Write down the question, "What would I do if I only had a year left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. 
• Write down the question, "What would I do if I only had five years left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. 
• Write down the question, "What would I do if I only had a life left to live?" and take 10   minutes to write down your answer. 
• Finally, take 10 minutes to reread all of your answers while asking yourself, "How can I design my routine this week to more closely align with these answers?"

Sometimes the only way to reflect on life is by contemplating death and the end of our time on this world. This exercise takes the common question of "what would you do if you only had this long to live?" and makes it a useful look at what you really want out of your time. If you answer the questions as honestly as you can, you might surprise yourself and see a different path for your future.

Clean India Pledge .....for Indians led by @PMO

Unbelievable Reaction of a Lioness to the Man Who Saved Her Life

This is the heart-warming story of Valentin Gruener, Mikkel Legarth, and a lioness called Sirga. The video you are about to watch is a demonstration of the bond that has been created between Valentin and Sirga in the time since he rescued her from certain death two-and-a-half years ago. Be prepared for what happens when Valentin opens the cage to be ‘greeted’ by this 110kg cat as you are in for a shock. However we can assure you that what you are about to witness is one of the most remarkable moments shared between any lion and a human being.

However Sirga was born a wild cat and there would normally be no telling if that wild instinct would dominate. As you can clearly see from Sirga’s reaction to meeting Valentin and how they enjoy going for a walk together, there is no question of that happening now. 

This is indeed a quite remarkable bond between man and beast.

Jai Shri Krishna

Yada yada hi dharmasya, glanir bhavati bharata

Abhyuthanam adharmasya tadatmaanam srujaamyaham

Paritranaaya saadhunaam vinaashaaya ch dushcritaam

Dharmasanstha panaarthaaya sambhavaami yuge yuge

The simple meaning is :

Whenever dharma declines, O Bharat (Arjun), and the purpose of life is forgotten, I will manifest myself

I am born in every age (yugas) to protect the good, to destroy the evil and reestablish dharma

Seedless Mangoes..!!!! Yes Indian Scientists did it

Here it is.................
Named "Sindhu"

 

Indian scientists have developed what could be the ultimate delicacy - a seedless mango which is finely textured and juicy, with a rich, sweet and distinctive flavour when mature.

Seedless mango is developed from hybrids of mango varieties Ratna and Alphonso.

Originally developed at the regional fruit research station of the Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth at Dapoli in Maharashtra's Konkan region, has thrown up good fruiting on a three-year-old plant this year. It generally grows in bunch and the fruit matures in the middle of July. 

What makes our arms, legs fall asleep......!!

This is definitely a strange sensation -- we get up out of seat, and all you feel from one foot is an uncomfortable tingling. Or we wake up in the middle of the night, and we can't move arm at all. And then, as body part "wakes up," the strange tingling intensifies.
 Just what is going on here?


Usually, we feel this familiar sensation after we've been putting pressure on part of body -- sitting on a foot, sleeping on an arm, etc. When we apply this pressure for a prolonged period of time, actually cut off communication from brain to parts of body. The pressure squeezes nerve pathways so that the nerves can't transmit electrochemical impulses properly. 

                                                 Nerve impulses carry sensation information from nerve endings in the body to the brain, as well as instructions from the brain to the parts of the body. When interfering with this transfer by squeezing the nerve pathways, we don't have full feeling in that body part, and brain has trouble telling the body part what to do.

This pressure can also squeeze arteries, stopping them from carrying nutrients to body cells. Without these nutrients, the nerve cells may behave abnormally, which can further interfere with communicating bodily sensations.

 Once do move your foot, stretch legs, or roll over off arm, the nerve impulses begin to flow properly again. But we don't regain feeling right away, however. 
There is a certain amount of re-adjustment time before the nerves transmit impulses correctly again. This increases the intensity of the tingling, causing the familiar "pins and needles" sensation.

The tingling may be followed by a more uncomfortable burning sensation, before our body part finally returns to normal. This happens because the nerves in our body are made up of separate long nerve cells that carry different sorts of impulses. These nerve fibers have different surrounding structures. Some nerve fibers have thicker "insulation" around them and so take longer to begin transmitting impulses properly after they've been squeezed. The fibers that transmit pain and temperature information are relatively thin, so we feel the tingling situations pretty quickly.

IB blacklisted the Greenpeace India........for causing loss of GDP

 By Ali Abbas:

Greenpeace India The organization works on global issues of utmost importance like climate change and global warming, chemical free agriculture, saving our last remaining forests, defending ocean and stopping yet another nuclear disaster. It promotes renewable energy and community driven solutions.

India is experiencing a new wind of change. Development seems to be the word of the moment. Many people are in the illusion that PM Modi will wave his magic wand and in the next few years we will be transformed as a nation at par with USA and the European countries. 

Ever since the new government was formed, development has become synonymous to nationalism and whosoever questions the real cost and beneficiaries of development is being viewed as less national. In some cases even anti-national and a threat to the economic security of the country. One such organization which is highlighted profoundly in the report for the loss of GDP is Greenpeace India.


The author had volunteered the Greenpeace India.......these are his views

More than an organization, Greenpeace is a movement, which believes in people before profit. It promotes the idea of sustainable development with equal concerns for nature, wildlife and people. 
Its work is backed by concrete scientific research and promotes meaningful alternative solutions.
Ever since Greenpeace India started campaigning in 2001, it registered its first major victory in 2004 when Supreme Court’s monitoring committee on hazardous waste fined Hindustan Liver Limited (HLL) with 50 crore for damages caused to environment by its mercury thermometer factory plant in Kodaikanal. HLL was also asked to set up health clinics for people to recover from the effects of mercury poisoning.

To promote energy efficiency in the country, Greenpeace ran a campaign called “Ban the Bulb” in 2006. Massive awareness efforts were made to let people know about energy efficiency and to replace incandescent bulb with CFLs to reduce energy consumption. After three years of campaigning, the government launched “Bachat Lamp Yojana” by subsidising CFLs for the general public hence saving energy.

Standing alongside farmers and their rights, Greenpeace has been campaigning against the controversial and MNC controlled Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Greenpeace India brought the debate into public sphere by highlighting scientific evidences and examples from other countries. In the year 2010 after several rounds of public consultations, the then Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh put the commercialisation of BT Brinjal on an indefinite moratorium.

Apart from these, regular efforts were made to expose environmental crimes in the country and Greenpeace lobbied for rules that favour protection and preservation of environment by demanding polluters pay policy.

What makes Greenpeace’s voice stronger in India or elsewhere is its financial independence. Greenpeace never accepts funding from governments, political parties or corporates. All its donations are carefully scrutinized and its balance sheet is uploaded on the website every year. Its funding sources are public. All its funds are received via bank transactions hence making it transparent, unlike political parties whose funding sources are not known.

The only people to be threatened by Greenpeace campaigning are the greedy corporates, for whom maximization of profit means everything and care for the environment means nothing. For those intelligent people, a proverb says, when the last tree is cut, when the last river is poisoned, when the last fish is dead, we will realize that we can’t eat money.



 

About the author: Ali Abbas is an environment activist in India.



Although the article is written by Ali Abbas ....but my views do copy

Great.........US Pilot Ordered Pizza For all Passengers

 

Domino's pizza manager Andy Ritchie has taken a lot of orders, but never one quite like this: to feed an entire plane full of hungry, delayed passengers, stuck on the tarmac.

"It was about 10:30pm on Monday when the pilot of the Frontier Airlines flight called in", said Ritchie, manager at the pizza chain in the western US city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The pilot wanted to feed all 160 passengers and crew to make up for the delay, so Ritchie and his two employees whipped up around 35 pizzas and sent them to the plane.

The plane was en route from Washington when it was diverted to Cheyenne while it waited for bad weather to clear in Denver, US media said.

The plane, which was already hours behind schedule, sat on the ground at the small airport for about two hours, and there was no food on board.

Eventually, one passenger told a Denver affiliate of Fox, the pilot made an announcement.
"He said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, Frontier Airlines is known for being one of the cheapest airlines in the US, but your captain is not cheap,'" Logan Marie Torres recounted to the news station.

"' I just ordered pizza for the entire plane.'" Ritchie confirmed that it was the pilot who paid by credit card for the order, which was several hundred dollars, though he could not specify whose card it was. omino's pizza manager Andy Ritchie has taken a lot of orders, but never one quite like this: to feed an entire plane full of hungry, delayed passengers, stuck on the tarmac.



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Source : The Times of India                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            These are very Few.....Good Hearted people