Coconut Water - Traditional Sports Drink by Nature

Coconut water is the refreshing nutrient loaded sports drink that is available from nature. Nothing surpassing this small loaded nutrient water has been manufactured until to date. This I say for the reason that once you drink the little water stored in the green shell and relish the remaining water that hardened as the soft white shell, you will sustain the heat for hours unlike the artifical sports drink that will required the next round and more in litres.

What makes this coconut water a nutrient rich rehydrating drink?

USDA database shows that there are 93 nutrients in this water stored inside green or red coconut hell of fibred and a hard nut. I find this drink interesting and as this revealed me certain facts:

1. This had the least amount of glucose and no caffeine that will boost the energy but still rejuvenates back from tiredness;

2. 95% of the content is only plain water;

3. Polyphenol protected outer covering do not contaminate the drink and so is devoid of polyphenols;

4. Enriched with loads of amino acids (I found this is the most interesting fact and anyone trying a business idea - You owe me a lifelong royalty ;-D) - I'm settled for life isn't it?

5. Rich in B-complex vitamins and Vitamin C which explains the condiment taste;

6. High in selenium, a micronutrient from the soil...nature's gift explained - and loads of minerals.

This explains the rarest and the best combination that is needed on teh strenous field or on a hot day out.

Health benefits of Coconut water:

People list so many benefts of coconut water: hair, eyes, skin, stomach, etc. But here I will list some of the vital points where the use of coconut water may play a commendable role.

a. A very good rehydrating drink - good on a hot day and on the field; but I never say you should rely only on this.

b. Good as diluent for cosmetic purposes: helps in hair growth and maintenance like coconut oil; heals and nourishes skin.

c.. This is good for treating constipation and to control diarrhoea - so should be used wisely.

d. Coconut water is a very good ingredient that detoxifies the blood of poisons and toxins.

e. This heps in relieving stress and boosts immunity.

f. This is a very good rehydrating drink when someone is on medications that will raise body temperature; but in such cases is always good to seek doctor's advice on including this as a component of the diet when they prescribe a diet as well.

g. This is a very good first-aid drink and for treating cramps.

h. This is very good option to rest on while slimming and reducing weight for has the properties to satiate cravings.

Even if I write all about coconut drink, you will find me not drinking this as often as you will expect for the cost of the drink and the size of my appetite.

Happy Cocoa!!!

How do I Hear the Sound of Sea in a Seashell?

On a sunny Sunday bech is fun. Isn't it more fun to collect seashells to hear sea and ocean sounds. How do the sea shells replay the recorded sound of the ocean?

Let's bust the truth!

All noises around you enter the sea shell along with the air that flows through it. So what happens to the sound waves entering the sea shell?

 1. The sound waves are resonated. In other words reflected. This explains teh chaos....All the surrounding noises are mixed up and comes out through the shell, the region through which you hear as a different but modified frequencies. Needless to say, the glazed and spiral shape of the sea shell amplifies the reflection of the sound waves inside the sea shell. Thus there is an amplification of the phenomenon of resonance.

2.  These chatic noises or sound waves that emerge from the sea shell into our ears are manipulated by our human brain that is vivid that the noise is coming out of the sea shell and the fact that we hear "sound of the sea" in the sea shell. So the brain network interconnects this chaotic noise to "sound of the sea" which is also a chaotic noise as the waves dash against the sand and each other.

And here is how you can have them trapped for ever digitally. :-)

Hinduism and Hylotheism: Goddess Mariamman - Goddess of Prosperity is the Vantage to Freedom

Amongst controversial debates I see around me, I better explain a small background to the topic that I intend to contemplate in this blog. It's all about prayers and devotion to Goddess to bless the harvest for the last year and to bring prosperity, fertility, health, and healthy progeny in the year to come.

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The incarnation of Godess has its own roots in Hindu mythology and to the Sangam literature wherein Kings were blessed of the omnipresence of Goddess chosen places to build her the divine abode. These are the places where the Mariamman festivals are renounced. Some of the popular places of festive for this Goddess who can bless health, wealth, and offspring are Trichy, Tanjore, Madurai, Karur, Chennai, Salem, Virudhunagar, Sivakasi, Vellore, Erode, etc. The Goddess is depicted in two forms: "happy"- red clad beautiful woman in her own austere temperament or "angered" - Spartan Gooddess depicted with fangs and mane signifying the outpour against wrong deeds. She is the Goddess of rain turned ubiquitous and reached smaller corners of villages with its own myth for evolution. Whatever be the reason, her abode once destined turns sacred and multiplies standing for the name, Goddess Mariamman. The word 'Mari' means 'rain' and 'amman' means "resident or citizen or onw who stays in this place for a long time". This is the reason why every village mariamman has her own binding to the native population.

The worship of Mariamman has evolved with time implying more on the welfare and the prosperity of the people and their expression of devotion in need or gratitude. There is a sheer display of extremism many a time in the worship of Goddess Mariamman displaying the desperate man seeking supranatural divine but good blessings of God. Some of these include walking on heated charcoal, carrying pots of charcoal fire, tribulatory blessings of having weapons pierced through the skin, rolling on the floor, carrying pots of charcoal to more subtle prayers like fasting and wearing yellow clothes, carrying margosa and neem leaves, drummers and dancers banging and singing songs. Some people offer or sell their harvests like goats and chickens and feast on them. Some of the foods prepared in the premises of the temple or in worship places are porridge and pongal. The Goddess is adorned with a vareity of flowers. All forms of worship are done with the underlying intention to appease the Goddess to bring rain, heal diseases and bless with good husbands for the unmarried and offsprings to the married.

Having explained the various forms of worhsip of Goddess Mariamman, I will like to question the misconceptions and modern practices. The divine supremacy has been accepted and the concept of worshipping Goddes Mariamman seems to swirl aroound "bringing rain" for the land thrives on the monsoon for agriculture and water for cattles and human-self. This is other words means that people believed nature like a women who is able to give birth to a child and so took the form of Goddess Mariamman, the Goddess of Rains or Monsoon. This equals to fertility. No where I find God forbids the longevity of a womb but only people seemed to worship and pray for fertility, vitality, well-being and life for all. Will anyone pray for the destruction of fertility of another woman? I tried finding out from the mouth of the horse that maybe pulling the rope of axe, illusively as carrot of faith, on its head for others to scapegallows.