Survival

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change"

Charles Darwin
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Starting Your Own Restaurant

http://www.allfoodbusiness.com/starting_your_own_business.php

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Dal Makhani

Ingredients for Dal Makhani or Maah Ki Dal Recipe

Black whole urad - 1 cup
Rajma - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 2 pcs
(finely cut)
Onion(big) - 1 no
(finely cut)
Garlic pods - 8 - 10 nos
(finely cut)
Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
(grated or finely cut)
Green chillies - 2 - 3 nos
(finely cut)
Cumin seeds(Jeerakam) - 1 tsp
Asafoetida(Kaayam/Hing) - 2 pinches
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Dal makhani masala - 1 tsp (optional)
Butter - 2 tbsp
Salt - As reqd
Oil - 3 tbsp


Preparation Method of Dal Makhani or Maah Ki Dal Recipe

1)Wash the whole black urad dal.

2)Semi crush the rajma(dry) in a mixer for 2-3 secs.

3)Pressure cook rajma and whole black urad with about 10 cups of water (whole urad needs lots of water to cook) adding 1/2 tsp salt and finely cut ginger up to 8 - 10 whistles.

4)Let the cooker cool off and check if the lentils are cooked thoroughly. If not add little water and keep on a low flame for 10 mins.

5)Heat oil in a pan.

6)Add jeera and let it blacken a bit.

7)Add asafoetida, green chillies and finely cut garlic and let it turn brown.

8)Add onion and fry till brown.

9)Add tomatoes, turmeric & coriander powder and dal makhani masala and stir well.

10)Add the cooked lentils adding appropriate salt.

11)Bring it to a boil.

12)Add butter and simmer for 5 mins and switch off the stove.

:- Sumptous Maah ki daal is ready!!!!!
 
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Diet

Diabetic Food List

A Registered Dietitian assesses the nutritional needs of a person with diabetes and calculates the amounts of carbohydrate, fat, protein, and total calories needed per day. He will then convert this information into recommending the list of food a diabetic can eat in the daily diet.

Recommended daily food portion:

Daily calories count :   
carbohydrates     -  50% to. 60%                         
protein                 - 12% to 20%
fat            - not more than 30% (with no more than 10 percent from saturated fats)

Recommended Diabetic Food Intake:

Low Glycemic Index -

doesn't create rapid peaks and troughs in blood glucose levels.

Complex high-fiber carbohydrates -

Scientific evidence show that diet high in dietary fiber is protective against diabetes. Fiber is capable of slowing down the digestion and absorption of carbohydrate and increasing the sensitivity of tissues to insulin, thereby preventing rise s in blood sugar. It is advisable to restrict the intake of refined carbohydrates and avoid high fat foods.

      Example  : Oats, cereals, legumes, wholegrain products, dried beans, peas, lentils, fruits, vegetables.

Alpha-lipoic acid -

Is a vitamin like antioxidant that enhances the glucose uptake and improves diabetes nerves damage of diabetes patient.

Omega 3 -

Protect against the hardening of arteries.

            Example : Cold water fish like salmon, tuna, mackerel, herring).

Omega 6  fatty acid -

Protect against the development of diabetes neuropathy.

            Example : Blackcurrant oil, primrose oil, borage oil).

Artificial sweeteners -

such as aspartame and saccharin.

Restricted and to avoid :

Refined and simple carbohydrates - such as sucrose, glucose or fructose, white rice, white bread, table sugar, sweets, honey, corn-syrup.

High fat food.

Alcohol - Higher quantities alcohol can cause health problems like liver damage and increase the risk of heart disease.

High sodium food - such as salty fish.
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Glycemic Index

http://www.diabetes-diabetic-diet.com/glycemic_index.htm

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One more time

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time". Thomas a. Edison
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Weight loss

Guide to Behavior Change

Your Weight Is Important

Over the past few years it has become clear that weight is an important health issue. Some people who need to lose weight for their health don't recognize it, while others who don't need to lose weight want to get thinner for cosmetic reasons. We understand that in some ways your weight is different from, for example, your cholesterol level or your blood pressure, because you can't see what these are by looking at someone. Many patients have had health care providers who approached their weight in a less-than-sensitive or helpful manner. Some patients may have had health care encounters in which they felt blamed, but not helped. Successful weight management is a long-term challenge.
Weight can affect a person's self-esteem. Excess weight is highly visible and evokes some powerful reactions, however unfairly, from other people and from the people who carry the excess weight. The amount of weight loss needed to improve your health may be much less than you wish to lose, when you consider how you evaluate your weight. Research has shown that your health can be greatly improved by a loss of 5–10 percent of your starting weight. That doesn't mean you have to stop there, but it does mean that an initial goal of losing 5–10 percent of your starting weight is both realistic and valuable.
Behaviors That Will Help You Lose Weight and Maintain It

Set the Right Goals

Setting the right goals is an important first step. Most people trying to lose weight focus on just that one goal: weight loss. However, the most productive areas to focus on are the dietary and physical activity changes that will lead to long-term weight change. Successful weight managers are those who select two or three goals at a time that are manageable.
Useful goals should be (1) specific; (2) attainable (doable); and (3) forgiving (less than perfect). "Exercise more" is a great goal, but it's not specific. "Walk 5 miles every day" is specific and measurable, but is it doable if you're just starting out? "Walk 30 minutes every day" is more attainable, but what happens if you're held up at work one day and there's a thunderstorm during your walking time another day? "Walk 30 minutes, 5 days each week" is specific, doable, and forgiving. In short, a great goal!
Nothing Succeeds Like Success

Shaping is a behavioral technique in which you select a series of short-term goals that get closer and closer to the ultimate goal (e.g., an initial reduction of fat intake from 40 percent of calories to 35 percent of calories, and later to 30 percent). It is based on the concept that "nothing succeeds like success." Shaping uses two important behavioral principles: (1) consecutive goals that move you ahead in small steps are the best way to reach a distant point; and (2) consecutive rewards keep the overall effort invigorated.

Reward Success (But Not With Food)

An effective reward is something that is desirable, timely, and dependent on meeting your goal. The rewards you choose may be material (e.g., a movie or music CD, or a payment toward buying a more costly item) or an act of self-kindness (e.g., an afternoon off from work or just an hour of quiet time away from family). Frequent small rewards, earned for meeting smaller goals, are more effective than bigger rewards that require a long, difficult effort.

Balance Your Food Checkbook

"Self-monitoring" refers to observing and recording some aspect of your behavior, such as calorie intake, servings of fruits and vegetables, amount of physical activity, etc., or an outcome of these behaviors, such as weight. Self-monitoring of a behavior can be used at times when you're not sure how you're doing, and at times when you want the behavior to improve. Self-monitoring of a behavior usually moves you closer to the desired direction and can produce "real-time" records for review by you and your health care provider. For example, keeping a record of your physical activity can let you and your provider know quickly how you're doing. When the record shows that your activity is increasing, you'll be encouraged to keep it up. Some patients find that specific self-monitoring forms make it easier, while others prefer to use their own recording system.
While you may or may not wish to weigh yourself frequently while losing weight, regular monitoring of your weight will be essential to help you maintain your lower weight. When keeping a record of your weight, a graph may be more informative than a list of your weights. When weighing yourself and keeping a weight graph or table, however, remember that one day's diet and exercise patterns won't have a measurable effect on your weight the next day. Today's weight is not a true measure of how well you followed your program yesterday, because your body's water weight will change from day to day, and water changes are often the result of things that have nothing to do with your weight-management efforts.

Avoid a Chain Reaction

Stimulus (cue) control involves learning what social or environmental cues seem to encourage undesired eating, and then changing those cues. For example, you may learn from reflection or from self-monitoring records that you're more likely to overeat while watching television, or whenever treats are on display by the office coffee pot, or when around a certain friend. You might then try to change the situation, such as by separating the association of eating from the cue (don't eat while watching television), avoiding or eliminating the cue (leave the coffee room immediately after pouring coffee), or changing the circumstances surrounding the cue (plan to meet your friend in a nonfood setting). In general, visible and reachable food items are often cues for unplanned eating.

Get the Fullness Message

Changing the way you go about eating can make it easier to eat less without feeling deprived. It takes 15 or more minutes for your brain to get the message that you've been fed. Eating slowly will help you feel satisfied. Eating lots of vegetables and fruits can make you feel fuller. Another trick is to use smaller plates so that moderate portions do not appear too small. Changing your eating schedule, or setting one, can be helpful, especially if you tend to skip, or delay, meals and overeat later.
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Doing Things the "Right" Way by Kathy Paauw.

''You have your way. I have my way.  As for the right way,
 the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.''
 
Friedrich Nietzsche
 
Those in charge often fall into the trap of identifying their own agendas and standards, along with a message that "my way is the only right way."  Virtually everybody wakes up in the morning with an unseen assumption that life is about the struggle to survive and get ahead in a world of limited resources.  This limited view squelches innovation and creativity, and it also trains people to focus on what they need to do to please their superiors by doing things the "right" way -- whether that way works for them or not.
In The Art of Possibility, the Zanders share a fundamental practice that is captured in the catch-phrase, "it's all invented." It's all a story you tell -- not just some of it, but all of it.  And every story you tell is founded on a network of hidden assumptions. 
 
Zander explains, "We do not mean that you can just make anything up and have it magically appear. We mean that you can shift the framework to one whose underlying assumptions allow for the conditions you desire. Let your thoughts and actions spring from the new framework and see what happens."  

Here's a great example of the power of shifting your framework and assumptions:  A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying, "Situation hopeless. No one wears shoes." The other writes back triumphantly, "Glorious business opportunity. They have no shoes!"
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Learn to stay positive no matter what.

Count your blessings at the end of every day – don't focus on the problems you've faced that day; rather, think of all the good things that happened and the happiness they gave you.

 Think of others rather than yourself – when you do things, even the smallest favors, for other people who mean something to you, you feel good about yourself.

 Be proactive rather than reactive – instead of fretting over a problem and letting it stress you out, focus on how to resolve quickly and effectively. When your mind is busy trying to find a solution, you stop feeling sorry for yourself and start thinking positively.

Don't allow your mind to remain idle – it may be clichéd, but it's also true that an idle mind is the devil's workshop. So stay busy and keep doing something or the other to prevent negative thoughts from creeping in.

 Stop negative thoughts before they form completely – if you find yourself becoming depressed because your mind is taking a negative bent, stop those thoughts in their tracks and start consciously thinking of positive things.

 Spend time with people who love you and make you feel good about yourself – quality relationships make life worth living.

 Anytime you feel that the weight of your burden is hard to bear, talk to a friend or someone with a sympathetic ear – even if they cannot do anything to help you out, just the fact that you have someone on your side is uplifting enough.

 And finally, look around you before you start to feel sorry for yourself – there are people in situations that are a hundred times worse than yours, yet they manage to get through each day.

Tell yourself that you have a good life, count your blessings, and learn to stay positive no matter what.
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Can We Really Change Other People? We often fool ourselves into thinking we can change other people into what we think they should be. And we often go to great lengths in attempts to do just that. What an enormous waste of our personal time and talents!

Before you disagree, read on and see what has led to this conclusion.

Those in authority ( such as parents, employers, leaders, supervisors, and religious clergy) can control our actions to a certain degree.  However, they cannot change us.  Otherwise our actions at all times would conform to their wishes and dictates.

We change only when and if we wish to do so.  There are those who say that circumstances force us to change.  I say they may give us the motive to change; however, absolutely nothing can change us until or unless we wish to change.

As Dale Carnegie so succinctly stated, "A man convinced against his will is a man unconvinced still."

We cannot change other people, no matter what our motives may be or how much we love them and believe the changes we wish to make in them are for the better.

What then are we to do?  Quite simply, love them for what they are and set an example with our own lives that will make them wish to change. This is not to say that guidance is not required.  We all need guidance and instruction from time to time.  This is particularly true for children.

Several wise people have stated that you must be the change you seek to find in your world.  When we change ourselves to be the best we can be and to conform to our desires, we set an example for others.  It is their choice to follow our example or not.

The closer our example conforms to their basic desires and needs, the better the chances they will desire to change and follow it.

Rather than use your time and resources trying to change others, invest this time in changing yourself and you will be amazed at the amount of grief and turmoil you will avoid.

By Robert Taylor.
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