Under the Microscope: The Trash Culture

Under the Microscope: The Trash Culture

Life is about loving with abandon!

In the sacrifice of love is the ecstasy of love and in the tremor of goodbye is the value of love!  Then why does it give pain when love isn’t reciprocated the way we want it to be?  All my life I wanted to be loved with abandon; all my life I craved for it. Why is true love so hard to find for some? Or is there some kind of beauty in sadness, some pleasure in pain, I wonder.

 Sometimes it becomes to much of an ordeal; this life for me. When waves of sadness glide on my shore, when tears wave their wand over my eyes, tumble down my face, when my mind traverses  a wooden path paved yet quaint, I ponder: Is it because I loved with abandon?  Trails of loneliness drift at my doorstep, hovering around. I close my eyes, wishing them away. They linger about in the irresolute way, in the stillness of night.

But comes the dawn and I wake up new; new hopes, new dreams. This is life, my friend, whispers someone in my ears; there is fire and storm yet there is hope and vision. Life is about loving with abandon. It must be about loving with abandon, it must be…

My good bacterias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food," the age-old adage by Hippocrates, is certainly not an obscure and loose dogma of early antiquity but the tenet of today. The new generation's relationship with food is a mess, with many youngsters accustomed to a processed, unbalanced diet. We have become reliant on ready-to-cook meals, takeaways and off-the-shelf snacks. With poor nutrition comes poor health, often debilitating at a personal level and the cause of enormous social and economic expense.

Although we know benefits of eating good food, many of us just don't do enough to make fundamental changes to our diet. Rather than eat more fruit and vegetables and a good balance of complex carbohydrate and protein-foods, we are increasingly turning to foods and drinks fortified with specific nutrients or 'good' bacteria -as a 'magic fix' for our unbalanced lives.

As a result, the market for functional foods, or foods that promote health beyond providing basic nutrition, is flourishing. Within the functional foods movement is the small but rapidly expanding arena of probiotics - live microorganisms, which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host. Probiotics beneficially affect an individual by improving intestinal microbial balance. Use of probiotic has been since time immemorial: from sauerkraut in Russia to cheese in Baghdad and vegetables buried in earthen pots by Native Americans, these foods have been prized since ancient times. However, we've lost our connection with these foods in modern days, so they often seem so foreign. After growing up with refrigeration and the fear of "germs", it seems "wrong" to leave things on the counter to sour. The smell and taste is different from what we're used to having.

The traditional sources for beneficial bacteria are fermented foods, which are made by culturing fresh foods like milk or vegetables with live bacteria (usually a lactobacillus). Almost every food culture features some sort of fermented food, such as miso, yogurt, kefir, fresh cheese, sauerkraut, etc. Most often, they come from two groups of bacteria, Lactobacillus or Bifidobacterium. Within each group, there are different species (for example, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Bifidobacterium bifidus), and within each species, different strains.

Probiotics bacteria can help relieve the symptoms of inflammatory bowel diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis and alcoholic liver disease. The probiotics bacteria may help relieve constipation by improving intestinal mobility. Various forms of lactic acid bacteria added when manufacturing yogurt, acidophilus milk and fermented milk products such as kefir can help lessen the effects of lactose intolerance. This inability to digest the sugars that occur naturally in milk affects nearly 70 percent of the world's population.

There is also evidence that probiotics may help to prevent certain kinds of allergies because they have a beneficial effect on mucous membranes.

Although testing on humans is limited, preliminary evidence shows that probiotics can help boost the immune system. Studies of the effect of probiotics consumption on cancer appear promising. Animal and in vitro studies indicate that probiotics bacteria may reduce colon cancer risk by reducing the incidence and number of tumors.. Scientists have identified good bacteria already living in some humans that target and trap HIV and may protect against infection. "I believe every life form has its natural enemy, and HIV should not be the exception," says Dr. Lin Tao, Associate Professor of the Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, and University of Illinois at Chicago. "If we can find its natural enemy, we can control the spread of HIV naturally and cost-effectively, just as we use cats to control mice."

Gnawing like a termite- Corruption

 Let us cleanse our mind from  greed,

 And hold our heads high….

Let our words still have some semblence of truth

And our deeds some essence of purity.....

Where we can still restore rationale its meaning
And return from the deadly desert of gluttony....

Let us recoil from the widening desire & lust 
And pledge together and pray for a Kashmir…..

where vultures dont erode our last shred of hope

And termites not gnaw us from inside….

Let us wake up

And rouse others for a corruption free Kashmir….