SAFFRON HELPS FIGHT BLINDNESS

Saffron may help prevent loss of sight in old age and even improve vision in people suffering certain blinding eye diseases.

Research has established that saffron has remarkable effects on the genes which regulate the performance of the eye's key vision cells. It may also act to slow and possibly even reverse age-related muscular degeneration. "It appears to affect genes which regulate the fatty acid content of the cell membrane, and this makes the vision cells tougher and more resilient. Secondly they have shown in animal models that a saffron diet will protect the eye from the damaging effects of bright light -- something we all suffer whenever we go out in the sun," said an expert.

Have walnuts to control diabetes

INCLUDING walnuts in your daily diet can help keep type-2 diabetes under control, finds a new study.

The study was conducted by a team handed by Linda Tapsell, professor at the Smart Foods Centre ( SFC ), University of Wollongong.

" The study shows that including key foods in the diet that deliver the right type of fat --- in this case walnuts --- is very important," said Tapsell.

Fifty overweight adults with non-insulin treated diabetes followed a well balanced low fat diet with the SFC for a year.

Researchers found the group that were given 30 grams of walnuts a day had more of the good fats in their diets than those who followed a low fat diet alone. tapsell said that both groups had low intakes of saturated fats, but the walnut group had more unsaturated fats. The effects were seen in the first three months.

"As whole foods, the walnuts also delivered fibre vitamin E. The walnut group also showed improvements in insulin levels and this may have been due to the presence of good fats in the diet," Tapsell said.

The findings were published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Very Important Information Date of floods in Mumbai

Dear Friends,


A valuable input from BMC is being circulated for your information.

Floods - 2009 : Mumbai



Floods in Mumbai are attributable to simultaneous occurrence of rainfall and high tides. If, the rainfall is in excess of 200 mm in a day (24 hrs), floods can occur anytime irrespective of tides. However, if there is moderate rainfall but the tide is in excess of 4.50 meters at the same time, the city of Mumbai is sure to get flooded.

Accordingly, heavy floods are anticipated on the following days in Mumbai, if there is excessive rainfall at the time of high tides, since the tides are extremely high on these days: -

Date.............Day...........Time........Height of Tide (Meters)

24 June 2009/ Wednesday /1:41 PM /4.95

25 June 2009 /Thursday /2:24 PM / 4.97

23 July 2009 /Thursday /1:23 PM / 5.01

24 July 2009 / Friday / 2:03 PM / 5.05

25 July 2009 / Saturday /2:43 PM /4.94



BMC has already planned to keep the schools closed on 24 July 2009 since the tide level is record high of last 100 years on this day.

Mumbaikars are, therefore, requested to cooperate with the administration by restricting their movements and certainly not to take their vehicles out on the roads these days.

There are speculations about very high waves on 22 July 2009 due to solar eclipse.
Public should, therefore, keep away from the beaches that day.

Also, please advise your friends and relatives outside Mumbai not to plan a trip to Mumbai around these days



From,

Nizar

FOUR IMPORTANT USES WITH A MOBILE PHONE

Very Useful..try to remember them....



4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW

YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO



There are a few things that can be

done in times of grave emergencies.

Your mobile phone can actually be a

life saver or an emergency tool for survival.

Check out the things that you can do with it:



FIRST


The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112.

If you find yourself out of the coverage area of

your mobile; network and there is an emergency,

dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing

network to establish the emergency number for you,

and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled

even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.



SECOND


Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote keyless entry?

This may come in handy someday.

Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your

keys in the car and the spare keys are at home,

call someone at home on their mobile phone

from your cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from

your car door and have the person

at your home press the unlock button,

holding it near the mobile phone on their end.

Your car will unlock.

Saves someone from having to

drive your keys to you.

Distance is no object..

You could be hundreds of miles away,

and if you can reach someone who has

the other 'remote' for your car, you can

unlock the doors (or the trunk).


Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and
it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'



THIRD



Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your mobile battery is very low.

To activate, press the keys *3370#

Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the

instrument will show a 50% increase in battery.

This reserve will get charged when

you charge your mobile next time.



FOURTH



How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number,

key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #

A 15 digit code will appear on the screen.

This number is unique to your handset.

Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.

When your phone get stolen, you can phone

your service provider and give them this code.

They will then be able to block your handset

so even if the thief changes the SIM card,

your phone will be totally useless.

You probably won't get your phone back,

but at least you know that whoever stole it

can't use/sell it either.

If everybody does this, there would be

no point in people stealing mobile phones.

ATM - PIN Number Reversal - Good to Know

If you should ever be forced by a robber to

withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can

notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse.

For example, if your pin number is 1234,

then you would put in 4321.

The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is

backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine.

The machine will still give you the money you requested,

but unknown to the robber, the police will be

immediately dispatched to the location.



This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers
however it is seldom used because people just don't know about