Fitness Mantra (Book)

A book on fitness by Dr. Anjuman Singh.

   It is available on Amazon, Flipkart, BooksCamel and at many other online retailers. 

As the Financial year comes to an end this month.....

Remembering IMT (Ghaziabad) days .......

Recollections from the Past (R.I.T Jamshedpur)

Few Photographs & Certificates from my Engineering College days:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Conducted Event at XLRI, Jamshedpur (1999)

Why should we not drink water while standing?

It is always advisable to drink water while sitting whereas other postures like standing, walking , sleeping have been disregarded.
  Why can't we drink water while standing or walking? Why people advise us or point it out to us
  to sit and drink water?
It is because when we stand and drink water, it hits the lower organs of our body and therefore
  can cause trouble in oesophagus and kidneys as well as in other parts.
 So, from next time onwards, lets take care.

Dehydration

A very good article on dehydration - worth reading:
http://www.fatigueanswers.com/dehydration.html

so keep yourself hydrated by drinking good amount of water everyday.


 

Grean Leafy vegetables (Trying some Botany)

As we saw in the previous blog that plants and trees manufacture oxygen and food with the help of
their green leaves by a process named photosynthesis. The green leaves are able to do so because
they contain a green matter called chlorophyll that chemically combines water and carbon di oxide in the presence of sunlight to produce food and release oxygen.
  This oxygen is life for living beings on earth. We inhale it and also burn food for the purpose of releasing energy that keeps our body fit and active. In the process we release carbon di oxide.
  So, indirectly, we are dependent on sun and chlorophyll for energy.
 Now, if we directly intake green leafy vegetables, won't it be quite beneficial?
These green leafy vegetables have high amounts of chlorophyll and when intook increases the oxygen levels in our blood, the essential food for the cells. The oxygen is transported to the different
parts of our tissues by a blood element known as haemoglobin which combines with oxygen to
form oxyhaemoglobin.

The food that plant produces during photosynthesisis are known as Glucose, fructose and sucrose. Sucrose are found in sugarcane. The crystalline sugar that we eat is mainly sucrose. Fructose is found in many fruits. Glucose is the simplest Carbohydrate.   It is known as blood sugar and it is the one that is available to all the cells  through the blood flowing in our body.
       The brain activities are enhanced by Glucose i.e brain cells needs Glucose for its good performance.
      Thus, both oxygen and sugar is transported to the cells via bloodstream where the cells use oxygen during its respiration to burn the sugar and release energy for our day to day work. Lot of oxygen is required during this process.
    Hence, the importance of Glucose and Carbohydrates and of Green Leafy vegetables directly.
   Mostly, all fruits and vegetables contain sugar.

    What happens when there's no glucose? The body turns to Fats and Proteins resources for energy. 

(Experimental research still pending .... )

Few references to support above conclusions :

Haemoglobin, an Oxygen Carrier. A drop of blood contains millions of red blood cells, orerythrocytes. ... The high carbon dioxide levels in the tissues lowers the pH, and the binding of haemoglobin to carbon dioxide causes a conformational change that facilitates the release of oxygen.

(Ref. - https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/potm/2005_10/Page1.htm )



Plants for water recycling, oxygen regeneration and food production. ... The key processes in such a system are photosynthesis, whereby green plants utilize light energy to produce food and oxygen while removing CO2 from the atmosphere, and transpiration, the evaporation of water from the plant.

(Ref. - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11537696)

Anaemia, tiredness, injury and poor eating patterns are linked to low haemoglobin or blood. Non vegetarian foods are rich in iron which is important for increasing red blood cells. But this poses a problem for vegetarians; if you are low on haemoglobin include these vegetables which are a good source of iron, to increase blood count.Green Leafy Vegetables: These vegetables are beneficial at boosting overall health from reducing high blood pressure to weight loss to diabetes.

(Ref. - https://www.indiatimes.com/health/healthyliving/vegetables-that-increase-blood-241418.html)