BUTTER ME UP.... NOT WITH MARGARINE

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings..

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter,  according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of  other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease . Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk.  Decreases immune response. Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Home remedy for Acidity

Chronic acidity has to undergo a prescribed treatment but to prevent acidity or to handle it when it suddenly occurs, here are some home remedies
–

1. Drink two tall glasses of water in the morning. This helps wash out all the excess acid and other impurities from the system. This also soothes off the burning sensation if any.

2. Drink cold milk or vanilla ice cream. Within minutes, you will notice relief from heartburn and other acidity problems.

3. Chew on a small piece of ginger and coriander. It enhances digestive function.

4. Coconut water is a very good cure. It flushes out the excess acid from your system and also soothes the harsh effects caused by it.

5. Tulsi or basil leaf prevents formation of excess acid. Take 10 tulsi leaves everyday in the morning.

6. After fried or spicy food, drink a glass of luke warm water. This helps in the digestion for the food and also burns the calories thus, preventing weight gain.

7. Vegetables like drumsticks, beans, pumpkin, cabbage, carrot and spring onions, enhance digestion.

8. If you feel symptom of the disease, take jaggery every hour. The symptoms will subside gradually.

9. 1 tbsp of Chebulic Myroblan or haritaki along with amla, is a quick cure.

10. Fruit juice is good but never consumes it in empty stomach.

11. Sip on a lemon and sugar drink after meals to avoid acid formation. This enhances the digestion power.

It generally is not a very serious illness can be cured with simple home remedies but if it is a regular problem then medical care is needed. Unattended acidity can lead to other serious illnesses.

Home remedy for Acidity

Chronic acidity has to undergo a prescribed treatment but to prevent acidity or to handle it when it suddenly occurs, here are some home remedies
–

1. Drink two tall glasses of water in the morning. This helps wash out all the excess acid and other impurities from the system. This also soothes off the burning sensation if any.

2. Drink cold milk or vanilla ice cream. Within minutes, you will notice relief from heartburn and other acidity problems.

3. Chew on a small piece of ginger and coriander. It enhances digestive function.

4. Coconut water is a very good cure. It flushes out the excess acid from your system and also soothes the harsh effects caused by it.

5. Tulsi or basil leaf prevents formation of excess acid. Take 10 tulsi leaves everyday in the morning.

6. After fried or spicy food, drink a glass of luke warm water. This helps in the digestion for the food and also burns the calories thus, preventing weight gain.

7. Vegetables like drumsticks, beans, pumpkin, cabbage, carrot and spring onions, enhance digestion.

8. If you feel symptom of the disease, take jaggery every hour. The symptoms will subside gradually.

9. 1 tbsp of Chebulic Myroblan or haritaki along with amla, is a quick cure.

10. Fruit juice is good but never consumes it in empty stomach.

11. Sip on a lemon and sugar drink after meals to avoid acid formation. This enhances the digestion power.

It generally is not a very serious illness can be cured with simple home remedies but if it is a regular problem then medical care is needed. Unattended acidity can lead to other serious illnesses.

He brings hot meals to India's homeless

Narayanan Krishnan, all of 29 years old now, does what he was professionally trained to do as a chef. Feed people. Only Krishnan does not do this in the swanky confines of a 5-star hotel. Every day, he wakes up at 4 am, cooks a simple hot meal and then, along with his team, loads it in a van and travels about 200 km feeding the homeless in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Krishnan feeds, often with his hands, almost 400 destitute people every day. And for those who need it, he provides a free haircut too. 

Eight years ago, this award-winning chef with a five-star hotel chain was all set to go to Switzerland for a high-profile posting. On a visit to a Madurai temple, he came across a homeless, old man eating his own human waste. That stark sight changed Krishnan's life.  

Much to the dismay of his parents, Krishnan abandoned his career plans and decided to spend his life and his professional training in looking after those who could not care for themselves. He has provided more than 1.2 million hot meals through his nonprofit organization Akshaya Trust, and now hopes to extend this to shelter for the homeless too.

Akshaya Trust needs all the monetary support it can get to build on Krishnan's dream. Let's help him get there.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY - WHAT TATA DID TO MUMBAI VICTIMS?‏

LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT IS "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY"?

A.           The Tata Gesture for Victims who suffered during Hotel Taj Terroist Attack

               1.    All category of employees including those who had completed even 1 day as casuals were treated on duty during the time the hotel was closed.

               2. Relief and assistance to all those who were injured and killed

               3. The relief and assistance was extended to all those who died at the railway station, surroundings including the “Pav- Bha ji” vendor and the pan shop owners.

               4. During the time the hotel was closed, the salaries were sent by money order.

               5. A psychiatric cell was established in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences to counsel those who needed such help.

               6. The thoughts and anxieties going on people’s mind was constantly tracked and where needed psychological help provided.

               7. Employee outreach centers were opened where all help, food, water, sanitation, first aid and counseling was provided. 1600 employees were covered by this facility.

               8. Every employee was assigned to one mentor and it was that person’s responsibility to act as a “single window” clearance for any help that the person required.

               9. Ratan Tata personally visited the families of all the 80 employees who in some manner – either through injury or getting killed – were affected.

              10. The dependents of the employees were flown from outside Mumbai to Mumbai and taken care off in terms of ensuring mental assurance and peace. They were all accommodated in Hotel President for 3 weeks.

              11. Ratan Tata himself asked the families and dependents – as to what they wanted him to do.

              12. In a record time of 20 days, a new trust was created by the Tatas for the purpose of relief of employees.

              13. What is unique is that even the other people, the railway employees, the police staff, the pedestrians who had nothing to do with Tatas were covered by compensation. Each one of them was provided subsistence allowance of Rs. 10K per month for all these people for 6 months.

              14. A 4 year old granddaughter of a vendor got 4 bullets in her and only one was removed in the Government hospital. She was taken to Bombay hospital and several lacs were spent by the Tatas on her to fully recover her.

              15. New hand carts were provided to several vendors who lost their carts.

              16. Tata will take responsibility of life education of 46 children of the victims of the terror.

              17. This was the most trying period in the life of the organisation. Senior managers including Ratan Tata were visiting funeral to funeral over the 3 days that were most horrible.

              18. The settlement for every deceased member ranged from Rs. 36 to 85 lacs [One lakh rupees tranlates to approx 2200 US $ ] in addition to the following benefits:

            a. Full last salary for life for the family and dependents;
            
            b. Complete responsibility of education of children and dependents – anywhere in the world.                   

            c. Full Medical facility for the whole family and dependents for rest of their life.            

            d. All loans and advances were waived off – irrespective of the amount.            

            e. Counselor for life for each person      

    
B.        Epilogue

How was such passion created among the employees? How and why did they behave the way they did?

The organisation is clear that it is not something that someone can take credit for. It is not some training and development that created such behaviour. If someone suggests that – everyone laughs.

It has to do with the DNA of the organisation, with the way Tata culture exists and above all with the situation that prevailed that time. The organization has always been telling that customers and guests are #1 priority.

The hotel business was started by Jamshedji Tata when he was insulted in one of the British hotels and not allowed to stay there.

He created several institutions which later became icons of progress, culture and modernity. IISc is one such institute. He was told by the rulers that time that he can acquire land for IISc to the extent he could fence the same. He could afford fencing only 400 acres.

When the HR function hesitatingly made a very rich proposal to Ratan – he said – do you think we are doing enough?

The whole approach was that the organisation would spend several hundred crore in re-building the property – why not spend equally on the employees who gave their life?

Self Appraisal

A little boy went to a Telephone booth which was at the cash counter of a store & dialed a number.

The store-Owner observed and listened to the Conversation:

Boy: "Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?

Woman: (at the other end of the phone line) "I already have someone to cut my lawn."

Boy: "Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price than the person who cuts your lawn now."

Woman: I'm very satisfied with the person who is presently cutting my lawn.

Boy: (with more perseverance) "Lady, I'll even sweep the floor & the stairs of your house for free.

Woman: No, thank you.

With a smile on his face, the little boy end call with thank you.

The Store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy.

Store Owner: "Son...I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit & would like to offer you a job."

Boy: "No thanks,

Store Owner: But you were really pleading for one.

Boy: No Sir, I was just checking my performance at the job I already have.

I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to!"

This is called "Self Appraisal"

How did they name it?

*Mercedes:*
This was actually financier's daughter's name

*Adobe:*
This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house
of founder John Warnock

*Apple Computers:*
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobbs. He was three months late
for filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company
Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5
o'clock that day

*CISCO: *
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco .

*Compaq: *
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer and PAQ to denote a small
integral object

*Corel: *
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It stands
for COwpland Research Laboratory.

*Google:*
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the
search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol',a
word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders -
Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Pagepresented their project
to an angel investor; they received a cheque made out to 'Google'.

*Hotmail: *
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a
computer anywhere in the world. WhenSabeer Bhatia came up with the business
plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and
finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters"html" - the
programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to
as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing

*Hewlett Packard : *
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company
they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

*Intel: *
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce'
but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for
an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

*Lotus (Notes) :*
Mitch Kapoor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position'
or'Padmasana' . Kapoor used to be a teacher of transcendental Meditation of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

*Microsoft: *
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was
removed later on.

*Motorola:*
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was
called Victrola.

*Sony: *
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang
used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

*SUN: *
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford
University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla
recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and
Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

*Apache: *
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code
written for NCSA's httpd daemon.. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server --thus,
the name Apache Jakarta (project from Apache):A project constituted by SUN
and Apache to create a web server handling servlets and JSPs. Jakarta was
name of the conference room at SUN where most of the meetings between SUN
and Apache took place.

*C: *
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New
B'.He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision
of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie).

*C++:*
Bjarne Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classes' and then 'new C'.
Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C' which was
considered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascitti
suggested the name C++ as a successor to C.

*Java: *
Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood
outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as
there was no other language with the same name. Java was selected from a
list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the
programmers drank.

*LG: *
Combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Gold star.

*Linux:*
Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which here placed
by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the
name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free+ freak + x).His
friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be
easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP
server, as he did not like the name Freax.(Linus' parents named him after
two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling) .

*Mozilla: *
When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a browser to replace
Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer,
Godzilla) .The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was
re-christened Netscape Navigator.

*Red Hat:*
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red
and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had
to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat
Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

*SAP:*
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM
employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applicatio ns/Projects' group of
IBM.

*SCO (UNIX):*
From Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz .

*UNIX: *
When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing
System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and
Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS.They needed
the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS. It was
called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan.
It was later shortened to UNIX.

*Xerox: *
The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry' (as it
was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying).
The Greek root `xer' means dry.

*Yahoo!: *
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's
Travels' . It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action
and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the
name because they considered themselves yahoos.

*3M:*
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started off by mining the
material corundum used to make sandpaper.