Assessment of Indian cooking practices and cookwares on nutritional security: A review

Food provides us nutrients and the energy required for growth, reproduction, and maintenance. Energy is required to perform all voluntary and involuntary activities like digestion, respiration, circulation, carrying out professional, household and recreational activities. Despite having rich food diversity, we are using only a few items as our staple food.  With the adoption of eastern cooking practices and cookwares, risk of both pre-and post-transitional diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, malnutrition, obesity, etc. has increased significantly. Aluminium toxicity and nutrients breakdown has become a common problem in pressure cooking. To overcome this problem, it is important to shift from the modernized cooking methods to our traditional cooking practices, i.e., use of earthen cookwares, clay pots and some selected metal utensils, e.g., copper, iron, brass, etc. It has been shown that earthen, copper, iron, and soapstone cookwares do not leach toxic trace elements into the food and enhance the sensory qualities without decreasing the food nutrients. Adoption of traditional Indian cooking practices (such as fermentation, roasting, germination, etc.), cookwares (such as earthen, copper, iron, soapstone, etc.) and increasing the consumption of healthy diet grains like millets, etc. can easily combat the pre- and post-transition health problems in India, effectively. This review would provide a deep understanding to the people to decide the best cookware and cooking processes that will improve their health and provide ample nutritional value to them

A study of pattern of injuries sustained in fatal road traffic accidents: An original research

Aim: This study was conducted to examine the pattern of injuries in road traffic accidents (RTA) amongst the victims. Methodology: A study was undertaken at Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), to find out the types of injury patterns occurred due to the road traffic accidents. All Case histories and records, reports pertaining to road traffic accident victims were collected and analyzed to see different types of injury patterns sustained in the accident and data was compiled based on the findings with SPSS 20 software . Results: The study population consisted of 500 patients. Majority of them were males (84.25%) and belonged to the age group of 21 to 30 years with 25.31%. Majority of the patients had injury to Head neck and face constituting 53.61% and least had injury to the abdominal region constituting 9.14%. Abrasion was seen in most of the cases around 64.89% and Lacerations was the least found in 14.46%. Majority of the patients around 42.81% had skull and maxillofacial fracture and the least type of fracture observed was Ribs fracture observed in 4.79% of the cases.&nbsp

A Study of Pattern of Injuries Sustained in Fatal Road Traffic Accidents: an Original Research

Aim: This study was conducted to examine the pattern of injuries in road traffic accidents (RTA) amongst the victims. Methodology: A study was undertaken at Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior (M.P.), to find out the types of injury patterns occurred due to the road traffic accidents. All Case histories and records, reports pertaining to road traffic accident victims were collected and analyzed to see different types of injury patterns sustained in the accident and data was compiled based on the findings with SPSS 20 software . Results: The study population consisted of 500 patients. Majority of them were males (84.25%) and belonged to the age group of 21 to 30 years with 25.31%. Majority of the patients had injury to Head neck and face constituting 53.61% and least had injury to the abdominal region constituting 9.14%. Abrasion was seen in most of the cases around 64.89% and Lacerations was the least found in 14.46%. Majority of the patients around 42.81% had skull and maxillofacial fracture and the least type of fracture observed was Ribs fracture observed in 4.79% of the cases.&nbsp

When a travel bug gets you down[SS1]: severe, hypotensive African tick bite fever and response to therapy

African tick bite fever, resulting from Rickettsia africae inoculation, is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa. We present a United States traveler with African tick bite fever 5 days after she returned from a mission trip to Zimbabwe. The patient exhibited symptomatic hypotension in addition to more typical findings, including fever, fatigue, and a necrotic eschar. The diagnosis was supported by histopathological findings and the patient's symptoms rapidly resolved with oral doxycycline therapy. We believe this case represents the first African tick bite fever diagnosis associated with symptomatic hypotension. This case additionally serves as a reminder of the importance of evaluating patient travel history