Kargil Day 2016: Why is Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrated

Kargil Day is celebrated on 26th July each year as Victory Day. This day is remembered as Kargil Vijay Diwas. On this day in 1999, the Indian military forces defeated the Pakistani forces in the garb of intruders who had captured the high mountain posts of Kargil, overlooking the Srinagar-Leh highway. The Kargil war continued for more than 60 days, causing loss of 400 lives on our side. On this day, each year we pay homage to our Kargil War Heroes who laid their lives to safeguard our land and honour of our country.

Special commemorations take place in the Kargil - Dras sector by the Indian military and in the capital city, New Delhi at the government level. The Prime Minister of our country makes a visit to the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate to pay homage to the soldiers who laid their lives for the country’s honour.

The Indian Army Chief pays tributes to the Kargil War martyrs in the Kargil - Dras sector each year. Besides, all army centres hold events to remember the martyrs of the Kargil war across the nation when the enemy had to withdraw from the battlefield.

State and city level commemorations also take place each year to make us feel proud that our military has time and again defeated India’s perennial enemy Pakistan. This day provides the citizens with another opportunity to pay homage to brave soldiers of our army whose sacrifices made the victory possible. We salute them!

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How Cinnamon Boosts Your Kid's Learning Abilities

If you find it helpless to make your kid memorize all the lessons at school, then you no longer have to worry at all. In order to deal with issues of low memorizing power among kids, there is a solution that you must look into.

Cinnamon happens to be such an ingredient that has all the power to improve the memory of your school going children. Now, how to achieve that is a way to learn. You may use cinnamon in lots of ways. For example, it can be suffused in the form of healthy breakfast, toast, coffee or in a variety of other ways, as per your choice. It also improves the nutritional value of the food items as well.

If we come across to the latest findings in mice, it helped a great deal to improve the learning power among them. The findings did make the researchers entrusted with joy after they came to know that cinnamon can become one of the easiest approaches to convert poor learners to the better ones. As per the researchers, there is a need to understand the functionality of the brain (how the brain works) to strategically improve the memory and learning power of an individual.

As per the study done to understand the brain and its functioning, it was revealed that a specific area by the name hippocampus is the center of all the knowledge and understanding. It's a small area that stores, generates and organizes memory in the best possible ways. After scientists learned the behavior of hippocampus among poor learners, it showed lesser CREB levels (type of protein involved improving leanings and memory) with more GABRAS (a type of protein responsible for generating tonic inhibitory conductance) as compared to better learners.

The use of Cinnamon has been studied successfully in the past to reverse all kinds of cellular, anatomical and biochemical changes in the brains of mice that showed poor learning abilities.

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How Monsoon Affects Diabetics During Pregnancy

Each year, monsoon comes with a bang along with a plethora of filthy disorders. Especially people with low immunity tend to become the probable targets, either with one ailment or the other. Amid all this, a word of precaution for all those pregnant mothers with symptoms of diabetes, who prefer to choose quite a regimental lifestyle.

Such people generally need to monitor their blood sugar levels up to 5 times or more in a day. In general, it largely depends on the severity of the symptoms of diabetes among them. Pregnant mothers with signs of diabetes must check their abrupt blood sugar levels to keep them under safe zones.

Pregnancy in diabetes (also known as gestational diabetes) should be taken as a serious medical condition. It's not easy to defeat the ailment most of the times without the interaction of a proficient team effectively. The team generally includes professionals like nutritionist, diabetologist, obstetrician and the respective family members.

Most of the times, spousal support is required to defeat all such complications associated with the disorder. Pregnant ladies with diabetes should always be trained in all aspects of treatment including nutrition and diet. It has been noted that women tend to go through a phase of anorexia and nausea as they require to follow a special diet plan. The diet plan follows a balanced nutrition regime.

As per the data collected during the recent findings, it has been revealed that expectant mothers having diabetes, at times, get deprived of crucial elements and therefore need a balanced diet that should comprise with all the viable nutrients including omega 3 fatty acids, proteins, vitamins and other dietary supplements.

In the event of a deficiency of any of the above nutrients, the patient generally goes into a kind of a tussle followed by an unwanted phase of emotional distress that include pregnancy induced depression, mood swings due to blood sugar fluctuation (hypoglycemia), etc. In addition to this, there can be a few remedies that pregnant ladies should adopt like avoiding crowded places, smoking, long journeys, etc.

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