Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed leaf and flower shaped organic solar cells. An AIST employee displays a prototype model at a solar power exhibition.
The human body was never meant to consume rice! You see, our genes have hardly changed in more than 30,000 years. However, our food choices and lifestyle have changed dramatically. The caveman would hardly recognise our food or way of life.Caveman food was never cooked as fire was not yet tamed. Thus, he ate only those foods that you can eat without treatment with or by fire. He ate fruits, vegetables, fish , eggs, nuts and meat.
However, rice, like wheat and corn, cannot be eaten raw. It must be cooked. Even if you were starving in the desert, you cannot eat rice in the raw form. This is because we do not have the system of enzymes to break rice down. You were never meant to eat rice. To make matters worse, you not only eat rice, but also make it the bulk of your food.
U know Rice becomes sugar if consumed in lots!
This is a fact that no nutritionist can deny: rice is chemically no different from sugar. One bowl of cooked rice is the caloric equal of 10 teaspoons of sugar. This does not matter whether it is white, brown or herbal rice. Brown rice is richer in fibre, some B vitamins and minerals but it is still the caloric equal of 10 teaspoons of sugar.
Rice is digested to become sugar.
Rice cannot be digested before it is thoroughly cooked. However, when thoroughly cooked, it becomes sugar and spikes circulating blood sugar within half an hour.
Rice has no fibre. Only the fibre bulks and fills up your stomach. Since white rice has no fibre, you end up eating lots of ‘calorie dense’ food before you get filled up.
Rice is always the main part of the meal. While sugar may fill your dessert or sweeten your coffee, it will never be the main part of any meal. You could eat may be two to three teaspoons of sugar at one meal. However, you could easily eat the equal value of two to three bowls (20-30 teaspoons) of sugar in one meal. I am always amused when I see someone eat sometimes five bowls of rice (equals 50 teaspoons of sugar)
There is no real ‘built in’ mechanism for us to prevent overeating of rice:
In one seating, you cannot take lots of chicken, fish or cucumber, but you can take lots of rice. Eating rice causes you to eat more salt.
As rice is tasteless, you tend to consume more salt-another villain when it comes to high blood pressure. You tend to take more curry that has salt to help flavor rice. We also tend to consume more ketchup and soy sauce which are also rich in salt.
Eating rice causes you to drink less water. The more rice you eat, the less water you will drink as there is no mechanism to prevent the overeating of rice. Rice, wheat and corn come hidden in our daily food. As rice is tasteless, it tends to end up in other foods that substitute rice like rice flour, noodles and bread. We tend to eat the hidden forms which still get digested into sugar. Rice, even when cooked, is difficult to digest.
Can’t eat raw rice? Try eating rice half cooked. Contrary to popular belief, rice is very difficult to digest. It is ‘heavy stuff’. If you have problems with digestion, try skipping rice for a few days. You will be amazed at how the problem will just go away.
Rice prevents the absorption of several vitamins and minerals. Rice when taken in bulk will reduce the absorption of vital nutrients like zinc, iron and the B vitamins..
Are you a rice addict? Here are some strategies that you can pursue in your quest to eat less rice:
Eat less rice-cut your rice by half.
Instead, increase your fruits and vegetables.
Take more lean meats and fish.
You can even take more eggs and nuts.
Have ‘riceless’ meals. Take no rice or wheat at say, breakfast. Go for eggs instead
Avoid the salt shaker or ketchup. You will automatically eat less rice.
Eat fruits first before meals.The fibre rich fruits will ‘bulk up’ in your stomach. Thus, you will eat less rice and more fruits.
It’s your life. Decide what you want to eat!
Researchers have invented a new material that will make cars even more efficient, by converting heat wasted through engine exhaust into electricity.
Such materials are called as thermoelectric and they rate the materials’ efficiency based on how much heat they can convert into electricity at a given temperature.
The most efficient material used commercially in thermoelectric power generators was an alloy called sodium-doped lead telluride, which had a rating of 0.71. The new material, thallium-doped lead telluride, has a rating of 1.5.
What’s more important is that the new material is most effective between 450 and 950 degrees Fahrenheit — a typical temperature range for power systems.
Only about 25 percent of the energy produced by a typical gasoline engine is used to move a car or power its accessories, and nearly 60 percent is lost as waste heat which escapes in engine exhaust.
A thermoelectric (TE) device can capture some of that waste heat and the material takes care of all the work.
It produces electrical power just like conventional heat engines like steam engines that are coupled to electrical generators.
Such a device is of immense use in our country and the automobile exhaust can be used to produce sufficient watts of electricity.
Can you believe this guys. Instead of wasting all the Chicken feathers construction materials are being made. This makes disposal of large quantities of chicken feathers easy and useful too.
Conventional waste disposal methods cannot be applied to chicken feathers, referring to problems such as burning, burial or recycling the feathers for use in low-quality animal feeds.
Incineration releases greenhouse gases and the chicken feathers take up a lot of space in landfills and take a long time to decay because of the keratin protein that make up the feathers.
There is also the fear of bird flu, which makes converting chicken feathers into animal feeds undesirable. Thus a solution for all this is using the chicken feathers for making construction materials. By this way they are not wasted and disposed in a safe and useful manner.
A Filipino scientist says that he has created a new composite building board made of chicken feathers that could be a major breakthrough for the construction industry.
Experimental boards are made of a mixture of waste chicken feathers and cement . The material, resistant to the region’s termites, is a way to dispose of millions of kg of waste feathers.
The material made of compressed cement and chicken feathers, could be widely used for housing. Boards now made with wood chips, are easily ruined by hungry insects.The composite boards are resistant to insect infestation such as termites because the feathers are inedible.
They are also not as flammable or combustible as conventional cement and wood-fibre composite boards.
Feather boards could be used for paneling, ceilings and as insulation but not for weight-bearing building components like walls or pillars.
Imagine the world without cancer. It has been proven that cancer is a deficiency disease caused by the lack of Vitamin B17 (Laetrile). Vitamin B12 works with folic acid in many body processes including synthesis of DNA, red blood cells and the insulation sheath (the myelin sheath).Today there are more people making money from cancer than dying from it. That is the one of the main reasons why Vitamin B17 is disapproved by FDA and cancer associations. Pharmaceuticals companies pushed FDA to disallow sales of raw apricot seeds in the United States. Raw apricot seeds are known to have abundance of B17 vitamin. There is lots of money to make from patented drugs and if we all start eating raw apricot seeds then there will be no profit. This information is not a new breaking research, but only trying to spread the truth about Vitamin B17 through the Internet. 
