Anything Too Much Can Be Harmful To Your Health

       We all might have seen, normally parents used to force their kids to drink more and more water, that should be fine as they wouldn’t be asking for it or may be couldn’t able to express the thirst. But have seen few people here in Bangalore made practice of having water forcefully. Especially people working in corp world have adopted or may be brand sake uses branded and stylish container and few even keep track of the quantity to meet day’s target. Though they won’t sweat much; might be due to pressure/tense if I’m not wrong.

If that is the case and if we believe in quote “athe aadre amruthanu visha aguthe”
won’t that applicable to water …?

Let me take an example of commonly used electric free aqua purifier that we may prefer due to save either electricity or budget perspective, and also we have been advised by the vendor to replace chemical battery used in it when indicator turns RED. Won’t this same apply to human kidney?

      In Jan 25^th 2007 there was a contest "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" held by KDND an FM (107.9 MHz ) radio station in California. In which, Jennifer (mother of 3) participated to win Wii(video game console) for his son and unfortunately died for consuming more water in short period (water intoxication.) Later court rewarded $ 16.5 million as compensation to her family from KDND.

Impact of unnecessary water consumption – It actually put unnecessary strain on your body in two major ways:

1.   It increases your total blood volume. And since your blood volume exists within a circulatory system, needlessly increasing your blood volume on a regular basis puts unnecessary burden on your heart and blood vessels.

2.   Your kidneys must work overtime to filter excess water out of your circulatory system. The filtration system that exists in your kidneys is composed in part by a series of specialized capillary beds called glomeruli. Your glomeruli can get damaged by unnecessary wear and tear over time, and drowning your system with large amounts of water is one of many potential causes of said damage.

Putting unnecessary burden on your cardiovascular system and your kidneys by ingesting unnecessary water is a subtle process. For the average person, it is virtually impossible to know that this burden exists, as there are usually no obvious symptoms on a moment-to-moment basis. But make no mistake about it: this burden is real and can hurt your health over the long term.

So how much water should a person drink to best support his health?

       Hello.. Are we machines to have such protocol across! If you agree each person is unique then how it could be the common to all..? Many of us have been advised that, a person should drink at least 3 – 4 ltr of water per day. But according to Dr Ben’s research, it completely depends on our unique circumstances, including your diet, exercise habits, and environment; rather than min/max on quantity of water that we consume.

If a person having foods that are naturally rich in water, such as vegetables, fruits, and cooked legumes and whole grains, he may not need to drink much water at all. If he do not use much or any salt and other seasonings, his need for drinking water goes down even further.

Conversely, if a person consumes bit salty and spices in his meal, he might need to drink several glasses of water every day.

Regardless of diet, if a person sweat on a regular basis because of exercise or a warm climate, he will need more water than someone who does not sweat regularly.

Ultimately, Dr Ben’s guidance is to follow your sense of thirst.

The Black Sky & White Sun

  Doesn’t this title seem pretty strange with slight twist..? I'm sure that you would have repeated at least twice this title, same happened with me when I glance over this statement in an article recently. Dark sky-white sun! But you & I have seen normally is yellow sun on earth. I just couldn’t control my curiosity and started pitching my Guruji for the same (I haven’t made a move with such questions in my school days to be frank;  referring Guruji to Google here) and finally understood that…

    Out in space, the sky looks dark and black, instead of blue. This is because there is no atmosphere. There is no scattered light to reach your eyes. 

Why is sky blue on earth?

    Light from the sun or a light bulb may appear as white, but it is actually a combination of 7 colors.Way back to school days, we all have experienced the same with piece of glass- PRISM.

Light travels through space in a straight line as long as nothing disturbs it. As light moves through the atmosphere, it continues to go straight until it bumps into a bit of dust or a gas molecule. Then what happens to the light depends on its wave length and the size of the thing it hits.

     Dust particles and water droplets are much larger than the wavelength of visible light. So while hitting these large particles, it gets bounced off in different directions. The reflected light appears white because it still contains all of the same colors. 

     As gas molecules are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, some of it may get absorbed & radiates (gives off) the light in a different direction. The color that is radiated is the same color that was absorbed. The different colors of light are affected differently. Though all of the colors can be absorbed, but the higher frequencies (blues) are absorbed more often than the lower frequencies (reds). This process is called Rayleigh scattering (It is named after Lord John Rayleigh, an English physicist, who first described it in the 1870's.) When absorbed high frequencies (blues) radiated in different directions, it gets scattered all around the sky. And hence whichever direction you see, the sky looks blue!

Why sunset RED?

      As the sun begins to set, the light must travel farther through the atmosphere before it gets to you. More of the light is reflected and scattered. As less reaches you directly, the sun appears less bright. The color of the sun itself appears to change, first to orange and then to red. This is because even more of the short wavelength blues and greens are now scattered. Only the longer wavelengths are left in the direct beam that reaches your eyes.

Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian symbol

Recently I had been to my cousin home in Mysore to see his little angel baby girl, post formal chit-chat and playing with her... somehow they forced and finally start to prepare chicken kabhab, though they don’t have it on Saturday’s. While looking over kabhab powder pack cover, saw small green veg symbol just below the BIG image of fried chicken piece and wondered for a sec that, how come green rather than red?(later come to know it supposed to be brown). Than my buddy words made me to realize that,  it’s just ingredient! Immediate question to me was, what is that green and red for? Here comes my new post…

There is a common misconception that, brown dot denotes egg-products and that meat-products are distinguished by a red dot. And there is an additional virtual category called Eggetarian (few vegetarian say as such, who neither just can’t avoid egg nor wish to be called as Non-vegetarian). According to FOOD SAFETY AND STANDARDS (PACKAGING AND LABELING) REGULATIONS, 2011 there are no distinguishing marks for egg and milk products, other than the broad vegetarian and non-vegetarian classifications.

Packaged food products sold in India are required to be labeled with a mandatory mark in order to be distinguished between vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Though the symbol were in effect since 2006, got a mandatory status after the framing of the respective regulations (Food safety and standards (packaging and labeling) regulation in 2011)

If any nuts ask me to differentiate, I’d prefer to describe Non-Veg(Animal-based ingredients other than milk and honey), it doesn’t mean I like more; just to avoid subsequent questions.

Correct Symbol - 

Wrong Symbol -

Not sure, whether this RED symbol (wrong color code) made intentionally in some perspective to create public awareness (as this isn’t universal rule, but made in India) OR just poor print? Perhaps I would easily consider the later reason above, if I had never seen the accurate color brown. So still cynic on it.

There is no restriction where logo must be on product cover like what we have lung puncture image on cigar pack. Though company might be using different dimension with space OR package concern, there is specification from Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.

Size of the logo

Sl No.	Area of principal display panel	Minimum size of diameters in mm
1	Upto 100 cms	3
2	Above 100 cms & upto 500 cms	4
3	Above 500 cms  & upto 2500 cms	6
4	Above 2500 cms	8

 And some more for anyone’s interest, company must put these too on their food package

“Best before”, “Date of manufacture”, “Date of packaging” & “Expiry date”

“Vegetarian Food”, “Non- Vegetarian Food”, “Prepackaged”, “Principal Display Panel” & “Infant”,  “Lot | code | Batch No”& “Multipiece package”(labeled pieces of the same commodity of identical quantity as a bunch)

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