Pranamn 1 Rice: Rice, also known as “*Anna*” contributes to the sweet taste to your diet. It is known to balance the Vata and Pitta and can be combined with vegetables, pulses, nuts to make it wholesome and nutritious.
Ayurveda believes that anytime is a good time for rice. It looks not only at the quality of the rice itself, but who’s eating it and when. Even old rice is proven to have a great healing effect on the body and hence Ayurveda recommends the consumption of old rice to everyone. Out of several varieties of rice available most common ones are polished rice, unpolished rice, parboiled rice, boiled rice, basmati rice, etc. With its low-fat, low-calorie, high nutritional, gluten-free and non-allergenic properties, every variety of rice is gaining popularity today. There are several doctors today who advise their patients not to consume rice if they are suffering from high blood sugar levels (diabetic)/ if they are obese/ or have high cholesterol <https://www.ayuruniverse.com/high-cholesterol-treatment-program-idukki-kerala-india/5316/p>. When doctors say rice they mean *white rice*. *The barn and fibers in white rice are removed by polishing i*t and so it is empty in its nutritional value and makes it equivalent to refined grains. White rice, like white bread, is just refined carbohydrates. It digests quickly and increases the sugar level in the body. Consumption of this would definitely increase weight in the person and the glycemic index of white rice is 89% which means to say that the sugar levels have peaked after consumption of polished rice. So it very important to understand that shifting from usage of polished rice to unpolished rice would help you. Unpolished rice has all the essential nutrients required and is also filling. Consuming it with lots of vegetables will provide you with strength and stamina to the body. Consuming unpolished rice or the variety of rice mentioned above would help in the reduction of blood sugar levels and also reduces the risk of obesity. So kaikuthal chaff removed white rice is far better than the brown rice as it is easily digestible. And any food is bad if people do not work hard. Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the oldest cereal grains in the world, and people have grown it for at least 5,000 years. Rice is a staple food for more than half <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31619630> of the world’s population, and 90% of the world’s rice comes from Asia. There are thousands of types of rice, but depending on how producers process them, they fit into two groups: white or brown (whole grain). White rice is the most common type, though brown rice offers more health benefits. Brown rice comes in a variety of shades, including reddish, purplish, or black. Manufacturers make many products from rice, including rice flour, rice syrup, rice bran oil, and rice milk. This article looks at the nutrition <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/160774>, health benefits, and risks of white and brown rice. *Nutrition* Both white and brown rice contain mainly carbohydrate <https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161547.php> and some protein, with virtually no fat or sugar. Cooked rice contains a lot of water, making up almost 70% of its total weight. White and brown rice have similar calorie, carbohydrate, protein, and fat content. A 100 gram (g) <https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/168932/nutrients> serving of white, short-grain, cooked rice contains the following nutrients: *Nutrient* *Amount* *% Daily Value (DV)* Calories 130 Carbohydrate 28.7 grams (g) 10% Protein 2.36 g 5% Fat 0.19 g 0% *Carbohydrate* Rice is primarily composed of carbohydrate, which makes up almost 80% <https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/168931/nutrients> of its total dry weight. Most of the carbohydrate in rice is starch. Starch is the most common form of carbohydrate in foods. Starch is made up of long chains of glucose called amylose and amylopectin. Different types of rice have varying amounts of these compounds, which affects the texture of the rice: - Basmati rice is rich in amylose, meaning it does not stick together after cooking. - Sticky rice, or glutinous rice, is low in amylose and high in amylopectin, making it sticky after cooking. This makes it ideal for risottos, rice pudding, and eating with chopsticks. These compounds also affect how easily the body can digest the rice. The body takes longer <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31151523>to digest high-amylose rice because the amylose slows down starch digestion. In contrast, the body digests sticky rice very easily. While many people find sticky rice more palatable, quick digestion can lead to unhealthful spikes in blood sugar levels, especially in people with diabetes. *Fiber* Brown rice contains a higher amount of dietary fiber <https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/146935> than white rice — 1.6 g per 100 g <https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/169704/nutrients> During the processing of white rice, the grain loses the bran, or seed coat, which contains most of the fiber. The bran contains mainly insoluble fibers, such as hemicellulose, and virtually no soluble fiber. White and brown rice contain varying amounts of a soluble fiber called resistant starch. Resistant starch increases butyrate in the gut. Butyrate boosts gut health <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958166919301077?via%3Dihub> by reducing inflammation <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/248423>, improving gut barrier function, and reducing the risk of colon cancer <https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150496.php>. Read more about soluble and insoluble fiber here. <https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319176> *White vs. brown rice* White rice is refined, polished, and stripped of its bran and germ. This increases its cooking quality, shelf life, and tastiness, but significantly reduces its nutritional value. That said, manufacturers usually enrich white rice or replace some vitamins after processing. Brown rice is an intact whole grain, containing both the bran and the germ, which are the most nutritious parts of the grain. They contain fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/301506>. Brown rice is better for people with diabetes. White rice can raise blood sugar, while brown rice has a lower glycemic index <https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325660> and can help with blood sugar control. Nutrition Facts White Rice Serving Size: 1 cup (158ggrams) Amount Per Serving Calories from Fat 4 Calories 205 % Daily Value* 1%Total Fat 0.4ggrams 1%Saturated Fat 0.1ggrams Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1ggrams Monounsaturated Fat 0.1ggrams 0%Cholesterol 0mgmilligrams 0%Sodium 1.6mgmilligrams 2%Potassium 55mgmilligrams 15%Total Carbohydrates 45ggrams 3%Dietary Fiber 0.6ggrams Sugars 0.1ggrams Protein 4.3ggrams 0%Vitamin A 0%Vitamin C 1.2%Calcium 11%Iron * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. *NB: But Mr G had not answered why chinese ae less obese than... * *2 *If one reads Rigveda, one cannot miss noting the word *dhana, *which according to Sanskrit dictionaries means rice. Words such as *dhana *(IV.24.7), *dhanaa *(I.16.2), and *dhanya* (V.53.13) are found in Rigveda, and all these have been interpreted as the words for cereals in general. Susruta, a sage of the ancient era and whose work is described later, recognizes only rice as *dhanya *(also supported by Monier- Williams, 1872) and others as *kudhanya*, lesser or minor cereals. Charaka, who lived before Susruta, also gave much more details about rice than wheat. Sayanacharya (1400 AD) of Vijayanagar, in his commentary on Rigveda (I.16.2) uses the word *tandula, *which, most scholars agree, means rice .Dhānya (धान्य) refers to “rice”, forming part of a common diet in ancient Kashmir (Kaśmīra) as mentioned in the Nīlamatapurāṇa.—Rice seems to have been the principal food of the Kaśmīrīs Its three varieties, namely, Śāli, Taṇḍula and Śyāmāka have been referred to (verses 135, 324,535, 732, 743, 781). Most of the references to the articles of diet occur in the Nīlamata in connection with the offerings made to the gods but it is not difficult to infer from them the food and drink of the common people because “what a man eats his gods eat”. dhānya (धान्य).—n (S) pop. *dhāna *n Corn or grain gen. and, by preeminence, rice (rice in its husk). 3 In economics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics> and particularly in consumer choice theory <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_choice_theory>, the *income-consumption curve* is a curve in a graph in which the quantities of two goods are plotted on the two axes; the curve is the locus <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_(mathematics)> of points showing the consumption bundles chosen at each of various levels of income. The *income effect* in economics can be defined as the change in consumption resulting from a change in real income <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_income>. This income change can come from one of two sources: from external sources, or from income being freed up (or soaked up) by a decrease (or increase) in the price of a good that money is being spent on. The effect of the former type of change in available income is depicted by the income-consumption curve discussed in the remainder of this article, while the effect of the freeing-up of existing income by a price drop is discussed along with its companion effect, the substitution effect <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_effect>, in the article on the latter. For example, if a consumer spends one-half of his or her income on bread alone, a fifty-percent decrease in the price of bread will increase the free money available to him or her by the same amount which he or she can spend in buying more bread or something else. The consumer's preferences, monetary income and prices play an important role in solving the consumer's optimization problem (choosing how much of various goods to consume so as to maximise their utility <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility> subject to a budget constraint). The comparative statics <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_statics> of consumer behaviour investigates the effects of changes in the exogenous or independent variables (especially prices and money incomes of the consumers) on the chosen values of the endogenous or dependent variables (the consumer's demands for the goods). When the income of the consumer rises with the prices held constant, the optimal bundle chosen by the consumer changes as the feasible set <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feasible_set> available to then changes. The *income–consumption curve* is the set of tangency points of indifference curves with the various budget constraint lines, with prices held constant, as income increases shifting the budget constraint out. { MR YMji is speaking about this curve only as bank int to income as false) HOWEVER THE INCOME HAS NO CORRELATION WITH THE CONSUMPTION WHICH NEED NOT ARISE ONLY OUT OF INCOME DIRECTLY EARNED, WHERE THE CONSUMPTION CAN ARISE AS ON BORROWED FUNDS, GIFTS,CHARITIES AND THE BLACK MONEY. WHICH WILL RAISE THE MISGIVINGS OF THE INFLATION UNNATURAL, BECAUSE THE WHISTLE BLOWERS ARE NOT PROMPT. kr irs 2122 On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 06:00, 'gopala krishnan' via Thatha_Patty < [email protected]> wrote: > *CULTURAL QA 01-2022-02* > > *BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS* > > *Q1 How are Chinese people slim even when they eat rice so > much?* > > A1 Lucia Garcia Worked at Hospitals Wed > > According to the survey, China's obesity rate is 7% in 2020, and *China > is one of the countries with the lowest obesity rate in the world.* > > Rice is the staple food of China. Chinese people eat rice at every meal, 7 > days a week. > > *The calories of cooked rice are not high, 100 grams of cooked rice > contains 115 calories. Eating rice will not gain weight.* > > In contrast, Chinese people consume an average of 2970 calories per day, > while Americans consume 3770 calories per day. > > Rice has high nutritional value. Rice contains essential carbohydrates, > protein, insoluble fiber, fat, vitamin B1, niacin, vitamin C, and minerals > such as calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and iron. > > *Cooked rice is easy to digest and absorb, and can provide the body with > essential nutrients and energy every day.* > > Rice is a kind of "super food", and more than 3 billion people in the > world eat rice. > > Rice is a staple food in many countries, such as China, Japan, North > Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, > Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, India, Pakistan, > Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and so on. > > *Q2 How does propane on a gas stove not ignite back to its > source?* > > A2 David Thomas Professional Engineer, Civil, Alaska Tue > > Because you need flammable gas AND OXYGEN to ignite and before the mixing > assembly, *it’s only gas in the gas piping with no oxygen in there.* > > But why doesn’t flame travel back from the burner to the mixing assembly > (that tube on the right, below): > > Well, it does, occasionally, if things are poorly designed or operated or > (often the case with an outdoor BBQ grill) have partially corroded away. > > *But in a properly designed burner in good condition, those holes in the > burner are too small for the flame to travel backwards*, even with > well-mixed air and gas coming out of them. “Flame arresters” consisting > of a simple wire screen mesh are used on gasoline cans and throughout > industry to prevent a flame front from travelling through them. Those > metal surfaces quench a flame front as the highly-energetic short-lived > chemical fragments which transport energy from one combustion reaction to > the next are converted to more common, less-energetic compounds on that > metal surface. With small enough holes, enough of that energy is dampened > out that a flame front can’t propagate. > > *Q3 How would someone get electrocuted?* > > A3 Sangram Sagar Tue > > Electricity will naturally flow to the ground. If we hold the cable > without insulation, electricity will flow from the cable through our bodies > full of water as a conductor to the ground. > > That's why birds that perch on electric cables are not electrocuted. They > do not trace the ground. > > *My note- A dry wooden plank, a rubber insulayed footwear or a rubber > sheet, would be a good* insulator. Better switch of the supply and permit > work by an electrician. *Even electrical linemen nowadays switch off > supply from transformer and work on electrical lines. * > > *Q4 Is it normal to have love for your wife but still lean > towards getting divorced?* > > A4 Bhuvana Rameshwar married for three decades 5h > > *It doesn't seem normal. If you love someone you* don't leave them. But > sometimes the situation is such that it does happen. > > My husband's cousin now in his 70s was married to a college professor. > They lived as a joint family in Chennai. His parents.. father a famous > senior advocate and mother employed in govt service didn't get along with > the young dil. She was a PG and was employed as a lecturer in her native > city. > > *Things got so bad that they divorced. She took their baby son and moved > back to Andhra Pradesh from Chennai*. He loved her, she loved him yet the > divorce happened probably because of the over *dominating mil.* > > I knew the mil . She was my mil's sister. I detested her. I found her too > authoritative as if she was a school principal handling students . She was > proud and had a superior attitude. She visited us often but *her pulses > didn't cook well with me*. ( Tamizh, Indian idiom) > > The son soon got married again, migrated to the US. His next wife is also > a good person. They have two sons. *What makes it interesting for a > divorce of 70s is that the old man contacted his first wife some decades > ago (she is still unmarried) and his first born son. They remain friend*s. > His mother passed away when she least expected inspite of all the power and > money she had. > > So sometimes divorces do happen, unfortunately, even if the couple are > still in love all due to circumstances. > > *Q5 Do the English put milk or cream in their tea?* > > A5 Elizabeth Henderson Former English Teacher. Dec 23 > > If anybody in the UK puts cream in their tea, they are in an invisible > minority. > > *Many of us do put milk in our tea, and contrary to* one of the answers > already given, some of us use full-fat milk. But it is not the same as > cream. > > I like strong black (Indian) tea with milk and sugar. > > My husband drinks Earl Grey, very weak, without milk or sugar. > > Other people like a slice of lemon or lime, but never together with milk, > as it makes the milk curdle > > *Q6 Are Indian banks taking fixed deposits and investing in the > stock market without customers’ knowledge?* > > A6 Prasanna Bhalerao M. Sc. in Electronics & Physics, > Fergusson College, Pune Fri > > *Banks generally do not invest depositors’ money in the stock market.* > > But get this straight. Once you make a Term Deposit with a Bank, the Bank > owes you the principal and the promised interest. Nothing more, nothing > less. What the bank does with the depositors’ money is the Bank’s > business. > > The depositors cannot question what the Bank does with their money. The > shareholders can. > > The depositors can only question if their term deposits + interest are not > paid out at the maturity date. > > Usually, the bank uses the infused capital to lend money to borrowers (at > a higher interest). > > *Q7 What is the relationship between income and consumption?* > > A7 Daniel Bright Author of Enlightened Capitalism: A Keynes > Primer 2nd edition Updated 1y > > From another answerer to this question: > > “In economics, income = consumption + savings. The income an indivual, or > a country, produces is either consumed and/or saved. If you , or a country, > overspends, you or the country dips into savings or creates debt.” > > I think this answer is true for the firm or the individual but in the > whole economy it is no longer true. > > In the macro economy, every time some person or entity doesn’t spend, some > other person or entity has their income reduced by the same amount. And > because that person won’t get their hands on that money, they will not have > it to spend further, so the next would-be recipient of that spending > doesn’t get that income, which they in turn will not be able to spend….. > and so on > > This statement implies that when someone spends money, the money > disappears. However, whenever money is spent, the money still exists in the > hands of the recipient of that spending. Then when that person spends that > money they received, again, it does not disappear, it is transferred to the > recipient of THAT spending etc. At the end of all that spending, at the end > of the given time period, the money used will still exist and can be > considered as savings, in someone’s pocket. > > So someone making that argument for the macroeconomy must be talking about > something other than spending of money. > > Perhaps they are talking about wealth. Perhaps they are implying that all > that spending depletes wealth. > > *I would suggest that spending more often than not leads to the production > of wealth, either by paying* for goods expected to be sold right away, or > in anticipation of sales in the future > > Either way, for the most part those things sold will not be produced or > cared for if someone wasn’t going to buy them. Whether perishable items, > most of which help preserve some more durable form of wealth, like human > capital, for instance. Or durable forms of wealth are produced that will > last beyond the current time period. It is the “spending” that encourages > the increased production and preservation of wealth. > > So whether you spend it or not, in terms of money you will have the same > amount of money at the end of the given time period. which we can refer > to as savings. > > But with the spending you will increase the production of wealth. Either > way, in the macroeconomy, “Spending” is what leads to wealth production, > “not spending” reduces wealth production and does nothing to increase money > saved. That money saved will exist whether used for spending or not. > > So on either front, if the goal is to increase savings, and increase the > net production of wealth, “not spending” is the wrong advice. “Not > spending” will not increase the savings that is the preservation of > investment, and it will likely not increase the net production of wealth, > in fact it is more likely to decrease both. *In the macro economy, “not > spending” is more likely to have negative effect on the production of > wealth and standard of living, than a positive one.* > > *Q8 Why are the insides of wires usually copper but the plug is > a different metal?* > > A8 Ian Lang Electronic Engineer BTEC L3Fri > > Copper is extremely malleable. Really. Copper bends like a Romanian > gymnast in the Olympics. You can harden it, but then it can become > brittle. Either way, it isn’t any good for plugs. Copper is the second > best conductor of electricity, though, so it’s used in wires. > > Silver is the best. But it too is bendy. And expensive. > > Fortunately you can do something with copper that makes it far less bendy > and still a good conductor and that we’ve known about since the Romans (who > perfected the art) and in fact in one form or another since somebody in > Wiltshire on a really big mushroom trip said “this place needs a lot of > really big stones plonking down on it”. > > *What you do is you chuck a load of zinc at it and you get brass*. Brass > is great. You can chuck bits of tin, lead, and all sorts in too to get > different chemical properties. Brass isn’t a Romanian gymnast. It’s more > like one of those East German weightlifters, who despite having a name like > Margarita-Rosa and tits like a Zeppelin race does in fact have a moustache. > As anyone who has ever put their foot on a BS1363 at half past three in the > morning will tell you. > > *Q9 How many clothes can be washed in 8 kg washing machine?* > > A9 Gopala Krishnan, former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 > at Department of Telecom (1966-2004)Answered just now > > First one has to understand 8Kg means cloths weighing 8 kg when wet. > > So clothes like bed sheets and bed spreads we can put only 2–3. Pants can > be 3, shirts can be 5, saris can be 3 etc. It is best 3/4th of the > machine is only loaded. Too much washing liquid is not good. Too little > is also not good, if at all you extended the washing period for more time. > Sufficient > liquid detergent has to be poured. > > *Q10 I'd like to cut sugar from my diet but doing so makes me feel > lethargic and cranky. Is there a healthy option to replace sugar but with > the same positive effects on mood and energy?* > > A10 Lucia Garcia Worked at Hospitals Dec 23 > > Excessive sugar is not only harmful to teeth, but also increases the risk > of obesity, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and other > diseases, leading to various health problems. > > *Stevia sugar can replace sugar. Stevia sugar is a natural sweetener > extracted from the leaves of the South American shrub Stevia.* > > Stevia sugar contains no calories and does not make you fat. Its sweetness > is 250 to 450 times that of sucrose. > > The glycemic index of stevia is only 1, which not only does not raise > blood sugar, but also lowers blood sugar and blood pressure levels. > > Stevia sugar is a kind of pure natural and high-safety sugar, known as the > "third-generation healthy sugar source". > > Stevia sugar has been approved by many countries, such as the United > States, China, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan. > > The European Food Safety Authority has also confirmed the safety of stevia > sugar and is speeding up the revision of the regulations to approve the > use of stevia sugar in daily foods. > > *All the above QA are from Quora website on 01-01- 2022. * > > *Compiled and posted by R. 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