Some Don’ts after meals

                                    Some Don’t s after meals

•     No tea immediately after meals. Tea leaves, acidic in nature when mixed with proteins in the food make the proteins, and the digestion hard.
• No cold water because after taking meals, our body temperature is high, and when the stomach is digesting the food, the intake of cold water destroys the heat needed for digestion. To quench the thirst if the need be, little luke warm water can be taken in between or after the meals.
• For the same reason, immediate bath after meals is not advised.
• Immediate sleep is not good after dinner. Two to three hours gap is recommended. But a little nap sometime after the meals in daytime is considered to be good.
• No fresh fruit immediately after meals, as they produce gas in the stomach. If there occurs a necessity, you can chew little cardamom or fennel seeds.
• Smoking immediately after taking food is ten times harmful to health .

Soft drinks as cleaning agents

                                  Soft drinks as cleaning agents



         Generally people use soft drinks like Coke, Pepsi, Spirite for refreshment. Many may not be aware of the fact that they are good cleaning agents also.

•     It can be used as a toilet cleaner . Either put a little of it directly or sray through a spray bottle. All stains will vanish.
• It is a good remover of stains. Greased pots and utensils if kept with little water in them over mild heat on the gas-stove , then washed will give off their stickiness.
• To remove the stains of paint from furnitures, dab of a cloth dipped in Coke will do the needful. Then the spots should be cleaned with a cloth of soap water to erase the stickiness of the drink.
• Oily stains on the slabs can also be removed.
• Nut -bolts when hardened become loose , after being soaked in a few drops the soft drink, and washed with water.
• It can be used used to remove the chewing gum stuck on the hair.
• Frost set on the windshield can be removed with this.
• Application of a few drops of It on the body part stung by insects, and bee will give relief from pain.