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Tips To Deal With Faulty Food

Tips To Deal With Faulty Food 

1.Every found a foreign object like a strand of hair or a jute thread in your food…. Approached the owner & they did not seem concerned at all… Well don’t worry… Just follow these simple steps and they will be taken care of in the right legal way…

1.      2. Call the food inspector or the health department official of your local civic body for an on-the-spot check.

2.      3. You can file a written complaint, along with supporting documents and photographs, with either the local health department or the food adulteration cell of the state government.

3.      4.  Alternatively, you can take a sample to a food lab for testing or file a case in the consumer court on the basis of the lab reports.

5. If the food item is perishable or if adulteration cannot be proved once the packet is opened, take photographs with a digital camera or a high resolution mobile phone camera. These can serve as proof of adulteration.

Tips To Combat Premature Greying Of Hair

Tips To Combat Premature Greying Of Hair


1. Curry leaves have hair vitalising & root strengthening properties. Boiling these leaves with coconut oil and then massaging the hair & scalp will prove beneficial.
2. Amla or indian gooseberry is know to enrich hair pigmantation & growth. Soak dried pieces of amla in water overnight & use this water to wash hair.
3. A mixture of almond oil, with few drops of lime 7 amla juice is great for massaging hair & scalp.
4. Torai or ribbed gourd boiled with coconut oil is another remedy for enhancing natural pigmentation of hair.
5. Butter obtained from fresh cow's milk helps avoid & reduce premature greying of hair.

Benefits Of Lemon

Benefits Of Lemon 


1. Lemon juice mixed with warm water helps relieve digestion problems like bloating, nausea, belching and heartburn. Take it regularly to improve your bowel movements.
2. If you've tried everything to stop hiccups & nothing has worked, have some lemon juice for quick relief.
3. Since citric fruits work as natural antiseptics, it is useful in solving skin problems. Having juice every day works as anti - aging remedy and removes wrinkles and blackheads.
4. Lemon juice if applied on burns can fade the scars. 
5. Apply a mix of honey & lime juice on sunburn affected areas. It helps lighten & sooth skin. 



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Tips For A Perfect Pout

Tips For A Perfect Pout

Worried that your lips are losing their sheen???.....
Not to worry... Try out these easy tips
1. Eat a lot of vegetables
2. Include lots of fruits in your diet, especially vitamin C (oranges, tomatoes, gooseberry, etc)
3. Before going to sleep, apply a mixture of cream of milk, lemon juice and glycerin on your lips.
4. Regularly application of gooseberry juice will help your lips glow.
5. Massage your lips with a mixture of glycerin, honey & lemon juice.
6. Apply a teaspoon Castor oil and half a teaspoon almond oil to give your lip good colour.
7. Use only high quality brand lipstick.
8. Before applying lipstick, dab some foundation cream on the lips.

Tips To Treat Pimples

Tips To Treat Pimples 


1. Boil beetroot in water and use it to treat pimples.
2. Crush orange peels and mix with water. Apply the mixture to acne affected areas.
3. Mix equal amounts of lemon juice and groundnut oil & leave the paste on face for 20 Min's. Wash off with lukewarm water.
4. Make a face wash out of fresh lime juice mixed with boiled milk and use daily.
5. Apply a paste of ripe tomato pulp on zits and wash after 45 Min's.
6. Half a glass of rose water with a tablespoon of honey mixed everyday to keep your skin clear.
7. Experts recommend raw papaya juice as an effective home remedy for pimple. Dab a few drops on affected areas.
8. Grind cucumber in blender and apply the paste on your face. Leave it on for half an hour & wash it off with warm water.
9. Another effective remedy is applying a paste of honey and grated apple on your face. Wash it off with cold water.
10. Mix turmeric & neem leaves & add few drops of water. Applying this helps reduce scars left behind by pimples.
 

Tips To Relieve Acidity

Tips To Relieve Acidity 


1. Boil a teaspoon of cumin seeds or jeera in some water. Sipping this water will provide relief.
2. Drink a glass of freshly prepared pineapple juice after meals. This acts as a tonic for digestive system.
3. Buttermilk with sprinkled cumin and black pepper powder helps in digestion and prevention on acidity.
4. A glass of cold milk is a good option for relief from acidity and heart burn.
5. Chewing on a clove will help.
6. The juice of gooseberry or bitter gourd is great for digestion and excellent remedy for acidity.
7. Drink loads of water. This aids digestion and helps flush out the toxins from the body.
8. Foods containing vitamins like B & E (sprouts, Green leafy vegetables) help in flushing out the acids from the stomach.

Tips To Get Rid Of Dandruff

Tips To Get  Rid Of Dandruff 


1. Apply fermented curd on scalp and hair for an hour before a wash.
2. Dandruff is common in dry hair, so oil hair as often as possible.
3. Make mixture of olive oil and ginger root and apply it on scalp. This reduces dandruff and keeps hair healthy.
4. Avoid colouring or streaking your hair if you suffer from dandruff.
5. Take a bit of sandalwood oil and thrice the amount of lemon juice to make a paste.
Keep mixture on scalp for some time and then wash off.
6. Rinse scalp with lemon juice, works wonders in getting rid of dandruff.
7. Mix half mug of warm water with half of vinegar and pour it over scalp and rinse out thoroughly.
8. Make a paste of 2 egg whites mixed with lime juice and apply it on scalp.
9. Mix almond oil and olive oil and apply it to your scalp. Wash it off after 5 Min's.
10. Mix 1 tea spoom of coconut oil & 1 tea spoon of lemon juice with fuller's earth or multani mitti & apply this paste on your hair and scalp. Keep it for an hour. Wash off. This will definitely give relief from dandruff.

Benefits Of Custard Apples

Benefits Of Custard Apples 


1. Custard apples are very rich in antioxidants like vitamin C, which helps fight free radicals in body. Also high in potassium & magnesium, they protect your heart from cardiac disease as well as regulate your blood flow.

2. Are also know to be great for eye sight. The vitamin A present in it is also good for healthy skin and hair.

3. Helps treat indigestion, constipation, diarrhoea & dysentery.

4. Since they are so high in magnesium, they equalise the water balance in your body, which helps remove acids from joint. & reduce symptoms of Rheumatism and arthritis. 

5. Find yourself tired and weak?.. The potassium present in custard apples help fight muscle weakness.

6. Are good for people suffering from anaemia.

7. Fruit has natural sugar, makes a great nutritious snack & dessert.

8. Also know to be low in saturated fa, cholesterol & sodium, making them a very healthy fruit.

Tips To Combat Snoring Problem

Tips To Combat Snoring Problem 


REMEDIES
1. Regular exercise and balanced diet.
2. Practise pranayama.
3. Consumption of olive oil instead of saturated oil.
4. Dinner should be light & easy to gigest.
5. A glass of lukewarm water with honey is also helpful.
6. A cup of hot milk with turmeric proves effective.
7.Avoid smoking as it causes songestion in nasal area.
8. Meditation for half hour daily to combat stress.
9. Raising the head of bed by 4-5 inches can aslo solve problem
10. Sleeping flat on your back can cause snoring. It will be better to sleep on your side.
11. Put few drops of almond oil into nostrils before sleeping.
12. An open bottle of marjoram oil can be kept on ed side while sleeping. Its useful in clearing nasal passage.
13. In a container of steaming water add 2-3 drops of eucalyptus oil and inhale.
14. Green tea, chamomile and mint tea have a soothing effect on throat.
 

CAUSES
1. Blocked nasal passage and breathing through mouth.
2. Overweight.
3. Enlarged adenoids or tonsils.
4. Intake of caffeine & alcohol.
5. Excessive smoking.

Tips To Over Come Constipation

Tips To Over Come Constipation 


 DO'S
1. If you suffer from constipation, eat a ripe guava first thing in the morning.
2. Yoga and pranayam to be done regularly.
3. One should sleep early and get up early so that undigested matter is eliminated timely.
4. Take an alternate hot and cold hip bath in tub with feet outside. Simultaneously you should massage the abdomen from left to right with towel. This can be done twice a week.
5. Direct mud application on abdomen on empty stomach.
6. Soak dry figs in water and consume them following morning.


DON'TS
1. Urge to pass stools should not be suppressed.
2. One should never exert or strain at the time of passing stools.


CAUSES
1. Intake of unhealthy food which lacks natural vitamins, minerals and fiber.
2. Spicy or sweetened food 
3. Deep fried food
4. Over eating
5. Stimulants like tea, coffee and cold drinks.
6. Lack of exercise.
7. Insufficient water intake.


EFFECT
1. Dry and hard stools.
2. Crampy abdominal pains.
3. Bleeding piles caused due to straining at time of passing stools.
4. Coated tongue, headache and dullness.


DIETARY MEASURES
1. Eat slowly and chew food thoroughly to aid proper digestion.
2. Take fresh fruits an green vegetables.
3. Dietary fibre present in cereals and raw salad is essential.
4. Avoid fried and spicy food.