Milk

Is milk a good calcium supplement? can it be replaced?

I had been having my own doubts about this most vital food supplement – Milk. I have had Milk from a farm and from household cows. They are never like the ones I purchase from shops. The fresh milk from the farm doesn’t last long. But the shop’s does… 

Has anyone of you thought about it? It is good and awesome that the consumers are prioritised and the producers work their best to keep the milk fresh longer so that every single consumer in each of the town can drink fresh (is it) milk every day. We all might accept the fact that along with our calcium supplement we might also take a small number of preservatives, and what not. But have we ever thought about the fate of such additional components in our system? Does it get digested? If so how does it get taken into the blood? Where does it settle in our body? Or if not digested how the mother earth digests it? What is its effect on soil? What is the fate of our underground water?

I am not against any development or human ideas but how far those ideas are renewable? Is it on the business, money, profit? Or on consumer goodness? This applies not just to milk but for any product that we buy.

Now that I have tried to ignite you’re thinking of different products. I am obliged to give out a solution.

After thinking and reading a lot, I found that sesame seeds are the best source of calcium. Here is the evidence for that. A simple google search will answer the question and here it is for you.

Are sesame seeds healthy?

Nutritional Profile: Sesame seeds are an excellent source of copper, a very good source of manganese, and a good source of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc, molybdenum, vitamin B1, selenium and dietary fibre.

Do sesame seeds break down?

When the seed is crushed, as in tahini or sesame butter, its nutrients are more easily digested. When left whole, the seeds do not break down during digestion. Toasting or roasting sesame seeds alter their nutritional value. Studies show that the calcium levels are slightly higher when the seeds are toasted.

 This is just one suggestive source of calcium. There could many other natural foods that can be equally good as milk and it can definitely be replaced. 

Cancer Prevention

Can we prevent Cancer?

The most common question that I get is if we can prevent cancer? The answer is yes and no. 

Yes, we can prevent cancer, but if we start the preventive measures we can prevent it maybe after 200 years. 

It is an independent person's choice if we need to move the first stone. Yes, the first step. I can people question the 100s of research around the world. There are not in vain. But if they need to be fruitful then the common consumer should change their lifestyle. It is more like cleaning a gutter that is continuously been dumped with trash. 

But again when I said its individual choice, it is actually not true. As it is a team effort. I shall list the possible bad habits and the possible issues below.

Any process in a human body works in a cycle of 24hrs. That is how we are created by nature. Not only human but plants, bacteria, animals and fungi also follow this pattern. To some extent, this clock can be stretched/ flexible. 

The way the body works is in coordination with Sun. so during each local time, the human system performs its functions including digestion, and bowel and need the appropriate circumstance for it to perform it. 

For Eg : Melatonin, is important for a good sleep cycle and sleep is important for melatonin secret. and it secretes only during dark. and also when the eyes are shut. That is when the light doesn't enter our system. So what happens when we do something else during night? or sleep during the day? The human body gets confused and starts to malfunction. 

Ref : ( Wikipedia.com -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm )

The first correction or lifestyle change is to do the right things at the right time. There are 3 small things that need our immediate attention:

1. sleep while you have to
2. eat while you need to ( imagine you keep grinding something 24hrs in your blender? what do you do to the engine? , what happens when you continue to water a pot of plant all the time ? don't it vomit or rot? )
3. Don't disturb your hormones - human body secretes different hormones at different circumstances. However, stress induces a spike in the levels of certain harmful hormones which in turn flow abnormally throughout the system to create an imbalance. ( we all know that a vehicle has a time period to change/fill engine oil. can we do it more often and alter its levels ? ).

We all have read that it is good to have our last meal at least 2-3 hrs before bedtime and also it is good to have our dinner before sunset. It is because of this reason. And it is also necessary to at least give 4hrs break between meals for every adult. 4hrs is the time taken by the body to digest any meal fully completely.

Most of our problem will be solved if we rectify these 3 basic things in our life. Hope I have convinced all of you with appropriate real-life examples.

Let us talk more precisely and detailed about each of the cancer in the forthcoming topics.

Cancer historically

History of Cancer

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world after cardiovascular diseases. Half of men and one-third of women in the United States will develop cancer during their lifetimes. Today, millions of cancer people extend their life due to early identification and treatment. Cancer is not a new disease and has afflicted people throughout the world. The word cancer came from a Greek words karkinos to describe carcinoma tumours by a physician Hippocrates (460–370 B.C), but he was not the first to discover this disease. Some of the earliest evidence of human bone cancer was found in mummies in ancient Egypt and in ancient manuscripts dates about 1600 B.C. The world’s oldest recorded case of breast cancer hails from ancient Egypt in 1500 BC and it was recorded that there was no treatment for cancer, only palliative treatment. According to inscriptions, surface tumours were surgically removed in a similar manner as they are removed today (content copied from the below-mentioned link ). 

Cancer is not a yesterday's problem. It had been in existence for centuries. The causes and currently available treatments are described in very simple terms in the article

Read the full article here

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2927383/

Food and cancer

what are the foods that cause Cancer?

Food per se doesn't cause cancer. But the adulteration in food cause cancer. 

In those days we saw adulteration of water in milk, stone in grains. But there are other invisible ways of adulterating food. It is important for us to hence make wise choices. 

Due to the pressure on any stakeholder to preserve a food product longer than it's real shelf time, due to the competition in business some are forced to create/ generate appealing products. Due to a little greed to make more money some business generate foodstuff in a more artificial way. All these might create some disturbance in a human body. 

We should understand that changing a natural path by any means will never do good to a system. The human body is designed to digest foodstuff that contains carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. 

As mentioned in an online resource https://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/teaching/astr380f09/lecture03.pdf

Atoms found in all life on Earth include hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur as the dominant components, with trace amounts of many other elements.

But now due to all the above mentioned forced circumstances, our foodstuff include much of those trace elements and less of those dominant components. Resulting in our human system struggling to learn a way to digest such substance. 

A recent random good search gave me a big shock. I would like to share it with all of you. I know about this word olestra, hence it started off with a google search. As explained by Wikipedia Olestra (also known by its brand name Olean) is a fat substitute that adds no fat, calories, or cholesterol to products. It has been used in the preparation of otherwise high-fat foods such as potato chips, thereby lowering or eliminating their fat content.

yet another google search gave me the following question and answer

What foods have Olean and Olestra?

Snack foods made with olestra have been tremendously popular with consumers and products include Frito-Lay's WOW!™ potato and tortilla chips (Lay's®, Ruffles® and Doritos®), Nabisco's Fat-Free Ritz® and Fat-Free Wheat Thins®crackers, and P&G's Fat-Free Pringles®.

here is a much more convincing answer to eat any of those snack 

Is Olestra safe?

Its use has been limited to savory snacks (eg. corn chips, extruded snacks, potato chips, etc.) for fear of over-consumption of Olestra by the consumer resulting in malnutrition. The FDA has concluded that Olestra is a safe alternative for fat in food products, but has recognized the need for fat for a balanced diet.

well we all would now be totally happy about FDA approving this. I saw a link below this answer online. I leave it for your read http://www1.udel.edu/chem/C465/senior/fall98/Olestra1/ 

However, I would like to bring a small passage from that site to your attention 

nondigestible, 0 calories, 0 fat substitute. This new product, Olestra, has proved to be nontoxic, carcinogenic, genotoxic, teratogenic and is neither absorbed nor metabolized by the body. 

now from the above line. nontoxic - as we all know is not a poison. but genotoxic - which is toxic to a gene, carcinogenic - this means compounds that may cause cancer. 

Here is a small video on how fake fat can harm us. As telecasted on abc news

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/eating-fake-fat-makes-real-fat-olestra-study/story?id=13893613

we all know that Google is just a repository of data and nobody claims responsibility for its authenticity. But in this modern era, we human being are so tempted to talk to google our home guide. Imagine what happens when someone hears this word and do the same search that I just did. As far as I know, when you have your answer on the webpage, we do not go into the links and spend hours on reading some random topic. So there is all possibility that we might end up believing something in a total wrong sense. This small example explains the kind of devastation we all might end up with our limited knowledge and from the information on any food labels. 

Hence it is important for us to step back and think if something is against nature. Nature has its own way of defence. It will rectify itself. we don't have to stimulate it with pesticides and fertilizers. All these chemical inventions are probably to rectify our own way to correct our mistakes. 

we should think if tomato does not rot after two weeks but still labelled as no additives. At the same time, we have to change our attitude of demanding much as a consumer. We should accept when a tomato loses its freshness by the time it comes to a city from a countryside farm so that the retailers are not forced to spray/ colour to keep its freshness. I would be glad if we all start to think and change this one thing. 

Cancer

What is cancer?

Cancer, as described in Wikipedia, is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

to put it in a more simpler term, there are approximately 37 trillion cells in an adult body. A malfunction of any one of this that a human body fails to rectify is the beginning of the brutal disease.

Tuberculosis affects human lung. HIV is a virus that affects the human immune system. But how do we get these many types of cancers?

Eg: brain, mouth, oesophagal, pancreatic, breast, blood, lung, bowel, skin, bone and what not.

The answer is that when it is TB, HIV or malaria it is a foreign body that enters our body a bacteria or virus that can be quickly detected by our immune system and so rejection happen in an early stage and so is the defence.

But Cancer is just a cell from our own body that follows the below-given process for its progression

1. stops doing its function. ( in a normal human body, a cell failing to function is a normal phenomenon. we have systems that can clear such bad cells. The immune system plays a vital role in this process. But when your immune surveillance fails there is all possibility that this cell survive)
2. start to fight for its survival and succeed.
3. start reproducing many more abnormal cells like itself
4. form a big group which does not do any function but keep dividing and grow more as a big lump.
5. at this point, they are first a piece of abnormal cell sitting there
6. as they grow in their size, they try to grab all the oxygen and sugar that goes through the blood for its own survival ( cancer cell needs more sugar to survive and grow fast)
7. finally, capture the nearby organ and stop its function and colonise within them. At this point it is primary, local disease.
8. as they further outgrow the space they start to move along the bloodstream and then move to different parts of our body and start to grow everywhere and conquer the other organs.

each cell has around 20,000-25,000 human protein-coding genes. can you imagine how many things can go wrong in an entire human body? isn't it scary??? Yes, it is so it is important for awareness and change in lifestyle.

besides all these steps, it is more like termites. However, it is our own body cells. It eats the organ/ body where it lives.

So like keeping the wooden furniture and areas clean, it is also important for a regular maintenance of the human body.

Nurture

Nurture the natural way of living

Recent times we see a lot of organic food, ways to live a healthy life, go green movement and so on....  Turning back to the history, there is evidence that the natural way of living was customised to human convenience facilitating the westernised lifestyle. Not about the food we eat or the commodities we use, but even to the way we dictate our sense organs to work, this so-called westernisation has eroded it.
Fundamentally the manufacturer THE GOD was right in creating us. Somewhere somehow this defect has ruined the complete functionality of life and the ecosystem. A child learns everything with struggle. The attitude of try and try again is inculcated in each of us by birth. Starting from the process of turning till walking and speaking no one knows how much attempt it does to expertise. This teaches us the

Anger

My blog page have seen many phases of my life!!!

After 3 years of break I am back for Blogging and this is for a good and great cause. not many of us live... including me... I would like to create an awareness to myself and to the every friend of mine!!!

Modern world had crossed so many hurdles and the today's discoveries are perhaps the ones that has crossed lots of hardships... Little do we know that we only invent more than we discover....

The reason behind any invention being selfish attitude. we quickly do loads of mistakes and are seriously involved in inventing solutions. solutions that are never required if not for our blunders...

We study, learn, earn, and save!!! save for what?, whom? who? how? these are the well known repetitive questions which each one of us would have asked yourself millions of time with no solid answer to it.

Not everybody understands the fact as it is. each one has their own level of assimilation and it is strictly encouraged to teach it to them in their own way...That is how I recently learnt how to master our mind and body...slowly did it worked wonders... the first and foremost wonder that everybody want to work on us is the anger free state!!!
This is an uncontrolled outburst of emotion... well we could also call it this way, but it is actually our choice to respond to this around... rather reacting to them.. everybody would be sane enough to realise that nobody should control over us. But when we look at anger with a bird eye we are ultimately a puppet for others.. when somebody irritates us expecting to make us jump up and down we do it...