Home Made Nasi Goreng.....

So after ages of continuous studying and exams, I've finally got a vacation time to catch up with my blogging. "Designing is not an easy job and it definitely is not for light hearted people" that's what I learnt after two years of design work. Yes, it's very refreshing and interesting but all the same can be very stressful as well. While having all the fun with designing and planning, I occasionally find time to de-stress as well. My way of releasing stress is culinary art. Thank god, I had a blissful childhood with my grandmother who excelled in many cuisine around the world and I miss her dearly and her awesome, simple delicacies which inspired me to explore my takes on different dishes, meals and cuisines from around the world.... Oh, and please excuse for the quality of the picture. (Too hungry to take proper pictures, I guess... :P )

Harmful Effects Of Air Pollution

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Air pollution is among the most critical health concerns that the modern world is facing today. Rapid industrial and scientific advancement in the last century has certainly made human life more comfortable. But it has also been the main cause behind air pollution. Wastes in the form of smoke from industrial power plants, automobiles and homes pollute the atmosphere. Burning of fossil fuels like coal, wood, diesel, kerosene, petrol etc in industries, power plants and houses also causes air pollution.

The various pollutants present in contaminated air and their ill effects are:

1. Carbon monoxide- Carbon monoxide is produced due to incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons and fuels. This gas combines with hemoglobin and reduces the oxygen carrying capacity of blood. This leads to blurred vision, headache, unconsciousness and death in extreme cases. 

2. Hydrocarbons- The smoke emitted by automobiles contains a variety of hydrocarbons. These hydrocarbons are formed from unburned fuel. During rain, the hydrocarbons present in the air enter the surface water. These hydrocarbons form a oily film on the surface of water. Drinking of water containing toxins like hydrocarbons can lead to typhoid, hepatitis, jaundice, cholera, diarrhea, dysentery and various skin ailments like formation of wrinkles and pimples. Regular use of Lifecell cream can help in getting rid of pimples and wrinkles.   

Love Your Teeth..... They Are Your Smile!

 Hiya people and once again I'm really really sorry for not posting frequent enough because my precious lappy is not working these days. (thanks to my geniusness!) Anyways, funny I should mention about teeth and smile! I'm having a big toothache these days but not to worry because it's not because of a teeth problem. Anyways it made me realise how important our teeth are, at least to avoid the unbearable pain you'll get once you have a toothache, you should protect yours. Well, basically that's what I'm gonna tell my kids. "Brush your teeth twice a day or you'll suffer in future!"

However, I'm not going to keep writing about brushing your teeth but rather a more deeper aspect. Why on earth do we get these toothaches? What causes those pains? How to avoid a toothache? What are the simple remedies for a toothache? Likewise so keep reading people!

Once I got my toothache, all I could think is how the hell I'm gonna get out of this? So after trying some few remedies my mom told me ( which were okay first but the ache did not disappear fully) I searched the internet for home remedies. Believe me, it was not satisfactory at all. Bearing all that in my mind I tried few of them and few new things but nothing was permanent.

Lose Weight In A Healthy Way.....

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There is no doubt in the saying that "Health is wealth" because, if not for health we won't be able to continue our day today chores, work and activities to earn money and live. On a previous note, we discussed about the weight "Your weight, Your health", a significant fact that should be maintained in a healthier manner for a healthier life. 

Your weight has a direct association with many of the diseases you are prone to get. Some of the well known ones are,

• Blood Pressure
• Heart Failure
• Diabetes
• Cholesterol
• Cancer
• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease
• Hernia
• Liver problems
• Dementia
• Renal failure
• Depression
• Varicose veins 

What mentioned above are only a few compared to direct and indirect associations over weight could have to other little known and major diseases.

Your Weight, Your Health......

A problem we often see in most parts of the world is over weight or obesity. Where there are nations with no food at all for some regions even show some amount of obesity. But why? Why do people get fat? We eat, we work out but still obesity is a problem for you?

I've known people who are born fat. Some gain weight over time and then there are people no matter what they eat or how much they eat, they never get fat. Kinda jealous about them right? It's not only food that should be considered regarding getting fat or thin but other facts like, the amount of good fat you eat, the amount of exercise you do, your age, your sex, they all play a part.

First of all, let's see what's a healthy weight......

As you all know, the simplest way to determine your healthy weight is the BMI. BMI means Body Mass Index. BMI is determined by dividing your weight from the square of your height. When you measure your weight in kg, your height should be in meters or else if you measure your weight in pounds, height should be measured in inches. BMI does not measure your body fat but merely gives an idea about the fat in your body. Now the healthy range of the results of BMI lies between 18.5 to 24.9. That means you have proper weight for your height. 

Top Ten Natural Ways To Look Young & Stay Healthy!

What if you can stay healthy & look young at the same time? What more do you need! Indeed, we know that there is a lot of pressure to many when it comes to seeing your first gray hair or wrinkle on your face. At the same time, most of the people, especially women try many cosmetic and chemical methodologies to look two three years younger. But have to considered that, it might actually cut two three years of your life? Well, they can if you aren't careful enough. Anyhow, natural methods of becoming beautiful and young have proven to be fruitful as well as friendlier. So let's find out what they are!

10. Drinking a lot of water

Consider your body as a factory. A factory always removes tons of waste and chemicals daily and so does your body. When you sweat, pass urine, exhale or loose water in any other form you remove waste from your body too. So the more you drink water, it's easy for your body to remove more and more unwanted chemical particles and waste from your body cleansing you from inside. The average amount you need to drink a day depends on your weight. It is said 8 glasses a day would do but if you have more weight, you better drink more. 

Another tip is that water can reduce your weight. This is known as water therapy. 

Drink a glass of water with  a drop of lime or lemon early in the morning,

A glass of water 30 minutes before all three meals,

And more water during the day and less during night can help you displace your unnecessary weight. This really works. 

Black Tahitian Pearls and Your Skin....

The pearls that look good both around your neck and in your skin care creams!

Look at the back of your favourite skin care product at the ingredients list and I guarantee you will find the first ingredient is "aqua". 

Aqua is basically water and most commercial skin care creams and lotions are predominantly water. Due to this, most of their moisture and nutrition quickly runs off the dry, wrinkled skin and people find themselves having to use two skin care products: first, a base layer product to moisturise the skin and help the cream get absorbed and second, an anti-ageing product to help get rid of those wrinkles.

But this is inefficient. As soon as the first layer product evaporates, the dry, wrinkled skin returns. And with conventional skin care products, no matter how hard you try, you will never be able to permanently cure your dry wrinkled skin. What you need is a luxurious premium anti-ageing skin care product to help your wrinkles away!

Best Ways To Get Necessary Vitamins To Your Body

Vitamins are vital for our body. Just like we can't live without water or Oxygen, other nutrients including Vitamins & Minerals are musts for the smooth functioning of your body. Vitamins however are a healthy aspect that many women ( and men of course) take care to get to their bodies because they are directly associated with your skin and beauty. Well, when it comes to beauty and skin care department, no one can stop us women from trying to get a healthier, glowing skin. Other nutrients do affect but effects of Vitamins are so visible and people often go for them than other nutrients. As you all know by now, Vitamins are grouped into two categories as water soluble and fat soluble. Vitamin D,E,A,K are fat soluble while the rest Vitamin Band complexes and C are water soluble. You should be able to have all the necessary Vitamins on a daily basis. Remember too much or none should be always avoided. So what can Vitamins do to your body?

Vitamins and your body

Vitamins while inside your body helps tissue growth and differentiation, They oversee the metabolism inside your body promoting over all health and protect you from certain diseases. Vitamins like Vitamin C helps Collagen fiber to grow and develop. Collagen is the fiber or the structural component that keep your skin firm and young. With age your body looses the ability to produce this collagen so still at young, if your body keep producing collagen, it won't be a problem much when you are aging. Most of the vitamins are antioxidants. They assist the body functions that are in the process of eliminating waste chemical from your body. Best example is Vitamin D. Important activities like vision, reproduction are maintained well because of your vitamins. I mentioned only the important ones, so it's shown here how much vital it is to get Vitamins into your body. Now let's see the ways to get Vitamins into your body. 

My Salad Collection.......

Looking for something healthy and tasty? Well, in my opinion, salads are the best option you have. They are easy, healthy and with the right dressing they will be yummier than anything. Before we jump into the recipes, why don't we just go through some facts about salads? 

Salad itself is considered as a meal. Usually it contains raw vegetables and sometimes is served as a cold meal when added pasta or is served hot. Ingredients used to make the salad vary depending on the type of flavour and appetite of the consumer. Salads can be served at different times during a full meal as an appetizer, side dish, main course, palate cleansing salad or dessert salads. The word "salad" is a derivation from french word "salade" meaning salty because mainly they were seasoned with sea salt. History reveals that the first consumption of mixed vegetables and dressings was by Greeks and Romans. What we call "Chef's salad" was then called the Salmagundi. It shows how much salads have evolved within a short period of time. 

Why should we eat salad?

Vegan Recipes For Wesak Week!!!

Hi everyone! Start of another beautiful month is here. As most of you aware, May is a special month for Buddhists all around the world because of Wesak Full Moon Poya Day. It has become a memorable day since 2600 years ago as three significant events in Lord Buddha's life namingly Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirwanaya took place on a day like the Wesak Poya Day. Unlike other full moon days Wesak plays an important role in Buddhists' lives shaping their life styles and day today activities within the Wesak week into a more religiously active life style. A change in their normal meals is also another way of respecting the Wesak week and to restrain from sins. That's why most of the people focus on vegetables in this week. 

It's not easy for someone who has been eating meat to follow something strictly vegan. But with the following recipes, I think you can start small. And trust me being a vegetarian has many benefits too. 

Your Hair.... An asset or a liability?????

Howdy all the readers out there. It's been awhile since our last post. I must say time is something hard and very rare to find these days but some how, we've managed to buzz in some interesting topics this season too. We often consider ourselves to be presentable in a manner concerning our looks. Mostly that depends on how well you took care of your inside, your hair and your skin. Out of the three, the second; your hair could be the first and foremost factor that draws attention to you because in my opinion, hair is actually who you are and what you want to be.....

Your hair, an asset or a liability?? This can be a question to may depending on what type of a hair you've got. Thanks to all the good genes of my parents, I and my sister have inherited naturally straight hair. When I say naturally straight, to my great happiness, many consider it's rare kind of a straightness with unique beauty. And that's some asset I can be really happy about. But no pressure to those who have average hair because, having average hair does not matter but how well you make use of it does. Make it an asset or a liability- the choice is in your hands. Typically these are several types of hair you get to see. There's straight hair and then the curly hair. Again we can subdivide these two groups as in extreme straightness to mild and slight. Same goes to the curly hair. These are small nice curls and then there are fuzzy kinds of curls.

Amazing Uses of Olive Oil......

Olive oil is an amazing creation of nature that we can use for many of our day today needs. What makes it more useful is that when in food, it is much healthier that coconut oil or vegetable oil and when used as a beauty product, it can make miracles. Here are some of the best uses of Olive oil. Hope you find them useful.....

Skin Care

Virgin Olive oil has the power to moisturize the skin penetrating deeply into the skin and cleansing the skin at the same time. Olive oil helps to increase the smoothness of the skin allowing the skin cells to regenerate constantly. Olive oil also reduces the dryness of the skin.

Culinary Item

Olive oil is basically used as a culinary item in the kitchen. It is the main cooking oil in most of the countries too. It is often used as a salad dressing, deep frying oil and as a natural lubricants for most of the kitchenware. 

Short Tempered.......... Huh???????

Many of us don't consider anger as a real problem. I say Anger is a real problem if you can't control it at any cost. At the same time we should understand that anger is a natural process that allows us to express our strong emotions to adapt. It is not a bad thing and it should be expressed or let out of you. Suppressing anger and loosing control of it are the two extremes you have to take care of. Otherwise you will definitely face mental and physiological problems in due course. Anger acts as a combine force of both emotional and physiological changes. You get emotionally aggressive which results in release of hormones like Adrenaline preparing your body for a fight. 

Anger is an active process which involves lot of energy. The sudden wave of this energy you get is turn to taking out on someone or something. That's why we often scold others or hit a wall. But this is not good at all. The other way is no matter how hard you want to let go of your anger you suppress it until next time. These situations often turn into grudges that become the first steps of revenge. But all the same this is not a problem at all for those who are not short or hot tempered. But if you think or feel like you cannot control your anger you better think of a way to control it.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure.......... Gastritis

It's a miracle if you have been able to live your life without a single illness or a disease but unfortunately or fortunately we cannot live so. I said unfortunately for the obvious reason that we all wish to be free of illnesses. I said fortunately because unless you loose something you don't realize how valuable it is and it holds very true for your health too. My mom always keeps telling me that no matter how well you eat or how many times you eat without skipping meals, that's not enough. I realized after a while she was telling me the truth because just because you do everything right doesn't mean that you are disease free. You just have to be careful of types of diseases you can get without any of your concern as well as illnesses that you get by over concern regarding your health. So as to say health is like a beam balance. You have to maintain it at the center giving a medium attention. We always worry and care more about aspects like our body shape and figure. So today we are going to discuss about an illness most of us familiar with because of over dieting and neglect. Gastritis.

Face Painting....

Howdy people!!!! Today I'm gonna tell you about how to do a face painting in a safe method. Face painting is a fun accessory you can wear. And not only for a funky party but you can wear a design with elegance if you have the taste and style for a higher occasion too. On all above,make sure you buy the highest quality paints because unlike others, you may get a health issue if you don't. All acrylic paints with non toxic label do not indicate that they can be put on your face. Mind you, our skin is very sensitive so they can get allergic to paint. First of all make sure you are not allergic to paint. 

Coffeed........

COFFEE!!! How amazing it is to know that many depend on a mug of this caffeinated drink to survive a day. Even among my friends, half to half are coffee addicted coffee lovers. I myself consider the tea person but even I do have a certain likeliness to iced Coffee.  The origin of Coffee plant is from Ethiopia and today many countries in Asia including Sri Lanka and Latin America grows Coffee and export. Coffee has caffeine which has a stimulating effect on humans. That's why we usually drink Coffee to stay awake and it is a great power booster too.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure.......... Migraine

Howdy people!!! I hope you guys are doing fine. Well, today we are going to learn about Migraine. Ohh!!! One of the most irritating illnesses in this world. What is Migraine really??? Well Migraine is a common type of a headache. It further pushes into details like vomiting, nausea etc. Some have vision problems as result of this. So let's get to know it first then.

Migraine- Identify it

Migraine usually can appear in any stage of life but mostly it shows symptoms during ages of 10 to 45. Another thing you have to know is that this can be in family rather than the normal individual headache. Mostly women are prone to this than men. Migraine is not just another headache. It is due to abnormal brain activity. What you have to understand here is that this is not due to serious medical problems like brain tumor or cancer but simply the abnormal activity triggered by a certain causative agent.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure.......... Asthma

Hey people, today's Prevention Is Better Than Cure entry would be on Asthma; a common disease. We will discuss about how you get it, how to cure it, and of course how to prevent it. Asthma is very common actually. If you take a look at histories of few selected patients, you will get the idea how common Asthma can be. Most of the people during their life times get some type of Asthma. Well today we will attack Asthma. So here we go.

What is Asthma????

Asthma is a chronic disorder that causes the airways of the lungs to swell and narrow or simply inflammation. This results in wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing. When this happens the amount of air that is taken into the lungs reduces.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure.......... Allergies

Today, we are starting a new series of entries to raise awareness among our readers about diseases and illnesses that affect our health directly and indirectly. In doing so we hope to help our readers regarding these diseases to prevent them from future damage. Health is very important. We only sense it when we are sick actually because we invest a tremendous amount of energy, time and money to restore our health once we are sick. A simple cold can ruin your day. But with correct methodology we all can prevent these illnesses and be healthy and strong. For that we believe, we have to identify the diseases/illnesses first. To fight them of or to prevent them harming our families we have to be thorough with them, their causative agents etc. So, today's one will be Allergies.

Pet Lovers..........

Most of us loooove pets especially cute little puppies and kittens. Well that is of course human nature. Apart from that humans cannot live alone so sometimes pets are good companions. And in most cases they really are. A family portrait will always be incomplete with that cuddly looking dog friend. So why we love pets so much??? Are they helpful??? Will your pet be happy with you?? We are going to discuss some of the facts about them today.