Are You Kept Pest-Free In Your Living Spaces.

The world belongs to 740,000 insects,which accounts for 50% and 209,000 species,280,000 fungi and animal besides 7.4-bn human population.The insect population is quintillion(10x1018).Therefore,the world belongs to insects.

What is a pest? It causes damage to food,fiber,health and property and is a nuisance. Pests cause diseases like Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya,Asthma,Typhoid etc. Snakes.Rats Cockroaches,Scorpions,Bedbugs and Mosquitoes,insects like termites damage property.

Amazing facts about insects: They are 350 million years old and multiply rapidly. If you keep one pair of fruit, fly to breed uncontrolled, it will produce 26 generations (1041 individuals) in one year. A larva can eat 3-4 times it weight of food per day.Insects can survive extremely cold condition like -2000C,insects like scorpion can frozen and its life bounces back when the temperatures rise and that is the power of insects.The most dangerous animal in this world is the black mamba snake can kill 50,000 people in a year,Shark kills about 10 people and pit-bull dogs.Yet another is the mosquito,which kills about 725,000 people in a year in the world.

Mosquitoes: 3,500 species only females bite and transmit diseases like,malaria,chikungunya and spread zika virus. It has 80% life cycle in water and breed in water stagnated areas.Wear long sleeve shirts,trousers,light coloured clothes (they get attracted to shades like red),take bath daily because when you smell the mosquitoes get attracted to you,and remove stagnant water. Sleep under mosquito net.Mosquitoes can be at the lowest level of the food chain.The advantage is that mosquito larvae in the water can be eaten by fish.

Cockroaches: There are 3000 species,which are 300 million years old,and apart from destruction of human life,they can withstand even nuclear holocaust.They contaminate food and cause dysentery,food poisoning,typhoid,gastroenteritis,besides asthmatic problems in children.Cockroach extract used in homeopathic medicine and for pickles in China.

House Fly-A Friend Or Foe: It is the most common pest,multiplying very fast.A female fly can lay about 900 eggs. It sits on the garbage and come back on to the plate from which we eat out food.Life cycle is 1-4 weeks and 1 kg of cow dung can produce 10,000 flies. Humans put food in their mouth,chew well with saliva and then swallow. Some people take enough time and eat slowly so that they never put on weight.Taste buds are located on our tongue whereas for a fly it is on the legs.The moment it sits on the food,it sucks the food taste.

Rodents: 1500 type of rats that cause destruction and diseases and agricultural damage to the extent of 1 lakh core.Its bites on the wire with 4 front teeth and can even ground an airplane. Capybara is the largest rodent in the world with average weight of more than 50 kg.

Keep Pest Out: Keep windows (with net on it) and doors closed.Seal cracks and holes to avoid insects coming in.Fix door sweeps for the space between the doors so that cockroaches cannot creep inside.Bedbugs and cockroaches are at times our travel mates (bus seat,train,flight).When you throw food around,the pest get free food and if you do not keep the place clean,it attracts insects.

Problems And Solutions: Always make sure food is well covered to keep away diseases bearing cockroaches and flies. When there is clutter,insects hide and breed there resulting in diseases.Keep your room and house clean by using the concept of pest management and control. Deny the entry by closing the doors and have nets.Deny food and shelter.80% of pests can be kept out though flies still enter homes.Call expert like pest control operators who can manage or destroy them right and provide an environment service to keep the pests out of your house.Hygiene and cleanliness is the most import thing to keep away pest free in your house and society.

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Menopause Linked With Onset Of Alzheimer's.

Studies are linking the degenerative brain disease with the drop in oestrogen caused by menopause.The menopause directly affects many of us,yet there's a lot we still don't understand about it. Why it impacts on mood,memory and concentration.But surprisingly,these cognitive effects may hold the key not only to safely treating this change itself,but also to tackling a disease that presents similar symptoms-Alzheimer's.

Changes in the brain that occur during menopause so closely resemble those seen in Alzheimer's that some researchers suggest it may signal the start of the disease."We are trying to find out what happens at the particular time that put brains at risk", says Roberta Brinton,a neuroscientist studying Alzheimer's at the University of Southern California who has turned her attention to the menopause.

That knowledge might lead to new ways to help women deal with the unpleasant symptoms of the menopause.Even better,it is possible that therapies to artificially boost hormone levels could protect the brain from these changes altogether-potentially staving off the ravages of dementia later in life.

The menopause essentially signals the end of a woman's ability to have children.As the number of eggs inside the ovaries dwindles,the amount of oestrogen they produce plummets,too.It is the lack of oestrogen and possibly some of the other hormone released by the ovaries-that is thought to trigger the common symptoms of menopause.These can include hot flushes,fatigue,weight gain,lack of sex drive,and vaginal dryness.

But cognitive effects such as mood swing,insomnia,anxiety and forgetfulness are still often overlooked.This is partly because they may be seen as going hand in hand with ageing."Another potential reason is that the cultural expectation is that women just endure,even if they may be experiencing uncomfortable or disturbing symptoms," says Brinton.

The brain has plenty of oestrogen receptors,so there is nothing new in the idea that a dive in levels of the hormone can have an effect. But until relatively recently,any impacts on the brain were thought to be associated with reproduction-things like attraction and sex behaviours.Then an explosion of research over the past decade revealed that a drop in oestrogen can have profound effects on memory,mood and even brain health in both men and women. 

These findings raised a red flag with Brinton,who has been trying to understand why women are more susceptible to Alzheimer's disease. "I realised it might be the hormonal transition in perimenopause and menopause that appears to be the kick-starter for Alzheimer's in some women," she says.This idea also fit with findings from Brinton and others that oestrogen has a protective function on the brain.One form of oestrogen called,oestradiol,for example,ramps up activity in the brain cells' mitochondria-essentially,their energy factories.The extra energy boost helps cells recover from damage associated with the normal wear-and-tear of ageing.

"You can imagine that if there is this drop in oestrogen,the brain becomes more sensitive to damage,and that could lead to the death of neurons," says neuroscientist Amandine Grimm at the University of queensLand in Australia,who studies the ageing brain.And a fall in oestrogen levels doesn't just cause the brain to produce less energy,it also seems to change the type of energy it uses.

For most of our lives,the brain's fuel of choice is glucose."The brain is the most glucose-dependent organ in the body," says Brinton. At least,it is until menopause hits.Brinton has found that,as mice go through their equivalent of menopause,the amount of glucose metabolised by their brains drops dramatically,by about 25 per cent.

Hungry Brain: When body tissues are faced with a shortage of glucose,they enter a "starvation response,"and turn to fats as a backup source of energy.Something similar seems to happen in the brain.Over time,it appears that the brain resorts to a readily available source of fats-myelin,the fatty white sheaths that coat the majority of brain cells and ensure that brain signals travel quickly."We have found that the brain will catabolise the white matter for fuel," says Brinton.In short,the brain starts to eat itself.

Most of Brinton's research has been in mice,but in work yet to be published,she and her colleagues have tentative results suggesting that something similar happens in the brains of some women going through the menopause."We see that there is a decline in glucose metabolism,a change in white matter volume and grey matter volume,and an increase in beta amyloid production relative to men," she says. 

Although most women with Alzheimer's are diagnosed in their 70s,the disease starts to develop 15 to 20 years before symptoms start to show-which is when the menopause occurs.So one should check every year or in between a six months gap, to take proper treatment to overcome Menopause linked Alzheimer's. 

 

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What Is The Purpose Of Education.

Why are you being educated? Your parents send you to school.You attend classes,you learn mathematics,you learn languages,literature, science,history ,geography etc.What is the point of your passing examinations and getting degrees? Is it to get a job,to get married and settle down in life as majority of people do? The whole world is questioning the basis of education.We see what education has been used for. 

What does Bible say about educating Children.If "we don't teach our children to follow christ world will teach them not to". Discipline is a form of teaching your child.(Prov.22:6) "Teach a child how he could live,and he will remember it all his life". We will not hide these truth from our children,we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord,about his power and his mighty wonders.

Human being throughout the world are being educated to conform,to fit into society and into their culture,to fit into that vast stream that has been flowing for million of years.Is that education or is education something entirely different?

(Deu.6:5-9) "Love the Lord your God with all your heart,with all your soul,and with all your strength.Never forget these commands that I am giving you today.Teach them to your children.Repeat them when you are at home and when you are away,when you are resting and when you are working.Write them on the doorposts and your houses and on your gates." Real education means that a human mind,your mind,not only is capable of being excellent in mathematics,literature,geography,science and history,but also can never,under any circumstances,be drawn into the stream of society.

Teach them be Obedient:"Children,obey your parents,for this is the right thing to do."Respect your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise added,"All will be well with you,and you will live a long time." Parents,do not make your children angry,but bring them up with the training and teaching of the Lord.

(Matt.19:13-15)"Some people brought children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and to pray for them,but the disciples scolded the people.Jesus said,"Let the children come to me and do not stop them,because the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." He placed his hands on them and then went away.You teach them by the way you conduct yourself.Be a good role model and don't cause them to stumble.

(Prov.22:15) "Children just naturally do silly,careless,but a good spanking will teach them how to behave." ( 29:17)"Discipline your son and you can always be proud of him.He will never give you reason to be ahmed."

Because the stream of universe that we can call it as living,is very corrupt,is immoral,violent,greedy.That stream is our culture.So,the question is how to bring the right kind of education so that the mind can withstand all temptations,all influences,the bestiality of this civilisation and culture.Freedom from fear comes from being educated truth that is "search for truth" improve human conditions,be focused more on social,academic,cultural and intellectual development so the student can grow as a responsible citizens. 

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Anger And Compassion.

Anger is powerful emotion, people feel time to time when someone or something frustrate or annoys them.If you are in anger make out from the face.Some behaved in an unfair,cruel or unacceptable way.A strong feeling that make you want to hurt someone or be unpleasant because of anger.Why is there so much anger,violence in our lives now a days?

All religions advise us to overcome anger and learn to forgive.Anger breeds hatred,fanning the flames of revenge.We are unable to forgive because we hold on to resentment.The Bible portrays human anger as sinful (Gen:4.3-8)."Don't give in to worry or anger;it only leads to trouble"(Ps.37:8). Angry people cause conflicts.Jesus warns angry people will face God's judgement.(Matt.5:22)"But now I tell you:whoever is angry with his brother will be brought to trial,whoever calls his brother 'You good-for-nothing!' will be brought before the council,and whoever calls his brother a worthless fool will be in danger of going to the fire of hell".

We first need some time and space to let go either to forgive or be forgiven. The moment we are prepared and able to forgive,we feel liberated from the experience of bitterness. Forgiveness marks our freedom from all the negativity, we have been nurturing as a result of our forgiving heart.

Compassion, a form of love.acts of kindness and mercy.It's not a uniquely christian response to suffering.To love,to show mercy,to show concern for to be tender hearted.In the Bible given a good Samaritan story, how a man when robbers attacked him,stripped him and beat him up and leaving him half dead. "But a Samaritan who was travelling that way came upon the man,and when he saw him,his heart was filled with pity" (Luke10:33)

Why should we forgive? Nobody is ever truly bad. No situation is ever without a brighter side.By forgiving,we are creating a whole new experience.We can finally move on.It enables us to heal.Forgiving the person does not excuse the act;it just brings about peace and understanding.A more helpful question would be how we can better understand to put the situation in proper perspective.The emotional foundation of compassion is needed to erect the temple of forgiveness.Compassion can bring about a paradigm shift in transforming into forgiveness

Mindfulness is another quality that enables us to be watchful of our thought,feelings and activities for greater understanding.Compassion does not stop us from holding the person accountable. It simply means we understand the root of the problem instead of looking only at surface behaviour.This way,we find productive and long-term solutions that leads us to blissfulness.

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How Free Are You, In Your Own Life.

People always thinking about their life,need more and more, never satisfied with.Means,once dsire never end till their death.At the same time forgot to live also.

Do not worry: "I tell you not to worry about food,drink or clothes.Your life is more important than food.Your body is more important than clothes.Look at the birds. They do not plant seeds. God your Father takes care of them! You are certainly more important than the birds! You cannot live longer by worrying about these things.

"Look at the wild flowers. They do not work or make clothes.But I tell you: Not even King Solomon with all his riches had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers. If God can clothe the wild grass that lives only for a short time,surely he will clothe you.You must have more trust in God! "Stop worrying about food or clothes.Only people who do not know God worry about these things.God your father knows that you need them.Instead, do the things that God wants.Then he will give you everything you need.So do not worry about tomorrow. Each day brings its own troubles. Don't add to the troubles of each day by worrying." (Matt.6:25-34)

Once upon a time a king wanted to grant a holy man a wish.The holy man said he would like the king to fill his cup with gold coins."That is easy," thought the king.But when he tried to fill the cup,it just will not get filled.Frustrated,the puzzled king asked the man to tell him the secret of the cup.The holy man replied:"This cup is like the heart of every man which is never content. Fill it with whatever you may,with wealth,greatness,power,knowledge,with all there is.It will never get filled.It is not meant to be filled."

The ignorant man is in pursuit of objects continually,and the more he gets,the more he wants.The cup of his desires is never filled. Worldly desires are like the salty waters of the sea that can never quench thirst. On the contrary,thirst increases and there is an even more acute craving for fresh water.

"Ask,and you will receive.Seek,and you will find.Knock,and the door will be opened to you.Are you a father? If your son ask for bread,will you give him a stone? Or would you give him a snake when he asks for fish? No! Even a bad father knows how to give good things to his children. Surely,then,God your Father will give good things to those who ask him!

"Do for others what you want them to do for you.This what the Law of Moses and the prophets teach us." (Matt.7:7-12)

All desires must go before we can enter a life of freedom and joy.If you are a slave to one desire,you are as spiritually dead as another who is a victim to a hundred desires. You many be a man of many virtues.But you are held down by just one desire,you are a cup of milk with a single drop of poison in it,the entire milk is poisoned.   

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Drinking Red Wine And Black Tea May Protect against Flu

A Gut Microbe found in Red Wine And Tea can prevent flu by breaking down naturally occurring compounds called flavonoids.

Drinking tea and red wine in a moderate way may help to prevent influenza,as a compound found in these beverages can boost the immune system,scientists says.

Researchers at Washington University in the US found that a particular gut microbe can prevent severe flu infections in mice,by breaking down naturally occurring compounds called flavonoids.

This strategy is effective in staving off severe damage from flu when the interaction occurs prior to infection with the influenza virus, researchers said.

Microbe that live in the gut do not just digest food. They also have far reaching effects on the immune system,they said.

"For years,flavonoids have been thought to have protective properties that help regulate the immune system to fight infections," said Ashley Steed,from St.Louis Children's Hospital in the US.

"Flavonoids are common in our diets,so an important implication of our study is that it is possible flavonoids work with gut microbes to protect us from flu and other viral infections," Steed said.

Flavonoids are commonly found in black tea,red wine and blueberries.Previous studies found that the gut microbiome may be important in protecting against severe influenza infections, so in this study,researchers aimed to identify just what gut microbes might provide that protection.

It is not only having a diet rich in flavonoids,our results show you also need the right microbes in the intestine to use those flavonoids to control the immune response,researchers said.

"We are able to identify at least one type of bacteria that uses these dietary compounds to boost interferon, a signalling molecule that aids the immune response," said Thaddeus Stappenbeck,from the University of Washington.

"This prevented influenza -related lung damage in the mice.It is this kind of damage that often causes significant complications such as pneumonia in people,"Stappenbeck added.

Black tea is more beneficial,if avoid sugar, instead of sugar one can use honey according to their taste .Red wine is also good but it use  it in a moderate way, to get maximum benefit.

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