Sunday, September 14, 2008

Smoking is injuries to health!!But Who cares
Smoking is injurious to health, but for some chain smokers, smoking is a pleasure and habit. Supreme Court has banned smoking in public places yet you can see some smoking zone where people can go and have a pleasure of puff. Supreme Court also imposed fine and imprisonment on employer who allows his employee to smoke, but these measures were not yielded much result. "According to a WHO study, around 14.1 per cent of school going children are using some or the other form of tobacco." Recently, Minister for Health Ramdoss has announced that you can not smoke public or private places, government offices, shopping malls, airports, railway stations and even in your own home, you have to take permission of your wife, family members and children, if you want to smoke in your own house. Minister for Health Ramdoss permitted to smoke on the road. This policy will be implemented from October 2 onwards. Mahatma Gandhi Jayanthi Day. Very ambitious proposal, but how far the government will achieve non-smoking India. It is experience in past that in India there are many good laws but when it comes to implementation there is no proper implementation of law. Government has good intention that the citizens should have good health, away from diseases like cancer. Any law can be properly implemented unless there is proper enforcement force, nothing can be imposed and people should be educated first the dangers of smoking. Until then the laws will be on paper. The ban from the day coinciding with Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary would also cover hotels, restaurants and offices. "Though in the beginning, the fine would be only Rs 200, we will try to amend the act in the future, after which the fine can be increased to Rs 1,000 and the employer can also be fined if somebody is found smoking within the office premises in accordance with the National Tobacco Control Act. To begin with, the pictorial warnings would be those cleared by the Group of Ministers and would cover 40 per cent of the product covers, but after around one year, more pictures can be brought in” according toMinister of health Ramadoss said. Next time, if you want to smoke you have to walk near by road from October 2 onwards, so that every one who goes on road knows that you are smoker and you had bad habit, with that guilty feeling, at least you may give up smoking, that may be the reason and idea of Minister for Health Ramdoss, has allowed citizens of India to smoke on the road. India there are innumerable law but implementation of these law are tardy.your health is in your hands you can decide whether you want to smoke or not. Is road is not a public place? This is the matter for debate!!!!!!!
Mahatma Gandhi is happiest person to see smoke less India from October 2 onwards. Can we achieve this???

Eating veggies shrinks the brain
Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin. The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical checks and brain scans to examine 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87. When the volunteers were retested five years later the medics found those with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 were also the most likely to have brain shrinkage. It confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12. Brain scans of more than 1,800 people found that people who downed 14 drinks or more a week had 1.6% more brain shrinkage than teetotallers. Women in their seventies were the most at risk. Beer does less damage than wine according to a study in Alcohol and Alcoholism. Researchers found that the hippocampus-the part of the brain that stores memories - was 10% smaller in beer drinkers than those who stuck to wine. And being overweight or obese is linked to brain loss, Swedish researchers discovered. Scans of around 300 women found that those with brain shrink had an average body mass index of 27 And for every one point increase in their BMI the loss rose by 13 to 16%.
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