Did you know? Sugar is also a villain for causing BP

Did you know?

Sugar is also a villain for causing BP. Not only the sugar we eat as sugar or added to tea or coffee. Most of the sugar is taken unknowingly along with junk food. Tomato Ketchup, sauces and the like as well as preparations which use cornstarch (KFC fried chicken, broasted chicken, chilli chicken etc) form a threat.

So,

STOP JUNK FOOD,

Grow veggies fruits and fowls at home.

Stay healthy

It's a bit from experience that I am posting. Today I had some discomfort in my thoracic cavity - felt like some small lightning passing towards the chest area. I was lying down then. I suddenly stood up and the pain was not decreasing. I sat for some time quietly and it started decreasing but the discomfort remained. So I visited doctor and ECG was taken which came out normal. But the BP was higher by 30 points. The the doc was enquiring about food habits and was advised to reduce salt and fried items. Gave some medicine to control acidity and I returned.

Then I started contemplating on the cause. I ate almost the same type of food I was taking. But for a few days I was on tour and was eating from hotels.

Though the food we take is of the same type, there is a lot of difference in the way of cooking at home and in a restaurant.

• Reusing of cooking oil
• Adding too much sauces and ketchups
• Coating fried items with corn starch
• Use of corn starch in curries to make it thicker
• Caramelizing to make the appearance appealing.
• Use of ajinomoto
• Cooking without proper cleaning of food stuff
• ... etc...

So, it's always better to grow your own vegetables, fruits, fishes and fowls (if possible cow or goat too for milk). Even those who live on concrete flats can have a small kitchen garden on the balcony or terrace and can grow essential vegetables.

Wish you a healthy life ahead.

Oil Price rising? Have coconuts but no mill nearby or noone to help? Don't worry, you can prepare your own coconut oil at home easily

Edible oil prices are going up. Many are after low cholesterol/no cholesterol oils and coconut oil is a zero cholesterol oil like olive oil.

Though Kerala has a lot of coconut trees, the dependance on coconut oil is fouond decreasing mainly because of the lack of people for doing the labour of plucking coconuts, cleaning, cutting etc and finally taking the dried coconuts to oil mills for extracting the oil.
The traditional methods of extracting the coconut oil is time consuming and cumbersome.
If you have plenty of coconuts, then with two three days of hard work you can get good coconut oil without months of waiting and drying the coconuts in sun etc. You need not even go to the mill for extracting the oil.  Read the method below.

Suppose you have got 10 coconuts.

1. Peel off the coconuts
2. Clean the surface of the shell
3. Break the coconut and collect the water. (You can drink it if you want)
4. Scrap the coconuts to collect coarse powder of the coconut flesh (and you can use the shell for drying and can be used as fuel for traditional chulhas. The dried coconut shells have many other uses too)
5. Put the scraped coconut into a fine cloth and extract the milk. (Tiny amounts of water may be added to enhance the extraction)
6. Now you can drain and fine filter the coconut milk and either

• heat it continuously till the oil gets separated and the residues get dried up. 

 OR

• Add some warm water to the coconut milk and keep it overnight. In the morning cream will be floating  which can be separated by skimming. Heat the cream in a pan till the oil is formed and the residues get dried up.

Decant the oil and allow it to cool before you transfer it to storage containers.

Get more than half litre coconut oil from 10 coconuts. If you are purchasing coconuts, this method is not advised. Best for those who have a few coconut trees at home.

The main advantage is that there is no need of waiting to get the seeds dried. You can extract oil this way without forming copras.

Tips:
If the climate is too cold, add some warm water to the scraped coconut for better extraction.
After extracting the first set, the residue can be crushed and squeezed again to extract more milk.

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