Diet Tips for Weight loss

I am so conscious about my diet and always follow healthy diet tips for weight loss. I lost 20 pounds in three months. If you are interested to know, what i did, and how I intend on maintaining my current weight, then these weight loss tips are for you.

Cut down Fast food from Your life

Fast food contains plenty of unnecessary calories that comes in the category of bad calories. You need to avoid them as much as possible. It lowers your metabolism significantly and stores insoluble fats in your body. If you have craving of fast food then you must need to control it by using some alternatives. I recommend to avoid fast food chains menu, pizza, confectionery items, sugar coated products, fizzy drinks and other beverages that contains high level of sugar contents.

Cut down laziness from your life

It's most recommended and works perfectly. If you have habit to do work continuously in moving state then it must effect on your health. The level of activity will always make you active and healthy.

Keep Hydrated Yourself

According to china people, who are famous to maintain their body in all ages, you must have to drink 12-15 glasses of water in a day. It will keep you hydrated and increase the metabolism effectively.

Avoid Carbohydrate

Carbohydrate are the enemy of your smartness, if you want to keep yourself smart and non blotting person then you must need to avoid carbs from your diet especially at night. You may have it in morning breakfast to energize yourself.

Check GI ( GLycemic index) food

Mostly recommended to check GI of your food consumption as it will give you more fuller effect if you feel low in your energy level during diet. In this regard, you need to avoid food that has high GI at night. Like; banana and related food items.

Walk regularly for 45 mins

If you are on high diet schedule then do it for an hour or just 20 to 45 mins. It will make you activate, increase your calorie burning process and relief the stress levels.

Eat in Portions

If you opt an habit to eat in portion then it must be good to deliver nice message to your digestive system. In this way, you food will be digest instantly and your stomach job will be activate.

Don't go for Commercially available Diet products

Mostly people wants to eat a tablet or some other ways which can reduce your weight in 10 days or in month. Don't go for it. It will make you unhealthy and if you able to do it then you must look old and un-energetic. So avoid it..

Follow the healthy ways of weight loss rather to follow any product

On average you need to reduce 01-03 pounds in months. If you want to go for quick reduction then it will not healthy for your younger look.

Have Green Tea as much as possible

Green Tea is good for your healthy look and immediate weight loss. Various Green tea flavors available in market. You can have it but prior to use check out level of caffeine. If it contain high caffeine content the take it 2 times in a day or try to take the one which contains lower caffeine and add it in your diet 3 to 4 times in a day. Green Tea is anti aging so it will keep you wrinkle-less and smart throughout.

If you follow the above routine and become habitual for it then you will be able to reduce your weight through out your life. I think the above methods and ways are not following the strict schedule. It just a way to follow healthy life... Opt it in your life and enjoy with smartness!!!

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Best Cooking Hints and Tips

Best cooking hints and tips are the foremost requirements to manage your kitchen with perfection. Various cooking tips, you have been followed via your Mom or other family members. Today, i am interested to share my personal experiences of managing kitchen that is also my best practice and which i intended to convey to my dear readers.

1. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking. 
2. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky. 
3. If you are making gravy and accidentally burn it, just pour it into a clean pan and continue cooking it. Add sugar or milk to adjust the taste. The sugar will cancel out the burned taste. 
4. When cooking any kind of strawberry dessert, add a splash of aged Balsamic vinegar to the recipe to enhance the flavor of the strawberries.
5. To hull strawberries, use a sturdy plastic straw. Push it up through the bottom of the strawberry and through the top. It does a great job quickly and neatly. The berries look excellent if you want to leave them whole.
6. For a different flavor and less fat, use chicken stock instead of butter or milk when whipping up mashed potatoes.
7. Create your own colored sugar by placing granulated sugar in a plastic bag. Add a few drops of your favorite food coloring and shake to blend. Pour out into a plate and let dry, then use.
8. Try using raw spaghetti instead of toothpicks when securing stuffed chicken breasts and meats. It works great and it's edible. 
9. Ground spices really should be replaced every 6 months or so! Unless you know you will use them up fairly quickly, buy a bottle in partnership with a friend and split the contents. You'll each benefit from fresh spices.
10. Instead of the water your recipe calls for, try juices, bullion, or water you've cooked vegetables in. Instead of milk, try buttermilk, yogurt or sour cream. It can add a whole new flavor and improve nutrition.
11. When browning ground meat, brown several pounds and drain. Divide evenly in freezer containers and freeze. Unthaw in microwave for quick fixing next time.
12. Marshmallows won't dry out when frozen.
13. Fresh eggs shells are rough and chalky; old eggs are smooth and shiny.
14. Add a little lemon and lime to tuna to add zest and flavor to tuna sandwiches. Use cucumbers soaked in vinegar and pepper in sandwich instead of tomatoes. Use mustard instead of mayo to cut the fat and add a tang.
15. Steak Sauce With A Kick: Deglaze your frying pan (after searing your New York steaks) with brandy. Add two tablespoons of butter, a little white wine and a splash of Grand Marnier. Serve over steaks - you'll never use steak sauce again.
16. When baking and you need to "cut in" the butter, an easy way is to keep the sticks of butter in the freezer. When needed, use a cheese grater to grate the butter into fine pieces.
17. To get snowy white potatoes, add a teaspoon of vinegar or fresh lemon juice to the boiling water.
18. When making potato salad, add the dressing to warm potatoes for the best flavor. Once cooled, the potatoes will not absorb the dressing as well.
19. Slide a strand of unwaxed dental floss--one end wrapped around the forefingers of each hand--under fresh cookies to unstick them from a cookie sheet. Floss also makes a clean cut through a cake for layering. 
20. When mincing garlic, sprinkle on a little salt so the pieces won't stick to your knife or cutting board. 
21. If your cake recipe calls for nuts, heat them first in the oven, then dust with flour before adding to the batter to keep them from settling to the bottom of the pan.
22. Noodles, spaghetti and other starches won't boil over if you rub the inside of the pot with vegetable oil.
23. For extra smooth, well-mixed oil and vinegar salad dressing: Combine all ingredients in a screw top jar, add an ice cube and shake then discard what's left of the ice cube.
24. If you put onions in the freezer 15 minutes before you chop them, you'll reduce the spray of vaporized onion oils - which means your eyes won't tear when you cut the onions.
25. To prevent cream whipped ahead of time from separating, add one quarter teaspoon of gelatin to each cup of cream during whipping.
26. Brown gravy in a hurry with a bit of instant coffee straight from the jar... no bitter taste, either.
27. For a juicer hamburger add cold water to the beef before grilling (1/2 cup to 1 pound of meat).
28. To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.
29. Don't throw out all that leftover wine: Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.
30. Before making popcorn on the stove or in an air popper, soak the kernels in water for 10 minutes. Drain the water, then pop as normal. The additional moisture helps the popcorn pop up quicker and fluffier with fewer “old maids.”

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Secret to Apply Make up

We all want to apply make up in a way to look gorgeous and eye catching. Secret to apply make up resides in your aesthetic sense and confidence to wear make up. I am pretty much sure that just a few minutes in front of the mirror can make a vast difference in your look. Little expertise in make can groom you from normal to stunning.

How it will be done? Let's have a look...

A Natural Base
Concealer and Foundation can help to cover up a myriad of imperfections, from dark circles to blemishes. For a natural look, avoid applying heavy cover as this makes your skin look dull and lifeless. Sheer cover can be applied with a dab of foundation on a damp sponge. Concealer can be employed for areas that demand better coverage and is best dabbed on lightly with the fingertips. Take care to blend your foundation well at the jaw to avoid tell tale lines.

Concentrate on Foundation tone
Choose suitable foundation that less or more matches your skin tone. Apply it at the central part of your face, then smoothly blend it out with a makeup sponge or your fingertips until it covers your entire face. (Fingertips are more recommended)

Application of Loose Powder for Blending
Use a loose or pressed powder to keep foundation and concealer on longer. Apply it and blend it accordingly.

Shape your Eyebrows 
Eyebrows are the main part don't make it secondary preference. Little application and concentration on eyebrows can make you hot and dynamic. Basically eyebrows frame your eyes and enhance your appearance. I recommend to use an eyebrow pencil of a shade slightly lighter than your hair color. 

Applications of Eye Shades

Choose three colors of eye shadow: light, medium and dark. Use the dark only to line your upper eyelid, in a fairly thin line along the upper lashes. Use the medium shade for the crease and the lightest shade for the area under the eyebrow. There are many variations on eye shadow application techniques.

Apply eyeliner to Highlight your Eyes
Apply eyeliner. Use a cake eyeliner with a damp, thin liner brush, or an eyeliner pencil, and line the lower lid below the lashes. Line only the outer two-thirds of the lower lid, or all the way across if you're trying to achieve a darker look. Line all the way across the upper lid (just above the lash line and as close to the lashes as possible), or start the line where your lashes begin.

Apply Mascara to add Value to your Eyes
Apply mascara to upper and lower lashes, in two thin coats to avoid clumpiness. Choose brown mascara if your coloring is fair; black or brown-black works well for darker coloring.

Apply Blush on
Blush on adds value to your smile and improves your face innocence i believe. Smile to find the apples of your cheeks, and apply blush to the apples or below, whichever you prefer.

Apply Lipstick

Choose a lipstick color that's suited to your skin tone. Light colors are recommended to day time and little dark at night. In summers use matte and in winter apply glittering or little shiny. You can mix colors and textures to suit your moods and your outfits. To enhance lips, lines are very important. Make a highlight line using matched lip pencil.

Be remember, proper lip line eliminate softness, so if you are student or early aged girl then avoid pencil line.

These are the little technique and ways to add value to your look. Mastery and skills are more recommended to apply make up. Do it yourself again and again then you will be able to get experience and gradually will improve your own aesthetics looks.. Best of luck, ladies!!!

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Improve Productivity with Effective Time Management

It's very important to improve your productivity with effective time management techniques. Basically, we all effort to do things but we need to maintain a check on how we are investing in our time. Is it quality based or just a quantity based endeavor. Time is the good resource,  if you utilize it properly, it delivers your required target otherwise it will use you without any effective delivery. So concentrate to improve your productivity and effort by using quality time. 

Here are some suggestion that you easily incorporate in your life to increase your level of productivity with effective time management.

Make a day priority list on the basis of precedence

All days are not same, some gives you reward and some goes without revealing any new thing. We have to be able to easily adjust while not falling behind. The time schedule plays a big role here as we know how much time we need to account for to complete each task. I suggest to make a priority list on the basis of precedence to maintain your work in properly.

Maintain Activity Time Log. 

Write down each task/activity you perform and how much time you spend time to finish your task. At the end of your work day, calculate how much time you spent on each task collectively.

Manage Time Schedule

The activity log will give you the time spent so that you can create a time schedule. This is extremely important so that you can see how much time you are spending on email, twitter, LinkedIn, phone calls, etc and allot that time each day.

Determine Time and Money Ratio

Have you ever estimated, how much money do you make per minute? Take average of overall money on the basis of month or week and then convert in minutes. In this way, you will know how much you are loosing by killing your time in unproductive ways. 

Explore the time you spent to waste time

The activity log will provide show where you are wasting time. Make the most of your time by focusing your efforts on tasks that make sense and further your business goals.

Avoid diverse Multi Tasking

We love to think that we are the best multi-taskers but we know really that we are not focusing on any of the tasks we are performing at the same time. Best bet, finish one so that you can give each your undivided attention to complete and move on to the next one.

Outsource your support

This is hard sometimes but when we invest in our own time, it is beneficial. Training a staff member or sending the task out to someone who can complete it quickly only increases the time in your day.

Adopt Tools and Techniques to save time

Is the software and/or tools that you are using the most productive for your business? Time matters as well as productivity. Are you keeping up with technology to ensure that you are the most productive?

Best use of Time

Explore what time of the day is best for you to perform certain tasks? Look at that and schedule tasks in the time that is most comfortable and efficient for you.

Make Use of Dead Time/Killing time

Dead time is the time we spend waiting. This is not to be ignored and treated as wasted time. Dead time is valuable time and we can get a lot done in just a few minutes … your activity log will show you that.

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Best Ways to Control Anger

According to me, Anger is a disease that make you crazy and nonsense. Here, i am discussing the best ways to control anger. So if you are extra emotional and short tempered then you can follow the guidelines to reduce your level of anger effectively. Anger is basically comes from inside so it will practice session for you if you want to get of it, don't consider that it will diminish in a single day. You need to be patient and determined to follow the rules to decrease your anger level.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – Buddha 

Anger is a strong indignation feeling of our emotional sphere that is attended by self-control losing. Anger is a signal of our state. Glands produce an array of hormones that have a great and deep effect on all our body. The main participants of this process are adrenaline and cortisol. They activate cardiovascular system and consequently all organs. Adrenalin causes fast heart beating, rising blood pressure. These rich oxygenated blood streams to the places are responsible for reaction. Thus some extra energy is released.

Anger has been classified in two ways:

1. Constructive anger (positive and normal)
2. Destructive anger (Abnormal activity, need treatment to lead happy life)

Effective ways to control Anger:

These below describe ways basically formulate a vision of anger management that can lead you to manager your life effectively, successfully and happy. There are various ways and events in our life can lead us toward anger. To control anger is not only commitment to your self but also to your loved ones. 

• Be remember, anger directly links with emotional intelligence. If a person is emotionally weak or uncomfortable with the situation so the anger can comes out. 
• Make a practice to keep quite and say nothing during anger phase.
• Take a glass of water - it will make you cool
• Divert your attention
• Analyse the root cause of your anger and devise an strategy plan according to it.
• Take a deep and continuous breath. Count up to 50 or imagine your aggressor just naked, only in socks. This will help you to calm and smile.
• Go for walk - it will release your stress and make you fresh and comfortable
• Don't make decision during anger.
• Change your locations/place
• Write down that you are mad and why. Avoid being rational, logical or laconic. Write on paper all you are feeling this moment. Try to write all in details. The function of this technique is to shift all your anger out of your head on paper.
• Be spiritual.
• Meditate to feel relax

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Anger at circumstance can be difficult to solve since it is often difficult to change, like children who don't like their family for instance. Learn to accept reality as it naturally is. Avoid circumstance that causes anger whenever possible, like avoiding certain people, situations and relationships. Learn one's own capacities and do not get angry at one's inability to live up to things that are not realistic for one's own abilities. Many times these things may become possible as one gets older, or they may simply be impossible. Personally not planning on ever becoming a millionaire. Not fair is it? It may help to accept the world the way one finds it and not create anger by having unrealistic expectations. Be remember, Anger is one letter short of danger, it kills you and your surrounding people belonging of personal and professional level so little practice will make you more controlled person.

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Web based Health calculator

Are you looking for web based Health calculator? now your search is over as i am giving you a top list of health calculator that i took from nursing school. Let's check it out and take benefit to know about your health. By using this list you will be able to find tools for appropriate body size, weight, diet, calorie, food count, diet plan etc.

Health Calculator to make your life Happy and Easier
Calories Burned Calculator: Here you can calculate the number of calories burned during exercises like walking, running and biking. You’ll also find out your BMR and BMI.
Weight Loss Calculator: Learn about calorie intake and calorie burn with this tool, which also helps you set up weight loss goals.
Diet: Use this tool to calculate BMI, your healthy weight, daily caloric requirement, daily protein, carbohydrate, fat and iron requirements, target heart rate and more.
UMMS Health Calculators: The University of Maryland Medical Center’s calculators measure waist-hip ratio, calories burned, diabetes, BMI, fat intake, fiber and more.
Calorie Calculator: Figure out how many calories you burn during activities like gardening and raking,
Food Calories and Nutrition Calculator: Select grocery items, ethnic specialties and restaurant items to figure out your calorie intake.
MetaboCalc v1.0: Figure out how many calories you burn each day using this calculator.
Calorie Calculator: This calculator shows you how many calories you burn during daily activities and during workouts.
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Quiz: Are You Getting Enough Protein?: Let this quiz help you determine whether or not you need to add more protein to your diet.
Calorie Needs: Quickly calculate how many calories your body needs on a daily basis.

Fiber Chart: Here you’ll figure out what kinds of foods–and how much–equals the right kind of fiber.
The Food Pyramid: Refresh your understanding of the food pyramid and how many servings of each food group you need.
Low Carb Diet Tools: Discover how many carbs are in dairy products, vegetables, beef and more.
Exploring the USDA Food Pyramid: This intensive look at the food pyramid will help you understand your own nutritional goals better.
Fast Food Explorer: Find out just how many calories and fat are in popular meals at KFC, Dairy Queen, Taco Bell, Wendy’s and other fast food spots.
Calcium Assessment: Learn how much calcium you need in this quiz, which evaluates your intake and knowledge about calcium.
Online Science Degrees Blog: Understand the science behind what you eat with this interesting blog.
Calorie King: Find out the calorie count in foods at restaurants like Chili’s and at retailers like Costco. You can also get healthy recipes and read articles about better eating.
Nutri-Facts.com: Instantly get nutrition information for nearly 6,000 different foods, including sausage, baby food items and even different cooking spices.
Antioxidants food chart: This chart shows you which foods are richest in antioxidants, which are important for healthy living, good skin, fighting cancer and more.

Look at Three Hundred Calories: Understand portion size better when you can visualize what 300 calories is.
Portion Control: Here you’ll find tips for measuring out portions, as well as figuring out drink serving sizes and snacks.
Meals Matter: This fantastic tool helps you plan out meals for every day of the week, and you can also read nutrition articles, take quizzes and find yummy recipes.
Food Portion Sizes: This illustrated guide can help you determine the real portion sizes for meat, apples, ice cream and more.
Quick Guide to Food Portions: Here’s another guide that will help you better understand what food portions really mean.
French lessons: Eat petite, be petite: MSNBC’s article explores how simply downsizing at the dinner table can help you lose weight.
Understanding Portion Control: This guide explores the trouble Americans have with portion control and offers tips for eating light, even in restaurants.
How to Avoid Portion Size Pitfalls to Help Manage Your Weight: Here you’ll get advice for managing serving sizes when you eat at home, when you eat in front of the TV, and when you eat out of the package.
Portion Distortion: 5 Easy Ways to Downsize Your Servings: Tips here include trimming your trigger foods and to "create your own after-meal ritual."
Nutri Diet Tracker: This system frees you from the stress and frustration of counting calories by organizing your diet with special cards.

Food Count: Members in this network have access to 30,000 foods and nutrition information, diet analysis tools and more.
DietGuild: DietGuild is designed to organize and motivate individuals who want to lose weight and eat more healthy foods. You’ll access nutrition tables, public diaries, and resources like the food pyramid and an articles database.
The Daily Plate: Those who want to be super organized about their eating habits can turn to this site, which features a forum, groups, personal profile and more.
NutriCoach: Create your own personal page on this site, connect with other users, watch videos and access great diet tools and nutrition information.
Peer Trainer: Join this network to find buddies who will hold you accountable and keep you on track with your fitness and eating plan.
SparkPeople: Here you can take advantage of community features, motivation tools and health tips. You can even join and create SparkTeams to stay on track.
My Fitness Pal: Get tips from other community members, read articles and learn about healthy foods and snacks on this network.
Gyminee: Gyminee is a workout and food tracker that’s also a social media network.
fitsugar: Part of the popular "sugar" network, fitsugar is a network that features a blog with celebrity diet news, a celebrity fitness corner, community for sharing tips and food information, and more.
3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community: Visit these forums to learn about goal setting, diet plans and more.

Ideal Body Weight: If your new diet is supposed to get you down to a certain weight, first figure out what your ideal weight is by using this tool.

Free Diet and Weight Loss Journal: This free food and fitness tracker can help you organize your healthy eating goals.
Online Diet and Exercise Journal: This website features community forums and free space for you to record your diet goals.
The Fat Test: This quiz will help you learn more about good fats vs. bad fats, which foods to cut out of your diet and which to introduce, and be more proactive about goal setting.
Standard Weight Charts: Understand your frame size, muscle weight and healthy weight here.
National Body Challenge: Discovery Health’s National Body Challenge encourages individuals to exercise and start eating more healthy foods. Register to access menu planners and other resources.
Diet Tools: This collection of tools can help you stay on track until you meet your goals.
iFitOne: This software program " helps make tracking your diet, fitness and weight loss simple and fun."
TeenBodyBuilding: While this program is marketed towards body builders, it offers great goal-tracking tools, workout tips and more.
Joe’s Goals: This easy-to-use goal tracker helps you organize work outs, home prepared meals and restaurant trips.

Ideal Body Weight: If your new diet is supposed to get you down to a certain weight, first figure out what your ideal weight is by using this tool.
Free Diet and Weight Loss Journal: This free food and fitness tracker can help you organize your healthy eating goals.
Online Diet and Exercise Journal: This website features community forums and free space for you to record your diet goals.
The Fat Test: This quiz will help you learn more about good fats vs. bad fats, which foods to cut out of your diet and which to introduce, and be more proactive about goal setting.
Standard Weight Charts: Understand your frame size, muscle weight and healthy weight here.
National Body Challenge: Discovery Health’s National Body Challenge encourages individuals to exercise and start eating more healthy foods. Register to access menu planners and other resources.
Diet Tools: This collection of tools can help you stay on track until you meet your goals.
iFitOne: This software program " helps make tracking your diet, fitness and weight loss simple and fun."
TeenBodyBuilding: While this program is marketed towards body builders, it offers great goal-tracking tools, workout tips and more.
Joe’s Goals: This easy-to-use goal tracker helps you organize work outs, home prepared meals and restaurant trips.

Diet Planning: Access a diet diary and other helpful planners here.
StartYourDiet.com: Register to access weight tracking tools, a meal planning tool, diet diary and more.
Menu Planner: Organize your daily meals by calories, food items, portion, and total fat and carbohydrates.
Daily Food and Activity Diary: Stay organized with this tool, which helps you record your hunger levels, motivation, serving sizes and more.
NutritionData: "Know what you eat" by researching food and nutrition data on this site, which also lets you analyze recipes and calculate your BMI.
NutriDiary: Organize your foods, meals and more on this site.
My Food Diary: Access an exercise log, food and ingredient tracker and more.
My Net Diary: This attractive, streamlined food log helps you achieve "safe, steady, long-term weight loss."
Weight by Date: This tool can help Windows users track weight loss, keep a food journal and more.
My Pyramid Tracker: Evaluate your food intake and exercise with this tool.

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Health benefits of Green Tea

Health benefits of Green Tea will make you amazed that how this green tea component can deliver power house of antioxidant. the most well known is green tea's benefit for weight loss. It helps speed up the metabolism, and reduces appetite, both of which are deeply appreciated by dieters everywhere. Green tea also helps regulate insulin levels, which mean less cravings when you're on a diet (or even when you're not!).

Green tea is particularly rich in health-promoting flavonoids (which account for 30% of the dry weight of a leaf), including catechins and their derivatives. The most abundant catechin in green tea is epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which is thought to play a pivotal role in the green tea's anticancer and antioxidant effects. Catechins should be considered right alongside of the better-known antioxidants like vitamins E and C as potent free radical scavengers and health-supportive for this reason.

There are several benefits that green tea offer. I am listing few to make you younger, dynamic and glowing.

It improves Cardio health

Green tea mainly promotes heart health via its benefits for cholesterol. Green tea reduces overall cholesterol, and in particular, levels of the 'bad' cholesterol. It blocks the absorption of cholesterol in the intestines, by up to 89%. And it increases the elimination of cholesterol in the feces; protects the liver from the effects of high cholesterol; and reduces the conversion of low-density lipoproteins (LDL - building block for the 'bad' cholesterol) into sticky, artery-clogging plaque.

The heart health benefits of green tea may be lost somewhat in all the talk about how green tea helps with weight loss, but they are significant.

Green Tea fights against Cancer

Green tea extract is rich in antioxidants, such as ECGC, that kill cancer cells and prevent their growth without harming healthy tissue. Consumption of this extract is especially beneficial to patients suffering from breast, lung, skin, liver, bladder, pancreatic, stomach or prostate cancer.

Antioxidant Slows down the Aging Process

The antioxidants present in green tea extract are responsible for slowing down the aging process of the body. This helps you look younger.

Improves your Immune System
Green tea has shown promise in treating anogenital warts, inhibiting the replication of the adenovirus and the influenza virus (both cold and flu viruses), as well as increasing the effectiveness of antibiotics up to three times, without producing any side effects. The studies on the cold and flu viruses were done in a lab, and not on people, and as such are considered preliminary studies.

However the other studies were done on people. It is believed the theanine in tea boosts the immune system, though there are also other constituents of green tea that benefit the immune system. It was the catechins in green tea (in particular one called sinecatechin) that were tested in the study on warts, and other studies have shown that another catechin, EGCG, works in the same way that some antibiotics do in regard to bacteria.

One cup of green tea contains about 200 mg of catechins. And it should be steeped in hot water for at least 5 minutes, preferably 15 minutes for those wishing to use green tea medicinally.

Lowers Cholesterol and Blood Pressure
Green tea extract helps to lower the LDL (bad) cholesterol that’s responsible for clotting of blood. The extract helps prevent strokes and heart attacks. It promotes the production of HDL (good) cholesterol that removes the plaque in the arteries and keeps them elastic. This lowers your risks of suffering from heart disease. Persons suffering from hypertension also benefit by consuming green tea extract, because it lowers blood pressure.

Green Tea Prevents Tooth Decay
Some studies also showed that green tea’s ability to destroy bacteria can also actually put a stop to dental plaque. Good oral health is very important to a person’s overall well-being and health, after all.

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How to Detox your Body?

How to Detox your body require little understand about Detoxification and detox method that you can apply on daily basis to keep your life filter on to keep away impurities and other grim that can make you slow, non healthy and non active in personal life.

What is Detox?

Many of us have heard the word detox, or detoxification, being mentioned in conversations. Detoxification is the process of removing toxic substances from a person’s body. In the earlier years, detox was mostly known as a treatment for people suffering from drug or alcohol dependence. Today, however, it is also known as a safe and effective means of removing dietary toxins from the body. In cases where detox is used for alcohol rehabilitation, it is considered the initial step in the recovery process.

Detoxifying diets can help a person stay away from illnesses brought about by too much toxins in the body. People who go on a detox diet become more energized, get clearer and healthier skin, improve his/her concentration and bowel movements, and help achieve better digestion. Once a person experiences fatigue, muscle pains, sleeping problems and cough among others, he/she is advised to seek medical help so he/she can then begin his/her diet detox process.

How can I Detox at Home?

Various home based techniques and best practices that you can follow anywhere anytime, only need commitment and to understand the value of detox. 

Various aspects of detox are directly connected to your life workflows. Let's check it, how is it connected and how can we tuned it to make our life healthy physically and mentally.

Ways of Mental Detox

Mental detox improves your spirituality and emotional intelligence. It gives you fresh impulses to think beyond limits. It improves your mind power with perfection. What require to do this?

• Believe on Allah/God 
• Keep hydrate yourself
• Apply meditation session in your life
• Learn Reiki to get steady-ness in your thought process
• Be patient and calm
• Take breathing sessions
• Avoid Stress/depression
• Avoid anexity
• Be polite and down to earth

Ways of Physical Detox

• Take high doze of Fiber. It cleanses your body and your digestive tract, so opt foods like whole wheat bread, brown rice, broccoli, bran cereal, corn and other raw vegetables and fruits.
• Plenty of Vitamin C. It's a great detox agent for cleansing the liver, as it produces glutathione.
• Keep hydrated yourself.
• Avoid soda, caffeine, alcohol, plenty of black coffee(it dries out mental nerves) and confectionery items.
• Get herbal in terms of diet
• Always incorporate organic food in your life like; vegetables, fruits, natural shakes and beverages.
• Don't go for branded, packed, cooked and fridge food.
• Ispaghool husk is good to take extra fiber. It reduces weight also
• Raw food: Whether you live a completely raw food and product lifestyle, or you’d like to try a raw food detox diet, raw food can be an effective way to cleanse your body of animal products and processed ingredients.
• Don't be constipated
• Make routine of exercise like Cardio, Yoga, Aerobics, Swimming 
• Adjust your body clock
• Adjust your sleep
• Exfoliate your body
• Quit smoking

Ways of Social Detox

• Don't sit idle
• Don't watch TV continuously
• Get social physically
• Get green by following green environment policy
• Become multi task person to avoid monotonicity
• Change your environment that you want
• Be friendly
• Avoid problems
• Don't think about others only focus on yourself
• Be positive
• Go at green gardens to relax your mind

These little applications can bring relaxation in your life. It will give you opportunity to grow your mental fitness with positivity, improve your health and deliver your childish glow and ways to manage your life effectively. If you are able to do that, it will be great success for you!!!

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Time Management Techniques

"Time management Techniques" improve your efficiency of effective working and gives you moment to do that you prioritise to give specific direction to your life. Everybody need Time management sessions weather you are working as house wife, employee, student or whatever capacity you are working. If you understand the way to manage your time successfully then success will come to you automatically.

Effective time management require skills and offer tremendous benefits. Organization, Discipline and Self belief is the energizer if you want to keep your thing aligned with respect to time. We have all heard this, time never come back. It's a fact!!! Time and age never turns but if you utilize your time with focus then it gives you reward as it moves ahead.

What is Time Management?

Time management is the process of applying certain skills and methods in order to accomplish tasks, goals and projects, such as setting aims, allocating, analyzing and organizing. A person that knows how to manage time effectively speeds up new advances and is enabled to spend more time with leisure activities. These abilities are also associated with time management skills. Time management skills refer furthermore to the ability of a person to solve time management issues and recognize problems that have wasted time.

  “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Altshuler

How to Manage Time?

Here, i am listing out top bullet points of time management techniques. Indeed, it's a best practice that i earned during my professional and personal life experience.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” ~ Charles Darwin

Let's delve into it:

• First, get focus in your thoughts, goals and things that you want to do.
• Make a time table of short time and long time goals and priorities
• Create a list of things on the basis of precedence that you want to do in a day (short time) , month (short time), year (long time)
• Be disciplined to make your things - It's a big blunder that normally people do when they compile their list of priority.
• Break down your task with clarity of goals
• If you are technology freak then invest in Time management tools to keep things in order
• Analyse your time on the basis of quality
• Avoid quantity based time table as it will make you tired without result
• Keep track of dates to done
• Follow your task to accomplish.
• Set reminder to follow task
• Avoid procrastination
• Leverage your time
• Monitor your task
• Keep your system up to date
• Archive all completed task. it will safe your time of monitoring and review
• Take back up of your Archived and filed task accordingly.
• Always focus to cultivate your time with productivity

I believe, if you are able to manage your time according to schedule then you must be the most satisfied person in this world. I hope, the above time management techniques can help you to develop your time management skills and will enable you to spend a lot of time with hobbies and your family since you have gained the knowledge on how to manage time effectively.

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How to get Motivated?

Motivation is all about energizing yourself to do something. How to get motivated? and how to motivate others? is the most demanding question that normally people ask. I love to write about motivation as it gives me energy to do what i wanted to do. You can arouse motivation inside you by keeping the order of following things in your life:

Get Inspire - Get Motivated
One of the strongest motives to motivate yourself is that you have a reason. This reason will inspire you and make you do whatever it takes to challenge all of the obstacles, so you can achieve your goals. If your desire and reasons are normal, then you might get motivated temporarily. The strong desires that make you think and dwell on your goals are the strong motives that will keep you moving forward.

Make Strategy to Plan and make Goals
If you fail to plan, others will plan for you. Make a plan to achieve your goals. Be flexible, so you can change the plan if you need to if you encounter an obstacle.  Have a goal that you want to achieve. Having a great goal is crucial because it is very difficult to motivate yourself if you don’t have a specific goal that you want to accomplish.

Failure drives Opportunity - Learn from it
When you keep focusing on your previous mistakes, you are killing your motivation. Learning from your mistakes can help motivate you since you know what to avoid. Today is a new day. Motivate yourself, so you can achieve what you want and deserve.

Believe in You

Comparing yourself with others is an effective way if you want to become frustrated. It will kill your motivation. Even if you began with enthusiasm, you will lose energy quickly if you start to only focus on what others accomplished.

Make Action to Get Start
To get to where you want to be requires serious effort. You need to start taking small steps, so you can get to where you want to be. Once started, it will become easy for you to continue moving forward.

Few Quotes to Get Motivated

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. – Terri Guillemets

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. – Victor Hugo

You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoidcriticism is to do nothing. – Steve Ross

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. – Tom Brokaw

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How to Live Happy?

How to live Happy? is the art of living sort of question that everybody want to ask to get proper answer. You have the tools that you can use to live happy by yourself and to keep happy people around you. Life is the greatest gift of God that lead to be happy. To get happiness, the best formula is to ignite the power inside you that keep you happy. Normally people consider the happy people are those who are successful in their lives. I believe, it's true and you can be, if you aligned your power of thinking, effort and resources in right direction.

Happy Living Story

One of my friend Christie was living unhappy life as she has surround herself in a closed boundary which restricted her to fly across boundaries. She knew that nobody there to stop her that she wanted to do. After getting monotonous with this situation she became patient of  Depression which was the dark event of her life. I am not going into the details but only want to share lesson story that she consulted near by psychologist  and after few sessions, improvement came in. Once i asked her, what your doctor says to you. She said they given me some mind power exercise like Reiki which transform me to think positive and given me strength to think other than that i normally think. It was the great practice that learned from her. Now she is living happy married life with two kids in California.

Actually we don't realize during thinking, what good for us and what not. what taking us in right direction and what's not. If we understand this concept or overcome the power of thinking then we can create big difference in our life.

Be active in Thought process and in Life 
Activity in life and thoughts is quite necessary. What you think, you become is the most darling quote that everybody understand. Be careful in your thought process. Filter your thought with positivity. I believe activity is as important as having healthy eating habits, but it’s not the sort of intense gym activity we’re accustomed to these days. Find something you enjoy; whether it’s taking your dog on long walks in the park or tending to your vegetable garden, these types of low intensity physical activities are actually more beneficial in the long run.

Explore Purpose of Living

Have you ever thought about purpose of living. Mostly people says, we don't have any purpose, might be they say after confronting with bad situation or failures. I focus to find purpose of living. If you are not living for yourself then think to live for others. It will give great strength. To find a specific purpose of living you can make a check list to explore what you have to do, what you want to do and when to do. Make this list on the basis of priority as it will ease your work to understand your goal and objective.

Art of Living - Make Goals and Objective

The absence of goals in our lives, or more specifically avoiding to pursue our goals, makes us feel like we are stuck and ineffective. The pursuit of goals in our personal lives, in our relationships, or with our careers, is the difference between having a mediocre life or a life full of passion and enthusiasm. pursue your goals and watch your happiness soar.

Bring Role model in Life 

If you like somebody or you wanted to be the person like that is not the bad way of thinking. Infact it gives you strength to do things that the person has done. I am not talking about imitating somebody skills or life but you can get inspiration to become successful like that person. 

Change your Attitude 

A little change in attitude can make big changes in your life. Take your self test and analyse, how to your react in particular situation. if you think your result is according to positivity then don't change but if you realise this should change then make a behavioural strategy to shift things. Like, if you think you think too much about a situation and then react with arrogance then do change as it will keep your loved one's away from you and could be a great loss for you in life so be attentive in making decisions about life matters by following your sentiments.

There is no question that by merely watching acts of kindness creates a significant elevation in our moods and increases the desire for us to perform good deeds as well. Kindness is indeed contagious and when we make a commitment to be kind to ourselves and to others we can experience new heights of joy, happiness and enthusiasm for our lives.

Get Rest to become Calm and Steady

There are times when we need the time to unwind, decompress, or to put it simply, just “to chill.” Life comes at all of us hard and fast. Time, as do the days on the calendar, keeps going forward at its own natural pace, which is not always the pace we would choose. Fatigue, stress and exhaustion may begin to settle in on us faster than we may think, or notice. The best remedy for this is indeed rest.

Don't be Overload

Know when to say when. What gives you joy and happiness the first time may not work the second time. Too much of a good thing may begin not to feel as good if the “thing” becomes more of a routine, or an expectation. Set healthy and reasonable boundaries for yourself and don’t overdo it.

More, you can do to make your life easier, happier and success full by keeping yourself stress free, calm and   steady that nobody can do except you. To bring more power in your life, i recommend to go for meditation, Reiki and power boosting sessions. Your spirituality and personal faith are secret elixirs in your life. Faith allows us to find inner peace, accept life as it is and come to terms with the disparity between expectation and reality.

Reduce caffeine, alcohol and other related items in your life. Smoking is a surefire step to the morgue. If you do it then try to relinquish this habbit on urgent basis as it's not demoralising your life but also those who live around you.

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How to beat Depression?

How to beat depression? is the most searched statement or phrase. To do this, you need to understand Depression, what is it and how can we fight effectively with depression. Basically, depression is a condition of mental disturbance, typically with lack of energy and difficulty in maintaining concentration or interest in life.

If you feel yourself depressed or unhappy, the best recommended things that you can do by yourself without consulting with doctor. I hope as you will apply in your life it will give you inner satisfaction and relax your mind and give you energy to thing positive

Make a break down list of your problems
You can make a break down list of your problems just to identify any situations that contributed to your depression. As i believe depression is contagious, it can occur due to any reason. When you know what's implicate you to feel bad and why, talk about it with a caring friends or loved ones. Talking is the best  way to release the feelings and to receive some understanding. If there's no one to tell, pouring your heart out to a journal works just as well.

Diary writing is the best technique to bring out that you have folded in your heart. Once you put down all your issues and problems then a solution guideline to solve those problems. Ask for help if you need it. Feeling connected to friends and family can help relieve depression.

Turn your face from Negative to Positive

I recommend to make a habit to look at bright side. Depression feeling makes a person's thoughts negative, making everything seem dismal, and hopeless. World is full of good scenes, try to divert your thinking and face from bad to good. Initially it will be difficult but in end you will do it easily to guide your life in a right direction. Consider your strengths, gifts, or blessings. Most of all, don't forget to be patient with yourself. Depression takes time to heal.

Eat Healthy - Live Healthy

Nurture your soul and body with good nutrition. Depression can affect appetite dangerously. But it vary from person to person like; one person might not feel like eating but another could overeat. If depression has affected on your eating, you'll need to be extra mindful of getting the right nourishment. Proper and balanced nutrition can influence a person's mood and energy. So eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and get regular meals. Keep your stomach busy to eat healthy it will help you to think healthy.

Explore Yourself 

Explore yourself or a reason with vision, Express yourself to define your instincts. If you are dealing with depression, your creativity and sense of fun may seem blocked so explore yourself to examine your inputs. Exercise your imagination (painting, drawing, doodling, sewing, writing, dancing, composing music, etc.) and you not only get those creative juices flowing, you also loosen up some positive emotions. Take time to play with a friend or a pet, or do something fun for yourself. Find something to laugh about — a funny movie, perhaps. Laughter helps lighten your mood in more rapid way. It's a best healer for depression. 

Make routine of Exercise Daily
Make a daily routine of exercise, it will keep you healthy and strong. Take a 15- to 30-minute brisk walk every day or dance, jog, or bike if you prefer. People who are depressed might not feel much like being active. But make yourself do it anyway (ask a friend to exercise with you if you need to be motivated). Once you get in the exercise habit, it won't take long to notice a difference in your mood.

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Stress management: How to manage Stress?

Stress management techniques learns you how to manage stress and how to deal with stress. If you understand the ways then you can easily recognize the nature of stress and ways to deal with it. What you need to do if you are practicing stress and it's consequences. First of all understand the root cause, then find stress releasing technique associated with cause and lead a happy living life.

What is Stress?
Stress is a term used to describe the body and mind‟s reaction to everyday tensions and pressures. Too much stress can increase pain, and can make a person more prone to illnesses, such as heart disease or mental problems.

Stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness.

The events that provoke stress are called stressors, and they cover a whole range of situations — everything from outright physical danger to making a class presentation or taking a semester's worth of your toughest subject.

Causes of Stress
Causes of stress are known as Stressors. Stressors can be physical or emotional:

Day time Stress

• Waiting in lines
• Financial problems
• Uncomfortable temperature
• Heights or Confined Spaces
• Rush-hour traffic
• Noise, crowding, Clutter

On Work Stress

• High responsibility
• Environmental, such as noise, 
• temperature, lighting, isolation, lack of privacy, etc.
• Uncertainty in job duties
• Pressure from boss or co-workers
• Personality clashes
• Promotion of job loss 
• Deadlines
• Playing more than one role at once

Social Stress

• Getting divorced
• Having a child
• Moving to a new house or city
• Relationship problems
• Dealing with rude, aggressive or competitive people
• Getting married
• Death of a loved one

What type of Health issues may arise due to Stress

Stress might effect on your health in various ways. What sort of diseases associated with stress depends upon nature and environment. Below listed is the sign of disease that can cause of stress if you don't treat it effectively. 

Heart attack Hypertension Stroke Cancer Diabetes Depression Obesity Eating disorders Substance abuse Ulcers Irritable bowel syndrome

Memory loss Autoimmune diseases (eg. lupus) Insomnia Thyroid problems Infertility Headaches Insomnia / Anxiety Impotence/ Reduced Drive & Desire Frequent Colds / Flu / Lowered Immune Function Back Pain / Chronic Pain of Any

How to manage Stress

If we think about the causes of stress, the nature of the stress response, and the negative effects of some types of stress, several healthy management strategies become clear. First, exercise. You see, since the stress response prepares us to fight or flee, our bodies are primed for action. Unfortunately, however, we usually handle our stresses while sitting at our desk, standing at the water cooler, or behind the wheel stuck in traffic. Exercise on a regular basis helps to burn off and use up the stress hormones and neurochemicals. Thus, exercise can help avoid the damage to our health that prolonged stress can cause. In fact, studies have found that exercise is a potent anti-depressant, anxiolytic (combats anxiety), and sleeping pill for many people, without taking any pills.

To handle stress we need to know what beats it. Here are the most effective tried and tested strategies:

• Meditation
• Improve sleep routine
• Healthy diet
• Aerobic exercise
• Emotional outlet
• Positive imagery 
• Breathing exercises

Meditation is the best way to release stress 

Elimination or reduction of drug use are the key of the successful stress management. We know that people, when stressed, seek these outlets. But, we also know that many of these substances sensitize (make even more responsive) the stress response. As a result, small problems produce big surges of stress chemicals. What's more, these attempts with drugs and alcohol to mask stress often prevent the person from facing the problem directly. Consequently, they are not able to develop effective ways to cope with or eliminate the stress.

Effective ways to Delete your Stress

Okay, so once you realize you are in stress how do you effectively reduce it without compromising on your productivity. The solution is much simpler that we imagine. These few guidelines will give you direction to deal with your stress effectively:

• Maintain a busy Schedule
• Daily meals in a healthy way
• Exercise daily to keep you toned and refresh
• Make planning of your life positively
• Make “to do” lists- in order of importance
• void unnecessary stress
• Practice more patience, it will grant contentment
• Control your temper and responses on events
• Establish priorities on the basis of precedence
• Walk regularly

Walk is the best stress manager

Share your feelings with loved ones

Other thing that i recommend to discuss your problems to your loved ones. It will give you courage to deal with you stress. Technically, when you share feelings, the burden inside you lightens so try this formula. Be remember, don't disclose your problems and feelings to everyone it will increase your issues and make you more stressed.

Always remember, you are only one who can manage your stress rather your doctor or someone else. Life is the beautiful gift of God, don't take it for granted. Come out from your stress and lead a happy life with success. 

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How to get Success in life?

Get Motivated to Get Success

How to get success in life? What are the ways to get success? How can i achieve it? these are the questions that everybody wants to ask in their life to become successful. Success is all about getting ahead in life by accepting striving challenges. Fighting with failures and get learning to move ahead. Keep trying and becoming positive on getting maturity.

Many people take success for granted. Don't do it, it will ruin your life

Life become great when your career, earnings and relationships move forward with success. If all these stagnate, you become demotivated and fight with failures. We need to remember all successful people gone through tough phases of life to get successful. We need to research their hardship time to get lesson. It's a matter of fact that we always love to see the green side of success which always deliver lavish feeling to visualize success. 

Let's check out some steps to make life perfect and successful:

• Be organized.
• Get disciplined.
• Make goals and objectives.
• Be passionate.
• Dream high then follow your dreams by making effective startegies.
• Be honest.
• Get satisfied whatever you have.
• Be positive.
• Live not to eat, but eat to live.
• Righteousness is the rule of life. Lead a virtuous life. Strictly adhere to Dharma. Human life is not human without virtues. Study the lives of saints and draw inspiration from them.
• Cultivate a melting heart, the giving hand, the kindly speech, the life of service, equal vision, and impartial attitude. Your life will, indeed, be blessed.
• Understand the meaning of life.
• Never give up, always try.
• Never be timid to take decision.
• Always be confident.
• Take initiative.
• Don't think what people will say.
• Don't scared with risks.
• Follow your instincts.
• Love your self and your life.
• Give value to your relations.
• Create harmony in yourself.
• Don't expect a lot from people.
• Eat healthy
• Live a balanced life
• Take challenges
• Get busy.
• Lead a regulated life. Take hold of each day as if it were the last day, and utilize every second in prayer, meditation and service. Let your life become a continuous sacrifice to God.
• Mature your targets.
• Become role models to others.
• Respect your blongings
• Manage your time
• Manage your life for others - it gives you power, self contentment, energy and happiness.

These are the little ways short in word but big in meanings. You can keep this in front of your desktop, diary, wall or any other  thing to keep in touch. Last but not the least you are the one who is able to manage your life successfully. So believe on your sentiments and work harder to get success and become motivated to get success at all cost. Best of luck!!! and have a nice lovely day ahead!!!

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How to remove chewing gum?

How to remove chewing gum is the most asking question in household matters. Most the houses with children. Sometimes they unconditionally eat it and then get worried about happening inside ;-). Often it stick to clothes. Let's have a look on some methods by doing that you can avoid the chewing gum mishaps. 

• If you have eaten the chewing gum and had it to your stomach then just eat 2 bananas to remain safe from cluttering.
• The easiest way to remove chewing gum from clothes is to place clothes in Fridge or Refrigerator at highest cooling point. This attempt will make the chewing gum harder and it will be easy to remove it from clothes.
• If you want to avoid chewing gum to stick at your gum or teeth. First eat it and make soften from toung then eat it with teeth. In this way, you chewing will not stick to your mouth.

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Kitchen Tips - Maximize your kitchen benefits

Kitchen tips is the most recommended solution for me. I normally consider Kitchen is the best place to seek instant solutions and tips. We can find all type of problem solution by utilizing materials available in Kitchen. If you want to get pampered with beauty tip; variety of masks will be available of all tone of skins, Herbal treatments available in kitchen, health treatment available in kitchen so it's up to you that how do you utilize your kitchen to get maximum benefits... According to Kitchen rocks in all ways from cooking to healthy living

• Place a tsp. of soda bicarbonate in a corner of the fridge in a small crucible. This will keep smells of foods in the fridge from permeating each other.
• Place some soda bicarb open in a small shallow dish in the fridge. This will disallow odours of one dish mixing into another. Eg. milk and guavas.
• Place a folded cloth under any vessel which you have to whip in. You will have a better grip of the vessel since it will not slip over the worksurface. This holds good while mixing cake batter, icings, whipping, etc.
• Rest assured that honey can never be adulterated. If warm water is added, it will ferment. If any type of sugar syrup is added it will solidify. Also, the older the better.
• Use the water drained from curdle milk to knead chappati dough. They will turn out softer and whiter.
• Soak jewellery (eg. silver, copper, gold) in the water drained from curdled milk for 15 mins. wash them with soap afterwards. Get back the sparkle in them to look new.
• Apply tamarind paste and salt for greasy, or copped bottomed or brass vessels, and wash. They come out much cleaner, and more easily.
• Dissolve a 1/2 tsp. of turmeric powder in hald a cup of hot sweetened milk and drink for relief from cough and cold. Repeat morning and night for a week.
• Make a decoction of tea leaves, mint, a bit of ginger. Mix in a dash of honey, sip hot to give relief from chest congestion.
• Try substituting kids' lunch bag with lemonade instead of water once or twice a week. They'll be thrilled.
• Crush chikki coarsely and use as nougat over cakes and icecreams. Use nuts of your choice.
• Blanch green leafy vegetables ( fenugreek, spinach, etc.) in boiling water for 2 minutes. Hold under cold running water, press out excess water, store in freezer for about 2 weeks without spoiling.
• Shake the vegetables loose in the plastic bag before thawing, to distribute the heat evenly.
• Rub a piece of lime (used) inside the lunch box to get rid of strong odours (like garlic) before rinsing off.
• Rub the point of a bee-bite with soft mud and salt made into a paste. The swelling will subside soon, as also the poison will not spread further.
• A tsp. each of ginger juice and honey to be warmed and taken just before sleeping, to bring relief from severe cough. Repeat every night for a week.
• Sprinkle a mixture of powdered cardomom and rock sugar (misri) over the tongue, gums and inner cheeks to get relief from mouth sores and ulcers. Repeat 3-4 times a day.
• A clove and a cardamom kept in the mouth while travelling, brings relief to those suffering from motion sickness.
• Easiest way to chop raisins. Sprinkle some flour over them so they don't stick. Cut with a small kitchen scissors as required.
• Add a few pinches of turmeric, a small spoon of ghee, to dal before pressure cooking. This will enhance flavour to the dal.
• A drop or two of eucalyptus oil add to water for steam inhalation gives excellent relief in common colds.
• If there is a lot of leftover paneer(cheeze) crumbs, dry in a warm oven. Fry till crisp and store in the fridge. Soften in boiling water, drain and add to thicken gravies of any vegetables and curries.
• Make tomato puree in bulk. Transfer to ice cube trays and freeze. Put the frozen cubes in a thick polythene bag. Store in the freezer and use reddy puree cubes as required. Will keep for over 3 weeks in the freezer.
• Store nail polish bottles in the refrigerator to prevent the polish from drying up.
• To get a dry sketch pen working again, pour three or four drops of hot water into the sponge tube inside and wait a while.
• If grilled doors or windows start getting rusty, scrape off the rust carefully and paint the area immediately. You can also use a metal primer instead of paint.
• To remove mud stains from clothes, soak and wash them in water collected after boiling potatoes.
• Use the whey (water) from tied curds to make softer chappati, paratha and naans. Use this water instead of plain water to knead the dough.
• Always use a clean pair of kitchen scissors to trim edges of bread. Much neater and less messy edges as compared to those trimmed with a knife.
• Use a large semiboiled potato to make a quick flower arrangement if a flower holder is not available. Push sturdy stalks of flowers into the potato at the required angles. Do not keep for more than 2 days. Immerse in water to which an aspirin is added.

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