Benefits of Honey

Take one part honey to two parts of luke warm water and add a small teaspoon of cinnamon powder, make a paste and massage it on the itching part of the body slowly.It is noticed that the pain recedes within a minute or two.

Or arthritis patients may daily, morning and night take one cup of hot water with two spoons of honey and one small teaspoon of cinnamon powder.If drunk regularly even chronic arthritis can be cured.
In a recent research done at the Copenhagen University, it was found that when the doctors treated their patients with a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within a week out of the 200 people so treated practically 73 patients were totally relieved of pain and within a month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or move around because of arthritis started walking without pain.

Hair Loss
Those suffering from hair loss or baldness, may apply a paste of hot olive oil, one tablespoon of honey, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder before bath and keep it for approx. 15 min. and then wash the hair. It was found very effective if kept for 5 minutes also.

Bladder Infections
Take two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of honey in a glass of luke warm water and drink it.It destroys the germs of the bladder.ToothacheMake a paste of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be done 3 times a day daily till such time that the tooth has stopped aching.

Cholesterol
Two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, if given to a cholesterol patient, it reduces the level of cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours.As mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken 3 times a day any chronic cholesterol is cured.
As per the information received in the said journal, pure honey taken with food daily relieves complains of cholesterol.Colds
Those suffering from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon luke warm honey with 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon powder daily for 3 days.This process will cure most chronic cough, cold and clear the sinuses.

Upset Stomach
Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the root.GAS: According to the studies done in India & Japan, it is revealed that if honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is relieved of gas.

Heart Diseases
Make a paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for breakfast.It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries and saves the patient from heart attack.Also those who have already had an attack, if they do this process daily, are kept miles away from the next attack.Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath and strengthens the heart beat.In America and Canada, various nursing homes have treated patients successfully and have found that due to the increasing age the arteries and veins which lose their flexibility and get clogged are revitalized.

Immune System
Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks.Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts.Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.

Indigestion
Cinnamon powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken before food, relieves acidity and digests the heaviest of meals.InfluenzaA scientist in Spain has proved that honey contains a natural ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the patient from flu.

Longevity
Tea made with honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly arrests the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1spoon of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make like tea.Drink 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a day. It keeps the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age.Life span also increases and even if a person is 100 years old, starts performing the chores of a 20 year old.

Pimples
Three tablespoons of honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping and wash it next morning with warm water.If done daily for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

Skin Infections
Eczema, ringworm and all types of skin infections are cured by applying honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected parts.

Weight Loss
Daily in the morning, 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup water.If taken regularly it reduces the weight of even the most obese person.Also drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

Cancer
Recent research in Japan and Australia has reveled that advanced cancer of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully.Patients suffering from these kinds of cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a day.

Fatigue
Recent studies have shown that the sugar content of honey is more helpful than detrimental to the body strength.Senior citizens who take honey and cinnamon power in equal parts are more alert and flexible.Dr. Milton who has done research says that half tablespoon honey taken in one glass of water and sprinkled with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in the afternoon at about 3.00 p.m. when the vitality of the body starts decreasing, increases the vitality of the body within a week.

Bad Breath
People of South America, first thing in the morning gargle with one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot water.So their breath stays fresh throughout the day.
Hearing LossDaily morning and night honey and cinnamon powder taken in equal parts restores hearing

Cars of 2008

Small Car Owners Drive Carefully

All you small car owners, beaware and drive carefully. The risk to life in case of accidents in smaller cars is much more than those driving big cars:

"Crash test results released on Dec. 18 by the Arlington (Va.)-based Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) show that so-called minicars can leave occupants in serious peril, especially when they collide with much larger vehicles like the ones that populate most American roads. Optional Equipment Becomes Necessary IIHS reported that driver fatality rates in subcompacts are higher than in any other vehicle category. In fact, death rates in minicars are double those in midsize and large cars. Fatalities in single-vehicle accidents, meanwhile, are higher in smaller vehicles than larger ones. The new crash results show that passengers in very small cars can suffer serious or even fatal injury in collisions with other vehicles, particularly in side- and rear-impact crashes. Of the eight vehicles tested, all but one earned ratings of "poor" or "marginal" in at least one of the three tests administered. Models from Toyota, Scion, and Hyundai earned scores of "poor" in side-impact tests; the Chevrolet Aveo, a rebadged Daewoo import, earned a "marginal" score. "

Reference: http://www.businessweek.com/autos/content/dec2006/bw20061219_905974.htm?chan=autos_autos+index+page_news

Smaller cars are increasingly in demand due to rising fuel prices and growing traffic (thanks to ease of leasing). These small cars have been rated risky by security monitoring authorities. Being smaller in size they do not have side airbags; and their structural rigidity prevents penetration.
Among the dangers of accidents; brain damage, serious neck injury, internal organ injuries, broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis are the most common identified.

So to keep your heads on your shoulders you better drive carefully and keep distance!

Waste of time – Men cleverer than women

Recently a study has apparently just found out that men are cleverer than women:

“A study to be published later this year in the British Journal of Psychology says that men are on average five points ahead on IQ tests.
As intelligence scores among the study group rose, the academics say they found a widening gap between the sexes.
There were twice as many men with IQ scores of 125, for example, a level said to correspond with people getting first-class degrees.
At scores of 155, associated with genius, there were 5.5 men for every woman.”

Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4183166.stm

This is no news at all. If only they had opened up a copy of the Quran, they would have known so much earlier.
What these studies have shown today has already been told by God 1400 years ago!

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Harry Potter Series coming to an end

The seventh book of the Harry Potter series will be released this summer in July, 2007. The countdown has begun!

As much as I await the end of the series I feel sad at the same time. No longer will there be anticipation or wait for the next book in the series.

It will soon all be over. No more imagining or guessing about at the end of reading the latest book. We used to go crazy thinking what will happen next. Making our own predictions; trying to solve the mystery ourselves; writing fan fictions, reviews, and commenting on different possibilities – all this and more will end this summer.

J K Rowling is an amazing writer. The way she links up pieces of information throughout the series is extra ordinary.

Never have I ever read such an imaginative writer who has invented a whole new world which is fairly different from ours’! Complete with a new set of vocabulary and spells Harry Potter series is an amazing piece of work.

Those of you who haven’t read the book and think its childish should give the series a chance. It really is awesome and once you start on it, you simply won’t be able to stop reading!

Jealusy in girls

We are talking about friendship between girls here.

Why are girls so envious of each other? Why can’t they be happy for others? We place our trust in our friends and share our happiness, but instead of rejoicing our happiness they become spiteful. They will start complaining why they couldn’t the same life, life partners, boyfriends, as much money, dressing sense etc. as their friends have.

True the grass seems greener on the other side, but that happens everywhere. I haven’t seen a situation where men are envious of each other. They always support each other and try to help each other through rough times.

In some cases this jealousy is to such an extreme that they actually take practical destructive steps. They simply cannot stand to see another person of their own gender happy.

Girls scandalize other girls. They will do the very same thing themselves but point there fingers on others. Many times I myself have experienced my friends going behind my back and laughing off.

I find that my male friends are much better friends than MOST of my female friends. I don’t have to think twice before sharing my happiness and problems with them. I believe this is because between females there is a general tendency to pretend. Instead of sympathizing females are more prone to laughing behind your back; or rather passing on your story to others.

Why is it so? Why can’t we wish our friends good luck and a beautiful life?

Interesting facts

1.Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.

2.Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!

3.Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.

4.The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.

5.To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

6.Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.

7.Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

8.It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

9.Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.

10.Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

11.Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

12.Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

13.Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

14.Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

15.Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.

16.At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.

17.There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.

18.Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.

19.Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

20.The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

Pakistani Cricket 2007

Pakistan's team is the most unpredictable team to have ever been formed. They can win or lose at ANY stage of the match. This year i'm not counting on it at all! three of our best players aren't playing - namely Shoaib Akhter, Muhammad Asif, Abdur Razzak.

There is not a single player who may be a leader. Then there is Shahid Afridi who plays for pleasure, true he doesn't waste balls and time but one can not count on him. We sure do have one hell of a moody team.

Still we do have Muhammad Yousaf and Younis Khan, who have been showing good performance, and one hopes they'll keep it up through the world cup.

We won the warm up match against Canada and South Africa. Lets see how they do. There's no telling what they are gonna do as always. So lets keep our fingers crossed, control our emotions, and sit back and enjoy the game.

Cynical Moods

We have become distrustful and cynical. We find it increasingly hard to believe in love, family, and facts. So practical have we become that we are suspicious of any loving or friendly gestures that anyone displays for us.

I believe we are afraid to take risks and face the consequences. In this world of fraud and falsity, we are no longer aware of the differences in truth and false. We are suspicious of even the long established and self-experienced truths.

Another reason why we find it difficult to trust facts are that today everyday new researchers bring in new facts, new results; easily discarding and denouncing the older researches. Then the increasing number of false claims and innovative ideas to sell products and services have also made us alert, conscious and judgmental.

What are your opinions, why have we become so cynical?

We are all living edgy, uncertain, terrorized lives. Only 10 years before the world was relatively much more peaceful. Today there are accidents and natural disasters and bomb threats everywhere. Countries engaged in economics wars, attacking other countries for resources and markets. The west lives in terror of the Muslims who are ‘apparently’ terrorists. While the Muslim world lives in terror of being the next target to be accused of terrorism and fear an illegitimate joint attack by the West.

No matter where we are living - be it a Muslim country or otherwise - everybody is living in terror. No body ever knows what is going to happen next. The news is flooded with loss of lives all over the world. Civil wars, war against terrorism, attacks on other countries, illegitimate invasion of other territories are all around us. Where the selfish and heartless humans do not have a hand in destroying a place, nature plays its role – the earthquakes, floods, draughts, Tsunami. Watching or reading news engulfs me in a sense of bleakness.

All these events – floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, civil wars, these ‘so-called’ wars against terrorism – have changed behaviors and social setups to a considerable extent. The uncertainty has led people to become selfish and uncaring of anything else. Many subconsciously have realized the perils and they try to live life for the moment. Terrorized by a thought that there may not be any tomorrow, people are in a hurry to live there lives in the moment. They no longer care about the fact that there actions may be detrimental to the society and even harmful for themselves. People no longer think before they act.

These events have changed the lives of many people directly and indirectly. I know longer feel as happy as I felt before and all this because somewhere in my sub conscience I know people are clinging to dear life. I am not doing anything for them. I ponder if I am entitled to be happy or celebrate, when people are dying, suffering terribly? I cannot bring myself to a state of uncaring attitude. We can’t even imagine the pain that they experience. Should I dream, knowing that there are millions out there whose dreams have been snatched, destroyed? Why am I not doing anything for them? The truth is I feel it easy to say and write, but when it comes to taking practical steps, most of us back out. We do not take out time to touch other people’s lives! Even if we could make just one person’s life better, I believe we could live in peace.

The feeling of making, improving someone’s life alone will reduce the insecurities and anxieties that have become part of our daily lives. They say ‘drops accumulated make a river’. We could make the world a better place by owning up to our share of responsibility to society. And then may be we could take real pride in ourselves, and celebrate life.