Intermittent snacking, although a healthy habit, is fast turning out to be the root cause of some of the most popular modern lifestyle ailments. This is primarily driven by the demands and aspirations projected by modern society and ably supported by innovations in food processing, packaging and logistics. We introduce another health snack for your consideration.
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Drumstick Leaves Release Toxins during Karkidaka Masam (July – Aug)
Many among you might have heard that you should avoid eating drumstick leaves during Karkadamasam which falls between mid July and August. To know more about this, let’s first understand what’s so special about this month. In Kerala the rains go on and on without an end in sight. Starting with south west monsoon followed by the north east. There is a pattern for each month’s rains. However there are…
How do DDT, Endosulfan and other pesticide react with Human Body?
Dr G Nammalvar once said in his TED talk and laughed,“Poisons are called medicine in local languages”(puchi marande– medicine for pest‘tamil’). Any word that ends in “cide” would be killing something. So chemicals which kill pest is known as pesticide, insect – insecticide, bacteria – bactericide, fungus – fungicide, rodent – rodenticide, spider – acaricide, herb – herbicide, weed – weedicide and suicide is self killing. Furadan is a granular…