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We all know that the basic ingredient of food we eat are carbohydrate, fat and proteins. earlier the basic behind majority of diet plans are to decrease the fats and this lead to decrease in body weight but it is not very much efficient the research show that decreasing the fat in diet results in slight decrease in body weight over a long period of time . But good thing is that it does not have side effects over long period of time . ketogenic diet is very popular nowdays and used by most of the celebrities to get slim easily . What is Ketogenic diet? ketogenic diet means you decrease the significant amount of carbohydrate from your diet and increase the fat in the diet i,e carbohydrate (5-10%), proteins (20-25%) and fats (65-70%). This is a misconception that in ketogenic diet you need to increase the protein than normal but in ketogenic diet amount of protein remain normal (1-1.5 gram per kg body weight). The ketogenic diet is low carbohydrate diet it mimics the condition of...

While sunscreens are widely used as a first line of defence against skin cancer, concerns have been raised against them for their effects on endocrine, reproductive, developmental outcomes. A new study currently claims that active ingredients in emollient will find yourself in your blood, movement serious queries whether or not the cosmetic product has to be regulated like medicines before use? The four-group pilot study, led by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), involved 24 healthy volunteers, to determine whether or not the active ingredients — avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, and ecamsule — of four commercially available sunscreens (not named in the study) are absorbed into the body during maximum sunscreen use (four times per day for four days). All the four ingredients tested resulted in plasma concentrations extraordinary zero.5 nanograms per millilitre (ng/mL) — the threshold ...

Immunity The ability of the body ( host) to fight against the disease causing agent is called immunity Types of immunity (1) Innate Immunity:  It refers to all the defence elements with which an individual is born and always available to protect the body. It is a non-specific type of defence system. It is present from the time of birth and inherited from parents. It consists of four types of barrier system that prevent the entry of pathogen or foreign element into the body.  Types of Barriers in Innate Immunity (i) Physical Barriers:  Skin is the first line of defence. It prevent the entry of the pathogens inside the body . Mucus coating of the epithelium lining in the respiratory, gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts also help in trapping microbes. (ii) Physiological Barriers: Acid in the stomach, saliva in the mouth, tears from the eyes, etc., prevent the growth ot microbes. (iii) Cellular Barrier : special types of cells in our body, which kil...

  Nipah virus treatment   It is a deadly viral disease spread by bats is infecting humans, but in this case, it isn’t Ebola. As on June 1, an outbreak of the Nipah virus has infected about 18 people and killed 17 in Kerala, India, as reported by World Health Organization (WHO) . The outbreak, which is the first to hit South India, raises fears of the disease becoming more far-reaching. Nipah was discovered in 1998, when it infected nearly about 350 people and killed 110 in Malaysia (its name was taken from one of the villages where it first struck). Many of the victims was farmers who are infected by virus through close contact with their pigs, which led to the euthanization of millions of pigs. But not only the pigs actually got the virus  another animals too. It’s now known that fruit bats also called flying foxes are the native carriers of Nipah. Besides Malaysia, Nipah cases have been reported in Singapore, Bangladesh, and India. These ou...