Friday, January 16, 2015

Why you should stop drinking bottled water

Why you should stop drinking bottled water


Do you tend to consume too many bottles of packaged drinking water? Here’s a good reason to stop doing so. A study performed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) reveals that you are exposed to a host of harmful chemicals when you drink packaged water. 
How was the study conducted?
The study was carried out at 18 different bottled water companies in Mumbai, where 5 samples  of 1 litre bottles were analysed.
Which harmful chemicals were found in the samples?
The study revealed the presence of harmful chemicals like bromate in samples where 1 litre of packaged water contained 27% bromate. (Read:Warning: Avoid reusing plastic mineral water bottles!)
How does packaged water harm your health?
Drinking of packaged water with high amount of bromate could cause diseases like cancer, stomach infection and hair fall.
What is the limit of exposure?
Ideally, only 10% bromate is supposed to be present in bottled water and, according to WHO, only 4 mg of bromate is needed for packaged water. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that they will go through the report and will take necessary steps to make packaged water safer for consumption.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

where the mistake lies

Since childhood we were made to believe that if we do well in academics, we can get a job with a good salary and we will eventually be happy there after. So the entire purpose of education is just to get a job? And, Is happiness related to money? Can't we just do what we love? Where is the mistake? Is it the educational system or the society? Is it our teachers or parents or us? Whom should we please and why? Who will measure our success and why? Where are we running and why? Should we change or the system? And how?

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

MS Dhoni Announces Retirement From Test Cricket


We Miss You MS Dhoni - The Legend
No farewell matches like Sachin..
No emotional press conferences like Dravid..
He came out to bat today..
Bailed India out of trouble with his calm batting..
Managed a DRAW for his country..
Then, gave a SMILING Interview in the presentation ceremony..
Praised all his team mates for their effort in the test match..
Didn't uttered a single word about his retirement..
Then, walked away SILENTLY..

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Inspirational Stories #176 - The Gift of Forgiveness – Christmas Story

The Christmas of 1949 we didn’t have a tree. My dad had as much pride as anybody, I suppose, so he wouldn’t just say that we couldn’t afford one.
When I mentioned it, my mother said that we weren’t going to have one this year, that we couldn’t afford one, and even if we could – it was stupid to clutter up your house with a dead tree.
I wanted a tree badly though, and I thought – in my naive way – that if we had one, everybody would feel better.

Amazing Facts about Food (It's too funny !!!)

Here are some of the funniest and amazing facts about food.  Read them and enjoy.




100 pounds of rain water is required to produce a single pound of food from earth.  
ü  11.9 pounds of cereal are consumed by average American / Canadian per year
ü  Do you know that we get only one pound of coffee from one coffee tree?
ü  The fear vegetables is called as Lachanophobia
ü  Do you know that the French fries came from Belgium, but they are most popular in USA
ü  The number one selling snack in USA is the Potato chips
ü  Do you know that Russian children are given a birthday pie instead of birth day cake?