Benefits of Eating with Hands instead of Spoons and Forks

There are many hidden benefits of eating food with hands. Check them out here to ditch those forks and spoons, and start using your hands to eat.

Eating with hands is an age old tradition followed in India. But unfortunately, this tradition is rapidly disappearing among new generation that is more inclined towards Western culture. They prefer eating with spoons and forks instead of hands. In fact, in today’s times, the practice of eating with hands is considered to be unhygienic, disgusting and primitive. It's really bad that most people are unaware of the fact that this ancient practice has a number of health benefits. Even in Ayurveda, it has been mentioned that eating with your hands can benefit your health in numerous ways. A few surprising benefits of eating with hands are given below. Take a look and you’re sure to ditch those spoons and forks right away.

According to a study published by the American Academy of Food Science, eating with hands is much more beneficial to health than eating with the spoon, fork and knife. Because eating with your hands makes you feel full, sooner and thus prevent you from overeating. Moreover, using your hands facilitates your body to readily absorb more nutrients because the food that you eat is also absorbed into your bloodstream through your hands unlike when you eat with spoons or forks. There are many other benefits like these that support the practice of eating with hands.

Increase energy levels

According to Ayurveda, human body is composed of five elements - air, water, fire, earth and space. An imbalance in any one of these elements can disrupt the immunity system and cause various diseases. Also ayurvedic texts teaches us that each of our finger is related to one of the five elements (the thumb indicates fire, the index finger represents air, the middle finger correlates with sky, the ring finger indicates earth and the little finger indicates water). So when you join your fingers and thumb to eat food, you unknowingly bring all these five elements together and keep them in harmony with one another. Eventually, the energy level of your body increases and helps you stay healthy.

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Bitter (Metalic) Taste in Mouth During Pregnancy: Causes and Home Remedies to Cure

Find out here what causes that strange metallic taste in your mouth during pregnancy. Also, get some home remedies and tips to get rid of this unpleasant condition called dysgeusia.

Pregnancy not only brings with it great joy and ecstasy, but also some dramatic physical and emotional changes. While morning sickness, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, frequent urination, and mood swings are common during pregnancy, there are certain symptoms that occur only to some expectant women. Experiencing a strange metallic taste in mouth is one such uncommon symptom of pregnancy. Medically, this condition is referred to as dysgeusia, in which the sense of taste gets distorted. It’s not at all a serious issue and the metallic taste usually fades away with onset of second trimester. Nevertheless, this condition can make a pregnant woman quite uncomfortable during early stages of pregnancy. Luckily, there are some easy things an expectant woman can do to get rid of that sour metallic taste from mouth.

Before we look into some effective home remedies for dysgeusia, let’s have a look at what causes this condition during pregnancy.

Dysgeusia arises in the first trimester of pregnancy, in which the expecting mother experiences a lasting bitter metallic taste in mouth as if she’s chewing or sucking coins. And this taste persists even when the mouth is empty. The exact cause behind this strange condition has not yet been found. However, doctors and midwives have different theories regarding what causes a sour taste in month during pregnancy. Some of these widely-believed theories are given below.

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Dangers of Porn: Reasons why you should not watch Porn

Check out disadvantages of porn addiction that ruin your marriage, life’s goals, and social life by turning you into the lustful short tempered maniac.

Pornography has become more threatening addiction than alcohol and drugs. Porn only increases your lust towards opposite sex with wild fantasy that may even draw you to do shameful act of rape to fulfill your uncontrolled lust. Porn works as a gasoline for your lust fire and it is a hazard for your mental and physical health. Just five minutes short porn clip also makes you fall on the slippery road of porn addiction, where you spoil your vital seeds, testosterone, energy and dreams to succeed in life and conquer world. If you still think that you might get some benefits by watching erotic porn movies, then checkout terrific side effects and symptoms of pornography addiction that can ruin your social, personal and professional life completely.

Porn makes you lazy: Porn addicted person can spend hours and hours in front of computer or television screen to satisfy lust through erotic videos. Porn addiction makes any person lazy and health becomes very fragile on long term basis. Once you start doing masturbation while watching porn, all your strength will be wasted to make you feel lazy and weak. Feeling lazy and weak is considered to be one of the pornography addiction symptoms. Its recovery is possible only when person willingly decided to stop watching porn.

Porn is addiction that leads to other addictions: Porn is nothing but a wild fantasy, in which woman or man do erotic moves also add other addiction in their act to make it hotter. Watching porn on daily basis makes you addicted to it in such a way that your situation becomes same to the drug addicted. Once you are addicted to porn, you will be in same states like of frustrated person, addicted to drug. To the conclusion, it also invites alcohol and other addictions in your lifestyle to satisfy your lust.

Porn is a form of sexism: Porn is fake intimate scene between two human bodies. Porn also increases gender discrimination by subjecting woman or man in particular way to explore some part of their body. Especially porn objectifies woman partner by exploring breasts and genitals and increases watcher’s lust to the limit that they do not see anything else in other women they meet in their life. Technically, porn makes you pshyco that see any girl with lust only.

Porn is doom for marriage: In any of the porn movie, woman partner is pictured having silky skin, well groomed personality in the sexiest manner. On other side, man partner is portrayed as handsome with unbeatable stamina. In real life, any of the above mentioned personalities are not possible to find in one person. It makes you to have less interest in your partner as you wanted to look them like porn stars and leads to divorce. So, think about it what you want: A long happy life with your beloved charming life partner or fantasy of unnatural porn stars?

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Natural Gnat Repellent: Get Rid of Gnats with Home Remedies

Stop buzzing and rotten smelling gnats to come in your home or surrounding by using effective home remedies of vinegar, garlic, vodka, tobacco, etc.

Once humidity increases in air, you might see small pests roaming around open fruits and small plants that you have placed in your home or outside in garden. These pests are known as Gnats. They are totally harmless to us but its buzzing sound and rotten smell make you irritating. Besides fruits and indoor plants, gnats also make their colony near kitchen sink, bathroom, garbage can, leak drainage pipes and other humid places. They are also considered as best places for gnats to breed. It is impossible to change climate immediately, but you can try following ways to get rid of these terrific Gnats naturally.

Gnats are small pests that have been emerged out from humid place where they feed on plant and breed. They are smaller insects but bigger than mosquitoes. They do not harm humans. Adult Gnats live for time period of one week, and it can lay more than 300 eggs in that much time period. Larvae or maggots have shiny black head and elongated transparent body. They feed on roots of plant. Larvave do damage to host plant by leaving injuries resulting into the Geraniums, African violets, Carnations and Poinsettias.

Home remedies to get rid of Gnats naturally:

Check plants before buying: One of the most prominent and easiest methods to stay away from gnats is to check your indoor plants thoroughly before buying. As life cycle of gnats is not more than 3-4 weeks, more than one life stages from larvae to adults can be seen in soil of single plant.

Electric swatters: Electric swatters not only help to kill mosquitoes but it also help you to kill flying gnats to kill with electric current that flows through this electric swatters. This can also help to get rid of gnats outside your home.

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How to overcome Tiredness and Sleepiness in Office

Convert lazy afternoon’s tiredness and sleepiness into the most energetic one by following simple yet most effective tips to improve your concentration at work in office.

Once you hear the word “office”, you will get clear picture in your mind that every employee come on scheduled time and work with full of energy. When slow and steady running clock hits 2 pm in afternoon, every person feels little tiredness and sleepiness. If you are also working in any company, then for sure you will feel sleepy in noon time after your lunch. Any medicine will not help you to overcome tiredness and sleepiness of afternoon, because it is not any illness or health issue. It is a simple reflex of your own body due to lack of active and healthy lifestyle. Keep afternoon tiredness and sleepiness at a bay by including simple yet effective tips in your daily routine.

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Save Money with Multipurpose Use of Things you already have

Here are some everyday items you probably have around your house that can serve multiple purposes. Use them for a variety of uses and start saving on your budget!

Did you know that toothpaste can serve a lot many purposes than just whitening your teeth? Actually, not only toothpaste, many other everyday household items that you already have in your home can be used for so much more! You can indeed save a handsome sum of money in the long run by using those products for a variety of uses. Seven such common household items with multiple and unique uses are given below. Check them out and make sure to make the most out of these regular items. This will surely save you lot of money, time and effort.

Newspaper

Newspapers have superb odor-absorbing characteristics. You can use newspaper to deodorize food and beverage containers. Simply stuff crumpled newspaper inside lunch boxes, thermoses, ice chests or plastic kitchen containers and let it sit overnight to eliminate the nasty smell from them. However, avoid stuffing colored newspaper in damp containers; otherwise it could leave a stain.

You can use the same trick for eliminating odor from your refrigerator. Just line a shelf with newspaper overnight to deodorize the whole refrigerator. You can even place a piece of paper in the vegetable drawer all the time to keep it dry and free of smell.

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Decriminalise Sex Work: Pros and Cons

Calls grow to decriminalization of sex work! As every coin has two sides, same way decriminalization of sex work has various pros and cons, so let’s see them in detail here.

A sex worker can be male, female, or transgender, who get money or goods in exchange for sexual services, either often or rarely. In most countries, sex work and activities related with it are criminal offenses, so countries struggle with the legal act of prostitution or sex work, a practice that is as old as history itself. It has become difficult for sex workers to access legal, social and health services due to the disgrace that connected with sex work and make service-providers so reluctant to support sex workers. Every day sex workers are subjected to force and violence from the police, clients, and their boyfriends, and have no legal option, so they have called the government to decriminalize sex work. In simple words, decriminalization means to abolish all criminal laws against sex work, so that sex workers can live without stigma, social exclusion, and fear of violence.

As per a new study published in the world’s leading medical journal - The Lancet, the decriminalization of sex work can drastically reduce global HIV infections among female sex workers, leading to a decrease of at least a third in three countries (Canada, India and Kenya) examined by researchers. In a paper presented at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, the decriminalization of sex work can avert HIV infections among female sex workers by 33 to 46 % over the next decade in those countries. As per the World Health Organization, female sex workers are 14 times as probable to have HIV as other women, whereas transgender women are around 50 times as probable to have HIV as other adults.

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