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Frozen food: calculate the merits and demerits

Frozen foods are new trend in contemporary society especially in western countries . These are reflected as less healthy and low nutritive value when compared to fresh foods. This is due to the heavy processing, use of artificial ingredients and flavours used for frozen foods. In reality, buying frozen foods are highly advantageous to people in terms of quality, nutrition, cost and safety. There are several advantages of consuming frozen foods . Frozen foods are superior of quality as these maintain all the flavour and nutrients. According to frozen food foundation, Frozen foods have more nutritive value than fresh produce because fresh products are harvested long before coming to store. Fresh produce may deteriorate fast if not consumed early. Another key benefit is that Frozen foods are cost effective. These can be refrigerated for several weeks but we cannot preserve fresh produce for long time without losing its nutritive value. Frozen foods can be served in fe...

Tips to alleviate Jet lag

Gobalization leads to major transformation in human life. People frequently migrate from one place to another. In crossing time zones , we may experience lots of problem. Jet lag is one of them which can result in headaches, stomach problems, nausea, trouble in concentrating, and sleeping. Jet lag, also termed as desynchronosis and flight fatigue , is a momentary syndrome that causes tiredness, insomnia, and other signs due to air travel across time zones. It is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, which is a disturbance of the internal body clock. Circadian rhythms are 24-hour cycles in the biochemical, physiological, and behavioural processes of human bodies. They control person’s daily actions like sleep, waking, eating, and body temperature regulation. When circadian rhythms are considerably dismayed due to frequent migration, it leads to jet lag. Main cause of jet lag is the incapability of the body of a voyager to instantly adjust to the time in a different zone.   ...

Techniques of anger management in teenage

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Anger is a major teenage mental health issue that needs attention to psychologists, mental health specialists and parents. Plethora of Mental Health reports signified that approximately 19 percent of young people receive mental health services treated with anger problems as it is closely associated with other emotional and mental issues. Anger differs in intensity and duration. It is also a reaction of other emotions. There are solid grounds of developing anger in teens. One of the prominent cause is childhood trauma . Other pressing issues may be incidence of anger and violence. Substance abuse also trigger anger in adolescent period. Some medications erupt emotional and physical violence.        Anger is common negative emotion and in normal course, it is not considered as serious mental health issue for teens. But if anger outburst and out of control then it is a matter of serious concern and require psychiatric intervention. There are so...

Bake bread at home to prepare number of snacks

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Bread slices are basic breakfast meal for majority of people in the world. We all buy different types of bread from bakery. Wondering if you get good recipe for bread and you can bake it at home which is pure and delicious.   In this article, I have tried to mention white bread recipe which bakes up deliciously golden brown. Hope everyone will enjoy the taste of healthy bread and make yummy sandwiches from this homemade bread.   Recipe for white bread : Ingredients : ·         1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast ·         2-1/4 cups warm water (110°F to 115°F) ·         3 tablespoons sugar ·         1 tablespoon salt ·         2 tablespoons cooking oil ·         6-1/4 to 6-3/4 cups all-purpose flour Procedure of baking bread : 1. To ...

Dangerous Silence of mental war of human

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Massive scale of people experience mild or severe mental ailment. But many of them hesitate to seek health guidance or treatment due to the stigma associated with mental illnesses. Threatening or emotionally disturbing mental syndromes like schizophrenia , depression , and phobia shake to patient internally and they remain in the stage of intense mental war. Though struggle is a part of life but fighting with mental disorder silently is highly dangerous for patients because it may have tragic consequences. There are some nastiest stories linked with mental disease which compelled individuals to become silent. Mental ailment afflict people in many ways such as temporary depression to a long-lasting personality disorder . Anxiety , schizophrenia and the other disorders can pestilence the human mind. In order to avoid precarious outcome of mental war due to psychological illness, people must accept reality and work together with therapist , psychiatrist , and mental health ...

Risk factors and prevention of suicide: A grim mental health issue

We hear tragic cases of suicide in different cultural society. Suicide is considered to be prevalent and key mental health issue at global scale.   It can be frightening when our near one shows symptoms of suicidal feelings. A suicidal tendency evidently indicates grim problem in individual’s life. There is a tragic story behind every suicide. Many suicides happen impulsively and in such circumstances, easy access to the means of suicides are like pesticides or firearms. In general, suicide rates are lower in person under 15 years of age and highest among 70 years and older. Several prominent theorists like Karl Marx believed that the abuse of women and their treatment as a second grade citizens was primarily responsible for their suicide. In ancient India, suicide was regarded as an acceptable alternative to dying from threatening illness. In the beginning of twentieth century psychiatry had developed a science. Physicians began to attribute suicidal ideations to mental diso...

Dark power: Shadow of humans

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The shadow is an intrinsic part of humans but they do not consider its presence. People have a common tendency to mask their negative traits. They breathe with false moral superiority. According to renowned Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung , the shadow is the unknown ‘‘ dark side ’’ of human personality. It is those facets of the personality that people choose to reject and repress such as aggressive impulses, taboo mental images, shameful experiences, immoral urges, fears, irrational wishes. As many people visualize that shadow can be easily chased, they can have fun with their shadow. But people normally avert their personal shadow that is the reflection of their negative emotions. In Jung theoretical model, the shadow is a prototype that exists as part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas , weaknesses, desires, instincts, and inadequacies. The shadow forms out of our efforts to adapt to cultural standards and beliefs. It contains all aspects that are...