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25Jul, 2021

How Screen Time Affects Your Kid’s Brain

Screen Time Affects – Ever thought about whether all that screen time is contrarily influencing your youngster’s cerebrum? Terrible news, I am afraid.According to all the specialists, this electronic screen disorder (ESS) is causing lack of sleep, social disengagement, conduct issues, and a hyper excited sensory system.

A few pediatricians have assessed that up to 80% of the children they are seeing who are being sedated for ADHD, nervousness, gloom and emotional episodes don’t have these scatters by any means. There are less complex cures like lessening screen time, for instance. The American Academy of Pediatrics rules on chopping down screen time (at present an incredible 7 hours per day) are recorded here.

Guardians and educators have seen how an excess of screen time is making kids surly, exhausted and are for all time “wired and tired”. Be that as it may, what is really happening to the youngster’s mind? Scientists have demonstrated that the frontal projection improvement is really being impeded by this screen time. This is the piece of the mind which is answerable for the youngster’s capacity to focus, controlling feelings and decided aptitudes. Remaining associated may imply that your youngster is getting detached from reality!

Let us take a gander at how screen time is influencing your kid’s mind.

Screen time is meddling with mental health

It is alarming to believe that a youngster’s mind is developing at a gigantic rate and in the primary year of life, it really develops by 300%. Presently, let the infant take a gander at a ball moving over a tablet screen. It is a two dimensional procedure and there is no material or other boosts. Let the youngster play with a genuine ball and she will encounter three measurements, the development, snatch it, contact it or even attempt to eat it. The youngster is encountering this present reality and that can never be supplanted by what’s going on a screen.

Screen time is deferring figuring out how to talk

The most ideal approach to get a youngster to talk is by cooperating and conversing with him. The child can watch the outward appearances, grin, hear the manner of speaking, explore different avenues regarding the sounds and notice the non-verbal communication. All these are fundamental and complex procedures in figuring out how to talk. No screen, game or video can supplant the delight of gaining from human communication. A robot may, yet how about we not go there!

Screen time can lessen the quantity of words a youngster learns

Did you realize that a parent utilizes 940 words an hour when visiting to a little child? Think about what happens when the TV is on. The quantity of words the parent utilizes tumbles to 770. That implies the little child is learning less words after some time.

Screen time can influence a youngster’s physical and emotional well-being

There are heaps of concentrates that show that an inactive way of life is terrible for a kid’s or adolescent’s physical wellbeing. One investigation shows that observing over 2 hours of TV daily prompted poor physical wellness, lower confidence and less fortunate scholarly accomplishment.

What would we be able to do as guardians?

There are incalculable factors, for example, the home condition, social financial status and school which can likewise adversely affect a kid’s advancement. In any case, one unpreventable certainty is that a lot of screen time is keeping our children from doing sports, perusing, playing outside, and talking (and battling!) with kin.

Decreasing screen time is one proposal which doesn’t cost you a penny. At the very least, nothing will change in spite of the fact that it is hard to envision that things may be more terrible.

A brilliant book to help you really complete this is Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time by Dr. Victoria Dunckley. She suggests that guardians execute a severe electronic ‘quick’ only for half a month. There can be a sensational improvement in rest quality, state of mind, center and conduct.

Numerous guardians will draw back from halting their kids utilizing PDAs and workstations for some time. The book is loaded with handy proposals on the most proficient method to do this. The prizes are definitely justified even despite the underlying exertion and battle.

25Jul, 2021

How diet affects your mental health

mental health – Diet significantly influences mental health and wellbeing, but this link is firmly established only in some areas such as the ability of a high fat and low carbohydrate diet (a ketogenic diet) to help children with epilepsy, and the effect of vitamin B12 deficiency on fatigue, poor memory, and depression, says a study.

The research, published in the journal European Neuropsychopharmacology, cautions that the evidence of a ink between diet and mental health for many diets is comparatively weak.

“We have found that there is increasing evidence of a link between a poor diet and the worsening of mood disorders, including anxiety and depression. However, many common beliefs about the health effects of certain foods are not supported by solid evidence,” said lead author Suzanne Dickson, Professor at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

The researchers who conducted a comprehensive review of studies linking diet with mental health also found that there is good evidence that a Mediterranean diet, rich in vegetables and olive oil, shows mental health benefits, such as giving some protection against depression and anxiety.

However, for many foods or supplements, the evidence is inconclusive, as for example with the use of vitamin D supplements, or with foods believed to be associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism.

“With individual conditions, we often found very mixed evidence,” said Dickson.

“With ADHD for example, we can see an increase in the quantity of refined sugar in the diet seems to increase ADHD and hyperactivity, whereas eating more fresh fruit and vegetables seems to protect against these conditions.

“But there are comparatively few studies, and many of them don’t last long enough to show long-term effects,” she added.

The scientists confirmed that some foods had readily provable links to mental health, for example, that nutrition in the womb and in early life can have significant effects on brain function in later life.

Proving the effect of diet on mental health in the general population was more difficult.

“In healthy adults dietary effects on mental health are fairly small, and that makes detecting these effects difficult: it may be that dietary supplementation only works if there are deficiencies due to a poor diet,” Dickson said.

“We also need to consider genetics: subtle differences in metabolism may mean that some people respond better to changes in diet than others,” she added.

There are also practical difficulties which need to be overcome in testing diets. A food is not a drug, so it needs to be tested differently to a drug.

We can give someone a dummy pill to see if there is an improvement due to the placebo effect, but you can’t easily give people dummy food.

“There is a general belief that dietary advice for mental health is based on solid scientific evidence. In reality, it is very difficult to prove that specific diets or specific dietary components contribute to mental health,” Dickson said.

25Jul, 2021

Health Benefits of Organic Foods

Health Benefits – Many people such as consumers, farmers and manufacturers accept that natural nourishment are very helpful. On account of the advantages, there are quantities of Organic Food Stores in India.

Let’s find out the benefits of organic foods.

Healthy Heart:

An increased amount of time, the animals are grazing on grass increases the amount of presence of CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). CLA is very healthy for the heart and also boost cardiovascular protection. The foods available in our organic stores are raised free-range or cage-free. That’s why its CLA content is also more.

Cell reinforcement Property:

By a few examinations, it is noticed that there is such a great amount of impact of antioxidants from Organic foods for our general health and its predominant outcomes have demonstrated that cell reinforcements will in general have more effect by devouring Organic foods. This is a result of the remote synthetic substances cooperate with a few nutrients, minerals and natural mixes which are especially fundamental for the positive effect of foods grown from the ground in forestalling untimely maturing, vision issue and intellectual failing.

Decrease of Pesticide:

One of the significant grievances from the shoppers that the nearness of pesticide in the yields. Despite the fact that pesticide assists with fending off specific vermin from the harvests, they are power pack of incredible synthetic substances like phosphorous. It is absolutely a lonely mineral for the human body. It likewise prompts numerous formative issues including chemical imbalance and ADHD. Our natural Food Stores are liberated from such hurtful synthetic compounds.

Increase the resistant power:

In numerous examinations, it is discovered that modified Organic food demonstrated a significant decrease in the quality of the resistant framework. It increments in birth mortality just as a few sexual dysfunctions, hypersensitivities. Organic food is liberated from such toxicities hereditary changed food sources.

Anti-biotic resistance:

For the most part, for the precautionary measure of numerous ailments, individuals take different antibodies and takes anti-toxins. In like manner, creatures likewise take immunizations. This additional portion of anti-infection agents may debilitate our resistant framework. The characteristic and natural items stores don’t utilize anti-microbials in their procedures.

Health Overall:

As Organic food, which are accessible in the stores are not developed by utilizing any compound manures, it doesn’t contain any toxicated synthetic concoctions or any synthetic compounds which can influence the human body in negative manners.

Great Taste:

In the event that you request characteristic items online store, at that point you can understand that the flavor of natural nourishments is obviously superior to regular food sources. It is so in light of the fact that natural nourishments are created utilizing natural methods. Likewise, natural nourishments are sold locally as indicated by the accessibility of new produce in the market, which tastes superior to those items that have been delivered, solidified and shipped across long separations.

25Jul, 2021

Google Doodle celebrates shortest day of the year

Google on Sunday released an adorable snowman doodle to celebrate winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. The word “solstice” originated from the Latin solstitium meaning “sun stands still”, when the ‘movement of sun’s path’ stops briefly.

Solstice occurs because the Earth is tilted on its axis of rotation by about 23.5 degrees and the tilt causes each hemisphere to receive different amounts of sunlight throughout the year. The winter solstice, also known as mid-winter, occurs when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. Due to this, earth experiences the shortest day and the longest night of the year.

This year winter begins from December 22 and will last till March 20, 2020, according to the Google. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere. In the Northern Hemisphere it is the December solstice and in the Southern Hemisphere it is called June solstice. People across the globe took to various social media platforms such Twitter and Facebook to wish and celebrate winter solstice.

“In the Northern Hemisphere it is the December solstice and in the Southern Hemisphere it is called June solstice. Happy December Solstice to all life forms on Earth.The Northern Hemisphere’s longest night. The Southern Hemisphere’s longest day. And for the equator, caught between, a day like any other,” a user tweeted from his Twitter account.

Another user wrote: “Wishing my Twitter friends a happy and peaceful Winter Solstice this weekend! The nights will get lighter and only two or three months till flowers make an appearance in the gardens.Hurrah!.”

25Jul, 2021

Google commits $800 million to support SMBs, health workers

Google – In biggest donation yet from any global tech giant, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced the company will provide over $800 million to support small and medium businesses (SMBs), health organisations, governments and health workers on the frontline of global COVID-19 pandemic.

The commitment would include $250 million in ad grants to help the World Health Organisation (WHO) and more than 100 government agencies globally provide critical information on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other measures to help local communities.

“This is an increase from our initial $25 million announced last month. In addition, we’re providing $20 million in ad grants to community financial institutions and NGOs specifically to run public service announcements on relief funds and other resources for SMBs,” Pichai said in a statement on Friday.

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to worsen around the world, it’s taking a devastating toll on lives and communities.

Google committed a $200 million investment fund that will support NGOs and financial institutions around the world to help provide small businesses with access to capital.

“As one example, we’re working with the Opportunity Finance Network in the US to help fill gaps in financing for people and communities underserved by mainstream financial institutions,” said Pichai.

This is in addition to the $15 million in cash grants Google.org is already providing to nonprofits to help bridge these gaps for SMBs.

The company will give “$340 million in Google Ads credits available to all SMBs with active accounts over the past year”.

“Credit notifications will appear in their Google Ads accounts and can be used at any point until the end of 2020 across our advertising platforms,” Pichai announced, adding that it will help to alleviate some of the cost of staying in touch with their customers.

The overall commitment would also include a pool of $20 million in Google Cloud credits for academic institutions and researchers to “leverage our computing capabilities and infrastructure as they study potential therapies and vaccines, track critical data, and identify new ways to combat COVID-19”.

Google is working with supplier and partner Magid Glove & Safety, with the goal of ramping up production of 2-3 million face masks in the coming weeks that will be provided to the CDC Foundation.

“Additionally, employees from across Alphabet, including Google, Verily and X, are bringing engineering, supply chain and healthcare expertise to facilitate increased production of ventilators, working with equipment manufacturers, distributors and the government in this effort,” informed Pichai.

In addition to these commitments, Google also increased the gift match it offers every employee annually to $10,000 from $7,500.

“That means our employees can now give $20,000 to organizations in their communities, in addition to the $50 million Google.org has already donated,” said Pichai.

Apple has released a website and an iOS app that allows users to screen themselves for coronavirus symptoms, days after announcing that it would donate more than 10 million respirator masks across the US and Europe.

25Jul, 2021

Google Cloud unveils machine images to simplify workflow

Google Cloud – Google has announced machine images, a new type of Compute Engine resource that contains all the information people need to create, backup or restore a virtual machine, reducing the amount of time people spend managing their Cloud environment.

Custom images capture the contents of a single disk, for example, a boot disk, which can be used to create new instances that are preconfigured with the apps that you need.

Machine images are a more comprehensive resource that can contain multiple disks, as well as all of the information required to capture and create a new instance.

According to Google, it will reduce the time network admins and data scientists spend managing their cloud environments by eliminating extra steps and streamlining operations.

“In addition to storing complete instance properties and data, machine images use the same differential disk backup technology that powers incremental snapshots, giving you fast, reliable and cost-effective instance backups,” explained Ari Liberman, Product Manager, Google Compute Engine.

“The new machine images make it easy to create new instances at the heart of your scalability, backup and disaster recovery strategy,” he added in a statement.

25Jul, 2021

FinMin Notifies GST Grievance Redress Panel For Tax Payers

Tax Payers – The Finance Ministry on Wednesday notified setting up of a GST grievance redress committee at zonal/state level after it was approved in the last GST Council meeting this month.

The Council in its 38th meeting held on December 18 decided that a structured mechanism be set up for the taxpayers under GST to tackle grievances of taxpayers on GST-related issues of specific/general nature, Commissioner of AGST Policy wing of the Finance Ministry in a letter to all Chief Commissioners of Central Tax & GST and all Chief Commissioners/Commissioners of State Tax said on Wednesday.

The Council has approved constitution of ‘Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC)’ at Zonal/StateAlevel consisting of both Central Tax and State Tax officers, representatives of trade and industry and other GST stakeholders.

The Committee will examine and resolve all issues being faced by the taxpayers, including procedural difficulties and IT-related issues pertaining to GST.

It also can refer any issue requiring a change in Act/rules/notification/ form/circular/instruction to the GST Council Secretariat and the relevant Policy Wing of the CBIC (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Custom). IT-related issues will be referred to GSTN.

Whenever a GST policy related issue is referred by a GRC, the Policy Wing of CBIC would examine the said policy issue, and if required, would make suitable recommendations to process it for placing it before the GST Council for its consideration.

In case, where there are more than one state corresponding to a single Central Tax Zone, the Grievance Redressal Committee will be constituted at state level for each State. Where there are more than one Central Tax Zones in a state, the committee would be constituted at the zonal level.

Each zonal/state level redressal Committee will comprise zonal principal chief commissioner/chief commissioner of Central tax (Co-chair) , chief commissioner/commissioner of state tax (co-chair), representatives of various trade associations (up to 12).

Representatives of prominent associations of tax professionals such as chartered accountants, tax advocates, tax practitioners (up to 4 in number), nodal officer of ITGRC of the Central Tax and Nodal officer of ITGRC of the state tax will also be part of it.

24Jul, 2021

Faking emotions at work does more harm than good

Faking emotions -The idea that someone can fake a positive attitude to elicit real-life benefits – often backfires when used with co-workers, a new study suggests.

Instead, making an effort to actually feel the emotions you display is more productive, according to the research, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

For the findings, the research team analysed two types of emotion regulation that people use at work: surface acting and deep acting.

“Surface acting is faking what you’re displaying to other people. Inside, you may be upset or frustrated, but on the outside, you’re trying your best to be pleasant or positive,” said study researcher Allison Gabriel, Associate Professor at University of Arizona in the US.

“Deep acting is trying to change how you feel inside. When you’re deep acting, you’re actually trying to align how you feel with how you interact with other people,” Gabriel added.

The study surveyed working adults in a wide variety of industries including education, manufacturing, engineering and financial services.

“What we wanted to know is whether people choose to engage in emotion regulation when interacting with their co-workers, why they choose to regulate their emotions if there is no formal rule requiring them to do so, and what benefits, if any, they get out of this effort,” Gabriel said.

According to the researchers, when it comes to regulating emotions with co-workers, four types of people emerged from the study: Nonactors, or those engaging in negligible levels of surface and deep acting; Low actors, or those displaying slightly higher surface and deep acting; Deep actors, or those who exhibited the highest levels of deep acting and low levels of surface acting; and,Regulators, or those who displayed high levels of surface and deep acting.

In each study, nonactors made up the smallest group, with the other three groups being similar in size.

The researchers identified several drivers for engaging in emotion regulation and sorted them into two categories: prosocial and impression management.

Prosocial motives include wanting to be a good co-worker and cultivating positive relationships.

Impression management motives are more strategic and include gaining access to resources or looking good in front of colleagues and supervisors.

The team found that regulators, in particular, were driven by impression management motives, while deep actors were significantly more likely to be motivated by prosocial concerns.

This means that deep actors are choosing to regulate their emotions with co-workers to foster positive work relationships, as opposed to being motivated by gaining access to more resources.

The main takeaway is that deep actors – those who are really trying to be positive with their co-workers – do so for prosocial reasons and reap significant benefits from these efforts, said the study.

Deep actors also reported significantly higher levels of progress on their work goals and trust in their co-workers than the other three groups.

The data also showed that mixing high levels of surface and deep acting resulted in physical and mental strain.

24Jul, 2021

Eat walnuts daily for better gut, heart health

Eat walnuts daily – Walnuts may not just be a tasty snack, they may also promote good-for-your-gut bacteria, say researchers, adding that these ‘good’ bacteria could lead to better heart health.

The study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, suggests walnuts as a part of healthy diet may be a heart- and gut-healthy nut.

Additionally, those changes in gut bacteria were associated with improvements in some risk factors for heart disease.

“Substantial evidence shows that small improvements in diet greatly benefit health. Eating two to three ounces of walnuts a day as part of a healthy diet could be a good way to improve gut health and reduce the risk of heart disease,” said study researcher Kristina Petersen from Penn State University in the US.

According to the researchers, another research has found that changes to the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract — also known as the gut microbiome — may help explain the cardiovascular benefits of walnuts.

For the study, the researchers recruited 42 participants with overweight or obesity who were between the ages of 30 and 65.

Before the study began, participants were placed on an average American diet for two weeks.

After this “run-in” diet, the participants were randomly assigned to one of three study diets, all of which included less saturated fat than the run-in diet.

The diets included one that incorporated whole walnuts, one that included the same amount of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids without walnuts, and one that partially substituted oleic acid (another fatty acid) for the same amount of ALA found in walnuts, without any walnuts.

In all three diets, walnuts or vegetable oils replaced saturated fat, and all participants followed each diet for six weeks with a break between diet periods.

To analyse the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, the researchers collected fecal samples 72 hours before the participants finished the run-in diet and each of the three study diet periods.

“The walnut diet enriched a number of gut bacteria that have been associated with health benefits in the past,” Petersen said.

“One of those is Roseburia, which has been associated with protection of the gut lining. We also saw enrichment in Eubacteria eligens and Butyricicoccus,” Petersen added.

The researchers also found that after the walnut diet, there were significant associations between changes in gut bacteria and risk factors for heart disease.

According to the study, Eubacterium eligens was inversely associated with changes in several different measures of blood pressure, suggesting that greater numbers of Eubacterium eligens was associated with greater reductions in those risk factors.

24Jul, 2021

Disha, Aditya on retaining moral compass while playing killers in ‘Malang’

Malang – In their upcoming release “Malang”, Disha Patani and Aditya Roy Kapur essay characters that are in a quite dark space, with both justifying the act of killing. According to the actors, these are morally tricky characters, and as performers they essay such roles in a non-judgmental manner, emphasising that the film is nothing but a work of fiction.

In the trailer, Aditya’s character says: “Mere liye, jaan lena mera nasha hai (for me, taking lives is an addiction)”.

Disha’s protagonist quips: “Jaan lena mera mazaa hai (taking lives is fun)”.

Disha’s character is otherwise portrayed as someone who loves to live “from one high to another”, soaked in adventure sports, long rides and wild nights out.

Talking about her role, Disha told IANS: “Every individual has her own reality, and every action she takes, she feels, is justified in the situation that she lives. That is what my character is about. For example, there are psychopath killers and, of course, what they are doing is not right! So when the audience watches the film, I do not want them to get inspired by her actions and try them in reality. It is a work of fiction.”

For Aditya, playing such a character is a morally tricky deal. “It is tricky and that is why it is important to understand such a character instead of judging him. In reality, all of us try to rationalise the way we behave, the way we take any action. As an actor, I am trying to give life to a fictional character, so it is important to understand that. I try to understand where they are coming from when they do something instead of judging them as right or wrong,” he explained.

The actor added: “A guy can do something that is wrong in my opinion but not for him as a character, and on screen I am not playing myself but a fictional character written by someone, which came from someone’s imagination. So when I am working on a character, I refrain to make it likable, especially in this case, because he is doing some dubious things in the film.”

Directed by Mohit Suri, “Malang” is set in Goa and the story revolves around four characters. The film also features Anil Kapoor, Kunal Khemu, Amruta Khanvilkar and Shaad Randhawa, and is scheduled to release on Friday.

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