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Join if you smoke or support us in this causeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-88942602452456336892010-06-13T03:22:00.000-07:002010-06-13T03:22:19.813-07:00Cholesterol Diet Tips<a href="http://www.healthji.com/article/cholesterol-diet-tips.html">Good Health Good Life</a><br />Did you know?<br /><br />You may know what foods to avoid in order to keep your levels of bad cholesterol in check -- no mounds of butter on your bread, or ice cream for dessert every night -- but what are the foods you should be including in your diet to ensure a healthy heart and a managed level of cholesterols?<br /><br />Research Bite<br /><br />Many studies have found that in order to manage your cholesterol levels, you need to know which foods are heart healthy and which are not. By eating the correct foods, you can raise your good cholesterol while lowering the bad. Knowing what to eat or what not eat is not enough though. You need to know how to prepare your food in a healthy manner as well.<br /><br />Diet Tips<br /><br />You can reduce your cholesterol levels and decrease your chances of developing heart diseases by increasing the intake of the following foods:<br /><br />Oats<br /><br />Oatmeal and oat bran are rich in soluble fiber, a type of fiber which lowers the bad or LDL cholesterol without lowering the good HDL cholesterol. Thus, food products containing oat bran and rolled oats, such as oatmeal, and whole oat flour should be included in your diet. One bowl of oatmeal contains about 3 grams of soluble fiber. Include other soluble-fiber-rich foods such as apples, kidney beans, pears and barley.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-12140994217233825962010-06-13T03:17:00.000-07:002010-06-13T03:17:23.389-07:00Yoga to Reduce Wrinkles and Aging<a href="http://www.healthji.com/article/yoga-to-reduce-wrinkles-and-aging.html">Good Health Good Life</a><br />Did you know?<br /><br />The most common definition of aging is not what really determines it. In reality, misusing our bodies over a long time causes the body to degenerate and consequently look older. Yoga helps in making you feel younger. If there is any key to longer life, it is none other than Yoga. It not only helps in preventing skin infections but also helps in bringing luster to the skin, reduce wrinkles, and improve the tone.<br /><br />Research Bite<br /><br />Research says that facial exercises and body exercises help to tones muscles and stimulate circulation, which can produce, over time, such pleasing visible effects like reduced sagging with smoother and glowing skin. Different yoga asanas, mudras, breathing techniques and meditation tells us the way to accomplish the target of glowing skin.<br /><br />Yoga exercises to reduce wrinkles<br /><br />Here we are suggesting some yoga exercises to reduce wrinkles, which may prove helpful in making you look younger.<br /><br />Agraa Valaya - Take a comfortable stance with your hands on your hips and your legs about hip-width apart. Lengthen your torso as you bend forward from your waist slowly until you've bent as far as your flexibility allows. Move your hands down your legs and to the back of your calves as you bend forward. If possible, bring your hands to the back of your ankles. Allow your head and neck to be free, which is what gives this pose it’s wrinkle-fighting power. Breathe deeply in this pose. When you inhale, focus on lengthening your torso. When you exhale, allow yourself to relax more deeply into the forward bend. Stay in the pose for at least one minute or longer if you would like. Come out of the pose by moving your hands to your hips, then moving to a fully upright position during a long exhale.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-170573930058178942010-06-13T03:13:00.000-07:002010-06-13T03:13:26.236-07:00Are you Sleep Deprived?<a href="http://www.healthji.com/article/are-you-sleep-deprived.html">Good Health Good Life</a><br />There are two stages of one's sleep:<br /><br />REM (Rapid Eye Movement)-contributes to mental consolidation<br />Non- REM-Aids physical repair and rebuilding<br />During a typical night, one alternates between the above two stages approximately 4-5 times. Insufficient number of hours of sleep contributes to:<br /><br />Mental irritability (5-6 hours of sleep) due to lack of REM sleep<br />Physical tiredness (<5 hours of sleep) due to lack of non-REM sleep<br />ATHLETES: You need to bear in mind that in case you are a runner, your body needs an extra hour of sleep to repair any running related tissue/cell damage.<br /><br />EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN AND BODY:<br /><br />Neurons start malfunctioning<br />Slurring of speech can begin<br />Slows imaginative thinking<br />Causes hallucinations<br />Learning capabilities are reduced<br />Causes a 'sleep debt', which when coupled with stress and hypertension can lead to a stroke or heart attackUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-49019124343515353142010-06-13T03:11:00.000-07:002010-06-13T03:11:52.637-07:00Aiding Anorexia<a href="http://www.healthji.com/article/aiding-anorexia.html">Good Health Good Life</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-85087304450960009342010-06-12T04:01:00.000-07:002010-06-12T04:01:20.754-07:00Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals<object style="background-image:url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/pSm7BcQHWXk/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pSm7BcQHWXk&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pSm7BcQHWXk&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-20424034279761195692010-05-27T22:29:00.000-07:002010-05-27T22:30:43.014-07:00YOU CHOOSETake a Break and you will not like when BREAK takes YOUUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-50916020666856754522009-11-13T04:05:00.001-08:002009-11-13T04:05:43.238-08:00Smoking Cost calculator from Desi Dieter Check out Desi Diet | Diet Plans India | Weight Loss| Indian Diet Plan | Popular Recipes | Diabetes Diet | Lose Weight <br /><br />Link: http://gotaf.socialtwist.com/redirect?l=535383942497431691511Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-36175283314454457002009-11-12T21:32:00.000-08:002009-11-12T21:33:26.332-08:00Interview of Mr Job Hopper - Don't miss last 2 Questions...Don't miss last 2 Questions...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Some, rather most organizations reject his CV today because he has changed jobs frequently (10 in 14 years). My friend, the ˜job hopper™ (referred here as Mr. JH), does not mind it. well he does not need to mind it at all. Having worked full-time with 10 employer companies in just 14 years gives Mr. JH the relaxing edge that most of the ˜company loyal™ employees are struggling for today. Today, Mr. JH too is laid off like some other 14-15 year experienced guys “ the difference being the latter have just worked in 2-3 organizations in the same number of years. Here are the excerpts of an interview with Mr. JH:<br /><br />Q: Why have you changed 10 jobs in 14 years? <br /><br />A: To get financially sound and stable before getting laid off the second time.<br /><br />Q: So you knew you would be laid off in the year 2009? <br /><br />A: Well I was laid off first in the year 2002 due to the first global economic slowdown. I had not got a full-time job before January 2003 when the economy started looking up; so I had struggled for almost a year without job and with compromises.<br /><br />Q: Which number of job was that? <br />A: That was my third job.<br /><br />Q: So from Jan 2003 to Jan 2009, in 6 years, you have changed 8 jobs to make the count as 10 jobs in 14 years? <br /><br />A: I had no other option. In my first 8 years of professional life, I had worked only for 2 organizations thinking that jobs are deserved after lot of hard work and one should stay with an employer company to justify the saying ˜employer loyalty™. But I was an idiot.<br /><br />Q: Why do you say so? <br /><br />A: My salary in the first 8 years went up only marginally. I could not save enough and also, I had thought that I had a ˜permanent™ job, so I need not worry about ˜what will I do if I lose my job™. I could never imagine losing a job because of economic slowdown and not because of my performance. That was January 2002.<br /><br />Q: Can you brief on what happened between January 2003 and 2009. <br /><br />A: Well, I had learnt my lessons of being ˜company loyal™ and not ˜money earning and saving loyal™. But then you can save enough only when you earn enough. So I shifted my loyalty towards money making and saving “ I changed 8 jobs in 6 years assuring all my interviewers about my stability.<br /><br />Q: So you lied to your interviewers; you had already planned to change the job for which you were being interviewed on a particular day? <br /><br />A: Yes, you can change jobs only when the market is up and companies are hiring. You tell me “ can I get a job now because of the slowdown? No. So one should change jobs for higher salaries only when the market is up because that is the only time when companies hire and can afford the expected salaries.<br /><br />Q: What have you gained by doing such things? <br /><br />A: That's the question I was waiting for. In Jan 2003, I had a fixed salary (without variables) of say Rs. X p.a. In January 2009, my salary was 8X. So assuming my salary was Rs.3 00K p.a. in Jan 2003, my last drawn salary in Jan 2009 was Rs.2 . 4 milo p.a. (without variable). I never bothered about variable as I had no intention to stay for 1 year and go through the appraisal process to wait for the company to give me a hike.<br /><br />Q: So you decided on your own hike? <br /><br />A: Yes, in 2003, I could see the slowdown coming again in future like it had happened in 2001-02. Though I was not sure by when the next slowdown would come, I was pretty sure I wanted a ˜debt-free™ life before being laid off again. So I planned my hike targets on a yearly basis without waiting for the year to complete.<br /><br />Q: So are you debt-free now? <br /><br />A: Yes, I earned so much by virtue of job changes for money and spent so little that today I have a loan free 2 BR flat (1200 sq.. feet) plus a loan free big car without bothering about any EMIs. I am laid off too but I do not complain at all. If I have laid off companies for money, it is OK if a company lays me off because of lack of money.<br /><br />Q: Who is complaining? <br /><br />A: All those guys who are not getting a job to pay their EMIs off are complaining. They had made fun of me saying I am a job hopper and do not have any company loyalty. Now I ask them what they gained by their company loyalty; they too are laid off like me and pass comments to me “ why will you bother about us, you are already debt-free. They were still in the bracket of 1 . 2-1 . 4 million p.a. when they were laid off.<br /><br />Q: What is your advice to professionals? <br /><br />A: Like Narayan Murthy [IT Tycoon] had said “ love your job and not your company because you never know when your company will stop loving you. In the same lines, love yourself and your family needs more than the company's needs. Companies can keep coming and going; family will always remain the same. Make money for yourself first and simultaneously make money for the company, not the other way around.<br /><br />Q: What is your biggest pain point with companies? <br /><br />A: When a company does well, its CEO will address the entire company saying, ˜well done guys, it is YOUR company, keep up the hard work, I am with you. But when the slowdown happens and the company does not do so well, the same CEO will say, œIt is MY company and to save the company, I have to take tough decisions including asking people to go. So think about your financial stability first; when you get laid off, your kids will complain to you and not your boss.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-11294361936750122392009-11-03T17:23:00.001-08:002009-11-03T17:23:52.916-08:00Success<strong>Success is one of those things .......worth dying for and worth living for</strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-2940325090672677402009-10-26T07:22:00.000-07:002009-10-26T07:24:45.913-07:00About a third of the male adult globalAbout a third of the male adult global population smokes.......... <br /><br />We are among them.<br /><br />Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco use. Every possibility that we will be among them.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-86829441001882491752009-10-19T23:58:00.000-07:002009-10-20T00:02:06.825-07:00Some Stats<blockquote><strong>US-based multinational Philip Morris - the world's biggest cigarette company - was the world's ninth largest advertiser in 1996, spending more than $3 billion. ..</strong></blockquote><br /><br /><strong></strong> Making Doctors rich - <blockquote></blockquote>• Smoking-related diseases cost the United States more than $150 billion a year.<blockquote></blockquote><br /><br />Contrubution to Economy - About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily - or 10 million every minute. <strong></strong><blockquote></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-652826194963296548.post-71016212705973774102009-10-13T23:16:00.001-07:002009-10-13T23:20:51.564-07:00HiDear Smoker Friends'<br /><br />I welcome you to this blog-The Smokers KLUB.<br /><br />Appreciate your help in introducing your smoker friends to be part of this prestigious KLUB.<br /><br />We shall be monitoring our contribution to Indian Economy esp to manufactures and Hospitals etc.<br /><br />Happy Smoking.<br /><br />Main fikr ko dhuain mein udata chala gaya!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0