Srinagar, August 04:

Hurriyat Conference (G) Chairman Syed Ali Gee-lani Sunday termed the government’s move to ex-tend lease agreement of three thousand kanals of land in Toasmaidan area in Budgam to army unac-ceptable. In a statement Geelani said that entire popula-tion of the area was fac-ing problems and chal-lenges due to presence of the army and its artillery “This has badly affected the economy and social life and caused a heavy loss to precious human

lives. The land was leased to army for 50 years in 1964 and period expires March next year. However, the administration while ig-noring the problems faced by locals insists for exten-sion in lease agreement,” he said.“Usually the forces use its artillery during the drill and during this process some of the live shells re-main unexploded which in future prove detrimental for Bakerwals (shepherds) and their live stock,” he added. While quoting the woes of locals, Geelani said that people living there and ad-

joining areas are poor and belong to economically weaker sections and pres-ence of Army and their continuous movement had added to their agonies and difficulties. “If the area of 3000 kanals is vacated, nat-ural scenery beauty of the area may become a tourist resort and in turn improve the economy of locals. The area is rich and famous for its herbal plants and there is every possibility for pro-motion of industry related to medicine,” he said. The Hurriyat (G) chair-man said that Shup Nag in upper reaches of the

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Srinagar, August 04: It is not the question of non inclusion of young Parvez Rasool in the playing XI of 5th and final one day squad against Zim-babwe, but it is the question of be-trayal and disrespect shown to over a crore of Kashmiris by BCCI known for its notoriety in the selection of the teams over the years. The board engulfed with charges of corruption, allegations of fraudulent dealings, regional bias and blamed for its dubi-ous way of selections has once again proved its critics correct. It seems as if the earlier allegations were not enough, the Board once again exhib-ited its discriminatory policies and favoritism by excluding only one player out of 15 member squad from playing even a single match, though the team had already taken an unas-sailable lead of 4-0 over Zimbabwe. The only player who was not given a chance against the minos like Zimba-bwe, was Parvez Rasool, first player from Kashmir and the only Muslim in the team. Not only this he belongs to a state which has never been rep-resented in International arena and his selection to the national team was given so much media hype and politi-cal colour that even Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh congratulated

him. But who knew all of this was nothing but betrayal, cheating and discouraging a young talent who was taken to Zimbabwe to be demoralize and cheated by BCCI, its selection committee and the Captain of the team. Why was it done to a budding player, why was he selected at all if he was not to be play and why was he alone left high and dry chewing his nails on the benches and watching others wearing Blue Jersey? These are the questions which are haunt-ing the minds of every Kashmiri particularly the youth. When out of form Sorav Ganguli was left out of Indian Team, every Bengali on earth irrespective of his position stood by him and from a street vender to a Union Cabinet Minister, every Ben-gali was up in arms unless he was re-called. The then Lok Sabha Speaker Soam Nath Chatterji leaving aside his constitutional status expressed his anguish in Lok Sabha and casti-gated the BCCI selection committee for non inclusion of Sorav Ganguli in the team. The west Bengal was on war path with BCCI and it was the public outcry which got Sorav back to the team despite his poor form. Will our politicians, leaders and the general public follow the suit is a separate question but it is certain that this blunder has spread hatred

among the youngsters and sown the seeds of mistrust among them as BCCI has played a worst villain of National interest in this border state which is already facing winds of fun-damentalism and separatism. The

youth of Kashmir feels dejected, dis-appointed and cheated. The emotions of Kashmirs were expressed even by the Chief Minister Omar Abdul-lah who is a staunch cricket lover. The similar sentiments were uttered by MoS Sheshi Tharur who also felt

that Parvez Rasool should have been given a chance to play and prove his worth. However, that was not done and the young talented and demoral-ized cricketer may or may not come out of this shock but it is certain that this treatment meted to Parvez will definitely affect his future per-formance as he will always feel un-der pressure to perform. Keeping in view his outstanding performance in Ranji Trophy it should have been a smooth sailing for him but alas that it could be! The Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association has also felt let down as the selection of Parvez was seen as one of its achievement after this association was also facing a lot of trouble due to alleged embezzle-ments and mismanagement. It may be recalled here that Parvez Rasool shot to fame in the last Ranji Trophy season scoring around 600 runs with two centuries and taking 33 wickets. This performance was enough proof of his enormous talent which could have been tapped for the better of the country, keeping in view 2015 cricket world cup for which every cricket playing country is in the process of rebuilding their teams and continu-ing with the hunt for new talent. Last year Parvez again hit headlines when he bagged a haul of 7 wickets for a mi-serly 45 runs and made the highest

score of 36 runs for Board President XI against formidable Australian Team in Chennai. A pall of gloom de-scended in Bijbehara Anantnag the native place of Parvez Rasool after his non inclusion. Expressing his dis-may a friend of Parvez, Mohammad Yousuf of Bijbehara termed the news of non-inclusion as a shock and dis-appointment. He said till the toss for the fifth and final match every body of us glued to TV screens expecting Parvez’s name to be announced, but felt let down when two new faces were announced and he was again left to warm up the benches. A local cricketer Khalid Hussain Khan said that Eid celebrations would have got an added flavor, had he been includ-ed in playing XI. The father of Parvez ,Gh. Rasool Zargar however has not lost hope and expressed his full con-fidence in his son saying his talent will pay him one day or the other. But his aunt said that many people wept when he was left out. Happiness of Eid of many Kashmiris got damp-ened by the decision of the BCCI se-lection committee on tour and the Indian Captain who exhibited no re-spect for the feelings of over a crore of cricket crazy Kashmiris. Parvez may perhaps get a chance, he may come out of this situation, he may rise to

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Vested interests bent upon to polarise the society: Omar

Srinagar, August 04:

Condemning the acts of di-viding society on sectarian and communal lines, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Sunday said that elements behind these tensions ex-pand their activities soon elections draw nearer. He said they want to polarise the society, create conflicts between various sections, sects, faiths, regions and castes keeping eye on votes.Talking to a delegation of Majlis-e-Tahfuz-e-Itihaad (MTI) constituted by the

civil society recently to pacify the tension in some villages of Budgam and nurture the brotherhood

between Shia and Sunni Muslims, the Chief Minis-ter while cautioning about the nefarious designs of the

elements behind the sectar-ian clashes announced one month’s free ration for

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New Delhi, August 04:

Reacting to the state-ment made by Peoples Democratic Party Patron wherein he appealed New Delhi to take separatist leaders on board, former interlocutor and Chief In-formation Commissioner, M.M.Ansari Sunday that dialogue between Cen-tre and Hurriyat leaders needs continuity and it should not end with one go.“The timing of the Mufti’s statement is inappropriate as the UPA government is going to exist for only six months now and there are elections ahead. Dia-

logue between Hurriyat and Centre should be per-manent and with a stable government,” Ansari told

Srinagar based news gath-ering agency CNS adding that PDP facilitated the parleys between the two when it was in power.Ansari said that it is not

only Mufti Mohammad Sayeed but former inter-locutors and other civil society members through backdoor channels too ask New Delhi to initiate dialogue with separatist leaders of Kashmir. “We do believe that Kashmir is a complicated issue and it could be solved only through dialogue,” he said adding that Separatists should made their mind for a fruitful dialogue with the next government that would get formed in New Delhi after General Elec-tions.He said that it is unfortu-nate that Separatist

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Srinagar, August 04:

Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Sunday said that development of Cities has been under-lined as focused area in the State’s develop-ment policy adding that upgradation of basic amenities, beau-tification and proper system of drainage and sewerage are be-ing attended in a com-prehensive manner in Srinagar and Jammu capitals of the State. He said various proj-ects are under imple-mentation in this re-gard and various have been completed.Inaugurating the two

modern drainage schemes of Pohru-Cha-napora and Bemina-Fruit Mandi involving an amount of about Rs. 56 crore at Chanapora and Bemina today, the Chief Minster said that management of drain-age and sewerage in the Cities showing

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Development of the cities a priority: Omar

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Shopian, August 04:

People Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehboo-ba Mufti Sunday said the party’s visionary politi-cal and economic agenda has made it to emerge as a genuine, strong and credible regional voice of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. She said if voted to power in 2014, PDP would work towards accomplishing its unfinished agenda of securing peace, stability and prosperity for Jam-mu and Kashmir.Addressing a PDP work-ers convention here

today, Mehbooba said when it took over in 2002, PDP-led Coalition Government, not only rekindled a new hope among the State’s dis-

tressed, agonized and traumatized masses, but it had also devised and started implementing focused developmental strategies for every area of the State. “After suffer-

ing decades of depriva-tion and neglect, for the first time all the regions and sub-regions of the State had started tasting development after 2002,” she said and added that the signposts of the land-mark developmental ini-tiatives set off between 2002 and 2005 are visible in every nook and corner of the State.The PDP president said immediately after taking over in 2002, while PDP-led coalition govern-ment’s foremost priority was to provide a sense of security to the people,

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PDP to usher a new era of development: Mehbooba

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Pattan, August 04:

After overnight clashes in North Kashmir’s Palhalan area of Pattan town, strict curfew was imposed on Sunday and no one was al-lowed to venture out from his house. At least 16 people including ten policemen were injured in violent clashes on Saturday night which erupted in the area after the arrest of a shop-keeper.Reports said that police CRPF personnel were de-ployed in strength to foil any kind of protest in Pal-halan area. Undeclared curfew was imposed and people were directed to stay indoors. Streets of Palhalan

and its adjacent areas wore deserted look. Concertina wires were laid down and mobile bunkers were erect-ed to thwart protests.People alleged that they were even not allowed to en-ter into Masjid for prayers. “So many policemen and CRPF personnel had cor-doned the Masjid and were not allowing anyone to en-ter into it for prayers,” one of the residents told CNS.Deputy Commissioner Baramulla, Ghulam Ahmed Khawaja told CNS that he has not ordered for the im-position of curfew in the town. “There is no curfew and only the restrictions to thwart protests,” he said.

See Curfew on Pg. 7

After overnight clashes curfew imposed in Palhalan

Dialogue on Kashmir needs sustainability: Ansari

Cautions society against the designs of these forces

Exclusion of Parvez in the playing XI amounts to disrespect to cricket crazy Kashmirs

Govt’s move to extend lease agreement in Tosh Maidan to army unacceptable: Geelani

Srinagar, August 04:

741 vehicles including 685 buses and 56 mini-buses have been con-demned in last several years in Kashmir Valley and the number is set to amplify by 286 vehicles by the end of next year.According to the offi-cial documents avail-able with KNS, 357 buses, part of Kashmir Motor Drivers Associa-tion (KMDA), have been condemned over the years’ upto March 31, 2013.

By the end of this year alone, 29 KMDA buses are set to be taken off the road while 20 more would be condemned by the December 2014, the documents said.Similarly, 328 buses which were a part of the Western Bus Service Batamaloo have been condemned so far by the Regional Transport Of-ficer Kashmir. 47 more buses shall be condemned by the end of 31 December and 85 more would meet the same fate by the end of

2014 end.In 2005 the government issued an order to phase out 25-year old 52-seater passenger buses in the Valley.The vehicles have been condemned on the di-rections by Jammu and Kashmir High Court, directing taking off the road 15 to 25 old com-mercial vehicles in phased manner. Regarding medium pas-senger vehicles, the document reveals that 56 vehicles have been

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Old buses unserviceable 741 condemned, about 300 more to

go off road by 2014 end

Srinagar, August 04:

Hurriyat Conference (M) Sunday warned that they would launch an agitation against the fake drug scam in Jammu and Kashmir after Eid-ul-Fitar if gov-ernment fails to bring the culprits to the book.Talking to KNS Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said, “Not only drugs but most of

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Spurious drug scam: Hurriyat (M)

threatens stir after Eid

Lady ends her life in BudgamSrinagar August 04, 2013: A mentally unsound lady age about 40 years resident of Ranipora hanged herself in a cowshed in the jurisdiction of Police Beerwa. She died on spot. Police has registered a case in this regard. The body of the deceased was handed over to her relatives for last rites after completion of all medico-legal formalities.

2 injured in road mishapSrinagar August 04, 2013: Two persons were injured in a road accident that occurred in Bandi-pora District last evening.A Motorcycle bearing registra-tion number Jk15/0944 collided with an unknown load carrier at Nasoo, Bandipora, resulting in injuries to the motorcyclist Ghulam Rasool Dar son of Mo-hammad Anwar resident of Naz colony, Bandipora and a pillion. Both the injured were shifted to hospital for treatment. Bandi-pora Police has registered a case in this regard.

Residential house damaged in fireSrinagar August 04, 2013: A resi-dential house was damaged in a fire in Rajbagh area of Srinagar district last evening.Fire broke out in the residential house of MLA Amira Kadal, Nasir Aslam Wani located a Rajbagh, resulting in partial damage to the house. Fire was brought under control with the help of fire tenders and local Police. Police is investigating to ascertain the cause of the fire.

Relief distributed to 150 families under CAPSrinagar August 04, 2013: Around 150 families including those of widows and orphans were provided free ration in a relief distribution function held in Raj Bagh, Srinagar.The relief was provided under Civic Action programme by Zonal police headquarters, Srinagar. 20 widows, six victims of violence and 10 orphans were among about 150 families provided with the relief which included included Rice , Atta , Mustard oil and Sugar.On the conclusion of the function Staff Officer to IGP, Kashmir, Superintendent of Police, Mr. Farooq Ahmad held a interaction with the families who apprised him of their problems regarding housing, health and hygiene. Staff Officer to IGP assured the families that all possible help and assistance will be provided to them to ame-liorate their hardships. He said that the demands put forward by you will be brought into the notice of concern authorities for consideration.

Youth missing in BandiporaSrinagar August 04, 2013: Mohammad Yousuf Bahar son of Ali Mohammad resident of Gunshipora, Nowgam, Bandi-pora left his home to Zadibal, Srinagar on 31-07-13 to attend a religious programme. Since then he did not return home. The missing youth is 30 years of age, height 5.6” and wearing Sky blue T-shirt.Anybody having any informa-tion about him may kindly in-form on mobile no,s 9419970623, 9596588456, 9596227737 or on Police Control Room, Srinagar on dial 100.

Police nabs notorious burglarIslamabad, August 04: Police arrested a notorious burglar and recovered electronic goods worth lakhs of rupees from him in South Kashmir’s Islamabad district. Police sources told CNS that a few days before burglars

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Monday | 05 august 2013

don’t let allergies get you down

Vegetables for good health

Take care of your eyes in summer

Health benefits of mint leaves

How to ease arthritis pain

Why biting into ice cream causes headache

neem tree may hold clues for HIV treatment

Vitamin E guards against many cancers

While everyone knows that green

vegetables are good for the

body, most of us tend to still avoid

eating them. Consuming veggies

need not be a chore. With the wide variety available, you can easily find one to suit your tastes. Here we suggest some top green vegetables that can do your health wonders.

Broccoli Broccoli is considered

a wonder food for its ability to help prevent cancer. The vegetable is recommended for those suffering from heart disorders and strokes. Being packed with iron its ideal for anaemia patients

as well. Boil or steam your broccoli flowers lightly and eat so that they don’t lose all the nutrients.

Cabbage Whether consumed raw

or cooked in a dish, cabbage has many benefits. It is said to be great for the skin and eyes as its full of vitamin A. The phytonutrients pres-ent in this vegetable help the body fight against the free radicals. It also helps with lung, stomach and co-lon prostate cancer. Those interested in body building

may want to eat cabbage as its full of iodine that is need-ed for muscle development.

Bean sprouts Sprinkled on salads or

eaten as a between meals snack, sprouts are a great way of getting some nutri-ents. They are rich in vita-min C and a handful of fresh sprouts can provide you with three-quarters of your daily vitamin C require-ment. In addition they also contain vitamins A, B and E as well as calcium, iron, and potassium.

Pudina chai on a rainy evening or early winter

morning? That feels so blissful.

Mint is one of the old-est and most popular herbs that is grown around the world.

There are many different varieties of mint, each having its own subtle flavour and aroma.

This herb is used in a range of dishes from stuffing to fruit salads.

Mint is an essen-tial ingredient in many Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine and is popularly mixed with natural plain yogurt to make a ‘raita’ or brewed

with tea to make the famous

Indian ‘Pudina Chai’. In Thai cooking, it is

added to soups and to some highly-spiced curries.

Mint grown in Asia is much more strongly fla-vored than most European mints, with a sweet, cool af-tertaste.

Mint as Minta Spacata is a plant that has been long used in diverse cultures, such as India, Middle East and Europe.

Mint has a sweet fla-vour, with a cooling after-sensation. Both, fresh and dried mint are used in pre-paring a large number of recipes, including curries, soups, chutneys, salads,

juices, and ice creams.Its health benefits include:

- Soothing the digestive tract and if you are having

stomach ache then it can be of great help

- Drinking herbal mint tea reduces irritated bowel syn-dromes, cleanses the stomach

and also clear up skin disorders such as acne.

- Mint acts as a cooling sensation to the skin and helps in dealing with skin irritations.

- Mint helps in eliminating toxins from the body.

- Crushed mint leaves helps in whitening teeth and

combat bad breath.- Mint is a very good

cleanser for the blood.

Two forms of vitamin E - gamma and delta-tocopherols - found in soybean, canola and corn oils as well as nuts do

prevent colon, lung, breast and prostate cancers, according to a new study.The question of whether vitamin E

prevents or promotes cancer has been widely debated in scientific journals and in the news media.

“There are studies suggesting that vitamin E actually increases the risk of cancer and decreases bone density,” said Chung S. Yang, director of the Center for Can-cer Prevention Research, at Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

“Our message is that the vitamin E form of gamma-to-copherols, the most abundant form of vitamin E in the Amer-ican diet, and delta-tocoph-erols, also found in vegetable oils, are beneficial in prevent-ing cancers while the form of vitamin E, alpha- tocopherol, the most commonly used in vitamin E supple-ments, has no such benefit.”

Yang and colleagues, Nanjoo Suh and Ah-Ng Tony Kong discussed ani-mal studies done at Rutgers as well as

human epidemiological studies that have examined the connection be-tween vitamin E and cancer.

Yang said Rutgers scientists con-ducting animal studies for colon, lung, breast and prostate cancer found that the forms of vitamin E in vegetable oils, gamma and delta-tocopherols, prevent cancer formation and growth in animal models.

“When animals are exposed to

cancer-causing substances, the group that was fed these tocopherols in their diet had fewer and smaller tumors,” Yang said.

“When cancer cells were injected into mice these tocopherols also slowed

down the development of tumors.”In researching colon cancer, Yang

pointed to another recently published paper that the delta-tocopherol form of vitamin E was more effective than other forms of vitamin E in suppress-ing the development of colon cancer in rats.

This is good news for cancer re-search. Recently, in one of the larg-est prostate cancer clinical trials in

the United States and Canada, scientists found that the most commonly used form of vita-min E supplements, alpha-to-copherol, not only did not pre-vent prostate cancer, but its use significantly increased the risk of this disease among healthy men.

This is why, Yang insisted, it is important to distinguish between the different forms of vitamin E and conduct more re-search on its cancer preventive and other biological effects.

“For people who think that they need to take vitamin E supplements,” Yang said, “taking a mixture of vitamin E that resembles what is in our diet would be the most prudent supple-ment to take.”

Brain freeze’ is an almost universal experience-almost everyone has felt the near-in-

stantaneous headache brought on by a bite of ice cream or slurp of ice-cold soda on the

upper palate.However, scientists are

still at a loss to explain this phenomenon. Since migraine sufferers are more likely to experience brain freeze than people who don’t have this often-debilitating condi-tion, brain freeze may share a common mechanism with other types of headaches, in-cluding those brought on by the trauma of blast-related combat injuries in soldiers.

One possible link be-tween brain freeze and oth-er headache types is local changes in brain blood flow.

In a new study, Melissa Mary Blatt, Michael Falvo, and Jessica Jasien of the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System, Brian Deegan and Gearold O Laighin of the National University of Ireland Galway, and Jorge Serrador of Harvard Medical School and the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center of the Veterans Affairs New Jersey Health Care System use brain freeze as a proxy for other types of headaches.By bringing on brain freeze in the lab in volunteers and study-ing blood flow in their brains, the researchers show that the sudden headache seems to be triggered by an abrupt increase in blood flow in the anterior cerebral artery and

disappears when this ar-tery constricts.The findings could eventually lead to new treatments for a variety of different headache types.Ac-cording to study leader Serra-dor, previous studies meant to assess what physiological changes might prompt head-aches have mainly relied on various drugs, or brought in patients already in the throes of a migraine to the lab.How-ever, both methods have their limitations. Pharmacological agents can induce other ef-fects that can make research results misleading, he said, and since researchers can’t wait for migraine sufferers to experience a migraine in the lab, those studies miss the crucial period of headache formation.

An Indian origin researcher has hinted

that extracts from neem tree, profuse in tropical and subtropical areas, may thwart the virus

from multiplying.

Sonia Arora, an assistant profes-sor at Kean University in New Jersey, is delving into understanding the cu-

rative properties of the neem tree in fighting the virus that causes AIDS.

Her preliminary results seem to indicate that there are compounds in neem extracts that target a pro-tein essential for HIV to replicate. If further studies support her findings, Arora’s work may give clinicians and drug developers a new HIV-AIDS therapy to pursue.

Extracts from neem leaves, bark and flowers are used throughout the Indian subcontinent to fight against pathogenic bacteria and fungi.

“The farther you go into the vil-lages of India, the more uses of neem you see,” said Arora.

Tree branches are used instead of toothpaste and toothbrushes to keep teeth and gums healthy, and neem extracts are used to control the spread of malaria.

Practitioners of Ayurvedic medi-cine, a form of traditional Indian al-ternative medicine, even prescribe neem extracts, in combination with other herbs, to treat cardiovascular diseases and control diabetes. The neem tree, whose species name is Azadirachta indica and which be-

longs to the mahogany family, also grows in east Africa.

Arora’s scientific training gave her expertise in the cellular biology of cancer, pharmacology, bioinfor-matics and structural biology.

When she established her labo-ratory with a new research direction at Kean University in 2008, Arora decided to combine her knowledge with her long-time fascination with natural products. The neem tree beckoned. Arora dived into the scien-tific literature to see what was known about neem extracts. During the course of her reading, Arora stum-bled across two reports that showed that when HIV-AIDS patients in Ni-geria and India were given neem ex-tracts, the amount of HIV particles in their blood dropped.

Intrigued, Arora decided to see if she could figure out what was in the neem extract that seemed to fight off the virus. She turned to bioinformat-ics and structural biology to see what insights could be gleaned from mak-ing computer models of HIV pro-teins with compounds known to be in neem extracts.

An allergy is a medical condition that makes you feel ill when you eat or come in con-

tact with a particular substance. General physician Dr

Shahid Barmare says, “Al-lergies happen when the immune system mistakenly believes that something the person ate or came in con-tact with, is harmful to the body.

To protect the body, the immune system produc-es IgE antibodies to that al-lergen. IgE antibodies then trigger mast cells (allergy cells in the body) to release chemicals into the blood-stream. One of these chemi-cals is histamine.

Dust allergy Having runny or stuffy

nose, itchy, watery eyes and sneezing due to dust exposure such as vacuum-

ing, sweeping, and dusting means you are affected by dust allergy.

Symptoms Well-known dust al-

lergy symptoms are unman-ageable sneezing, itchy, wa-tery eyes and in some cases a small red coloured dust allergy rash located on some part of your body such as your stomach or your upper arm.

Pollen allergy During spring

and summer, tiny particles are released from trees, weeds and grasses.

Known as pollen, these ride in the air and enter noses and throats, trigger-ing a type of seasonal al-lergic rhinitis called Pollen Allergy.

Symptoms: Although pollen allergy

symptoms are similar to cold symptoms, you can tell the difference because colds are associated with thicker nasal secretions, sore throat,

hoarseness, and possibly fe-ver. Also, colds tend to get better fairly quickly.

Contact allergy Contact allergy is

caused in sensitive indi-

viduals, who can get allergic reactions through different things such as metals (gold-silver oxidised jewelry), leather (wrist watch), syn-thetic fibers (clothing such as undergarments).

Symptoms: Symptoms of a

contact allergy usually occur within 30 min-utes after exposure to the allergen, although symptoms may take up to several hours to ap-pear.

Common allergens include poison oak and poison ivy, latex, rub-ber, nickel, preserva-

tives, dyes, medications, fra-grances, and cosmetics such as hair dye and perfume.

Sun allergy Sun allergy is having

small white patches due to

sunlight on the exposed ar-eas of the body.

Symptoms: Having small white

patches due to sunlight on the exposed areas of the body.

In addition, there is a syndrome known as “sun drunk” which affects some children who suffer from a sun allergy.

Food allergies Symptoms include

itching in the mouth, hives, itching or eczema, redness around the mouth, swell-ing of the lips, face, tongue and throat or other parts of the body, wheezing, nasal congestion or difficulty in breathing, pain in the low-er abdominal area, diar-rhea, nausea or vomiting, dizziness, light headedness or fainting.

With the advancing summer, here are couple of points you need to take care of next time you step out in the sun...

-Do not forget to step out before wear-ing your sunglasses. Opt for one that covers the side of your temples. This will pre-vent against the harmful ultra-violet rays of the sun, dust and fumes too.

-Make it a point to splash cold water on your eyes at least three times in a day. This will remove dust particles that enter your eyes due to constant exposure to the sun.

-Do not rub your eyes with dirty hands. It may ag-gravate any eye allergy and can cause sties.

-If you are suffering from any eye allergy, make sure you do not sit in front of an A.C.

-It is important to limit the use of con-tact lenses in dusty environment.

-If there is any itching in and around your eyes or any allergy, abstain from ap-

plying eye make-up. It is vital to remove all traces of make-up before sleeping.

-It is advisable to take lots of fluids to avoid dehydration which indirectly affects

tear formation. -Use eye drops on a regular basis - but

after a consultation with your eye specialist. -In any case, make sure to visit your eye

specialist at least once in two weeks.

Moderate drinking halves

hepatitis riskNALFD is the most common liver

disease in the United States, affecting up to one third of American adults.

It is characterized by abnormal fat accumulation in the liver. The spe-cific cause or causes is not known, though obesity and diabetes are risk factors. Most patients with NAFLD have few or no symptoms, but in its most progressive form, known as nonalcoholic steato-hepatitis or NASH, there is a significantly heightened risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver-related death. NALFD is also a known risk factor for cardiovascular dis-ease (CVD). Patients with NAFLD are ap-proximately two times more likely to die from coronary heart disease than from liver disease. The national team of scien-tists led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine wanted to know if the well-documented heart-healthy benefits of modest alco-hol consumption outweighed alcohol’s negative effects. “We know a 50-year-old patient with NAFLD has a higher risk of CVD,” Jeffrey Schwimmer, senior author of the study, said.

Think there is simply no cure or treatment when

it comes to ar-thritis? Truth tells a different story.

If one follows simple ideas in day-to-day life and maintains a healthy life-style, then long-term goals of treating arthritis are possible.

So, in a bid to make arthritis a little easier for you, today Dr. Shekhar Agarwal, Executive Direc-tor and Chief Surgeon at Delhi Institute of Trauma and Orthopaedics gives us the 5 ways to ease arthritis pain.

Dietary modification. This includes liberal por-tions of healthy food. Avoid

saturated fats and trans fats in diet, as these lead to weight gain; thus leading to more load on the joints. Food beneficial in reducing pain include Omega 3 fatty acids, which are anti-ox-idants and help in reduc-ing inflammation and thus

provide relief from pain.Foods such as walnuts,

soyabean and sea food are recommended. Fresh trop-ical fruits, such as guava, oranges, lemon and pep-per are good sources of

Vitamin C and are good for arthritis patients. Car-rots and turnips contain beta carotien, which again is an effective antioxidant. Finally, milk and sea foods, which contain vitamin D are essential for bone and joint health.

Exercises strengthen the tone and power of the muscles, which protects the neighbouring joints and also increases the pro-prioception in the joints. Hence, exercises help

in protecting the joints and preventing falls. The best types of exercises to strengthen the bones are weight bearing exercises like brisk walking, run-ning, cycling etc.

It helps in preserving bone density and avoids osteoporosis. Strength and balance exercises may help you avoid falls, decreasing your chance of breaking a bone. Consult trainers and other health professionals before starting a weight training routine.

Physiotherapy helps in gaining range of the movement of stiff joints and helps build strength of muscles around the joint.

The physiotherapist will also guide you regard-ing good posture and suit-able lifestyle modification.

One or two physiother-apy sessions in a month are good enough to ease the arthritis pain, depend-ing upon the seriousness of the disease condition.