This is what could happen if you wrap a slice of bread around your foot!

Wrapping bread around your foot? Don’t knock it until you try it!

Summer is here in all its glory, so we’re all collectively heading outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. Whether it is to take a nice long walk or to relax in a park or at the beach; we’re here for it. We love being able to get out our summer wardrobe again and wear sandals and flip flops for days on end. But are your feet summer ready?

Are your feet ready for summer?

Feet

When it’s warm outside, it’s so nice to be able to wear light, airy clothes like a summer dress or some shorts and a T-shirt. Our feet also like to enjoy the sunshine but if your feet aren’t really ready to be shown to the world, putting on a pair of sandals can feel like a difficult thing to do. Because our feet are shut in inside muggy socks and shoes all winter, they don’t exactly get prettier during those cold, dark months. Calluses can look pretty ugly and corns don’t just look awful; they’re also very painful!

Luckily, a simple slice of bread can offer a solution to this problem.

Solution

Calluses and corns don’t look very nice, especially not when you’re wearing a cute pair of sandals. It can be a real bummer when your feet are affected by these things. Luckily, there’s an easy solution to this problem and you probably already own everything you need:

• Bread
• Apple cider vinegar
• Shrink/ cling film

How to do it

Soak a slice of bread in apple cider vinegar. Put the soaked bread on the problem zone on your foot; on your heel, for example, if that is where the calluses are. Then, wrap your foot and the bread tightly with the shrink film. Leave this on overnight and take off the film and bread the next morning. You won’t believe your eyes; the calluses will have gone so soft that you can easily rub them off with a dry towel! Just rinse it off with water and your feet are ready to face the sunshine!

This is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.     

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Have We Been Cooking Rice The Right Way or Poisoning Ourselves Instead?

Rice is an important staple in India. There are many states across the country that cannot function without their daily dose of rice. Take West Bengal for instance, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Goa, Assam and Meghalaya, among others. Across the globe too, rice is used in the making of various regional delicacies. While the most common method of cooking is to boil it in water, you can also grind soaked rice to make a batter, or pound it into a coarse powder and use. There's no doubt that we have been cooking this ancient ingredient for centuries, but the question that arises now is that are we doing it in the right manner?

According to a recent study done by the Queens University Belfast in England, the chemical from the industrial toxins and pesticides in the soil contaminate the rice that is endangering the health of millions of people, reports The Telegraph. There have been various reports on the harmful effects of pesticides and how those chemicals are making their way into our food leading to various kinds of diseases and hampering our long term health.

What is Arsenic?

Arsenic is a chemical element that occurs naturally in many minerals, usually in combination with sulphur and metals. Industrially, it is commonly used in the production of pesticides and insecticides. Ground water of various countries also contains high levels of natural arsenic, such as West Bengal in India, which could be very harmful for human health. Long-term exposure to arsenic, by means of contaminated water or food, leads to a medical condition of arsenic poisoning which could cause vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea, and even cancer and skin lesions. According to WHO, long-term exposure to arsenic has also been associated with developmental effects, cardiovascular disease, neurotoxicity and diabetes.

Coming to rice, various studies have pointed to the fact that improper agricultural practices could increase the toxic level of arsenic poisoning in rice. And if we don't cook rice well or in the correct manner, it could lead to dangerous health risks.

How to Prevent Arsenic Poisoning

According to the researchers of the Queens University Belfast study, before eating rice, soak them overnight in water to reduce the chances of arsenic poisoning and thus keep a check on the risks of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

The findings revealed that by soaking rice overnight, the level of the toxin was reduced by 80 percent. For the research, Andy Meharg from the University, tested three different ways of cooking rice. In the first, he used a ratio of two parts of water to one part of rice, where the water was steamed out during cooking. In the second, with five parts of water to one part of rice and the excess water washed off, he found that the levels of arsenic were almost halved. And in the third method, where the rice was soaked overnight, levels of the toxin were reduced by 80 percent.

These experiments suggest that the way rice is cooked is a key factor to reducing exposure to the toxic and naturally occurring chemical.

this is only for your information, kindly take the advice of your doctor for medicines, exercises and so on.
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https://gseasyrecipes.blogspot.com. feel free to view for easy, simple and healthy recipes 
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