Looking Around Me

10 CURIOSITIES OF THAILAND

2017-08-16T17:02:00.000+02:00

1- Until 1939, Thailand was called Siam; the kingdom of Siam with an absolutist monarchy.
Now they have a constitutional monarchy and it is starting to be call Prathet Thai , which means ("Earth of the Thai"), official name of the country since 1949.
2- Thailand is the only country in Southern Asia that has not been colonized ,and all Thais are very proud of it , and therefore of its monarchy.
3- It is not tolerated the lack of respect for the royal family or its image, It is punished from 3 to 15 years in prison.
4- The anthem of Thailand is played in the parks every afternoon at 6 pm, and everyone stays static until it ends.
5- During World War II and after the Japanese attack, Thailand declared war to Britain and the US.
6- The real name of the city is not Bangkok, in Thai it means something like the city of angels.
7- Foreigners are call Farang.
8- Thais are very modest and value respect.It is not considered appropiate to express affection in public. Beware of touching people's beads, it is a condemnable gesture in Asia . It is the sacred part of the body ,while the foot the most dirty and despicable .When you visit temples,women should not wear sleeveless blouses or dresses, and skirts above the knee. Men should wear long or short pants below the knee . And if you enter a Thai house , you should take off your shoes and leave them at the floor.
9- You will not see any Thai woman at the beach getting suntanned ,they like white skin .
10- They are rice and spicy lovers. If you don't like this, don't forget to ask your dish "not spicy" or " not hot"

The Cutlery You Use

2013-12-08T16:29:00.003+01:00

Different kinds of yogurt seem to be denser, and also more expensive, if they are tasted using with a light plastic spoon than if we use a heavier spoon.
The size of the cutlery, the experiments revealed that the smaller is the spoon in which we take a more sweet yogurt it us turns out to be his content, something that the authors attribute to our previous expectations, since normally we take with small spoon the desserts and with big spoon the soups and the pottages.
If they give us to prove a chunk of cheese using a knife we perceive that his flavor is saltier and intense that if we use a spoon or a fork , or if we puncture the food with a simple toothpick of wood.

Thomas Alva Edison,the inventor of the bulb.

2013-12-08T16:08:00.000+01:00

Though it seems to be incredible, the most prolific inventor of the history, creator of devices as the bulb, the phonograph and the projector of movies, only he could go to the school for three months. Native of Milan (Ohio), the young Thomas Alva Edison had to put to sell newspapers at the age of 12 years to contribute to the precarious familiar economy. He dedicated his free time to experimenting with mechanical and electrical devices.

Scholarship holder with a course of telegraphy for having saved the life to the son of a chief of station, developed in 1863 his first invention - a telegraphic simplified equipment-, while it was employed of telegrapher at the railroad. He lost his employment for inflaming a coach during an experiment, but Edison did not give up himself and with the money that won selling telegraphic devices it mounted his own laboratory.

In 1879 it achieves the incandescent lamp.

There is food that wake us up and meal that relax us

2013-12-08T15:31:00.000+01:00

The proteins of the eggs, the meat or the fish contribute to give tirosina of the brain, amino acid increases the production of the neurotransmitters that support the alert, concentrated and productive mind (dopamine and noradrenalina). When they fall the levels of tirosina we suffer apathy and lack of motivation.
If the proteins manage to raise us and accelerate the thought, the easing is in the habit of coming from the hand of the carbohydrates (potatoes, pasta, rice, honey, bananas, dried fruits, little doves ...). This food induces the liberation of insulin, which exercises an effect. The triptophan is the raw material that the brain uses to produce serotonine, the neurotransmitter of the well-being, which in addition reduces the pain and the appetite and helps to harmonize the dream. It yes, it is necessary to bear in mind that, if in the plate carbohydrates are mixed by proteins, the tranquilizing effect of the first ones annuls.

The five most common mistakes of the diets

2013-12-05T09:30:00.000+01:00

What we must not do when we try to obtain our ideal weight.:

1- To reduce of radical form the caloric ingestion and of certain food. The result is a deficit supply, which if it follows of long form transports nutritional lacks.
2- The diets are prescribed for a concrete person, his needs, form of life and though they have given result to your neighbor they cannot be beneficial for you.
3- To lose five kilos in one week. A guideline of supply adapted together with the increase of the physical activity, it must allow to lose between half a kilo and a maximum of 1 kilo per week. If the diet promises results that should overcome this number, it is necessary to distrust.
4- Not to have dinner or to sup only fruit. To sup on only fruit can carry an excess of sugar just before going away to sleep. The key is in a light dinner since it can be an ommelet of onion poached with little oil, accompanied of artichoke to the plate, and a track of wholemeal bread and a piece of
fruit. That is to say, a dinner that contains all the groups of food.
5- Not to do physical activity. It is not necessary to become mad with the gymnasium, but to go out to run, to walk to light step or to raise stairs bring big benefits if they are done in a daily way.

The interest for the sport depends on the size of the brain

2013-12-04T10:02:00.000+01:00

You are or not an athletic and sports person might be tied to the size of your brain.
To analyze the brain of rodents raised during generations to select those " lovers of the exercise ", they observed that his average brain had a size 13 % more of the normal. In this zone of the brain there reside the centers of motive, auditory and visual control of the systems. In addition, it is essential for the learning with reward and the motivation.
It is possible that the individual differences in the predisposition towards the exercise could be related to the size of the average, and enclosed brain that the volume of this zone could inherit from parents to children.

They are more inclined to show trends psychopaths

2013-12-03T10:45:00.000+01:00

The persons who remain awake until high hours of the dawn are more blased to develop antisocial features of the personality, including trends psychopaths.
Analyzing the behavior of subjects that tend to get up early and it comparing with that of the "persons - owls", it observed that the second ones tend to show the so called " Dark Triad " of the personality, that is to say, psychopaty, Machiavellism and narcissism.
The relation between , the bosses of dream and wake - and these features of personality it has an evolutionary explanation, since what the persons need psychopaths or with trend to act with few ethics, it is to act when the risk of being detected is minor, that is to say, when the majority of the persons sleep and the light is scanty.

To yawn serves to cool the head

2013-12-02T10:33:00.000+01:00

To yawnis not only an indicator of fatigue or boredom. In fact, the frequency with which we yawn changes according to the station of the year, and that the persons yawn less when the heat outdoors is major that the corporal temperature, which would have justification if the yawn serves in order that the brain regulates his temperature.
The scientists verified that we are more inclined to yawn in winter, in comparison with the summer, when the temperature sets it is equal or superior to the corporal temperature. The high external temperatures do not provide any relief for the warmed brain, whereas when it makes a yawn colder it serves in order that between fresh air and it gets down the temperature of our head.
When we yawn, the stretching of the jaw increases the flow of blood to the brain, and the inhalation of air colder that the organism allows the heat exchange with the environment. " It is a thermal window ", to yawn when it is hot in the exterior might be counter-productive.

Spanish eat the half of the bread recommended in a balanced diet

2013-12-01T12:09:00.001+01:00

Spanish consume approximately 100 grams of bread a day, which supposes less than the half of the recommended for the specialists in nutrition to support a balanced diet.
The experts recommend to eat between 200 and 250 grams of bread a day for person, since it is an important source of carbohydrates, fiber, proteins, vitamins of the group B and mineral, essential for the health.
The old people about 65 years are the Spanish who more bread consume (51,44 kilos a year) and that less, the 35-year-old (20,82 kilos a year). The population does not activate eats more bread than activates (41,63 kilos a year opposite to 29,29 kilos).

Bored

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They have demonstrated that to be always busy, especially during the infancy, it prevents from developing the imagination.
If we don't do anything is good for the brain.
Apparently of this form a network is activated, this network is the one that makes us dream awake, is busy with connecting experiences and lessons learned in the past with future plans, creates stories on our own life chaining the recollections and it gives wings to the imagination. Between 60 and 80 % of the energy of the brain it devotes itself to support "only" the connection between neurons.

If we yawn spontaneously it is not for boredom, not neither because of the hunger.
The most probable thing is that we have the too warm "brain", since to biological level the yawn is a mechanism that serves to cool the brain.

Beer Frozen in Only 45 Seconds

2013-11-10T14:45:00.001+01:00

Conceived to cool drinks in only 45 seconds, the original idea belongs to a British company.
The revolution of the system is double. On one hand, to user's level, the invention solves a classic problem in the homes, when the drink is warm and they fit two options: to hope patiently that it cools in the fridge or to introduce it in the freezer, an action which result, inadvertently, sometimes ends in explosion.

Commercial agreements are formalized by manufacturers of domestic appliances and distributors of drinks in order that the technology could be applied of massive form on the European market.
The engineers have applied a new improvement, which consists of a robotic designed arm in order that Rapid Cool could distribute of automatic form tins or bottles to the clients. Predictably, they will be the Dutch consumers the first ones in proving the ingenuity, from October.

In addition, already one is employed at an alternative model of the invention, at this portable case, at this case in order that it comes to homes, bars, restaurants and offices. At the moment, Rapid Cool can cool from tins of 150 ml up to bottles of wine of 750 ml, and the engineers also have appeared that the system could join in the fridge of the whole life as a special module.

Early Rising Persons

2013-11-06T07:30:00.000+01:00

The persons who wake up of natural form when the sun goes out , even without a coffee every morning are happier and they feel more satisfied with their lives.

Those who tend to go to bed and to wake up early sleep better, feel more alert during the day and have the strongest immune system.
The persons who tend to go to bed later suffer social jet lag , that is to say, that his biological clock is not synchronized with the " social clock ", the schedule or the agenda that imposes the modern life.

Spray Caffeine

2013-11-05T06:30:00.000+01:00

He is called Sprayable Energy and is an alternative to the classic way of taking coffee to sips .
It allows to administer caffeine to our body directly across the skin. It is applied in the neck, and four jets supply the effect equivalent to a cup of coffee. It has neither smell nor color, for what his application spends unnoticed to those who surround us, and is not incompatible with the use of perfumes.

Sprayable Energy allows that to obtain an instantaneous impulse of energy should be simpler and more efficient, for example to help ourselves to being more productive in the office .
It have put to the sale the flask with 40 doses at the cost of 15 dollars.

This food lengthens life

2013-10-29T17:10:00.002+01:00

This food lengthens the life up to twelve per cent.
The polyphenols that the apple contains have the aptitude to lengthen the life expectancy, but also of preserving own skills of the "youth" in spite of the aging. The antirust ones that this fruit contains slow down the deterioration that it characterizes to the old age, in such a way that the insects that consume it in his diet preserve during more time his skill at the moment of walking, climbing and to move across.

Also the oil of fish ,rich in omega 3 can make us live two more years of the habitual thing.

Beach's Sand

2013-10-28T18:23:00.000+01:00

Beach's sand is an important source of bacteria and virus, but if you wash the hands after touching it the exhibition diminishes to microbes that cause gastrointestinal diseases. Concretely the bacterium that more is transmitted in the beach is the Escherichia coli.

Without the hands be cleaning, especially before eating, 11 of every 1000 persons who come to the beach and stain his hands of sand can fall ill. Curiously the concentration of the bacterium E. coli is great more raised in the sand that in the water of the sea.

Fruits and vegetables to be happy and mental well-being

2013-10-27T15:05:00.003+01:00

People who consume 7 portions of fruits and vegetable a day are happier and enjoy major mental health that the rest of the population.

Though most of the experts recommend to incorporate five fruits or fresh vegetables in the daily diet to guarantee the cardiovascular health and to protect us from the cancer, the mental well-being needs a dose a bit more raised of this food.

Fish is served with lemon

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The fish is served with a few tracks of lemon at first to give him taste, but in occasions some restaurants are in the habit of using also citric this one to mask with him the evil flavor of a fish that is not very fresh.

It seems to be that the tradition of accompanying it on lemon , owes to that existed a time about which there was thought that the juice was capable of dissolving the thorns that accidental were going in the throat.

Snacks Against Infantile Obesity

2013-10-21T18:52:00.000+02:00

Children need to eat to grow up . Although, many parents are surprised or alarmed that their children are always hungry, it is perfectly normal. The key to correctly satisfaying children's appetite without spoiling their health is in choosing nice menus and in teaching them to eat. This is a lesson of great usefulness that will keep children healthy for their adult lives.

Thanks to a correct supply from early ages they can attack diseases and increase the life expectancy, since the children with overweight are more inclined to develop in a future pathologies related to the obesity, as the diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, degenerative osteoarthritis and enclosed cancer. It is in the school period when there must be consolidated the food healthy habits, and it is a responsibility both of the parents and colleges to educate them , so a child who has seen his parents to eat of balanced form will support these acquired customs when it is major.

The trend of a bad supply joined the sedentary lifestyle (main reason of the obesity), we possess not only the physical exercise but also the functional food, which are those that have a beneficial effect on the health.

Apple and mandarin: a very effective alliance.
The antirust properties of the apple , joined the citrus fruits , they create the perfect snack.
This healthy 'snack' of apple and mandarin even presents this creaking texture to which we are accustomed in the appetizers thanks to the elimination of the water by means of the dehydration of the apple's slices , technology that in addition concentrates the nutrients.

The Perfect Snack

2013-10-16T22:18:00.003+02:00

A bunch of popcorn contains more antirust than we imagine , concretely, his concentration in polyphenols overcomes those of the fruits and vegetables, among other things popcorn contain only 4 % of water, whereas in the these antirust vegetables they are diluted in 90 % of liquid.
According to his calculations, a bunch of popcorn . contains 300 milligrams of polyphenols, in comparison with 160 milligrams of a share of fruit. In addition, the "rind" of popcorn has a high concentration of fiber.

They are the perfect snack, they are entire grains, an ingredient of the diet that the nutritionists recommend to eat daily. Cooking them is better to use little oil and to use the natural maize, instead of " the packages of popcorn prepared to cook in microwaves, which contain too many fat, concretely 43 % . Popcorn can replace neither to the fruit nor to the vegetable in a balanced diet, since they lack vitamins and other essential nutrients.

This helps you to remember

2013-10-16T19:39:00.003+02:00

To persist and to press strongly the right hand during an event or while we try to learn something new it helps that is recorded by more force in the memory. On the contrary, to press the left hand is very useful to remember what we have already in our memory.

Some very simple corporal movements can change the way of working the brain.

Scribbling helps you think

2013-10-15T22:53:00.002+02:00

To fill a paper with scrawls is not a waste of time or a distraction. On the contrary, it aids mental concentration and stimulates memory. Investigators subjected 40 persons to a series of experiments in which they were listening to a phone call during two minutes and a half and, later, they had to remember names and places mentioned in the same one. The half of the volunteers they were doing in a leaf of paper while they were remaining to the telephone. Another half was left to his free will.

All the volunteers had to write eight names and eight places mentioned in the message. Those who had done scrawls in paper remembered an average of 7,5 whereas those that they did not draw succeeded 5,8. " In the daily life to do scrawls can be a way of supporting the attention in a boring task and avoiding an unnecessary distraction ".

Five things that you can do to be kept eternally young

2013-10-14T16:58:00.001+02:00

Be happy.
This condition not only prolongs the life of the persons but in addition it prevents them from contracting diseases. The chronic unhappiness causes stress, which in turn reduces the capacity of response of the immune system when something attacks us. The unhappy persons are less inclined to adopt a healthy way of life.

Mediterranean diet.
The major persons with a fragile health tend to have less diversity of microbes than that are kept healthy to the same age. And that exists a direct relation between what we eat, the bacteria that integrate the microbioma, the health and how we age. In the Mediterranean diet there abound, especially, the olive oil, the dried fruits and the vegetables and fresh fruits.

Study.
When we acquire skills and new knowledge the factor takes place in our brain who promotes the
growth of the connections (sinapsis) that allow the communication between neurons, supporting the brain in full form. Especially if we learn languages. The appearance of the alzheimer is late in
bilingual and multilingual persons.

Visit your doctor.
That the Nipponeses go to the doctor 13,4 times a year and the Britishers 5 it might explain the major longevity of the first ones.

Chase the success.
The winners of Olympian medals live for average term 2,8 years more than his companions,
independently of if the metal that they hang of the neck is gold, silver or bronze. The most active and bold individuals, who feel motivated to taking part in all kinds of physical and social activities, between them sports of risk, have a variant of the gene of the recipient of the dopamine - the hormone of the pleasure - that is in the habit of making come to them to nonagenarians.

Why is it advisable to practice yoga while you study?

2013-10-14T12:51:00.001+02:00

These exercises increase the capacity that the brain has to support concentration, learn new information, retain it and apply it.

They tested the cognitive effects of the hatha-yoga, the style of active yoga most practised in west and based on sequences of positions that work the whole body. This modality includes contractions and isometric easings of different muscles, as well as controlled breathings. In comparison with other ways of aerobic intense exercise, since of running during the same period of time before solving a test of memory and learning, the yoga achieved a cognitive very much major performance.

The hatha yoga contributes to the muscles firmness and elasticity.

Why when someone sneezes do we say Jesus?

2013-10-13T21:31:00.000+02:00

The Egyptians and the Greeks believed that the sneezes were a divine warning. They were considered to be good if they were in the evening, bad if they were taking place in the mornings, and it was a terrible sign if someone was sneezing on having got up of the bed or of the table. Nothing good could augur to those who were sneezing for the left side, whereas to do it for the right it was considered to be favorable. The Greeks were in the habit of saying " live! " And " that Jupiter you preserves! " To those who were sneezing. Romans were exclaiming " save! "

The first Christians changed Jupiter - the pagan god-, for the Christian, saying " Jesus! ". On the other hand, a continued sneeze announces generally the beginning of a disease.

Beer against the osteoporosis

2013-10-13T20:09:00.001+02:00

The beer is a source of silicon, a mineral involved in the formation of bone and cartilage, for what his moderate consumption might avoid the appearance of osteoporosis, a progressive decrease of the bony mass that does that the bones become fragile as the crystal and inclined to suffer fractures.
The most beneficial are those who contain hop and milk of malt.

The beer contributes carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins. These chemical compounds are similar to the human oestrogens, feminine hormones which levels descend when the menopause comes in the woman, which increases the risk of suffering osteoporosis.

According to the experts, the moderate consumption of this drink (a tin for the not pregnant women
and two for the men at the maximum a day) is good in a healthy diet, since it has been demonstrated that also it reduces the cardiovascular events and the possibility of suffering infections, on having promoted the immune system.