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मोबाइल है घातक

मानव स्वस्थ्य पर मोबाइल के दुष्प्रभाव लेकर भले ही दुनिया भर के वैज्ञानिक एकमत न हों परन्तु अधिकांश वैज्ञानिकों का मानना है कि मोबाइल फोन का अधिक इस्तेमाल स्वास्थ्य को बहुत नुकसान पहुंचाता है।

स्वीडन के वैज्ञानिकों ने एक शोध के बाद यह भी बताया कि मोबाइल फोन के विकिरण से मानव शरीर में रक्त कोशिकाओं को भी नुकसान पहुँच सकता है। वैज्ञानिकों ने गणितीय सिद्धांतों का इस्तेमाल कर लाल रक्त कोशिकाओं पर एलेक्ट्रोमेग्नेटिक विकिरण का शोध कर यह निष्कर्ष निकाला है कि मोबाइल फोन के इस्तेमाल से कैंसर तथा दूसरी घातक बीमारियाँ होने की संभावना रहती है। वैज्ञानिकों ने इससे पहले भी विभिन्न शोधों में यह पाया है कि मोबाइल फोन से मस्तिष्कमें ट्यूमर एवं अल्जीमर्स रोगों का खतरा रहता है। जानेमाने अध्यनकर्ता डॉक्टर माइकल क्लार्क का कहना है कि पारंपरिक सोच यही है कि रेडियो तरंगों से कोशिकाओं को नुकसान होने की आशंका रहती है और मोबाइल फोन के मामले में भी यही बात इससे साबित होता है।

Lord Erskine Award

A game for the vulgar & insensitive
Maneka Gandhi, India's most prominent animal rights activist is a former union minister and the recipient of several prestigious awards such as Lord Erskine Award and 'Prani Mitra Award'. A strong advocate for animal welfare, she also provides simple solutions to several environmental problems that we face everyday.
God despises money. Look at the people he gives it to." It's amazing how vulgar people become as they get rich. The crassness first shows up in their home and clothes which both become laughable. Next in their food which unfortunately is not laughable. Bangalore's wildlife department recently raided restaurants and found monitor lizards, partridges, deer, black buck, peacocks and hares-- all endangered Indian species on offer to wealthy diners. The illegal trade in vanishing species flourishes as demand for exotic meats rises. The nouveau riche pay silly sums to impress. You read about spoilt kids of self made men bragging about visiting Singapore and Kenya to devour monkeys and zebras.

Their games are equally loutish. Polo, a killer for horses, has become fashionable with the new rich and the useless who have fallen for its sly marketing as a sport for kings. Polo teams are snapped up by socially insecure wannabes. Polo matches are sponsored by arms dealers and attended by fading royalty desperate for their pictures in the papers, hired starlets, retired generals thirsting for free drinks, shady businesswallahs hoping to cadge contacts over alcohol and, alas, the press. The same sorry lot go round and round. A jeweller who recently paid Rs 40 lakh for a polo event serving strawberries and champagne, refused a request to fund an orphanage. He told me his son wanted to be a polo player and needed to meet horse and team owners.

Polo is a team sport played on horseback.The objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Riders score by driving a white wooden or plastic ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. Each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts. Play occurs in seven-minute periods, called chukkers. The full game is played over eight chukkas. More than one pony is needed by each player to play polo in order to allow tired mounts to be changed between or even during chukkers. The group of ponies ranging between 2-6 for one player is referred to as a "string

Polo has been declared one of the world's most dangerous sports, both for the player and his mount. But while the rider elects to play, the horse has no choice. With so many players and horses on a field hurtling at 30 miles per hour, needing to stop on a dime and turn quickly, anything can happen.The rider wears a protective helmet with a face guard, knee high riding boots, gloves, wristbands, knee pads and spurs. The stirrup irons are heavier than normal and their leathers wider and thicker to aid players standing in the stirrups. The only protective gear for the horse is polo wraps from the knee to the ankle. It's not unusual to see a horse and rider tumble and roll together as they hit the ground. Collisions are common. Mallets often hit and hurt both riders and mounts as well as trip the speeding horses. Falling and breaking ankles is common. But while injured riders are rushed to hospital, the best an injured horse can expect is a bullet in the brain.

Low-cal sweeteners

Low-cal sweeteners can make you fat
Eating food with low-calorie or no-calorie sweeteners may contribute to weight gain, says a new study in US
New York: Scientists from Purdue University gave different yoghurt to different groups of rats, some sweetened with sugar and some with artificial sweetener saccharin.
The researchers observed that the saccharin-fed mice ate more calories, put on more fat, and gained more weight than their sugar-fed counterparts, the online edition of BBC News reported.
Other low-calorie sweeteners such as aspartame, sucralose and acesulfame could have a similar effect, said the scientists whose findings were reported in the Behavioural Neuroscience journal.
A spokesman for the British Nutrition Foundation said the study findings were "interesting", but did not prove that artificial sweeteners could be counterproductive in dieting humans.
"This needs far more research - as studies in humans have shown that low-calorie sweeteners can help people lose weight," the spokesman said.
Source: IANS