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I believe that one need to read to gain knowledge of any subject and leisure reading is the most beautiful way to relax. For those who are avid readers, reading perhaps is the most interesting and pleasurable activity but the present day youth would perhaps defer. They have a plethora of interesting things to keep them engaged, where do have the time to waste on printed words found on paper! For those young people there is the electronic media-the TV with such a wide variety of programmes being aired24*7, the computer abounding with websites.

Capsicum is popularly available in red,green and yellow color.It is also known as bell Pepper.It is the best vegetable for weight reduction.

Health Benefits of Capsicum/Bell Pepper

1.Capsicum speeds up the metabolism and helps to burn calories.It lowers the fat stored in blood corpuscles, called triglycerides and helps in weight reduction.

2.Capsicum has blood clotting properties.Vitamin C is found to play a major role in dissolving blood clots.

Nutrition is all about the nutrients and how the body uses those nutrients in foods.Nutrition otherwise called as nourishment or aliment.Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life.

Nutrition includes the process of ingestion, digestion, absorption, metabolism, transport, storage and excretion of those nutrients. It also includes the environmental, psychological and behavioral aspects of food and eating.

Why is Nutrition Important?

Nutrition is all about the nutrients and how the body uses those nutrients in foods.Nutrition otherwise called as nourishment or aliment.Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life.

Nutrition includes the process of ingestion, digestion, absorption, metabolism, transport, storage and excretion of those nutrients. It also includes the environmental, psychological and behavioral aspects of food and eating.

Why is Nutrition Important?

We all wish to be remembered, don’t we? In our daily encounters we wish to be recognized and greeted by friends and acquaintances. In significant yearly events like birthdays and anniversaries, there is a deep joy in receiving a card, unwrapping a gift or answering a phone call or to hear those heartwarming words.

Being a teacher in the post internet world, where knowledge is available at the click of the button anywhere in the world, I have found that it has a far reaching impact on those who have something to do with knowledge gathering. In a recent parent teacher interaction a parent mentioned in a complaining tone that her child browses internet for doing the assignments and projects given by school.

Three college friends meet after more than two decades and they find there is hardly any change except that they have kids and husband. They meet at their favourite haunt and walking down the memory lane they find they have not forgotten anything.....friends, lecturers, college canteen, lawn, the stairs, reading room, childish pranks, funny jokes..... They talk about their mothers and in retrospect they feel they are much smarter and younger than their mothers at this age.

Whether it be the three Muses or the Fates of Greek and Roman mythology, whether it be Kali, Draupadi, Radha or Sita, women have been idolised and revered. Why then are women battered, enslaved, exploited, subjugated and held on a leash? Do the two concepts not clash? Or does this dichotomy depict the essential aspects of the yin and yang?

 A nation that boasts of a surging economy, growth and potential, burgeoning skyscrapers, Bollywood gloss and above all, of intelligent minds in diligent beings, hangs its head low with shame brought to it by its very own people.