Tag: <span>Lifestyle</span>

The most sophisticated, potent, and powerful—not to mention legal—performance enhancer that has real game-winning potential is sleep. These claims can be backed up by over 750 scientific studies that have investigated the relationship between sleep and human performance, many of which have studied professional and elite athletes.

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“Wander with intent
into a garden glorious.
Walk with double brisk
upon edenic paths.
Flee the cursing fear
that lights upon your eye.
Seize the twisted dream
that strangles earth and sky.”
--Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness

This is Jia

I was mesmerized by her looks. She was dressed in blue denim trousers and a simple white T-shirt which carried a message in bold blue letters, ‘It’s Always Too Early Until It’s Too Late.’ What stood out more was her boyish hairstyle, with hair dyed in fluorescent green. This was Jia, my friend SD’s daughter. read more

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"A casual consultation is just that - Casual" 
- Unknown

This blog has three stories and a couple of statements that may save your life and career.

First Story: Poonam

Major Poonam was getting late for her introduction parade and was rushing out to report in time. She was shouting instructions to her children about breakfast and catching the school bus

Poonam had passed her MBBS from Shimla about 11 years back and had married an Army officer. Later she had also joined the Army Medical Corps. Presently, her husband’s battalion was posted in a non-family field area and she lived with her children in an Army cantonment outside a second tier city. She was working at the local military hospital, which was being inspected by the GOC today. Poonam was proud to be working as MI Room (now called the Casualty) incharge and would be introduced to the GOC in the introduction parade. read more

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"Everything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening."1

Coffee has been one of the most commonly consumed beverages in the world. More recently, the ‘quarantine’ coffee, or its more fanciful name ‘the Dalgona Coffee’ has taken the world by storm. It looks stunningly beautiful and eminently instagrammable. It has a texture and taste like silky ice-cream. But I hate to shatter your dreams. It may not match up to the real thing. Yes, I am talking purely from the health perspective. read more

References

1  There is some question as to the origination of this quote. It has been attributed to Alexander Woollcott, W. C. Fields, Frank Rand. According to The Quote Investigator(https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/09/fattening/),  the first known instance of the expression was used on Woollcott’s radio program and attributed to an individual named Frank Rand.

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Current COVID-19 pandemic has pushed into relative obscurity, another pandemic that has been raging for over one decade. By confining people to their homes, COVID-19 may make that pandemic of obesity worse. So any simple treatment that promises a dramatic benefit, evokes great excitement. A Recent paper published in a popular journal dealt with one such simple measure-intermittent fasting. It also brought back some forgotten memories from my childhood.

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