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Sea of Galilee, also known as Lake Tiberias is disappearing at an alarming rate since 2001.

As per the report taken on the water level today, the  lake is currently at -213.42m, -42cm below the lower red line.

Never before did the fall continued to such an lower rate with exception to  Nov. 29, 2001, when it hit -214.87.

Sea of Galilee – Lake Tiberias

The Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) is situated in northeast Israel, near the Golan Heights, in the Jordan Great Rift Valley, the valley caused by the separation of the African and Arabian Plates. The Lake is 21 km in length and is 13 km in width.

At 214 metres (702 ft) below sea level,it is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth and the second-lowest lake in the world after the dead sea.

The water in the sea comes from Jordan River- a main source for filling the lake which flows through it from north to south.

Point of NO Return

The Lower red line, in common terms, is a point of  no return. When any lake goes down this line, it virtually means, the sea of gone and done unless Almighty think otherwise.

This rises serious questions on water supply and people livelihood. In particular, the people of Israel, living around the sea.

In my term, the blame lies with the Israel government who have taken for granted the water from the lake Tiberias by going on to pumping the water for irrigation and other stuff.

They took the risk and now paying the price.

What interested me on the lake is 2 facts?

The one is definitely the walking of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) on the lake.
And the other is the famous prophecy surrounding the lake,  when  Gog and Magog are released, they will pass through the waters and will drink it up.

Are they released???

If you want to keep track of the water level, Visit the link here

September 29th is National Coffee Day. I have been a coffee junkie for so long and this is the first time I am hearing about a National coffee day. So, anyway, coffee day it is. So what should we do on a Coffee Day ?

Well to start coffee is free today at many fast food chains across the country. So just watch out for coffee junkies today, cause they might be a little annoying today.

7-Eleven is offering free coffee from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., and Krispy Kreme is handing out free cups of its house blend.

For a landmark 2008 study, Harvard researchers tracked 130,000 men and women for up to 24 years and found no evidence linking coffee consumption to increased mortality, according to a university website. Even people who drank up to six cups of coffee a day were at no higher risk of death.

In light of the evidence, Harvard researcher Dr. Rob van Dam, an assistant professor in the department of nutrition at the university’s School of Public Health, concluded: “For the general population, the evidence suggest that coffee drinking doesn’t have any serious detrimental health effects.”

Here are some fun facts about coffee:

Man’s technological might has help him to penetrate into all corners of the Earth and into the space.

Man, however, has not left his footprints in some places of the Earth. Through this post, we attempt to tell you the Top 5 places in the Earth that is still Unexplored.

1. Northwest Siberia

Siberia constitutes almost all of Northern Asia, of which western Siberia is covered in ice while eastern and central Siberia consists of mountain ranges. Recently many research expeditions are conducted by scientists and geologists to study its environment and ecology, as most of the population is concentrated in western Siberia.

2. Caves

Deep, winding, dark, slippery and uninhabitable; caves also remain one of the least explored and documented places on earth. Caving is very popular in France, Italy, Australia, UK, United States etc. hence most of the caves currently documented are from Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. However, China which has the highest limestone deposits in the world has very few explored caves. South America, Africa, Antarctica have not been explored to its maximum. The exact number of caves on Earth is still not known. Voronya Cave, Georgia the deepest known cave in the world too has not been completely explored due to its extremely inhospitable environment.

3. Amazon Rainforest

The Amazon rainforest contains 50% of the world’s rainforests. Its biodiversity is extremely vast as it supports numerous types of plant species and over 2,000 birds and mammals. Its climate and surroundings have invoked the interests of many large expeditions for explorations; however, its habitat has impeded thorough exploration of this region. About 2.5 million insect species and 438,000 species of plants have been officially documented with many left to be discovered.

4. Antartica

No one knows what exactly lies beneath the icy terrain of Antarctica, with ice sheets 2 miles thick, it is also the coldest place on earth. Scientists believe there is a network of rivers, streams and stony land makes up its geography. Recently, the discovery of sub-glacial lakes has opened a new chapter in Antarctica’s exploration. There are possibilities of these lakes harboring life forms which can be studied thus providing useful answers to scientists about life in outer space. The ocean floor below the Antarctic has not yet been explored.

5. Marina Trench

The deepest and darkest place in the ocean is the 35,800 feet deep Mariana Trench which is one of the least explored places on earth.  Due to its depth and pressure of up to 1,000 atmospheres, the deep is completely hostile to humans. Even though scientific development has increased man’s knowledge about deep sea life with discovery of many new varieties of deep-sea creatures on the ocean floor only 2% of the ocean floor has been explored, leaving a lot more to be discovered. A study of the deep-ocean life will help scientists to understand deep-sea creatures’ unique living patterns in harsh ocean conditions.

Pregnant women who eat low-fat yoghurt can increase the risk of their child developing asthma and hay fever, a study says.

The Researchers who analyzed the diets of more than 70,000 Danish women and their children aged until  seven suggested this could be due to an absence of protective fatty acids in yoghurt

Pregnant women who ate low-fat yoghurt with fruit once a day were found to be 1.6 times more likely to have children who developed asthma by age seven, compared with children of women who did not eat low-fat yoghurt.

The study also found that the children of these women were more likely to have allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and current asthma symptoms.

But the results showed that milk intake during pregnancy was not linked to any increased risk of asthma.

In fact, milk was shown to protect against asthma development.

Ekaterina Maslova, lead study author form the Harvard School of Public Health, who worked with the data at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, said: “It is a puzzling finding. The absence of fatty acids in low-fat yoghurt may be key to the results.

“The results suggest that fatty acids play an important role or it could be that people who ate this kind of yoghurt had similar lifestyle and dietary patterns, but we cannot make any conclusions at this stage.

“We need to replicate these results in other studies first.”

Leanne Metcalf, director of research at Asthma UK, said there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the pre-natal environment can influence a child’s health.

“However, the impact of a pregnant woman’s diet on her child’s health continues to be debated, as it is difficult to assess how particular aspects of a woman’s diet during pregnancy are linked to the risk of developing asthma and allergies.

“Eating a healthy, balanced diet at any time, but especially during pregnancy is advisable and we would recommend that pregnant women discuss any drastic changes to their diet with their GP first.”

Year 2012  has begin! And its that time of year we search for a new calendar lol.

To make it a ease for you, i have searched myself for a calendar and found it folks.

You can download the printable calendar from below

2012 Calendar Vertical:

2012 Calendar Horizontal:

2012 Calendar with US Holidays:

Apple Juice will kill your kid, says Dr. OZ.   According to Doctoroz website, Dr Oz’s finds  various apple juices contained higher levels of arsenic than the safe drinking water limit as determined by the EPA.

As reported via Dr OZ website, The Dr. Oz Show tested three dozen samples from five different brands of apple juice across three different American cities, and compared the levels of arsenic to the standard for water.

Of these, 10 samples came back higher than the arsenic limit allowed in drinking water.

Note: Lab results standard deviation is +/- 20%

Minute Maid Apple Juice

• Lowest Sample for Arsenic: 2 parts per billion
• Highest Sample for Arsenic: 3 parts per billion

Apple and Eve Apple Juice

• Lowest Sample for Arsenic: 3 parts per billion
• Highest Sample for Arsenic: 11 parts per billion

Mott’s

• Lowest Sample for Arsenic: 4 parts per billion
• Highest Sample for Arsenic: 16 parts per billion

Juicy Juice

• Lowest Sample for Arsenic: 2 parts per billion
• Highest Sample for Arsenic: 22 parts per billion

Gerber

• Lowest Sample for Arsenic: 3 parts per billion
• Highest Sample for Arsenic: 36 parts per billion

In the end, Dr Oz blames Minute Maid Apple Juice, Apple and Eve Apple Juice, Mott’s, Juicy Juice, and Gerber on his show earlier this week, undoubtedly striking fear into the hearts of stay-at-home moms across the country.

However, the FDA cautions consumers to take the juice claims with a grain of salt. In a statement, the regulatory body explained that Dr. Oz did not account for the fact that the difference between inorganic and organic arsenic makes a huge difference as far as dying a sudden death is concerned:

“…you can’t compare water and juice for several critical reasons. They include the fact that inorganic arsenic is the form found in drinking water, whereas organic arsenic is the form mostly found in food, including juices.

FDA will continue to test juices and juice concentrate and evaluate data provided by industry, consumer groups and government agencies, as well as data published in scientific literature. If the agency finds too much inorganic arsenic in any juice, it will take steps to remove that product from the market…”

The trade association for juice makers added:

“The results of tests for arsenic in apple juice that were shared by the Dr. Oz show with the Juice Products Association should not be interpreted as fact. Subsequent testing of the same lots of juice from two of the named brands, using an appropriate method for testing arsenic levels in juice, found significantly lower levels of arsenic, all well under any FDA level of concern.”

We would recommend you to visit Dr. Oz website to know more about his experiment and his claims

Fire Burn has always been a general concern for us. Right from woman cooking to the people working with fire generating devices, everybody gets a fire burn when they accidentally touch the stove or a hot burner getting a burn in a hand or legs.

In the end, the fire burn has touched everyone’s life one day or the other.

Sitting in office, i received an email from my peer on how to treat a minor fire burn? The Email contained information of  Egg Whites helping out in reducing the impacts of fire burn.

Confused with the solution as the topic was new to me, i investigated on the possibility of Egg whites healing a fire burn.

Surprisingly, i came across various articles online and also from ehow on the same notes of treating a minor fire burn.

As a journo myself,  i am giving out the instructions below to you folks on how to treat a minor fire burn.

However, the Egg white treatment should not be attempted with major burns. Spraying cool water on major burns is strictly infectious to health and it might cause you a state of shock, warns doctors.

Steps to treat a minor fire burn

• Make a paste of equal parts baking soda and water. For example, mix 1 tablespoon baking soda and 1 cold tablespoon water. Put it in a plastic container or bowl and mix together. Apply it gently to minor burns and cover it for about 10 minutes. Rinse the paste off with cool water and cover the wound with gauze or bandage. Wear protective clothing afterward to avoid exposing the burn to the sun.

• Run cool water over the burn for several minutes. Treat the burn with aloe vera or another cooling spray. Aloe vera is soothing and healing to burns. Take Tylenol or aspirin to relive the pain of sunburn or burns. Cover the wound with gauze or bandage loosely.

• Crack an egg and separate the yolk from the egg whites. Put the egg whites into separate containers. Using a soft cloth or paper towel apply the egg white directly to the burn. When it dries, reapply it again. Do not rinse it off, but gently rub off the egg white. Cover the burn loosely with a bandage.

• Cut a tomato into wedges or slices. Rub the tomato over the burn. The acid from the tomato will soothe the burning and prevent blistering.

• Run cold water over the burn for several minutes. Do not apply ice, as it can damage the skin. Apply Vitamin E or any antibacterial cream designed for treating burns. Often called triple antibacterial ointment, these cremes are soothing and heal burns effectively.

If you encountered any burns, We would recommend you to do the First aid and see the doctor right away. As burns no-matter minor or major  is a burn in the end.