Eating fruit at a workplace increases efficiency and productivity

It has been indicated by medical scientists that eating fruit regularly at a workplace by workers when they are hungry increases their efficiency and productivity. Fruits provide adequate source of energy and nutrition to those workers and officials who have to perform their day to day work at their factories or offices. A research work presented at the American College of Cardiology further indicates that fruits not only diminish the impending danger of diabetics but also increase the resistance of the body of a human being thereby making him more lively, vigorous and smart. Ref. [Urdu daily] Express, Lahore, March 19, 2010.

Popcorn Aids in Health and Nutrition Apart from Having Medicinal Value

Many of us may not believe that popcorn, apart from its nutritious values, has medicinal attributes as well. Hot, well seasoned salty popcorn is savoured by everybody especially by children. Popcorn is very popular as a snack, as a fast food that everybody can enjoy walking at the mall, having fun at picnic and playgrounds and parks, doing shopping, or while sitting and gossiping in the drawing room. But still many people are caught unaware that what they are eating popcorn has many a nutritious benefits. Apart from being a balanced, tasty and healthful diet, popcorn has a fairly large amount of calories, minerals, protein and vitamins.

Two servings of popcorn in a week can benefit a lot for your gastrointestinal tract. Popcorn is good for cleaning teeth and thus is instrumental in keeping healthy teeth especially for children while they are at school. Advise them to eat some popcorn after eating candies or taking juices etc as it will help them clean their teeth instantly. Popcorn also builds bones, tissues, muscles and is also good for digestion.

How to cook popcorn at home?

Popcorn is available in raw form packed in packets in big grocery stores. You may buy some and keep them handy for your future need. The packet itself contains instructions as to how to cook it. All you have to do is to unfold a couple of its folds and put it in the Microwave Oven for about four to five minutes. After that open the oven and eat it yourself and serve to your guests.

Preventive diet in sickness

While you are sick whatever effective medicines you take, unless you have a balanced diet and you don’t have control on the diet you can’t be cured properly. If your eating and drinking habits are not proper, nothing can aid in your fast recovery. The more you are knowledgeable about your diet and put that knowledge into practice in timely intake and not to take of the diet, the more you will be able to keep yourself away from diseases. If you are thoughtful about eating and drinking, it will definitely improve your health. When you fall sick you should in fact be more careful in your diet and you should better seek advice of your physician before eating. But for a dangerous disease, you can cure yourself by balanced diet.

Recommended herein is the diet you should take and not to take in the case of different forms of following ailments.

Eczema, boils, itching and other related skin diseases: Eat spinach, radish, onion, tomato and guava.

Dysentery: Eat yogurt, diluted milk, diluted yogurt and rice.

Fever: Take only light food, orange and avoid fats.

Acidity: Avoid pickle.

Ulcer: Don’t eat lemon, orange and other citrus fruit.

Lever: Eat pomegranate and avoid sugar, biscuits and fats.

Wounds and Boils and other related diseases: Take less salt.

High Blood Pressure and Hypertension: Don’t take salt.

Low Blood Pressure: Take salt.

Catarrh: Don’t take milk, ghee and other fats.

Kidney: Take Melon and watermelon.

Asthma, TB and Cancer: Avoid smoking.

Sciatica: Potato, Rice, Banana, citrus fruit, pickle, tomato and peach are dangerous.

General Weakness and improving digestion: take one glass of orange juice daily.

Diabetes: Don’t take bananas, mangos, dates, guava, sugar and other sweet things. Can eat citrus fruits like damson, pineapple, pomegranate and can also eat raw cabbage.

Kalonji – one of the most important herbs

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Kalonji as it is called in Hindi and Urdu, Shooneez in Persian, Nigella sativa, caraway in English and not the least Habbatul baraka, Black Seed called in Arabic the language of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), available almost in the whole world, has been used in Unani Tibb or Ayurvedic forms of treatment as one of the most important ingredients of such medicines. Various Hadiths of the Prophet (PBUH) have been narrated that (Kalonji) Black Seed can heal every disease except death. It has also been narrated that the Prophet (PBUH) himself used to use Kalonji with Honey for various types of ailments.
It is recommended that a few grams of Kalonji should always be kept at home especially in a village (country side) and use it in several domestic totakas (a tip for curing a problem) where it can do wonders being cheaper and easily available in the absence of other medical treatment.
Traditionally, Kalonji oil, Kalonji syrup or crushed Kalonji seeds are being used for ailments, to mention only a few, like Allergies of various types, Asthma, Cancer, Cough causing Mucus (Balgham), Diabetes, Arthritis, Headache, gas, indigestion, stomach dysfunction, Mirgee (a disease of the nervous system that causes a person to fall unconscious), Dandruff and hair loss, Obesity, Piles, stomach worms, tooth care and several other diseases. Half tea spoon of crushed kalonji seeds two/three times a day or three or four drops of kalonji oil useful for maintaining general health condition or preventing many types of body ailments.