Opt for a healthy diet this summer (TOI - Lemon Diet) Health Articles | April 17 Jakub Voracek Olympics Jersey , 2012 As the countdown for scorching heat and the painful summer sun begins, you may be regretting the extravagance of the winter season splurge.
That extra helping of pizza on New Year's Eve, those extra glasses of wine for Christmas dinner and those tempting slices of cheesecake from the friend's birthday party are all making their presence felt.
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With approaching summer months, you have no choice but to get in shape. And, today, we've got some diets for you. Dr. Simran Saini Vladimir Sobotka Olympics Jersey , Weight Loss Management Consultant at Fortis Hospital and Bangalore-based, registered dietitian and Wellness Consultant, Sheela Krishnaswamy give us 5 diets this summer. Caution: Do not start any of these diets without consulting a fitness expert.
Mediterranean diet (Lemonade Diet)
Sheela Krishnaswamy: This diet is not a low calorie diet, but a healthy traditional diet of the people in the Mediterranean region. Their diet primarily includes whole grains, lots of fruits and vegetables, fish Tomas Plekanec Olympics Jersey , legumes, olive oil for cooking and wine as a beverage. Their consumption of dairy is moderate (mostly as cheese) and meat consumption is low. Studies have shown that this type of diet helps to reduce the risk of several lifestyle diseases.
The Mediterranean Diet Guideline for Novices:
- Eat your vegetables and fruits -7 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables daily.
- Switch to whole grains - The lesser it's processed the better it is.
- Nut it out - Almonds, pistachios, cashews, walnuts, they're all good.
- Switch from animals and dairy fats to olive oil or canola oil.
- Spice instead of salt - Use herbs and spices instead of extra salt.
- Eat fish - Once or twice a week.
- Red meat becomes a treat - Only recommended about once or twice a month. If you're a regular red meat eater. you'll have to replace it with fish and poultry.
A Melted Candy Bar Helped To Create Microwave Ovens Home Repair Articles | February 8, 2010 It might come as a surprise to many people today, but it's a fact that a melted candy bar helped to create microwave ovens. These ovens are an example of how our efforts to discover or improve something can many times lead to a coincidental invention or improvement of something else. This effort to improve something in World War II actually lead to the eventual creation of a microwave oven.
What happened was that British and American scientists during the war were working feverishly to improve upon radar, which had been developed by the British just before the start of hostilities. Efforts aimed at improving the sensitivity and range of radar led to the development of a piece of equipment known as the magnetron, which emitted microwaves. These microwaves improved radar's effectiveness greatly.
For several years thereafter, beginning around 1942 Ondrej Palat Olympics Jersey , scientists and engineers worked hard on improving the magnetron itself. One day, one of those scientists -- who was standing near a magnetron when it was turned on -- noticed that the candy bar he had been carrying around in his front shirt pocket began to heat up and melt when the magnetron beam was focused on him.
Deciding to experiment further, this scientist (by the name of Percy Spencer) placed a handful of corn kernels in front of the beam and stepped back to see what would happen. Of course, what happened was popcorn, naturally enough. Not content with that experiment, Spencer and a fellow scientist took an egg and placed it in the beam's path. It soon enough exploded Milan Michalek Olympics Jersey , all over the other scientist's face.
Word of this surprising use for a magnetron soon reached company leaders, who decided to set a team of researchers on to finding a way to take the magnetron and create an oven out of it. By 1947, this defense contractor's team of scientists was able to produce an oven that cost about $5000, was 6 feet tall and weighed nearly a ton. It also required constant cooling via means of a water system.
Eventually, the technology was licensed to the Tappan Stove Company, which took it and began to work towards slimming down the model. By 1954 David Krejci Olympics Jersey , it was able to make a microwave oven that it could market for commercial purposes and which it dubbed the 'Radarange.' People recognize that name even today, by the way. Originally costing $3000, a smaller, less expensive model for $1300 was produced in 1955.
1967, however, was the first year in which the microwave oven really began to take off. A few years prior to that Dmitrij Jaskin Olympics Jersey , Tappan had been acquired by Amana, which took the design, improve it and put its own version of the Radarange on the market. Originally costing $500, it was much more compact and light in weight. It was an immediate success, and by 1978, the oven was in many a home and selling for much lower prices.