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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

HIGH FAT MEALS ARE MORE HARMFUL FOR MALES THAN FEMALES

WASHINGTON: A latest study has revealed that meals rich in fat content are damaging for males.

Researchers for the first time have acknowledged the extraordinary differences between the two sexes concerning how they respond to fat rich diet. Researchers have found very interesting results. They found that extra fat content in male diet results in inflammation of brain and heart diseases while female shows no response to high content of fat.

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Diabetes and Obesity Research institute conducted the experiments on mice to prove the point. Researchers provided the fat rich diet to male and female mice. As a result, scientists found that male mice developed brain inflammation and heart diseases while the female mice showed no response to fat diet. They neither developed brain inflammation nor any heart disease.

The females have a strong fortification against negative effects of the fats and sugars. The fat wealthy diet changes the tissue composition and blood sugar level which could direct to obesity.

The cheering sign is that scientists discovered that they can manipulate the male’s brain of mice in such a way that they can also develop the characteristics like female brain.

The study is published in the journal Cell Reports.

Some polypody Polypodium vulgare ferns continue producing spores deep into winter and if you turn over a few fronds you’re eventually likely to find these golden cluster of sporangia. Unlike many ferns, the sporangia of this species are not covered by a membrane during their development and under the microscope they resemble nests of golden eggs, or maybe even party balloons if youre in a celebratory frame of mind.

Each sporangium is packed full of spores and when they’re ripe there’s a remarkable mechanism for catapulting spores out into the airstream, that you can read about at http://beyondthehumaneye.blogspot.com/2009/07/natures-siege-catapults.html

The gaping sporangium at the top of this picture (above) has burst open and has already catapulted out most of its spores. You can still see the spores packed into the surrounding unripe sporangia, through their transparent walls

Polypody spreads vegetatively with creeping rhizomes, that either grow over the branches of trees or through old walls, and you can see it in its habitat over at http://cabinetofcuriosities-greenfingers.blogspot.com/2009/11/wall-ferns.html

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விண்ணைத் தொட ஆசையில்லை
வட்டமிட ஆசையில்லை
கண்ணை பறிக்கும் வைரங்களை
பூட்டிக் கொள்ள ஆசையில்லை
பட்டு சேலை ஆசையில்லை
பருவ லீலை ஆசையில்லை
கட்டுக் கூந்தல் முடித்து அதில்
மல்லி சூட ஆசையில்லை
பாட்டுப் பாட ஆசையில்லை
ஆட்டம் போடா ஆசையில்லை
பஞ்சவர்ண ஆடை கட்டி
பவனி வர ஆசையில்லை
பிஞ்சு முகம் வாடுகையில்
வாரியணைக்க ஆசையில்லை
பஞ்சு மெத்தை இருந்தபின்னும்
படுத்துறங்க ஆசையில்லை
கருமேகம் பார்க்க ஆசையில்லை
கடும் குளிரில் நனைய ஆசையில்லை
எனை வாழ்த்தி பேச ஆசையில்லை
ஏட்டில் பதிய ஆசையில்லை
ஒரே ஒரு ஆசையுண்டு
கண் மூடி உறங்கையிலே
மரணம் தொட ஆசை உண்டு......

Vitreous Humor Definition What is Vitreous Humor

There are two humors, the aqueous humor and the vitreous humor, both of which help to maintain the shape of the eyeball.
The aqueous humor is a transparent liquid that fills the region between the cornea at the front of the eye and the lens.
The vitreous humor is a transparent, jelly-like substance that occupies the region between the lens and the retina at the back of the eye.

The vitreous humor is present from birth and remains virtually unchanged throughout an individuals life.

Vitreous humor disorders

Specks may occur in the vitreous humor caused by the degeneration of its cells with age. This is a normal occurrence.
The presence of specks does not noticeably impair vision.
Occasionally, a hemorrhage into the vitreous humor may occur, usually caused by an injury.
A hemorrhage may also occur in diabetes mellitus, arteriosclerosis, or retinitis. A hemorrhage may be serious and a physician should be consulted.

THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD BY NIRVANA LYRICS AND PERSPECTIVES

This song I had to write about - The first time I listened to it, all the questions Ive ever had about the origin of existence came in a realm, like a wave. And it is one of the utterly strange, a bit scaring - mystic feelings Ive ever had. I absolutely admire the song. The lyrics and the tune perfectly suits it - recommended for every rock music lover. No one can particularly determine what the song exactly speaks of, making the beauty of the song - further dynamic. Once I had a talk with a friend who said that when by looking at the mirror I would be able to feel that the reflection was someone elses and not mine - I would have achieved depth of mind. The lyrics are somewhat similar. I feel like someone sees another form of himself or remembers of something that had taken place in his last birth,the way the song says "a long,long time ago." The Man Who Sold The World, according to me is the transformation of the same into someone else or something else.Words like time,space,dimensions,form,origin,existence all started rumbling in my mind the second I listened to this. One of a kind song, recommended for every person who understands words like rock music, power ballad or progressive rock.

Here are the lyrics -

We passed upon the stair

We spoke of was and when

Although I wasnt there

He said I was his friend

Which came as a surprise

I spoke into his eyes

I thought you died alone

A long long time ago

Oh no, not me

We never lost control

Youre face to face

With the man who sold the world

I laughed and shook his hand

And made my way back home

I searched for form and land

For years and years I roamed

I gazed a gazeless stare

We walked a million years

I must have died alone

A long, long time ago

Who knows?

Not me

I never lost control

Youre face to face

With the man who sold the world

Who knows?

Not me

We never lost control

Youre face to face

With the man who sold the world

Almost as soon as plants colonised the land surface they began to compete for light, struggling to grow out of each other’s mutual shade. The ultimate solution, adopted by trees, was to produce woody stems and grow tall, shading out competitors below. Its a very successful strategy - left to their own devices, many terrestrial ecosystems where water and warmth are adequate become forests. These (above) are cross sections of stems of two sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus seedlings, just a couple of weeks after germinating from a seed in spring, and already they have begun to produce woody thickening in some of their cells, visible here as the bright yellow fluorescent staining inside the stem (on the periphery of the large pith cells in its core). The very narrow yellow fluorescent line around the perimeter of the stem is the waxy cuticle secreted by the epidermal cells that protects the young stem – just a couple of millimetres in diameter at this stage - from water loss and invasion by pathogens. Double-click on the image for a clearer picture.

Fast-forward almost three years now and this seedling has grown into a sapling. In this cross section of a three year old lime (Tilia sp.) stem the big cells at the core are the pith. The three concentric rings of brown cells outside of that contain the xylem vessels that conduct water up and down the stem. They’re dead and their walls are strengthened with woody lignin, producing a strong, rigid support for the fast growing shoot and leaves. The width of those annual rings varies according the growing season – but I suspect that the outer, most recent ring is narrower because this shoot was harvested for microscopic sectioning sometime in mid-summer, before that years annual growth was complete. Take a close look at the outer edge of the outer annual ring of xylem (double click the image to enlarge) and you may just be able to make out a distinct narrow zone of very small blue-stained cells, just a few cells thick (at about 7 oclock on the section). This is the cambium – the thin layer of living cells that divides to produce dead xylem cells on its inner face and living phloem cells, that conduct sugars from the leaves to the rest of the plant, on the outer side. Together the phloem and cambium are only a few cells thick and represent the most important living tissue inside the tree. Their protection is vital for the tree’s survival, so they are covered by a thick layer of bark tissue, also stained blue where the cells are alive but showing as grey-brown on the outer surface of the twig, where they are dying or dead. This is the tree’s waterproof, self-repairing, insulating, wound healing tissue, protecting the delicate living layer of cells inside. Growing tall by producing annual rings of growth is a long-term investment for a plant which only reaches full size after decade of growth, but the return on investment can then continue over centuries – and in some cases millennia - of annual flowering and seed production. As the stem adds annual rings, expanding in girth with every succeeding year, the outer dead bark layer splits into characteristic patterns, depending on the tree species. The line of red cells in the bark tissues are fibres - dead cells that strengthen the young stem.

Hestia Greek Goddess Greek Mythology

Hestia was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. She was the goddess of Fire in its first application to the wants of mankind, hence she was essentially the presiding deity of the domestic hearth and the guardian spirit of man, and it was her pure and benign influence which was supposed to protect the sanctity of domestic life.

Now in these early ages the hearth was regarded as the most important and most sacred portion of the dwelling, probably because the protection of the fire was an important consideration, for if once permitted to become extinct, re-ignition was attended with extreme difficulty. In fact, the hearth was held so sacred that it constituted the sanctum of the family, for which reason it was always erected in the centre of every house. It was a few feet in height and was built of stone; the fire was placed on the top of it, and served the double purpose of preparing the daily meals, and consuming the family sacrifices. Round this domestic hearth or altar were gathered the various members of the family, the head of the house occupying the place of honour nearest the hearth.
Here prayers were said and sacrifices offered, and here also every kind and loving feeling was fostered, which even extended to the hunted and guilty stranger, who, if he once succeeded in touching this sacred altar, was safe from pursuit and punishment, and was henceforth placed under the protection of the family. Any crime committed within the sacred precincts of the domestic hearth was invariably visited by death.
In Grecian cities there was a common hall, called the Prytaneum, in which the members of the government had their meals at the expense of the state, and here too was the Hestia, or public hearth, with its fire, by means of which those meals were prepared. It was customary for emigrants to take with them a portion of this sacred fire, which they jealously guarded and brought with them to their new home, where it served as a connecting link between the young Greek colony and the mother country.
Hestia is generally represented standing, and in accordance with the dignity and sanctity of her character, always appears fully draped.
Her countenance is distinguished by a serene gravity of expression.

Text:
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Author: E.M. Berens
Published: 1880

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HIGH FAT MEALS ARE MORE HARMFUL FOR MALES THAN FEMALES