Good and Bad Sugar

A ten bedroom house has to be occupied by ten couples. The ten keys of the ten bedrooms are in one single key chain. Naturally the bedrooms will have to be opened one by one.

If the keys to ten bedrooms were in ten different keychains then time taken by ten couples will be very less.

If I extrapolate this to sugars then the sugar in starch/fruits is like ten keys in one key chain. Body will gradually break down and use sugar as per requirement.

Refined sugar is like ten different key chains. The moment it reaches in stomach, 100% is absorbed into blood resulting high sugar levels.

Sugar in fruits/starch is complex and good. Refined sugar is simple and BAD.

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Karva Chauth Fasting 08 Oct 2017

Tomorrow 08 October 2017 is Karva Chauth Fasting day. In India this is a dry fast observed by women for the well being of husband. The fast is broken only after the sighting of moon.

Why this practice and why this gender bias against women. Why no such fast for men. Why am I discussing it!!!

Traditionally every part of India has some sort of fasting in this lunar cycle(Kartika) after full moon day. The new moon day or amavasya which falls at the end of this cycle is Deepawali celebrations.

The Indian cropping season is classified into two main seasons
(i) Kharif.
(ii) Rabi based on the monsoon.
The kharif cropping season is from July –October during the south-west monsoon and the Rabi cropping season is from October-March (winter). The crops grown between March and June are summer crops.

Now you can clearly see the time of festivals are in sync with harvest time. Post harvest is free time and thus the festivals. Festivals means lots of feasting. Post festivals is sowing time, lots of hard work for men folk.

So all the fasting for women was for healthy reasons. Now that both men and women are feasting daily without any fasting and hard work in fields, this concept of fasting only for women is unhealthy for men.

These were traditionally concepts for healthy living. So dear folks if you are leading a sedentary lifestyle and want to feast on those sweets on Deepawali, better to go on dry fast tomorrow.

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What Keeps us Healthy

Three factors responsible for healthy life are physical, chemical and emotional. The three threats (T) to us are also three Ts.

1. Physical Trauma (T1). Accident, natural calamity, heart attack, etc are some common examples of physical trauma.

2. Chemical Toxin (T2). Whenever we see, touch, smell, taste and hear, there is a corresponding chemical reaction in our body. If it produces Toxin in our body then it comes under this category.

3. Emotional Thought (T3). Stress is number one reason for all illness. All thoughts which makes us sad come under this category. We often hear that a person is suffering from so and so disease, but is always smiling and at ease.

So now exercise daily to avoid T1, see, smell, touch, taste and hear healthy to avoid T2 and stay positive to avoid unnecessary T3.

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