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Groundnut (Peanut) Oil: Add Flavour and Health to Your Everyday Cooking

September 3, 2016 Srijita(Peanut), Add, and, Cooking, Everyday, Flavour, Groundnut, Health, Oil, to, Your

To paraphrase Shakespeare slightly, the groundnut, by any other name, would taste as sweet. And so it has been bestowed with a handful of names – peanut, earth nut, goober pea, monkey nut, pig nut and pygmy nut.The groundnut (which is actually a legume, part of the bean family), much like many other ingredients beloved to Indian cooking, most likely came to us from abroad. This is a little difficult to wrap our heads around because it feels like such a thoroughly Indian food, just like tomatoes, papaya, cashew, potatoes…

Childhood Antibiotic Use Linked To Higher Food Allergy Risk

September 3, 2016 SrijitaAllergy, Antibiotic, childhood, Food., higher, Linked, Risk, to, Use

Antibiotic treatment within the first year of life is associated with an increase in food allergy diagnosis, suggests new research. The researchers found that children prescribed antibiotics within the first year of life were 1.21 times more likely to be diagnosed with food allergy than children who hadn’t received an antibiotic prescription. “Overusing antibiotics invites more opportunity for side effects, including the potential development of food allergies, and can encourage antibacterial resistance,” said lead researcher Bryan Love from South Carolina College of Pharmacy in the US. The study involved analysis…

4 Yoga Poses for Migraine: How to Get Relieved From That Pounding Pain

September 3, 2016 Srijita4), for, From, Get, How, Migraine, Pain, Poses, Pounding, Relieved, That, to, Yoga

Dealing with a headache is not easy. It can mess around with your everyday routine, and to make things worse, that debilitating pain doesn’t easily subside even when you’re taking rest. Migraine is a different ballgame altogether. It has no cause and no cure, however, genetic predisposition do come into play. The excruciating pain can even compromise one’s efficiency and productivity. For the longest time in my life, I had suffered from migraine and my only BFFs in the time of distress were migraine pills or cups of chai and…

5 Effective Exercises for Abs: How to Get Katrina Kaif’s Kala Chashma Look

September 3, 2016 Srijita5%;, ABS:, Chashma, effective, exercises, for, Get, How, Kaif's, Kala, Katrina, look, to

The most popular symbol for fitness globally is a well-defined set of abs! Case in point is the recent music video of Kala Chashma with Katrina Kaif and her enviable abs. While that is not entirely a true definition of fitness, aesthetically it is what many fitness enthusiasts aspire for – the proverbial six pack abs. They would kill for it or (theoretically) die trying! Keep in mind, we all have a potential six pack abdomen lurking underneath the layers of fat. Hence, for definition, you would require a really…

Facebook, Google, Twitter Deliberately Fail to Tackle Terrorism: British Panel

September 2, 2016 SrijitaBritish, Deliberately, Facebook, Fail, Google, Panel, Tackle, Terrorism:, to, Twitter

In the first-ever widespread criticism of US technology giants and social media platforms, the British Home Affairs select committee has slammed the internet behemoths of becoming a “recruiting platform for terrorism” and “passing the buck”. Led by Keith Vaz, the British parliament’s longest-serving Indian-origin MP, the panel rapped Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube, saying the companies were deliberately failing to stop terrorists from using their platforms to promote their sinister agenda, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. “Huge corporations like Google, Facebook and Twitter, with their billion-dollar incomes, are consciously failing…

Twitter to Share Ad Revenue on Videos by US Users

September 2, 2016 SrijitaAd, by, On, Revenue, Share, to, Twitter, US, Users;, videos

Twitter Inc on Tuesday stepped up its battle to attract video talent to its platform, saying it will allow US users who upload a video to share in any advertising revenue it generates. Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube are all competing to keep or recruit top video talent as they seek to cash in on the wave of televison-style advertising that has been moving to the internet. Twitter already offers revenue sharing to media and entertainment companies such as CBS Corp and the National Football League which post videos…