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Q1 Is honey an effective remedy for cough? A1 Lucia Garcia, Worked at Hospitals Tue Honey is known asworld's most nutritious tonic, and at the same time, honey is also a good home remedy for coughs. The advantage ofhoney is that it comprises variety of natural antioxidant constituents, such asorganic acids, phenolic compounds, SOD, and more. Clinical experience shows that honey has The Effect ofRelieving Cough and Phlegm, Anti-inflammatory and Bactericidal. Research provesthat consuming honey can enhance the body's antioxidant activity and improvethe body's antioxidant capacity. The WHO has recommended that honey can relieve coughscaused by upper respiratory tract infections and bronchitis.In traditional Asian medicine,honey is a time-honoured remedy for sore throats and coughs. According to TheGuardian, honey may work better than standard treatments for coughs, stuffynoses and sore throats without any side effects. However,honey can only assist in the treatment of respiratory symptoms. If symptoms aresevere, you need to see a doctor. Q2 Can we use an old refrigerator to storewater bottles or other drinks? A2 Gopala Krishnan, Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now Since I desiredconfirmation YES to answer this question, I made a google search. The answer Igot was confirming my thinking. Probably in Quora itself. The details arefurnished below:- Rajiv Sethi ,Over three decades experience as a Vedicastrologer/teacher2y Absolutely, disconnect thepower supply and wash the inside with a detergent and bleach mixture. It willdisinfect the interior and also remove all smells that may have accumulated. Use the freezer forcondiments and items of daily use. The shelves will not take more than fifteenKg so do not overload these. You can use thevegetable and fruit compartment at the bottom to stock plastic and othershopping bags. The possibilities are endless. So I uphold this answer/ my answer is also the same.But recollect fridge occupy a lot of space. Some may consider it also a realfridge. Q3 Is skipping breakfast the new diettrend? Is it good for me? A3 Bhuvana Rameshwar, Lives in India(1989–present)9h Yes. I don't know whether it is good or not. But peopleare claiming weight reduction. What they do ishave dinner by 19:00 or 20:00 the previous day and then next day have the firstmeal only by 11 am or more. However they drink water. This is followed by simple lunch or as a combinedbrunch form. So they are withoutfood for 15 hours ( 8 pm to 11am) . They thus miss breakfast, morning coffee,tea etc. This is called as intermittent fasting. It works well withpeople at home and those in WFH mode. Q4 Why doesn't the railway line fromBangalore to Mysore continue to Calicut? Whydo we have to take a long detour travelling through Salem, Erode, Coimbatore,Palakkad and then to Calicut? A4 Prasanna Bhalerao, Knows about trains.Sep 9 A study of the Geography and topology will help youunderstand. There exists mountainous terrain from Mysoreonwards. That itself is not the issue. But beyond Mysore there are dense forests, the Bandipur tigerreserve, etc. These are protected forests. Finally, it depends uponthe demand also My note- But bus service is there. I recollect one ofmy friends took route from Calicut, Kalpetta, Mysore to admit his son in anengineering college near Mysore. But bus traffic is prohibitedafter 5 PM. Q5 Should fruits be eaten before or aftermeals? A5 Aulis Smith, Lives in California(2010–present)Mon When you get up inthe morning, the body absorbs nutrients quickly, and you can eat fruits such asbananas, grapes, and oranges. When you are hungrybefore lunch, you can eat some watermelon, grapefruit, apples and other fruitswith high water content, which can control food intake and improve satiety. You should eat some sour fruits one hour after meals tohelp digestion, and eat some fruits that help you sleep before going to bed,such as red dates, bananas, etc.Do not eat a single fruit, but choose a varietyof fruits to ensure a balanced nutrition. Q6 Does water help reduce diabetes levels? A6 Steven Haddock, Studied at YorkUniversity (Canada) Mon No, notreally. One of the ways your body can react when yourblood sugar is too high isto increase urine output. This will carry away some of the sugar dissolved inthe blood. Except that urination is a terrible way toremove sugar from your bloodstream. It’s incredibly inefficient - you need alot of water to remove a relatively small amount of sugar. This, of course,makes you dehydrated. When you’re dehydrated, you get thirsty. If you haveuntreated diabetes the two key symptoms are (1) excessive thirst and (2)excessive dilute urine. The Romans knew this. In fact, your urine will be sosweet, bees will swarm to it as if it were nectar. “Diabetes” is literally Latin for “honeyurine”. Speaking fromexperience, my dad and I went to Florida in the winter of ‘82. It was warm, butnot overly so. When we would go to dinner, he would regularly down an entirelarge glass of soda, and ask for another. He was also constantly going to usethe restroom. I should have clued in, but didn’t. A few years later, he wasdiagnosed with Type II diabetes. My note- Oso water, dehydration powder mixed inwater has a good effect in reviving energy to diabetic patients. When I feelvery tired I drink one bottle of oso water with in 10 minutes or still less. I have observed my blood sugar leveldoes not increase and I become energetic. It is a personal information only andnever advocate to others. Always consult your doctor before changing any procedures Q7 If Buddha was a Vishnu avatar, why didAdi Shankaracharya preach Hinduism and philosophically oppose Buddhism? A7 Balaji Viswanathan, spiritual seekerwho traveled around a lot of Buddhism's sacred sites. Sep 2 The idea that Buddha was a Vishnu’s avatar is a fantasytheory that some Hindus invented tobuild a bridge between the 2 faiths. Majority of Hindus and majority ofBuddhists don’t believe in that. Some “cultural”Hindus who have no grounding in religion suffer from self worth issues and tryto claim every random idea came up in India as part of Hinduism. Anyway, unlikeVishnu’s avatars such as Ram, Krishna, Narasimha, Vamana (Trivikrama) orParashuram, Buddha doesn’tfeature in Hindu temples or important religious texts. Vishnu’savatars go increasingly popular from the 1st avatar (Matsya) to the 8th —Krishna avatar in a linearly increasing complexity and popularity. By that trend, the 9th “Buddhaavatar” must be the most celebrated one in temples. It is not. In fact, mostHindus have little interest in Buddha or Buddhism. Hindu worship methods suchas visiting temples for darshan, attending arathi, doing puja, taking ritualbaths at the theerthas, doing fire rituals (homams) for all major ceremonies,singing bhajans and keerthanas for their Ista devata, performing Shradh fordeparted ancestors — noneof these have any resemblance with core philosophies of Buddhism. Nearly all majortemples are centered on Agama sastras and most major priests are schooled inVedas. These are all things absent in Buddhism. Hinduism and Buddhism are very differentreligions and thepractitioners of either religion know how different things are. However, theguys who practice neither religion try to add all this confusion. Q8 What was the biggest railway accidentever in India? A8 Priyanshu Tiwari,NIT Allahabad|Learner|Coder|Quizzer2y My note- I thoughta lot before adding this QA, Finally decided to add it for information. Irequest members who fear tragedy reading kindly skip this QA The Gaisal Accident. Talkingabout Railway accidents in India there is this one accident which belittles allthe others on the scale of number of people dead and the after-affects. This accident occurred in thewee hours of August 2, 1999 near a station named Gaisal hence it is known asthe Gaisal Accident.The story goes as: It was the Midnightof August 1 and the Bramhputra Mail (4055 down), which ran from Delhi, hadjust entered the Gaisal station. All the passengers aboard were fast asleepwhile 30 kms away AwadhAsam express had also entered the Kishanganj Station. The driver of Avadh AssamR K Roy probably knew that he was heading towards a dangerous place.Bodo militants had blown up parts of the track between Barpeta andSarupeta just yesterday. Kishanganj is a largerstation than Gaisal. Railway officials were upgrading the 'panel interlockingsystem' there that is, mechanical systems (in which heavy levers are pulled toguide trains) were being replaced by electric switches. But this work takes time andhence for the time being the lineman has to go to that place and lock thetracks with his hands to bend the trains on a particular track. Kishanganj wasgiven additional staff to make this work easier.The Avadh-Assam Express wasdelayed by six hours and reached Kishanganj by around 1.30 am. Assistant Station Master HMSingh knew that this train would leave the station from the up-line. For this,the track had to be manually diverted. This was not done.The train cut up the line and entered the track which was reserved for trainscoming from the opposite direction. Around the sametime, HM Singh madeanother mistake. He gave ‘regular information' about the train to Panjipara,the next station of Awadh-Assam Express. It is a standard operatingprocedure. But the information was incorrect. He told Panjipara in his 'regular information' that theexpress train was coming on the up-line, while it was coming on the down-line. Since the trainused to cross the National Highway 31, there was a railway crossing in themiddle. The employee posted at the railway crossing did what every employeewould do. He allowedthe train to pass. Did not notice that the train is passing up and notdown-line. Driver Roy also didnot find anything unusual. There is a difference of few meters between the upand down tracks. Ifeverything had been right, he would have been traveling in the left track, buthe was traveling in the right track. All the green signals whichshould have been on this side of the train, were on the opposite side of it,yet Roy didn't notice that. Actually, these green signals were not for Roy, butfor the driver of the Brahmaputra Mail BC Vardhan, who was coming from theother side. In Panjipara, ASM RN Singh passed the same incorrectinformation to his cabin-man that the Awadh-AssamExpress was coming upthe line. Cabin-manSP Singh made the lever changes accordingly. But no one in any station noticedthat the signals are green even after the train passed, while they should haveturned red automatically. Cabin man Y. Marandi was sitting in thedark in the west cabin of Gaisal station, he was the only person now betweenthe two trains but alas the light of his cabin was gone and it was rainingheavily. Before heknew anything (or after that when he should have given the signal but didn'tgive it), the Awadh-Assam Express and the Brahmaputra Mail collided at 2 AM on2 August 1999. Thirteen bogies became badly entangled among themselves,witnessing one of the worst train disasters in Indian history. More than 300 people were killed and more than 600 people were injured. This was the officialdata.The general bogies of that train had many times more people than thecapacity. The figure ofthe dead is said to be over a thousand. Some unofficial sources have put thedeath toll to about a 1000 people including 90 soldiers. When thebodies were kept beside the tracks almost all of them were dismembered and somewere unidentifiable. Some witnesses claimed that the bogieswere thrown almost 50–60 feet in the air. The after-effectswere that the then Railway Minister proposed to give his resignation on groundsof moral responsibility the situation was so tense that the then President ofIndia had to come forward to assure the public that the railways would be madesafer for the people and asked the government to inquire into the matter. All thiswould have been prevented if a few people had done their duty properly. This accident proved a blessing in disguise as therailways set on a path to become more and more safer over the years and todayrailway accidents have significantly decreased. Thanks for Reading… Sources:IndianRailways gropes for answers as systemic lapses lead to horrifying Gaisaltragedy Q9 Do hotels know whether you're using toomuch electricity or water? A9 David Thomas, Professional Engineer,Civil, Alaska Mon No. Most hotels have no way of knowing how muchelectricity or hot water you are using. If you waste either, they’ll never knowand you only have your conscience that might bother you, having wasted energyand resources. Increasingly hotelsare going to timers on lights and especially heaters and air conditioning, sorooms aren’t conditioned when unoccupied and in some cases when you step out ofthe room for the day. A few times, I’ve returned to a warm or cold room and theHVAC only started when a motion detector or my hitting a button started it upagain. My note- In Many Indian lodgings the power canbe switched ON only if the key attached plastic strip is inserted in a pocketinside. Q10 What is the meaning of "GangHut" written in Indian Railway stations? A10 Mayur Goswami, Vice President 9h “Gang Hut”.. First let'sunderstand what does the term “Gang Men/ Man” mean in context to Railways. “Gang Men” are the labourers whowork as the lowest grade employees at Indian Railways. All line men, track maintenancepersonnel, coach maintenance personel etc. are classified as “Gang Men”…now while on duty across the railway tracks, these “Gang Men” Need shelter to take breaks, have theirlunch etc. or rest for a while, or when trains are passing through thatparticular section. For this purpose Railways makes provisions of“Gang Huts” as shelters for these personnel. “Gang Huts” thus provide shelter against extreme weatherconditions to these personnel. Hope I have clarified your query. All the above QA are from Quora website on 14-09- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled andposted by R. Gopala krishnan on 15-09-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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