"Anything For You, Ma’am"

“Anything For You Ma’am: An IITian’s Love Story”, Srishti Publishers and Distributors, 2006, Rs. 100 is an entertaining book by Tushar Raheja.

It is the love story of an IIT Delhi student and graphically captures the spirit and culture of the IIT campus and of life in a typical middle class Indian household.

As a review in The Hindu says this novel is highly recommended for all veterans of campus life in India. I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed the book .

Congratulations, young Raheja. We look forward to more of your writings.

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For a Healthy Heart

Saffola is a well known product in India. It comes from Marico.

Came across their very informative and useful site called Saffola Life.com.

To lower your cholesterol, the first steps usually involve making Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC). The National Cholesterol Education Panel (National Institute of Health- USA) guidelines recommend Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes, which include:

• Diet – A diet that is low in fat and cholesterol. This is important, because food (especially red meat and dairy products) is a major source of the excess fat and cholesterol in your body.
• Exercise – Helps reduce high cholesterol. Also helps reduce other risk factors for heart disease, such as high blood pressure.
• Weight loss – Reduces LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, increases HDL cholesterol. Also helps to lower blood pressure and diabetes.
• Not smoking – Quitting will raise your HDL cholesterol levels. When diet and exercise aren’t effective enough, doctors may prescribe cholesterol-lowering medication as an addition to diet and exercise

4 Indians die of heart disease every minute. Unlike in days past when heart attacks were more common in people in their 50s and beyond, today’s world sees relatively young people die in their 30s of heart attacks.

Isn’t it worth being careful?

World Champs All

Congratulations to Viswanathan Anand on becoming the World’s Chess Champion yesterday.

His victory gives India a lot to cheer about. The cricket team won the Twenty20 championship, Pankaj Advani became the World’s Billiards Champion and now comes Anand’s triumph.

“Let’s see what kind of reception I will get” asked the chess champ.

Pankaj Advani, who is only 21, has an enviable record in both billiards and snooker. He has won both the billiards and snooker world amateur titles.

World Heart Day

Over a hundred countries celebrate World Heart Day today.

Heart disease and stroke is the world’s largest killer, claiming 17.5 million lives each year. That’s why World Heart Day was created, to create public awareness of risk factors for heart disease and stroke and to promote preventive measures.

Statistics suggest that South Asians seem more naturally vulnerable to heart disease than other ethnic groups. Lancet 2000 study showed that, even after adjusting for all known risk factors; South Asians in Canada appeared to have a higher rate of heart disease than Europeans or Chinese living there.

Nearly 95 percent of people who developed a fatal cardiovascular disease had at least one of these major risk factors: high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes besides a poor diet and overweight.