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Simple food women must eat for better life

Simple food which every women must eat for better life, which will help her to maintain her physical appearance and will help her keeping happy married life. It is not possible to meet your nutritional needs without having leafy vegetables in your diet. Spinach, legumes, asparagus, lettuce, fenugreek leaves, broccoli are available in abundance and are huge sources of fibre, Vitamin C and K, folic acid. It is also a vision protector and provides four essential minerals, i.e. calcium, magnesium, iron and potassium. Try to have it daily in your diet and darker the better.

Whole grains:

Whole grains have up to 96 per cent more fibre and essential nutrients and vitamins than refined grains. Diet experts  advise to have whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, and brown rice as they are high in essential nutrients and do not contribute to weight gain. You can start your day with whole wheat cereal or a whole wheat bread toast.”

Nuts:

Make nuts an essential ingredient in your diet. Sprinkle it on salads or breakfast cereals or stir them into yoghurt because they are an excellent source of protein, magnesium and B & E vitamins. They are useful in fighting heart disease and cancer. Nuts are high in fat calories, but their fat is the heart-healthy kind. You can also eat them as an evening snack. But make sure you don’t overdo them. About a quarter cup or about 15-20 almonds, cashews, walnuts are good enough a week.

Yoghurt:

Low fat or plain yoghurt is a great source of vitamins, protein and calcium. It also has healthy bacteria which can fight diseases. “Three to four cups a week is good enough for your diet. But make sure you don’t add sugar to it. Instead choose plain yoghurt and add fruits or berries to it,” suggests dietician Pinky.

Berries:

Ever wondered why most of the diet fibre products have berries in them? Reason being berries are high in fill-you-up fibre and also helps curb weight. Berries have more protective plant antioxidants than almost any other food. These antioxidants not only lower your disease risks, but also help prevent memory loss. You can have a bowl full of them thrice a week. It could be fresh or frozen, benefits stay!

Fast food reduce brain working capacity

Piling on the pounds damages our hearts, joints and arteries — this fact is well-established. What is less well-known is that being obese, or even just overweight, can also damage our brains. Not only can it alter the brain’s physical structure, triggering memory problems and an increased risk of dementia, but it can also prematurely age the grey matter — on average adding an extra 16 years

Begum Nawazish arrested for torturing mother

Ali Saleem, who is famously known by his TV role of Begum Nawazish Ali, was arrested by Islamabad Police for allegedly torturing his mother. Ali Saleem’s mother Farzana Saleem called the police this morning.

She informed them that her son tortured her. She also told them that her nose was broken and she was in trouble. Police reached her house and arrested Ali Saleem. His mother was taken to the Poly Clinic Hospital. Medical reports show that there are signs of torture on her body.

I don’t have any problem with anyone: Waqar

Pakistan coach Waqar Younis says the lack of home internationals is a major hurdle to his young team’s hopes of climbing up the international cricket rankings. As no test sides have wanted to tour Pakistan since terrorists attacked the Sri Lanka team in Lahore more than two years ago, the team hasn’t had a choice but to hit the road.

“It’s tough. It’s never easy. We’re always touring and playing on different surfaces and we don’t know the pitches and conditions,” he said. “It’s very difficult to adjust every month or so. It’s four venues I’ve done in less than a year. You need to play home to get the confidence of the youngsters. That’s not happening so what we’re trying to do is taking the youngsters on the tour and trying to prepare them, which is the hardest part in cricket.”

Waqar also squashed rumors about a rift between him and Shahid Afridi, who was replaced as one-day captain for the Ireland series and has since withdrawn from the squad. “Misbah is great character. I am not saying that Afridi is not because he’s done a really wonderful job in the last six to eight months he’s been captain,” Waqar said.

“I don’t have any problem with anyone. It is sad how things are being written and all the issues being printed. We want to improve cricket and this is what we get. It is not fair, I guess.”

Ajmal’s bowling action doubted once again

Victory was, however, soured after West Indies legend Sir Viv Richards questioned Pakistan off-spinner Ajmal’s bowling action. Ajmal was the leading wicket-taker in the series and was judged the player-of-the-series after finishing with 17 scalps at 14.47.

“Let me put it as mildly and as diplomatically as it can be put,” Richards told ESPN cricinfo. “When you look at bowling actions for off-spinners in the world at present, the 15 degree rule has bred what we’ve seen in this series. I wouldn’t be blatanat as some others, but the rules have helped the freaky stuff we have at present. It accommodates doosras and things we see like that.”

Oil prices may reduce next month

In the face of declining global oil prices, the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) may recommend up to a 6% reduction in domestic oil prices for the month of June 2011. Officials told that the government may reduce oil prices next month, though the decline may not be exactly in line with international oil price movements given the depreciation in the value of the rupee over that period.

According to the government’s analysis, global oil prices declined by between 1.5% and 6% for various subcategories of fuel over the past month, but the rupee also lost approximately 0.7% of its value against the US dollar, the currency in which nearly all international oil contracts are denominated.

The move to reduce oil prices may help dent the impression amongst large sections of the public that the government only increases the domestic cost of fuel.

Taliban has no plans to attack Pakistan’s nuclear plants

The Taliban have no plans to attack Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, their spokesman told. A larger assault earlier this week by the Taliban on a naval base in Karachi renewed fears that Pakistan’s sizable nuclear arsenal could be vulnerable.

Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, dismissed those concerns on Wednesday as America’s “excuse” to pressure Pakistan’s government into fighting the Taliban, who he portrayed as the country’s true protectors. “Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power state,” Ehsan said in a telephonic interview, adding that the Taliban had no intention of changing that fact. He mocked Pakistan’s willingness to work with the US, saying, “Isn’t it a shame for us to have the Islamic bomb, and even then we are bowing down to the pressures of America.”

Pakistan allowed CIA to investigate the Osama’s compound in Abbottabad

The arrangement would allow the CIA for the first time to enter a complex that it had previously scrutinized only from a distance, using satellites, stealth drones and spies operating from a nearby safe house that was shuttered when bin Laden was killed.

U.S. officials said that a CIA team is expected to arrive at the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, within days and that the objective is to scrub the site for items that were not recovered by American commandos during the raid early this month or by Pakistani security forces who secured the facility afterward.

“The assault team was there for only 40 minutes,” a U.S. official said. The aim is to return to the site “to do another, more thorough look.” The official, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

Pakistan can bring Haqqani to negotiating table: Kerry

Pakistan can and will like to bring the Haqqani group to the negotiating table if the US was to ask it to do so, experts told the Senate. The issue of Pakistan’s alleged links to the Haqqani network was raised at a Senate hearing where John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asked the witnesses to explain if Islamabad could sever those ties.

“I think it’s going to be very, very difficult for the Pakistanis to abandon the Haqqani network, although perhaps not impossible,” said one of the witnesses, Peter Bergen.

He noted that while the Afghan Taliban did not have much of a relationship with Al Qaeda, the Haqqani network did and also protected Al Qaeda militants. “So the biggest key to moving forward is getting the Haqqani network to basically change sides, and I don’t think that’s out of the question,” he said.

America locked in direct talks with Taliban

American officials have met with a senior aide to the fugitive Taliban leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, at least three times in recent months in the first direct exploratory peace talks, officials in the region said, a US paper claimed. The meetings have been facilitated by Germany and Qatar, but American officials have been present each time, meeting with Tayeb Agha, who is a close personal assistant to Mullah Omar, the officials said. The C.I.A. and the State Department have been involved in the meetings, one official said.

Talks have begun before the killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2. The presence of Mr. Agha, a longtime personal assistant of the reclusive Taliban leader, is a sign that the Taliban are serious despite their public opposition to peace talks, the officials said. Yet the senior Afghan official cautioned that the meetings might not represent much because Mr. Agha was known to be no longer particularly close to Mullah Omar. Mr. Agha was a much trusted personal assistant, answering phone calls and making appointments for Mullah Omar, for most of the Taliban’s time in power, from 1994 to 2001. The meetings have been conducted without the participation of Pakistan.