World Environment Day 2020, June 5: How Beauty Products Are Destroying Our Planet?

World Environment Day 2020, June 5: To begin making positive changes in a bid to protect the environment, firstly we need to know how exactly we are causing destruction. Let’s start by understanding the role of beauty products in damaging the environment. World Environment Day 2020: Have you ever thought about how selfish and destructive nature of humans is affecting our planet? Did you even bother to research about how humans are contributing majorly to the destruction of the environment? No, right? Well, now is the time to do that. Simple…

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Good karma means doing good deeds

by Yogi Ashwini Creation is cyclical in nature. There is an upward curve followed by a downward curve. We are presently on the downward curve of creation, the peak of Kalyug. If you look around, everything is on a decline or fast deteriorating. Let us take the health of humans as an example, if you compare your body and level of activity to that of your grandparents when they were your age, you would find, they had fitter and stronger bodies and were able to too much more work than yourself.…

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Canola Oil May Worsen Your Memory, New Study Finds

A new study,published in the journal Scientific Reports, indicates that regular consumption of canola oil may harm your learning ability and memory. A new study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, indicates that regular consumption of canola oil may harm your learning ability and memory. A team of researchers used a mice model to examine the effects of consumption of canola oil. Their study showed that besides brain damage, canola oil may be also linked to weight gain. Canola oil is the oil derived from rapeseed. It is a type…

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World Antibiotic Awareness Week: How over-the-counter antibiotics can threaten your health

On World Antibiotic Awareness Week, learn how excess use of antibiotics can cause resistance which can make even common infections incurable. With the growth of antibiotic resistance complicating treatments for several diseases in India, we might reach a stage where common infections become incurable. Antibiotic resistance is a global threat to health and is part of a bigger problem called antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR refers to the ability of a microorganism (like bacteria, viruses, and some parasites) to stop an antimicrobial (such as antibiotics and antivirals) from working against it.…

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