rajiv

Magnesium Magic

Are you feeling anxious for no reason? Stressed? Have trouble sleeping? It’s likely that you are not getting enough youth preserving magnesium in your diet and possibly depleting its store in the body under stress. Even small...

The master antioxidant

The subject of food and nutrition came up recently at a gathering, as it usually does, and it was comforting to know that most people know and understand the value of nutrients such as vitamins and minerals....

Sweet potatoes or Yam?

Here is a fact that my daughter will immediately call “bizarre”. Sweet potatoes are not potatoes and Yam is not sweet potato! In fact all of these similar looking tubers are very different, Yam was brought to...

Teaching our kids to grow up unhealthy?

If you are a parent like me with kids in public schools, most of our attention to schooling lies in academics, grades and social development. But, one aspect of public schools that always gets a solid “F”,...

The Mandatory Mineral: Calcium

Do you truly understand the immense power calcium has to help keep you young? No matter what age you are at right now, it is never too late to start getting more calcium into your diet. As...

Potassium: Shifting the balance

Considering you live in a city, have a busy life, don’t worry too much about what kind of junk you consume on a daily basis, chances are that you have a heavy load of sodium in your...

You are what you eat!

What you put into your mouth everyday, starting from the time you were born to your entire lifetime, has a profound and lost last effect on your health, longevity, quality of aging and even your mind. Just...

Are Bananas Berries?

Botanically speaking strawberries and raspberries aren’t really berries. They form out of a single flower with more than one ovary. True berries are fruits stemming from one flower with one ovary and typically have several seeds, like...

Get this Vitamin from wherever you can

Unless you are depressed and suicidal or an idiot, you want to live a long life with great health. But what do you do? You give up on the most important aspect to make that happen and...

A tale of two tickets

Like a lot of other people, I have traveled a lot. But like everything else in the world, you get what you pay for. This is understandable, we live in a capitalistic society. However,  I wonder if...

37.2 trillion cells, one spirit

Why is that most of striking realizations occur in bathrooms? This morning, it was in front of a mirror.  As I looked at the corner of my eyes, I think I noticed a faint hint of a wrinkle. Then...

How hard can it be to boil an egg?

“I can boil an egg” A cliched statement from everyone who hasn’t entered a kitchen much. My question to them, “Are you sure?” You throw an engineer like me into the kitchen and this is what happens...

and who created God?

“How did everything come into existence?”, may be this is the greatest question mankind has ever faced generic cytotec. Much like majority of people in the world, I grew up in an environment were everyone just believed...

Dreams of reality

If you haven’t seen Nolan’s Inception yet, go see it before it goes into Film archives. If you have seen it and you head is still spinning, read on! A dream that we have during sleep is...

A closed internet of little things

If you haven’t heard of “IoT” yet,  don’t worry, it’s the next wave of technology that hasn’t hit your home yet but soon will. It is already in home depot in form of a connected thermostat,  smoke alarm etc. Very...