Peanuts every day can keep cancer at bay

Research has revealed that it is not wise to ignore peanuts because daily intake of these nuts can keep major disease like cancer at bay. The study that was carried out by Maastricht University has concluded that men and women who consumed at least 10g of nuts or peanuts and not peanut butter per day have a lower risk of dying from several major causes of death.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 12 June 2015.

The researchers in the Netherlands have said that both peanuts and tree nuts contain a number of vitamins, fiber, antioxidants and compounds in the form of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. These can possibly contribute to the lower death rates.
As to peanut butter, it contains salt and trans fatty acids and these could inhibit the protective effects of peanuts. Moreover, women who ate peanuts regularly were leaner, had never smoked and were less likely to be diabetic.
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Maharashtra could soon have unpaid sweepers cleaning government offices

#SwatchhBharat #tobacco #spitting #maharashtra In keeping with the Swatchh Bharat campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the initiative proposed to be taken by Maharashtra to ban tobacco chewing and spitting in public in order to ensure cleanliness is a laudable step. Chewing of tobacco can lead to cancer and spitting in public places carries with it the grave danger of spreading diseases.
Spitting in public places could lead to spread of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 6 March 2015.
Under the proposal, if a person is caught not just spitting tobacco juice but even chewing it in a public place, he might have to become an unpaid government sweeper for a day – he would have to sweep for eight hours.
This is what the state health department is considering in the hope that such a stringent punishment against tobacco users would help to curb the habit.
Health Minister Deepak Sawant has indicated that if a person is found spitting from a luxury car, he would also not be spared - he should be made to clean a government office for a day. However, if a driver spits on the road, his license should be suspended for at least a month.
This proposal has, apparently, been forwarded to the state law and judiciary department for legal opinion.
Implementation is difficult because in Maharashtra every second person is addicted to tobacco and a situation could come when the government offices would be full of unpaid sweepers and there would not be enough places to clean.

Eat less, live more

Small is good as far as food is concerned. Eat less to live long is what the experts are preaching. They have their reasons. In today’s life, our health is more likely to be at risk from an overabundance of food than a shortage of it.
It is a paradox that globally, thrice as many people die of illnesses related to obesity than do of starvation. Hence, smaller plates of food is the cue to a longer life.
If we study the situation, we will find that humans today do not live as our prehistoric people lived. While we go in for sedentary lives in front of computer screens, our ancestors hunted game and gathered wild fruits. That is how they remained active and were always bursting with energy.
Moreover, in today’s world, food is readily available and nearly all of us eat three square meals a day, every day. However, in the ancient prehistoric times, our ancestors would have been used to a cycle of feast and famine because there was no guarantee of meals at all times. They would probably have been used to a 5:2 diet – or people were allowed to eat for five days a week. This acted as a check for their caloric intake on the other two.
Incidentally, there is a clear link between obesity and cancer. The blood-vessel damage caused by obesity and diabetes goes on to affect the veins in the brain as well as the body, this puts one at the risk of dementia.