OAT: A Highly Nutritious And Dual Purposes Cereal Crop

By: Prof. R.K. Yadav, Deptt of Genetics and Plant Breeding C.S. Azad Univ. of Agril. & Tech.,Kanpur/ Executive Editor-ICN Group The health benefits of oat rely mainly on the total dietary fibre and beta glucan content, which lowers blood lipids, especially, serum total and LDL (low density lipoproteins) cholesterol. KANPUR: Oat (Avena sativa) is an economically important crop and ranks sixth in the world in cereal production following wheat, maize, rice, barley and sorghum. It is an important cereals and known as a dual purpose crop of temperate and subtropical areas.…

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Balanced Diet A Prerequisite For Staying Healthy

By: Garima Lohumi   An old saying “we are what we eat” brings out the importance of diet in staying healthy. A human body is just like a sophisticated machine which requires energy, regular care and maintenance. Energy is required for metabolic and physiological functions, day-to-day activities and maintenance.The requirement varies with age as additional energy is needed for growth and in case of women it increases significantly during pregnancy. The food we eat provides all the nutrients the body needs to meet its energy requirement. Thus, a balanced wholesome diet is…

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The True Essence Of Childhood

By: Barnali Bose, Editor-ICN Group Let the realisation that no matter how old one may grow, keeping the child within alive,is the only way to survive in this world. KOLKATA: Our lives revolve around our children. It is for children that we are able to play the role of a parent or a teacher. As Shakespeare says,life is a stage and all of us merely players . How verily said,isn’t it? I am a daughter,a sister, a wife, a mother, a teacher, all amalgamated into one. Childhood is said to be…

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Money Series: Part 15

By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group Life does not run from the ‘rule of assumption and presumption.’ The conflicting streams are always flowing in life, and the negative and backward currents are always faster and faster. Conflicting Directions of Income and Loss: Here we would like to take you in your childhood when you used to solve math problems in a junior classroom. We used to assume that there is a tub of 100 liters of water capacity to which a tap is attached, through which 5 liters of…

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