Is Ghee beneficial to the body? Doesn't it have lots of saturated fats? The devil lies in the detail - Not all saturated fats are the same. The fatty acids making up saturated fats are of 3 groups - Short Chained Fatty Acids(SCFA), Medium Chained (MCFA) and Long-Chained (LCFA)+ Is Ghee beneficial to the body? Doesn't it have lots of saturated fats? The devil lies in the detail - Not all saturated fats are the same and not all ghee are the same. The fatty acids making up saturated fats are of 3 groups - Short Chained Fatty Acids(SCFA), Medium Chained +

Thread - Most polished white rice used in India are high GI causing blood sugar to spike. To reduce the spike, look for either rice with naturally occurring resistant starch or change the nature of the rice to increase the resistant starch. Typically carbs are digested in the + small intestine and converts into glucose. Resistant starch is a type of carb which is not digested in small intestine (so no glucose) and passed on to large intestine where it is fermented. Fermentation leads to gut health and helpful with blood sugar levels & mental health +

A young boy, relative, completed his engg and setup a goat farm with Boer goats (South African Breed). He comes from a family of Businessmen. He said it is lucrative.1 Boer goat goes for 50,000 rs+. Per kg price of Boer Goat in Indiamart+online sites - rs 2000+/kg. Used to hang out with an anna when visiting my mom's village. He had lands but tended to some 200+ sheeps and very few goats. The sheeps are allowed in the forests of Kalvarayan Hills for grazing (pic: Mom's village with Kalvarayan Hills backdrop) but goats are not

Thread - Historically Indians were using cold pressed edible seed/vegetable oils. Then they started messing with these oils around the time they were messing with the rice (started Polishing). In 1930s, they started started converting unsaturated fats in the oils to saturated - a process called hydrogenation i.e. Dalda aka artificial ghee aka vanaspati. Around this time, they started replacing cold-press & filter method with solvent extraction & refining. Solvent extraction using hexane gave 99% oil from seeds vs 85% with cold-press. Refining involved

HC judge at Vadapalani Murugan temple,finds HRCE staff embezzlement,“If such is the situation of a temple which owns properties worth 100s of crores of rupees &with an annual income of ₹14 cr,I shudder to think what would be happening in other temples“ thehindu.com/news/national/… HRCE is that monkey in Panchatantra used by the Govt on behalf of Hindus to manage the temple. The monkey said, " As you have seen that I have done the hard work of dividing bread with my scale so I must get the wages of my hard work”. He ate the rest of the pieces of bread.

Moringa(Murungai) leaves are rich in nutrients like iron &many use it for its supposed anti-diabetic properties.But the leaves have phytate which is anti-nutrient which reduces the bioavailability of nutrients. To reduce its effects, prepare poriyal from leaves boiling it well Bioavailability is how mich percentage of the nutrient you consumed is absorbed by the body. Phytate binds itself with nutrients preventing absorption by the body. To break the bond & release the nutrients, typically soaking or boiling is done.

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Roshanara Begum - the Mughal princess who changed the course of the Indian history. Daughter of Shahjahan, she got wind of the plot behind Shahjahan's invitation of Aurangazeb to Delhi during the power struggle. She warned Aurangazeb that Shah Jahan intend to arrest him. Once Aurangazeb ascended the throne, she became powerful & at one point was the defacto co-ruler when Aurangazeb fell sick. Ultimately she got into the bad books of Aurangazeb as she took on lovers, which was forbidden. (Since the time of Akbar, Mughal princesses were not married

Address the nutritional deficiency of the children, especially protein deficiency to prevent issues like delayed growth rate. It is prevalent even among middle class children. Unhealthy dieting do this. Measure your children for Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM). #HealthyEats PEM is measured in terms of underweight (low weight for age), stunting (low height for age) and wasting (low weight for height). (Ask your child's Pediatrician for the right chart).

Rice polishing which became popular in 1960s is the biggest armageddon descending on the rice eating population. The layer below the husk in the rice called aleurone & layer below, subaleurone contain protein, fat, minerals, vitamins, fibers. Below it is the soft layer which contains only starch (carb). By polishing the aleurone layer to make the rice soft and tasty to eat, the fiber, resistant starch, 'many' minerals, vitamins were lost. Net effect - hypertension due to lack of insoluble fiber, cancer due to loss of resistant starch induced