Tips to reduce weight

1) Fruits and green vegetables are low calorie foods, so over weight persons should use these more frequently.

2) One should avoid intake of too much salt. Salt may be a factor for increasing the bodyweight.

3) Milk products like cheese, butter should be avoided because these are rich in fat. Meat and non-vegetarian foods should also be avoided.

4) Spices like dry ginger, cinnamon, black pepper etc. are good for loosing weight and can be used in a number of ways.

5) Vegetables like bitter gourd (Karela), and bitter variety of drumstick are useful for loosing weight.

6) Taking of honey is an excellent home remedy for obesity. It mobilizes the extra deposited fat in the body and puts it into circulation, which is utilized as energy for normal functions. One should start with small quantity of about 10 GMs. or a table spoonful to be taken with hot water. It is good to take it in early morning. A teaspoonful of fresh lemon juice may also be added.

7) Cabbage is considered to be an effective remedy for loosing weight. This vegetable inhibits the conversion of sugar and other carbohydrates into fat. Hence, it is of great value in weight reduction. It can be taken raw or cooked.

8) Exercise is an important part of weight reduction plan. It helps to use up calories stored in body as fat. In addition, it also relieves tension and tones up the muscles of the body. Walking is thebest exercise to begin with and may be followed by running, swimming, rowing.

9) Lime juice is excellent for weight reduction. Juice of a lime mixed in a glass of warm water and sweetened with honey should be taken every morning on an empty stomach.

10) Measure the portions of your food every meal and make sure that the portions are small. For example one portion of rice should not be more than the quantity which can fit in your fist. Smaller meals at a regular interval of 4 to 5 hours will keep your metabolism high and prevent your body from converting the food you intake into fat. You must also include regular exercise in your daily routine to help enhance weight reduction.

QUEST yourself!

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire.  They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend.  The criticism is distasteful and unjustified.  What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do?  What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once?  Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset?  Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory?  What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love?  Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday?  What about the day before that?  Or the day before that?
50. Decisions are being made right now.  The question is:  Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

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Men vs Women

Top 10 Biz Leaders Around The World

In the corporate world where  money reigns supreme and people with most cash wear the crown. Business leaders continue to inspire us and we hope someday that we will be like them.Many rise from rags to riches,  some  enhance their  family business and some happen to be geniuses who have created a parallel world of technology.

Being a leader is not an easy job. With great power comes great responsibility as said by spider-man! Below is the selection of the finest business leaders who have made a mark in this world on the basis of their skills abilities , knowledge and objectives.

1. Bill Gates

During the past 25 years technology was the choice of industry for most people. Bill Gates is a classic example of an exemplary business leader of the past quarter-century for his mix of entrepreneurial energy, dogged leadership and philanthropic interest. Bill Gates to date is the biggest philanthropist in the world.

2. Carlos Slim

Carlos spent 46  years of his life to build  his  telecommunication empire. He has been the richest man in the world for the past two years consecutively. He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telemex and America Movil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso, SAB, as well as business interests elsewhere in the world.

3. Warren Buffett

Buffett has become the most successful investor in the world by sinking his money into undervalued companies with low overhead costs, high growth potential, strong market shares and low price-to-earnings ratios. He is the opposite of get rich quick schemers that has ironically made him one of the  richest men in the world today. He is also a generous philanthropist and has donated $31 billion to Bill and Melinda Gates  foundation.

4. Margret “Meg” Whitman

An alma mater of  Harvard business school Meg Whitman is the first woman  in the world  to become a billionaire on the internet. Currently the CEO of Hewlett Packard, she was the CEO of e-bay from 1998- 2008. During her tenure she  expanded to company  from 30 employees to  15000 employees. She was  one the top 5  most powerful women featured in Fortune magazine.

5. Chad Hurley , Steve Chen and Jawad Karim

The  co founders of you tube were declared the best leaders by business week in 2008. They showed the world how to build great companies while treating employees well, how to improve dysfunctional corporate cultures, reinvigorate tired brands, and develop new strategic plans. They surprised us with bold decisions and acquisitions

6. Nadja  Swarovoski

As the great great grand daughter of the founder of  Swarovoski she has brought the brand to new heights.With equal parts glamour and shrewd marketing, she has relentlessly pushed Swarovski into the realms of celebrity and fashion. Notice all those crystal-studded gowns on Oscar night? That’s because Nadja persuades designers such as Alexander McQueen and Zac Posen to embellish their creations with crystal. She also links up with well-known artists, furnishing them crystal to make everything from chandeliers to handbags, then displaying their work during major art shows and fashion events. Sales have tripled  under her leadership.

7. Robin-Li

The brains  behind  China’s  largest search engine Baidu. He has been able to acheive what  microsoft  has not- beating  Google. By far China’s No.1 search engine, Baidu has a 62% market share, more than double Google’s. And Baidu widened its lead over the Americans in 2006, despite Google’s efforts to boost its China operation. Li, 38, has had his problems, including lawsuits alleging Baidu’s involvement in click-fraud. But Baidu denies wrongdoing. Its NASDAQ-listed stock is up over 80%  in 2008.

8. Dan DiMicco

Mr. DiMicco brings more than 35 years of steel industry experience to Nucors Board.Since joining Nucor in 1982, Mr. DiMicco has worked in a wide variety of roles at all levels of the Company, including nine years as Vice President of Nucor Corporation and President of Nucor-Yamato Steel Company (Limited Partnership), gaining a deep understanding of Nucors operations and Nucors unique organizational culture and values.

9. Jack Welch

Welch adopted Motorola’s six sigma quality program in late 1995. In 1980, the year before Welch became CEO, GE recorded revenues of roughly $26.8 billion. In 2000, the year before he left, the revenues increased to nearly $130 billion. When Jack Welch left GE, the company had gone from a market value of $14 billion to one of more than $410 billion at the end of 2004, making it the most valuable and largest company in the world.

10. Steve Jobs

Although  Steve jobs has passed away  he will be the epitome of a great  business leader. He is a leader in terms of design, in terms of innovation and also when it comes to making a comeback  no one did it better than Steve. He is the inspiration for Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley and other inernet moguls. He was  fired  from a company that he had made and then came back after one year stronger than ever.He is dead but his immortality lives when it  comes to leadership in  business.

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The most disgusting food ever

Black Pudding

This dish is comprised largely of blood drawn from pigs, cattle or sheep. However, it doesn’t become blood pudding until the blood is allowed to coagulate, a filler of oatmeal, barley or sweet potato is added, and the entire mass is brought to a boil. During the cooking process, a delightful skin is produced atop the goo. While some like to remove the skin before plunging their spoon into the pudding, others enjoy its chewy texture and prefer to eat it last.

Cockscomb

If you’ve ever seen the floppy red mass resembling an upside down glove on the top of a rooster’s head, then you’ve seen a cockscomb. Once served as a garnish along side many traditional French foods, cockscomb is still used as a common ingredient in many Italian dishes and sauces.

Hasma

In China, many people consider hasma dessert the perfect punctuation to a great meal. This disgusting dish is basically the fallopian tubes of frogs. Sold in a dried shrunken form, these amphibious reproductive organs are able to swell up to 10 to 15 times their dehydrated size once they are rehydrated with water. Afterward, a bit of sugar is added to give them that special sweetness most people desire from a dessert.

Bat Paste

This delightful dish is considered weird even in the few Asian countries where it’s eaten. First, a live bat is forced into a vat of boiling milk. Then, once it has reached optimum malleability, the bat is sliced into fine bits, mixed with various herbs and spices and mashed into a pulpy paste.