Saturday, 27 October 2012

Shocking facts about junk food

  • artificial additives -fast food have artificial additives, a quick look at any junk food label will show you a long, long list of ingredients, most of which are food additives. Many of these food additives can have serious effects on long term health.
  • It's not just what's in fast foods that's damaging to your health; what fast foods leave out is equally as bad. These are some of the nutrients we need to keep our body functioning, but which you will rarely find in junk food.
  • Diets which rely too much on junk foods can have seriously harmful effects on your health, such as:
  1. Lethal diseases – cancer, coronary heart disease, diabetes
  2. Obesity
  3. The lack of certain essential nutrients can cause behavioral problems in children and affect their ability to learn.
  4. Constipation and digestive problems,
  5. Headaches
  6. Poor concentration
  7. Rotten teeth and bad breath
  8. Dry or spotty skin
  9. Depression and tiredness
  10. Anaemia 

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Thursday, 25 October 2012

Weighty wonder



Daniel Lamber(1770-1809) was one of the heaviest British people of all time. At his largest he weighted 330kg and measured 2.8 m round his body and 94 cm around his leg. Lambert used to charge visitors to his house a shilling just to look at him.

Oldest person alive



Maria Esther de Capovilla of Ecuador is the worlds oldest living person in 2006. She was born on 14 September 1889 and deliberated her 116th birthday in 2005.

Do you know what you are eating?

  


Eating road kill( animals that have been killed on the road) has occurred ever since there have been cars. In USA where deer and other animals are the very common victims, a number of recipe book and websites have been devoted to this subject. Britain's first flattened fauna (squashed animals) cookbook was announced in 2006 by Arthur Boyt of Davidstow, Cornell who has included badger, fox, weasel and bat among his meal over past 50 years. His recipes include one for spaghetti with hedgehog.

The birth of burger

The name hamburger is nothing to do with ham, but it comes from the German city of Hamburg. A burger was originally called a Hamburg streak. In 1889, the word Hamburger first appeared in restaurant review in USA newspaper Walla Walla Union. It was in a phase " you are asked if you will have porkchopbeefsteakhamandegghamburgersteakorliveranderbacon".

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Countries that use most water

 


Country. - Total liters per year

India                     645800000000000
China                    630300000000000
USA                     525300000000000
Pakistan               169400000000000

Facts about dogs


Largest dog
In 1989 Aicama Zorba of La-Susan, an old English mastiff owned by Chris Eraclides of London, weighed 155.58 kg and measured 2.5m from nose to tail.

Smallest dog
A Yorkshire terrier owned by Arthur Marples of Blackburn in the 1940s was 6.3 cm tall and weighed 133g.

Oldest dog
Bluey an Australian cattle-dog owned by Les Hall of Victoria,Australia, died in 1938 at the age of 29 years 5 months.

Largest litter
In 1944 Lena, an American foxhound, produced 23 puppies, all of which survived.

Longest jump
Bang, a grey hound , jumped 9.14 m while chasing a hard at Brecon Lodge in Gloucestershire.

Greatest climber
Tschingel, a female beagle, climbed more than 50 mountains in the Alps, including the 4,165 m Jungfrau and the 3974 m Eliger.

Most intelligent dogs



American psychology professor and pet trainer Stanley Coren ranked 133 breeds of dogs for intelligence. He studied their responses to a range of IQ tests, as well as the opinions of judges in the dog obedience tests. The top five breeds were the border collie, poodle, German Shepard , golden retriever, Doberman pinscher.
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Facts about tiger




:- In spite of being of all the cats tigers cannot purr!

:- At night a tiger can see better than you do! The night vision of a tiger is 6 times better than human being.

:- Tiger cubs are usually born between march and July.

:- In a poll conducted by animal Planet , the tiger was voted world's favourite, narrowly beating the dog. Tigers receive 21 percent of the vote and dog 20 percent.

:- A tiger can usually expect a one in twenty success rate when bringing down prey.

:- It is believed that two white dots on the back of a tiger's ears are designed to act as visual beacon to enable the cubs to follow their parent.