Chana Chole Masala Noodles! Here's an Authentic Indian Noodles!

 Chana masala or Chana chole or Chhole masala or whatever is a favorite Indian subcontinent dist. It's mouth-watering and lip-smacking spicy chickpea cooked in authentic Indian spices. This dish is usually cooked making use of Kabuli Chana or the white chana. There are two versions of Chana Masala the dark brown thick gravy where there is little to no tomato while the reddish-orange gravy is the one made with a lot of onions and tomato gravy. Here we will see how to make both the versions and mix them up with noodles. These noodles are not only nutritious but are also stomach-filling!

Preparing the Chole or Chana Masala:

Soak the Chickpeas:

Soaking chickpeas should be done overnight as this will allow the chickpeas, if fresh, to germinate making it easy to digest and protein breakdown thereby more nutritious; if dry chana, then it will make it easy to cook by softening them through rehydrating the chickpeas and also by breaking down the phytic acid in these peas as it causes flatulence and bloating. Overnight or 8 hours of soaking is needed for making the chickpeas easy to cook in a pressure cooker. This can be done using a quick and alternative process by soaking the chickpeas in hot water for 1 to 2 hours. Canned chickpeas are even easier to prepare and will not need to be soaked. When you soak the chickpeas, soak them in a bowl that has enough headspace and pour enough water that the chickpeas are submerged in the water that they will still remain immersed in water after expanding on imbibition at the end of time. Before use, strain all the water, rinse, and wash the soaked chickpeas. 

Boiling the chickpeas: 

The chickpeas are boiled with dried amla or a tea bag that a tangy flavour and a dark colour is imparted for the preparation of chole. Amla gives both the taste and the colour while the tea bag imparts only the colour. In that case, either pomegranate seeds or amchur powder or lime or lemon juice can be used as an alternative. Add enough water that the chickpeas are immersed in the water - about 2.5 to 3 cups of water for 1 cup of soaked chickpeas. Add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and mix it well. Pressure cook the chickpea for 2 to 3 whistles or until it is cooked soft and is easy to mash. Remove the amla pieces or the teabag. 

Chole Spices:

Place a skillet on the stovetop and heat it on low heat. To this hot skillet add the following spices:

2-3 black cardamoms

1 to 1.5 inches of cinnamon bark

3 to 5 peppercorns

2 to 3 cloves

1 medium-sized bay leaf

1/4 teaspoon carom seeds or ajwain or omam

1 teaspoon cumin seeds

1 teaspoon coriander seeds

1 teaspoon fennel seeds

1.2 teaspoon dry pomegranate seeds or amchur (mango powder) (optional)

1 to 3 dry red chilies whose seeds are removed and broken open

Roast them dry in this hot skillet till they are deep brown but not burnt. Allow the spices to cool and dry grind them to a fine powder. 

Preparing the Chana Masala Gravy:

Heat in a wok or a vessel 1.5 to 2 tablespoons of oil. Any oil can be used but preferably lightly dense oil than coconut or mustard or olive oil as they can leave their own flavor. 

Grind 1 to 2 cm of ginger root with 4 to 5 pieces of peeled garlic cloves. Add this ginger-garlic paste to the oil and saute it. Add 1/3 cup of finely chopped onions and saute it till it turns translucent or light brown. 

Add 1/2 cup to 1 cup of tomatoes (as per the desired color of the gravy, fewer tomatoes or no tomato for black gravy) and saute it till it turns soft and cooked appearing pale red. The oil will start to mix well with the wet ingredients and leave the sides of the wok. 

Reduce the heat to low heat from medium or high heat. Add all the dry chole spice powder, 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder, and 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder. To this, add 1/4 teaspoon of garam masala powder, but is optional. Mix well until the ingredients blend with each other. 

2 to 3 deseeded and slit green chilies are added and sauteed till it blends well with the mixture.

Add the cooked chickpeas after draining the remaining water. The water will be used as a stock. Stir the chickpeas to mix well with this sauteed masala until it blends well and coats all the chickpeas. 

To this chickpea masala in the wok, add 1 to 1.25 cups of the stock and water as needed. Stir well and add enough salt to taste. Stir well again. Cook it in low to medium heat. 

When the chana masala reaches a boil or starts bubbling, add some more water as needed for the noodles to cook. This can amount to another 1 to 1.5 cups of water. Let the chana masala come to a boil. (You can squeeze or add the lime or lemon juice at this point).

Open the ready-to-cook noodles, and add the noodles to the boiling chana masala. To this also add the given masala powder and salt to taste. (Adding the masala powder is optional and in that case, the chana spice powder can be made a little spicier to accommodate the noodles). Stir the mixture well that the chickpeas and the noodles are mixed well. Close it with a lid and allow the noodles to cook. 

If you are using a Hakka or such noodle cake, prepare the noodle separately in a round-bottomed container with a drop of oil and salt to taste. Drain the noodles dry and transfer the noodles to the boiling chana masala. Stir well in the heat until the noodles and the chana masala blends well. Simmer it until the chana masala noodles are of desired gravy and transfer it to the bowl. Top it with grated cheese and coriander leaves.

Hint: Vegetables like potato, carrots, beetroot, and beans can be added but is optional.

Once the noodles are cooked, stir it once more and top the chana noodles to a bowl with coriander to dress. For a more cheesy taste, sprinkle some grated cheese before serving. 

Break the Barriers by Pairing Your Choice of Fruit with Lime and Mint Water

 On a hot sunny day is when we drink a cold Lime Juice! Whenever I go to any fruit juice shop, I always find that the lowest-priced but the healthiest, refreshing, and hygienic drink is Lime juice? 

But times have changed! I find that lime juice and lime soda have turned out to be savory and made a priced fruit dash with the addition of other fruits and veggies! 

How do I prepare my Lime and Mint WAter combinations - many ways that you can imagine!

1. Lime Mint Water:

Add a few slices of lime and a few sprigs of mint into a jar full of water and leave it for a few hours. It makes a refreshing drink. A Detox Drink - you can add to this water, other fruits or veggies like cucumber slices, pineapple slices, lemon slices, orange slices, strawberries, mosambi slices, grape, grapefruit slices, kiwi fruit slices, and watermelon slices. These combinations make it excellent detox water.

2. Lime Mint Juice (Salt/Sweet):

This is the refreshing drink that revitalized me during a hot, sunny, and humid day. 

Squeeze half a lime or lemon juice and to this add a few pinches of salt (1 or 2 tsp of sugar or nannari syrup). Mix it up in the fruit juicer, followed by adding a few sprigs of mint or as needed, and mix it in the juicer until the mint leaves make into a smooth paste blending with the lime juice. You can add ice cubes if desired. 

3. Lime Mint Soda or Mojito (Salt/Sweet):

This is the same drink preparation as Lime Mine Juice but soda is added instead of water. Initially, the lime juice, sprigs of mint leaves, salt (or sugar or syrup) are added to a small proportion of water and blended in a juicer. To this, the rest of the proportion is mixed with soda water or sparkling water. I was told that soda rehydrates two times better than water. 

Benefits of Lime-Mint and its combinations:

1. Lime juice rejuvenates skin because of its hydration and antioxidant properties. It is also a rich source of vitamin C and flavonoids. 

2. It helps in digestion because of its acidic nature that helps in breaking down complex fat (in the African continent it is by their culture that they drink a glassful of lime juice after a meaty meal). Thus, it also helps to ease constipation. 

3. Vitamin C is the immunity vitamin fighting against viral infections - the dash of mint and other veggies like strawberries, cucumber, orange, or melon, only make it more valuable Immunity Water. 

4. Helps in weight loss as the citric acid boosts the metabolism accessing the stored fats to be burnt. It also supplements with other needed minerals and vitamins that satiate to reduce the craving for bigger portions by including it in weight loss diet plans. 

5. The lime mint water has the ability to regulate the blood glucose sugar level by boosting the energy potential and reducing the craving or need for energy. So the blood sugar spikes can be controlled especially by drinking the salted version of lime mint juice or soda. 

6. Lime and mint are good sources of potassium and magnesium that aids in regulating blood pressure by increasing blood circulation. It also has a chemical called limonins which break down cholesterol. 

7. The antioxidative effect of lime and mint must be helping cancer patients and preventing cancer by scavenging the painful oxidative chemicals flowing in the bloodstream. A direct role is still not clear. So this effect should also help to clean up the blood of unwanted other chemicals that causes inflammation. It also scavenged uric acid. 

8. It serves as an electrolyte drink while recovering from fever, diarrhea, and vomiting, or sunstroke. 

9. The rehydrating effect of lime mint water and its effect in balancing out the chemicals will help to flush out the excess minerals out of the body through urine. It helps to prevent kidney stones though it may help in increasing urine formation and micturition that can wash out if the kidney stones are small. 

10. It helps to clean up the teeth and will act as a natural teeth whitening agent. As the acidic properties of lime and minerals in mint juice are mixed with the saliva, savoring the water or soda will break down the debris and reduce the microbes in the cavities (salted version). Further, it will also clean up the yellow in the teeth making the enamel shine white. At the same time, the acidic nature can cause a sting in your cavity as well. This is why this drink is good when you have bad breath - halitosis. 

11. It helps to ease the pain of menstrual cramps by regulating the blood circulation to the uterus, acting as an emmenagogue, balancing the hormones, supplementing with the needed minerals and vitamin shot for easing the cramps, and stress relaxant. It also reduces fatigue of menstruation. 

On a final note, do you have to ask about the benefits that are multiplied by adding other fruits and veggies like cucumber, watermelon, strawberries, mosambi, orange, kiwi, and pineapple? 

A Sip of Immunity is Equally Refreshing - Ginger Tea

 Ginger Tea? Argh! This is how some people will say so! It's drunk as a medicine and is a common devotion made from Ginger root, a common daily spice found in the kitchen of all the households in countries of Asia and the Pacific continent. 

Ginger is a brown-skinned root that has yellow to a mustard-colored pulp. The root is flat and spreads in a branching manner. Small roots - rhizoids - are found on the crevices of these roots. They are tangy and sharp in taste that is neither sweet nor bitter.

How to Make Ginger Tea?

Ginger Tea can be prepared in several ways:

a) Ginger Tea:

Take a piece of ginger and boil it in water. Strain the water to collect the decoction. Add some honey or sugar or jaggery before drinking.

b) Lemon Ginger Tea:

Take a piece of ginger and boil it in water. Strain the water to collect the decoction in a cup having the juice of half the lemon squeezed in it. To this add honey or drink it as it is. 

c) Other combinations of Ginger Tea:

Mint, turmeric with black pepper, cardamom and cinnamon, and tulsi are other herbs and spices that can be added along with the ginger tea preparation. In all these cases, the ginger tea is prepared with these spices and herbs added to the boiling water, and the decoction is strained to a cup. To this devotion is added honey or jaggery. Maple syrup is also a good choice to add to it. 

d) Ginger tea with tea:

Ginger root added to the regular tea devotion while being boiled makes the typical and common Indian ginger tea. To this decoction, milk can be added as a choice, and adding milk to a strong pungent ginger tea is highly refreshing. Take my word for a recommendation. Sugar can be replaced with lemon in this tea and for this tea, milk should not be added as it will curdle. 

Benefits of Ginger Tea:

1. A shot of ginger tea is good enough to stop motion sicknesses like dizziness, cold sweat, vomiting, or nausea. 

2. Ginger tea relieves heartburn, reduces pressure, lowers blood pressure, slims blood clots, and increases blood circulation. 

3. Reduces weight gain and regulates blood sugar levels.

4. Reduces inflammation and pain. 

5. Boosts immunity. 

6. Helps in digestion and is good to have a cup after a heavy meal. 

7. Helps to fight viral infections - so good for COVID by helping to alleviate its symptoms - I think this is something that all of your should drink when you take your COVID shots. 

8. This is the best decoction to drink for alleviating and reducing menstrual cramps, dysmenorrhea, and amenorrhea; it is helpful to increase blood flow or start periods naturally as it is an emmenagogue. 

9. Nothing can surpass its refreshing effects as it instantaneously relieves stress. So sip a cup next time when you reach home tired. 

10. The anti-inflammatory properties of ginger and a load of antioxidants in this root, helps to reduce the occurrence of cancer.

11. The drink helps to improve brain function as it reduces stress and has a good amount of antioxidants that protect against Alzheimer's disease.

Anti-drug Abuse Propaganda

I share this blog against drugs once again to create awareness. 

This is all I can do as it is up to the government and their paid administrative authorities who have to invest time and money to plan more awareness campaigns for such women's issues. 

Yet, I share this in for I want others to complain and not accept such idiocractic claims of imposing their personal opinion on others and also want more people to refrain from harming others. I can die and you can become a "murderer", even if you escape from the law, God will know that you murdered me misusing these drugs.

English Version of Anti-drug Abuse Propaganda

Tamil Version of Anti-drug Abuse Propaganda

Cool Away Every Summer With Cucumber!

Cucumber, as the name, itself goes gives away a cooling effect! When I was small, I used to love cucumbers! I used to wait for the summer only to much some cucumbers. They used to sell them in cane baskets carrying on their heads in bus stops and on the roads of India. The cucumber vendors used to sell a bunch of cucumbers for Rs 10 or more with chilli and salt. However, I like to gorge into the cucumbers as it is. 

The ones that I used to enjoy as a child were the Armenian varieties - these are light green, long and thin-skinned cucumbers. However, as I grew up these cucumbers are hard to be seen anywhere and I was shocked to see people selling dark green and thick-skinned smaller vegetables as cucumbers. These are the American Slicing varieties. Later when I was in Australia and got to explore supermarkets in India, I found a various other varieties of cucumbers like English/European/Hothouse, Kirby, Lemon, Gherkins and Zucchini. 

    

Cucumbers are high fibre and high water-containing fruit of the plant and NOT the vegetable. 

Cucumbers have loads of antioxidants, phytonutrients and flavonoids which are anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer agents and free radical scavengers. 

Cucumber has small amount of proteins - that's good news. 

Cucumber has zero fat and cholesterol - that's even more good news. 

Cucumbers are loaded with Vitamin A and Vitamin C. It also has Vitamin K. 

Minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium and manganese are in plenty. 

Having said this what does cucumber can do to your body besides cooling?

- good for cancer and inflammatory diseases

- it rehydrates

- makes skin shine and smooth

- good for bone as both vitamin K and vitamin D can absorb good volume of calcium into the blood

- the potassium helps to regulate blood pressure and maintain healthy active cardio

- helps in weight loss

- good for digestion

- a chemical, fisetin, is good for nerve cells implying its effect on good brain health and improved memory

- puts the biological balance back into place

- regulates bowel movements

- best detoxifier

Blueberries Makes Me Merry!

Berries are tangy and sweet that tingles your taste buds. They are a satiating snack and as most of the berries can be just popped into your mouth without having the need to peel or cut, they are the world's most easiest, most simple and healthiest snacks. 

Of all the berries blue berries are the best and the most healthiest berries. What are they packed with?

Antioxidants: 

Anthocyanins, quercetin and myricetin are the three major group of antioxidants found in blue berries. Anthocyanins give the blue to the blue berries and the more the blue they are, the more richer they are with anthocyanins. These blue even sticks onto my tongue. Quercetin and myricetin are flavonoids. These group of chemicals are antioxidants that have action against inflammatory responses, scavenges free radicals aiding in cancer fight and does good to your brain's oxidative stress, decreases the risk of heart diseases, reduces the bad cholesterol in the blood and are also known to control the blood sugar level in diabetes.

Vitamins:

Blue berries are known to be rich in vitamins like vitamin C that gives its tangy taste, vitamin K, vitamin A and vitamin E. Thus they do good to regulate the monthly menstrual cycle in women. 

Minerals:

Blueberries are the richest source for calcium in the fruit family. They are also popular for their high potassium content that regulates the blood pressure and magnesium. So blueberries are also good for your bones. 

Benefits:

Blueberries are known to:

• reduce blood pressure
• fight cancer and diabetes
• improve memory
• tightens and glows skin
• strenghtens and builds bones
• reduces inflammation 
• boosts immunity
• reduces heart diseases
• reduces cholesterol level
• reduces blood sugar level
• regulates menstrual cycle and increases bleeding
• detoxifies blood
• alleviates your mood levels
• reduces urinary tract infections
• good on your stomach
• and more...

No wonder blue berries are called "Superfood" and "King of Antioxidant fruits". Having a bowl of blueberry puts you on a good mood even on those bad days!

Black Magic Is NOT SUPERNATURAL

When I was small, I was thought the Lord's prayer. I was told that the Lord's prayer is powerful and has to be told whenever fear and distress creeps in. This has been my practice ever since. I remember people sharing with me their experiences of how they were able to ward off sorcerers approaching them while on travel. 

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Since 2014, I had been blackmailed to "use modus", as a village girl belonging to the brahmin caste moved with Indian army soldiers and rode in their bike. The villagers got aggravated and started to threaten me to "use modus". They never approached me directly for that will gain me legal support. This is true as the DCP, LO of Madurai took it seriously and appointed somebody to investigate this issue ever since. Ever since there was mockery by some supporting forces of that village woman who nicknamed herself as "amelio" with the help of technology. I have seen people asking to "use modus" on me and they have travelled to Chennai stalking me with the same intention. In 2014, however, there was also immediate enquiry initiated by police of Madurai. People got aware that they are using faux drugs and are circulating some kind of "plant chemicals" that will affect periods of women. Some also claimed that it was "cannabis" and "ecstasy or happy" drugs. Moreover, through the technology they had been bullying over my faith in God and were trying to woo for sexual relationships with a man known to this "amelio". In 2016 to 2017, while I was staying in Chennai, they brought in this practice to the local "mariamman temple". But the temple administration was announcing very clearly that they celebrate the annual festival praying only for rain. But the priest of the temple was carried away by "modus practice" as I have seen him shouting alone in the temple to the goddess asking to "use modus to please the Goddess". Besides, it's a very common practice that drugs and plant chemicals like cannabis are used in such annual temple festivals, especially in those temples where practices of hooking exist as to prevent bleeding. In 2014, Madurai has seen some of the crimes related to black magic like human sacrifice of young and unmarried women, forceful marriages by doping the groom or the bride, robbery and so on. All this led to me think that I write something about black magic. 

Black magic is not supernatural. Yes, even in The Bible, there was the demonstration of black magic and sorcery by the magicians of the Pharoah's court in Egypt to Moses. But after Jesus, God said that the miracles will be performed through his disciples on earth and people will be blessed with skills to carry out the work of God. Besides, in these days I don't think there are any real such magicians who are able to relate to Satan to perform devlish activities. Yes, but there are people who worship demons and gods to get supernatural powers. For receiving these powers and performing some magical tricks, they harm fellow human beings. I like to list some of the black magic practices that I have heard of and I will try to update this blog as I receive more information on the "tricks and chemicals" that they use to deceive people.

1. Hypnosis: 

a. This is a very common mode of theft practice in Madurai. I have heard people say that they get mesmerized and stunned by the robbers before snatching them of jewels and money. For achieving this, these robbers use chemicals and plant herbs. 

b. Another form of hypnosis is carried out by some kind of priests doing worship and trying to chase or call for demons and spirits. They use drugs like cannabis, marijuana and other plant herbs that causes hallucinations. They use plant herbs that have psyhoactive implications. 

2. Human Sacrifice: I have heard about burying human beings, especially unmarried girls and woman, for achieving prosperity and ward off evil. These people are also known to be involved in having sexual relationships with these women, especially based on their star birth dates. 

3. Witchcraft: In TamilNadu, witchcraft is of different types, namely, pilli, suniyam, seivinai, yeval and vasiyam. They have their own significance. For achieving these supernatural sensations and mystical deception, these priests use chemicals and cheap magical tricks. They also say a lot of lies and dope themselves to exalt themselves. They carry out lot of rituals like using beetle and tea leaves for prophesying, use eye cosmetics - kajal - for showing the past, puff up smoke, pray with bones and skulls, use a piece of clothing, hair or jewelry,  and use women reproductive parts like uterus for worship. 

4. Prophesy and Eternal life: Demonic or witch priests claim of prophesying the future and foretelling using spirits and perform cheap gimmicks. With advancement of technology they use technological effect to cheat on people besides chemicals and tricks. 

To be updated...

Pasta - Types that Tingles Our Tongue

​Pasta is a very easy to cook healthy Mediterranean diet. It is of four broad types: tubular, ribbon, strand and stuffed. Let's take a deeper look at them and what makes the differences. 

Tubular are long and elongated pasta that take the form of tubes through which the sauce can penetrate through. They are straw-shaped pasta. 

1. Macaroni is the famous tube shaped pasta that is curved like a shell.  The sauce oozes through the holes. 

2. Penne is another famous and trending pasta in tubes. These are straight and elongated short tubes. 

3. Cannelloni are bigger tubes that are stuffed and topped with sauce and baked to serve. 

4. Rigatoni is a tubular pasta but much bigger than penne and comes in a wide range of size. 

5. Bucatini is another tubular pasta that are as long as spaghetti but with a hole in the center like a straw.

6. Manicotti are much rigid bigger tubes like cannelloni that can be stuffed and served with a pasta sauce.

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Ribbon pasta are long stacks of slender pasta flat bread-like sticks. They do not have holes but they come in a wide variety. 

1. Lasagne are getting very common these days. These pasta sheets are flat and are layered with topping and sauce alternating with each other in layers, baked and served. 

2. Fettucine are long flat strands of pasta. They are much like spaghetti but are flatter. 

3. Tagliatelle are balls of flat strands of pasta. 

4. Linguine is 4 mm wide and elliptical type of pasta. 

5. They are broad and flat pasta noodles. 

6. Mafaldine are twisted flat pasta sticks. 

The idea of making ribbon pasta varieties is that the flat strands size and shape blends with the sauce and the toppings in a different manner thereby has a difference in the taste.

Strands are pasta that are like ribbon pasta but are much thinner and longer. These pasta are faster to cook many times merely sauting and mixing with the sauce itself is good enough. 

1. Spaghetti is a very famous italian pasta that are slender and long sticks.  They are little chewy strands. 

2. Vermicelli are very thin and small strands of pasta that are packed as a mesh or broken pieces.   

Stuffed pasta are some of the most delicacy. It is very tasty as the pasta stuffing also gets cooked. The stuffing is packed within the dough, dried and stored. 

1. Ravioli are thin dough filling pasta stuffed with spinach, ricotta and spices. 

2. Tortelloni are shaped differently and the stuffing dough is a little thicker with spinach and ricotta cheese as stuffing. 

3. Agnolotti pasta are stuffed dough with roasted meat and vegetables. 

Just get wired to creativity and make your own pasta bowl. Its the easiest and tastiest dish to be made. 

Pasta - Sauces that Flavours Nostrils to Buds

What I love about eating pasta are the wide variety of fragrances that the sauces can bring to nostrils and taste buds. I like to enjoy my pasta in a wide variety of sauces. Though my favourite is the white sauce, I enjoy eating the red or the tomato sauce as well. Here is a quick look at some of the common sauces and how they are made. 

Alfredo sauce: Add the cream and butter to simmer and when the sauce thickens top it with Parmesan cheese. The creamy and smooth white sauce that sticks to your lips and mouth for some time with a tangy salty taste is inevitably a feast to enjoy. Enhance the flavour with a wide range of herbs like vanila, rosemary, cilantro, coriander and mint. 

Arrabiatta sauce: This is a sauce that is made of tangy tomato and hot chilli that takes your sensation to the next level. It has the option to create variations by adding a zest of extra tangy lemon or a wide range of aromatic herbs from rosemary to mint and coriander. 

Marinara: This is a typical Italian tomato sauce simmered with loads of garlic and a wide variety of herbs to taste. 

Pesto: Pesto is green sauce made with basil and loads of garlic and cheese. This is rarely found in the market but is a delicacy that can be readily made at home. The difficulty in making this sauce is that the basil will start leaving water in the sauce which will reduce the creamy texture and has to be always prepared fresh. 

My White Sauce: Maybe I should name this sauce Cheez. I make my white sauce with milk simmered with creamy cheese and this simmered sauce is flavoured with spices like dry red chilli or pepper and herbs. 

What's the powder fragrance do to your complexion?

What inspired me to blog is the photo of mine that had different colour fragrances showed different complexions. 

The most common powder that changes your complexion to rosy sun-kissed cheeks is Rose powder. The rose powder made with the mild fragrance of rose imparts a rosy color to your cheeks. It adds a bashful you to your face. 

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Usually, all of us think that's the only powder that we think adds colour to our face. Many think the face powder makes our face turn white. But that's not true, the complexion changes according to the fragrance. 

Sandal powder turns your face to a tint of yellow complexion that glows your inner beauty. If the colour of your complexion is fair, then use sandal powder and flaunt the beauty of your radiant skin. 

If your complexion is brown to dark then use powder with fragrances like Jasmine and mild white flowers that the powder will just leave you the long-lasting freshness and fragrance. Lavender fragrance is another powder that suits and radiates the freshness and beauty for any complexion. 

This is my experience with different powders and varying fragrances. 

Beauty tip: I choose my powder fragrance according to the seasons: sandalwood for summer, dreamflower to lavender for winter and rainy seasons.

Tea - The Indian Drink - Flavour and Flavoured!

Tea is the thirst quencher for Indians. The drink of China and Japan is also the secret for the longevity of youthoood in Indian race too!!!

Tea known for the voluminous antioxidants, flavanoids and phenols powered with the milder theamine is a rejuvenating drink that does no harm. This do not dehydrate but rehydrate and is good for your heart. India is a tea-drinking country.

I want to list out the different varieties of tea.

Milk Tea and Black Tea: Milk tea is tea brewed in milk with sugar added to taste. Black Tea brewed in water and drunk with sugar or jaggery added to taste. Milk tea has its advantages of milk absorbing all the harmful phenols and other chemicals in the tea, black tea is considered to retain the medicinal properties of tea intact. Black Tea is known to reduce weight. Both use fermented tea leaves. 

Indian Teas:

Masala Chai: It is milk tea mixed with spices like cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and cloves. the proportion of spices make the tea is an identity to many households. 

Butter Tea:Butter  tea is also known as Gur Gur. It is made of yak butter, tea and salt. This tea is suitable for high altitudes as it provides a good amount of calories that need to be burnt. 

Kulhad Chai: Tea served in kulhad, clay pots are kulhad tea. There is an alternative version when the kulhad are made hot on tandoori stove, brewed in these hot kulhad and served in cold kulhad. 

Amrut Tulya: Mumbai version of tea made with freshly ground ginger, cardamom and few other spices. The tea is made in brass vessel and is served sweet. 

Mamri tea: Like how coffee is brewed and served fresh, tea leaves can be crushed, torn and curled and served fresh. This is common way of serving fresh industry tea in Assam and Nilgiris. 

Herbal Teas: Herbal teas are tea leaves infused with or homogenised with herbal leaves from various resources like chamomile, shoeflower, lemon, lemongrass and so on. 

Green Tea: Green teas are made from fresh green tea leaves that are not fermented but dried and made into tea leaves. They contain catechin that make them very healthy alternative to black tea. Green tea are infused with lemon, honey, ginger and a number of other spices to give the flavour and taste. 

Tea is such a drink that one finding it "taaza" reviving the spirit. 

Reducing Thrash - Small Efforts Bigger Contributions

Small efforts will reap bigger contributions. Thrash is a menace; global weather is fluctuating drastically to blame of climate change. Let me list here what small deeds of us can lead to bigger contributions. I don’t have the statistics but I have the ideas and deeds listed out: 

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Give up single-use plastics. Use paper cartons and clothe bags. It’s fun to carry your bag to the market. 

2.     Switch off lights as much as possible. 

3.     Use technology wisely and less. The more you rest and indulge in other forms of leisure your emotional bonds also will grow.

4.     Stoop throwing garbage on the streets. 

5.     Turn off your TV and computer in the office as you leave the room or desk.

6.     Do group events or family leisure time. 

7.     Grow trees

8.     Keep your vehicle clean and smart that uses nominal fuel and doesn’t form soot.

9.     Stop burning your Agri produces in mass

10.  Electrocute organic material

11.  Judicious use everything in our daily lives

12.  Encourage nature-based products for decoration

13.  Use leaf based and organic material for your family gathering and business conference souvenirs and dinners

14.  ….add your points to this list

Consumerism - Unspoken stressor to Indian Corporates

This is my opinion and observation. Stress, depression, and burnout are the buzz corporate words. People just have the habit of saying they are feeling depressed when the fact is their body and mind are only stressed. How can one stay with them if they are depressed?

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When you face physical fatigue and a mental block, this is only a burnout. Consumerism, your needs forcing you to do workloads of others, is the one that forces you to exert your body and mind. This results in burnout. Continuing and stretching your burnout for your buying sprees is only stress. What to do that we desire and the society sells clothes that wear out after wearing for 2 or 3 times. The consumeristic economic strategies are to be blamed.

Then when you are depressed. You are depressed when you don’t feel the stress and burnout; your buying spree is uncontrollable and you stock up beyond your needs. Your addiction makes you depressed when is not satiated. Depressed that was once a societal taboo these days has turned out to be a fancy word today, without which you are considered normal and odd one in the crowd.

To be normal should one be depressed?

What make FATS - Good or Bad?

If you are working 8 hours a day and give hours at the desk, then you are leading a sedentary lifestyle. On the contrary, if you are going to a gym, walking daily to the office, or actively doing physical exercise then you are leading an active lifestyle. 

The carbs and proteins that you consume despite the fatty avoidances will still form the bad fats in the body from these sources. They form cholesterol and are deposited beneath the skin. Even when you are active these fats do breakdown but make the scenario worse by getting into the blood circulation. Thus these fats pose you to higher risk. 

If you don't consume good fats then you will lose the fat homeostasis in the body causing a number of ailments. The good fats will scavenge these bad fats and keep them in balance and you safe. So consumption of good fats is mandatory. The good fats are the monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids that are found in avocado, nuts, and fatty fishes. So consume these daily in proportions and increase your protein intake especially when you plan a weight management schedule.

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An Hour of Animal Helper at Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care Center

On the day of Lohri, 14^th January, 2020, which is Bogi in my state of Tamil Nadu where I was born, I decided not to sit with my computer searching for opportunities but spend some break off and relax with animals. I had the day planned with an evening for an alumni event at the Australian High Commission with the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Scott Morrison, in pressing times when I was really wanting a break back to Australia. But the event stood cancelled. And, that didn't push my spirits back to my system in search for a job. So, I took the local metro in Delhi only with the comfort of standing to SGACC, both to and return. This required me to take a hard ride on shared auto as well to their animal hospital for “Indian Roads”. I was dreaming of helping as in Animal Planet series like being a paravet or a helper to the vets but they gave me a broom and dustbin to help their “animal helper” whom I will call as “animal housekeeper”. I took up the job.

SGACC has a root to Australia and so I dropped to them claiming my Australian alumnus status too. We are entitled to do some charity as a give back to the country, especially in collaboration of our passion beyond work. What I always loved are the love-seeking stray animals beyond my own life and my pets that are part of my family. I used to feed the stray and celebrate or share my Christmas time. Thus, my charity is usually taken for granted as I don’t spend “the money”; I was challenged. 

My day was fabulous, as the housekeeper is a very honest woman who asked me to leave the bag and get started. We mutually shared our tactics to clean these animal droppings. I taught her some of our family tactics like using the “dropping powder” everywhere first before starting to pick up that the smell will go away. But she taught me many things in return to get her job done. This was a challenging experience for me as I took the puppy place where there were dogs and cats, specifically a golden brown, a black and white puppy and a cat. The black and white puppy was tamed and it knew that the room will be messy if it didn’t allow me to clean. However, the golden brown was such a big challenge – it was heavy too – wanting my pampering and kind hugs than focus on cleaning its mess. I had to explain it and told it to stop snatching the broom from my hand. On top of this was the black and white cat which was matured enough wanting to purr on my lap when it saw my comfortable squatting position to sweep away the dirt as a desirable it’s purr placement time. Dollie, the housekeeping lady assured me that they behave in this manner with everyone. But how one can forget the sighs when I removed their dirt and monitored interestingly me cleaning up their messes. Never knew how much they missed covering their dirt with sand. I wish they had sand floor in their compartments and is open, if not for the warmth they need during the winter season and the need to tame them for adoption to a home.

Needless to mention, my spondylosis was a real challenge. I could not do my work bending and so I started to paralyse for the amount of physical activity involved. Yet, I wanted to overcome this challenge and took it up till the end. I know I may not have cleaned entirely with Dollie having to dig up the hard and long-time dried stains, which when I asked her about her daily duties. I mopped the entire floor and I learnt the trick of the clothe used by housekeepers.  Yet I found I only won the challenge that I made for myself as I only had to fight the muscular pain later as I enjoyed the hot water bath and sleep on retuning back to hostel. Even otherwise I would have faced for sure this muscular pain for the physical activity involved but probably at a lesser intensity. I was finding awe at the immense stamina that Dollie has to clean up these sheds on daily basis. 

What makes these sheds very difficult to clean are the sofas and pillows they have, but still the cats and dogs, know that they should not dirty them? I’m curious how and where they learn good habits which they don’t do at our home. Is it because we don’t let them be the beast they can be?  

What we can do to these animals who bark in the street and fighting for us only for a wave of greeting at them or occasional bites or a pat that they fight for us from miscreants. So, what the cat does or get in return and keep away the pests away from our houses? I realised that sharing my kindness made me feel good and loved – I had someone wanting love in return and are harmless and is pennies lesser.   

My Christmas poem for 2018

Christmas Biochemistry

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Roaring out in laughter,

Belly fat jumping up and down in joy,

For the season is “Oh...oh...oh!”,

‘‘Tis Christmas season,

Shooting up the endorphins,

Dwindling down the cortisol,

Giving life a balance to fill with joy and hope.

Twinkling stars lighting the dark clad sky,

Lit by moonlight soaring melatonin high,

But Santa’s sleigh speeding past with sparkles that fills stockings, 

Decored houses with many longing happy hearts sleeping tight,

Dreaming of boxes to be opened,

Filled with warmth that has packed love and joy,

Releasing pheromones that is to rapture the Spirit of Christmas.

Jingling bells and hopping choirs with lanterns leading the way,

Shedding warmth to these late-night Christmas messengers,

Knocking doors with joy thumping up a bash of adrenaline,

Sharing ecstatic applause to emulate serotonin into action,

Doesn’t these fill the season with joy and merry? 

A reason to wish everyone and X’changing undoubtful smiles!

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What to Serve on Christmas Day?

Christmas symbolises Hope and Peace which in turn brings Prosperity meaning good food, health, wealth, family and people.

Something that my family focuses on Christmas Day celebrations as a tradition is to plan the day’s recipe.

I thought this Christmas that I will collate the global recipes and their base ingredients into one single post. I want to share this as I want people to prosper and never go without food.

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Let’s do it alphabetically:

Angola: Corn meal or cassava flour food, rice, spaghetti, French fries, turkey, fried chicken, cold fish with vegetables, fired fish or beef with tomatoes, garlic, ladies fingers, sweet potatoes, spinach, grilled fish with palm oil beans. Dessert is Bolo Rei cake.

Argentina: Roasted turkey, pork or goat, creamy anchovy and tuna sauce, stuffed tomato, salads, tuna sandwiches, tortillas. Dessert: Christmas bread, pudding, fruit salads, ice cream, pies, sweets like chocolate resins, sugar coated almonds, peanut butter.

Armenia: Rice, fish, chick pea, yoghurt, wheat soup. Dessert is dried fruits and nuts, walnuts in grape jelly, bastukh.

Australia: Cold Christmas dinner, barbecue, prawns, lobsters, seafood. Dessert is Christmas pudding.

Austria: wine, fried carp, roast turkey, roast goose. Dessert is chocolate, apricot cake, gingerbread, Austrian cookies.

Bangladesh: Rice with chicken and vegetable curries. Dessert is rice cake and rice pudding.

Belarus: 12 dishes. Kuccia, pancakes, fish and mushrooms. Dessert is oatmeal fruit, berries and potato starch with milk.

Belgium: Crisps, mini pizza, soup as starters, game or seafood, turkey or chicken, potato croquettes. Dessert is ice cream cake.

Bolivia: Stew or soup of chicken or beef or pork, corn, potatoes, salads, roast beef or turkey. Dessert is tropical fruits.

Brazil: Pork, turkey, salads, dried and fresh fruits, rice cooked with raisins. Desserts is tropical and raisins.

Bulgaria: Rich vegetarian meal, cabbage leaves stuffed with rice, beans soup, peppers stuffed with rice, boiled wheat with sugar and walnuts. Dessert is pastries, dried fruits, oranges.

Canada: Roast turkey with vegetables, mashed potatoes, vegetables. Dessert is Christmas plum pudding, mincemeat tart, Christmas crackers, Christmas fruit cake.

Chile: Barbecue chicken, turkey or pork. Dessert is Chilean Christmas cake, Christmas drink.

China: Apples. Brussels, sprouts, turkey. Dessert is Christmas pudding.

....

Then what about India?

Biriyani is favourite lunch accompanied with dishes that can be vegetables or non-vegetarian; and salad. Desserts will include cake and a range of Indian sweets and savouries. Plum cake is the hot, stolen bread and such are served after church service during coffee fellowship. Ice cream is also a favourite dessert. Chiristmas cookies and chocolates are other favourite. Christmas breakfast and contemporarily dining outside has become a family event on Christmas night. Family games and worship are also entertained with family members.

How to pack a power-filled snack for a break?

Here's how I make my power snack for the break?

Snack boxes to your child or for yourself is admonishable if filled with fruits or junk food. Junk food for health and fruits are considered not trendy and time-consuming.  Maybe fruits also rot by evening. So the best is to pack neutral snacks like these power snacks that also keeps you as much awake like fruits.

Biscuits are not good for your health as the sugar and flour can make you supped? Best is to replace your snack boxes with digestive, oatmeal or whole grain cookies with or without sugar and low or salted crackers. They form the base for your power snack.

What to fill in? Pack your snack box with a pair of salad leaves, peanut butter, cheese slices and egg omelette. Egg omelette can be replaced with chicken and ham sausages, carrots and cucumber and a wide range of options to choose from. They make great and sumptuous fillings between a pair of biscuits.  They also help your clock ticking and are best for the extra hour that you will need to keep you working. They are also satiating and prevents you fall from slumber. They are best energy boosters for an afternoon snack.

Thus you are going to find yourself checking on your weight as well with these power snack. Worthy Indian versions are vadai made of lentils and whole grain sundals which also meet your daily dietary needs.

Never resort junk food and make yourself worser and soggy.

What Makes THE PILL Different from Hormone? What's THE PILL is in India?

I write this blog following this status update I made in my LinkedIn Profile:

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THE PILL is all that people wanted to know more of and the reason for the misnotion and chaos. I never wanted to know. Why? For I believed, whatever be the tablet they are asking me to take - even if paracetamol or a chewing gum - I have as citizen of this democratic India to file a FIR for being black mailed and if doped, a hurt and mischief complaint. But, when they spelled the word "modus", this created a stir for people were aware that they are asking to use this tablet as "THE PILL". This was going on since January 2014, but I know that the mass was stirred on 7th June 2014 at 5:30 A.M when a woman in the village started threatening me to abuse with these drugs...blah...blah..and then followed the stir asking all the unmarried women in that area to use these drugs. Why me? I know on 6 June 2014 this village woman calling herself was under the custody of soldiers and they wanted me to use the drugs for the armed soldiers troop questioned this nicknamed woman, "amelio ponnu/person" for intimidating me. I was not aware as to why she was under their custody; and her father was also stirring up something in the Commissioner of Police Office in Madurai with the guards on duty at Meenakshi Amman Temple, which also I witnessed on 5 June 2014. My aim now is to mend "THE PILL" awareness for I know that the increased stir to use this "modus"drugs has stirred in an interest to people to "use the pill" as "emergency contraception".

Let me make clear certain facts of "THE PILL"and the modus or "Hormone Tablets"!!!

I need to write this and hopefully, I wish no more of this heated discussion around me to threaten abuse or possibility of being abused, please!

"THE PILL" are the contraceptions that are also made of the same hormones called the sex hormones: they can be "THE MALE PILL"or "THE FEMALE PILL". Hence, accordingly the pills are made of sex hormones of single type or in combination that in dosages used will not cause harm or alter the natural hormonal balance in the body to cause medical complications unlike the misuse and abuse of HORMONE TABLETS that will cause serious medical complications including death.

Let me write in this blog more of THE PILLS as I have already written of the hormone tablet in my previous blog:

There are nearly 16 different ways of effective contraception method for a couple who do not prefer to have a baby wants to adopt. All they need to do is discuss their doubts, anxieties and needs to a good health practitioner, preferably an adrologist or a gynecologist. This is the couple's choice to decide with the physician and is between the couple to decide as to who will go for the contraception. Why public or employer or a brahmin or an authority?

With advent of technology and racing with time, stress being the buzz word, as the reproductive age spans from 15 to 49 years, adolescent maternity and late maternity are of increase and both of which are prone and cause for increased maternal death rate when the pregnancy is unplanned. So the Government of India has dedicated this year, April 11, National Safe Motherhood Day, for reducing maternal deaths. While they discuss of women's reproductive rights being violated by refusing to prescribe contraception when unmarried and/or without husband, this is also the right of the women to refuse to use such "pills" for need of employers and peers or any other reason, including on a married woman by her own husband without her consent which is equivalent to marital rape.

Talking of THE PILL:

There are two types of THE PILL: the regular monthly contraception and the emergency pill.

The Regular Monthly Contraception:

These will include the use of daily pills which can be made of progesterone only (POPs or progesterone patch or lotion) or combination drugs like Mala-D. However, gone are those days and the contemporary trend is to use spacing contraceptives as tablets (non-hormonal, Chhaya) or injectables (hormonal, injectable contraceptive-MPA). Besides there are a number of pills that are hormones and are used as oral contraceptives to prevent pregnancy, but they come in a pack that are designed for contraception. These pills, thus, will not turn overdosage as will be administered in synchrony with the natural cycle without impacting the hormonal balance.  These pills are of three types: monophasic, biphasic and triphasic based on the amount of progestin and estrogen they release in a day.

Emergency Contraception:

These are the pills that are used when the regular contraception fails or unexpected and unprepared sexual intercourse has happened that can lead to unwanted pregnancy. There are a range of these pills available in the market and they work to prevent pregnancy when consumed within 12 to 72 hours, the maximum, soon after the "unexpected moments".

How do I conclude this topic? I wonder is this possible to post all you wanted to ask me or tell me and not able to open up directly as a comment here? Is this possible that you can change your opinion on reading this for a open-minded and casual direct discussions if you want one? Is this possible if you will learn to ask me if you are curious or learn manners and not to commit crimes by miusing these kind of pills for your doubts and gossips of that handsome chap as my probable husband? Is this possible for me to imagine that I conveyed the message that THE PILL and Modus you threaten to use are not the same? Is this possible that I imagine that Modus or THE PILL are not cultural stigma products but are chemicals used in treatment? Is this possible that I imagine that you will stop blasphemy in name of your religion to increase the market value of these products or make you answer my questions?

Falling in Love - The Story of Progesterone

Progesterone is produced as a tablet. This is a steroid tablet and is used as a drug to go "high" - anabolics.




But what is the real implication of this drug in our lives? We need to know more.

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Biological Role of Progesterone:

I do not intend to focus more on this perspective of progesterone which is well-established and is very well known to many of us. In a gist the role of progesterone has the following physiological effect every month in a successful ovulatory cycle:

1. The secretion of egg stimulates the follicle cells by the lutenising hormone to secrete less progesterone and estrogen. This continues till successful ovulation and formation of corpus luteum.

2. The corpus luteum starts to secrete progesterone. This is to aid in the preparation of the utreus to receive this egg in a bed of tissue that will provide, anchor for development of baby with enough blood supply, oxygen and nutrients.

3. The progesterone secretion continues until the peak is reached and the egg is received. If the egg is a fertilised egg the secretion of progesterone will continue. If not the unfertilised egg will stimulate the inhibition of progesterone and estrogen secretion leading to bleeding with discharge of disintegrated tissues in the uterine lining.

These are the 3 primary roles of progesterone in biological cycle.

The following chart displays level of hormones as monthly cycles:

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This is  CLUE as why and what people are doing and will have an implication on the monthly synchronised cycles to the biology of individual's physiology by doping with modus. PLEASE STOP!!!

Copulatory Behavioral Role of Twin Hormones:

Esterogen: Estrogen are known to do the following: female willingness to approach a male; increases the attractiveness of the female and "primes" for progesterone.

Progesterone: Progesterone has a dual role: in small amounts this will incease and supplement estrogen activity to sexual receptivity to men and libido effects during sexual intercourse; while continued use of progesterone will increase the tendency to reject sexual activity and indulge in nurturing the developing baby if pregnant. If not pregnant, this is when the contraindications of prolonged abuse of progesterone tablets will be effective.

Common contraindications of progesterone: Fatigue, dizziness and an increase appetite. There may be more severe and serious symptoms like breakthrough bleeding, menstrual cramps, bloating caused by water weight gain, moodiness, nausea, irritability and tiredness. They mimick PMS but are not PMS. Very rare symptoms will include fainting, depression, severe headaches, vision problems, breast tenderness and trouble sleeping. Stroke, blood clots and heart attack are very rare effects.

Progesterones have the ability to inhibit bleeding while estrogens stimulate bleeding and increases bleeding levels. This is why progesterones are used to treat people with heavy bleeding or abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB).

Needless to say, without an active sex life the use of these hormone tablets, especially the doses of "birth control pills" is not recommended for the contrainidcations will be amplified. This is because the sexual activity by itself will arouse umpteen physiological elicitations in the body that may in turn will have an implication in reducing the side effects of these tablets.

Needless to say, please do not use these tablets without an appropriate health practitioner's consultation and use it only for yourself. This is why these are Schedule H drugs or prescription drugs that requires to be sold only with the prescription and administered by the physician only after consulting the patient in a proper manner.

N.B: Personal Email from Minister of WCD, India for taking action as despite reporting twice of drugsters red-handed for lack of knowledge and perspectives despite "lecture time" - I still, however, await to receive my FIR copy 

Dysmenorrhea Diet Plan - Fit and Healthy!

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Dysmneorrhea is painful periods and is often considered as a misnomer with heavy bleeding. However, the fact is the painful period is often associated with heavy bleeding on more than 95% of the cases. In rare occasions, patients are observed to have scanty bleeding symptoms associated with dysmenorrhea pain.

Dysmenorrhea in the first few years of menarche are called primary dysmenorrhea. People do say this condition usually continues until the first pregnancy, rather than child birth. Any other reasons that can lead to dysmenorrhea besides medical complications including stress are called secondary dysmenorrhea.


What happens during dysmenorrhea? The pain before and during the first two to three days of periods has been attributed to the cramping of the abdominal muscles which is due to the incapacity of the muscles to be flushed liberally with blood and so scanty oxygen leading to dehydration and pain called cramps.

Usually doctors put people on pills. Yes, but of course, before reaching to a doctor, is best advised to make small lifestyle adaptations and find for yourself the difference. Probably in four to five months one may even forget the pain existence. The reason is majority of the women are forgetting the need for a healthy diet for the voluminous work that the womb does – preparation for bearing a child and so the need to flush it with nutrients and pamper your uterine muscles like how a man will pamper his biceps!

After all a biceps needs so much, then why not a woman’s uterine muscles!

Here’s a small diet plan that I devised to beat the pain with healthy diet and fitness regimen:

1. Choose a regular course of exercise regimen – especially stretches and kegels for the abdominal and pelvis muscles for about 20 to 30 minutes a day .

2. Start the morning with a glassful of water or a cup of relaxing green tea with lime.
Jump start your day with loads of antioxidants – fruits mixed with calcium, minerals, vitamins and fibers – oats or wheat meal cooked in milk. Supplement with toast and egg. Toast and egg could be replaced with the regular idli and dosa but lesser in number with or without vada as usual on an Indian morning menu. If you have space once in a week an additional course of mushrooms or tofu is a very healthy and energetic way to start the day.


3. Pack the lunch bag with regular rice or chapathi. Toss with veggies, sambar or lentils and curd. Needless to say, pack your bag with fruits and a glass of lime juice for the break. What matters is the proportion – eat nominal quantities of rice and increase the fiber content in form of veggies. Besides, while choosing the vegetables the choice is important. When the plan is a starchy vegetable then is best to pack chapathi than rice, and if rice is best to toss with high-fiber veggies and lesser quantity of rice. Cheese and pasta overloaded with veggies and /or chicken and fish are not only relishing but highly nutritive.

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4. Soon on returning home, is again time to refresh with a glass of milk only if there is a need to replenish then a glass of lime juice using the other half of the lime. There are numerous healthy Indian snacks like peanuts to nut mixtures which are nutritious despite the trans-fat if purchased.

5. What’s the dinner plate to be filled in? Simply the best way is to alternate with chapathi and rice as opposing to lunch. Sometime people may resort to idli and dosa. Whatever be on the dinner plate, is best to include enough fiber and a good practice to take a banana for desert to finish the day with enough loads of minerals. Moreover, is also good to include whenever possible a good quantity of lean mean like chicken and fish and red meat like mutton.

6. Throughout the day drink plenty of water and sleep sound for minimum 8-9 hours a day.
This is always good to take a breath of fresh air even on the terrace or somewhere out in the cool air, relaxing and reading a book or playing with a pet or by the sea.

7. I include a regular portion of nuts like sesame, flax seeds, dates or raisins and regularly organ meat to increase the blood flow and reduce the inflammatory chemicals at work.

8. Nevertheless relax and set your moods under control (I hardly have a problem with my mood) but for the shift in energy seeking more rest for the body, by using simple aroma techniques like preparing bathing hot water with jasmine or other flowers and applying my own "yellow wonder bathing powder". 

I believe, dysmenorrhea can turn to be a myth if we can learn to feed our women properly and make them healthy and fit! Feeding the uterine muscles to stay healthy strong flushed with enough blood and oxygen will regulate your periods. 

The causes of dysmenorrhea can be very many. Your uterine is not an isolated organ. There are very many other organs, especially urethra. Just like how during pregnancy the growth of your baby can affect your urinary continency so the infection and discomforts of urethra on uterine. Yet another organ parts are the colorectum. All the three regions are governed by the movements of the lower pelvis floor muscles. So any affect on these muscles can effect the working system of all the three or one or two of them. They are not independent but the muscles are intertwined.