Is there anything wrong with not eating sugar? From morning tea to sweets. Sugar adds sweetness not only to our food, but also to our lives. Without this sugar, we would not be able to eat foods like sweets, chocolate, cakes or soft drinks. But where did this sugar come from and how did it reach our kitchen? Sugar and then brown sugar were first made in India from sugarcane juice. Historical books and various reports from India and abroad provide evidence of this. According to a research report titled ‘A History of Sugar: The Food Nobody Needs, But Everyone Craves’ published by the British media outlet network ‘The Conversation’, sugar was made in India around 2,500 years ago, i.e. 500 BC. From here, the technology to make it spread eastwards to China and reached the Middle East via Iran. In the first century, the historian Pliny the Elder, who wrote the encyclopedia ‘Naturalis Historia’, said that Indian sugar was better than sugar made in Arabia. It is said that sugar first reac...
Hepatitis: Why, how and who gets it? In colloquial language, hepatitis is also called 'jaundice'. Hepatitis is mostly caused by viruses. But sometimes it is also caused by bacteria or side effects of medicine. Hepatitis caused by viruses or bacteria can cause serious problems. Hepatitis is of two types, chronic and acute. The early stage of hepatitis is called acute, while the chronic problem is called chronic. The initial stage of hepatitis lasts for the first three months. If it is not treated even for six months, it takes the form of chronic hepatitis. If the body starts turning yellow with hepatitis in the initial stage, if it is not treated in the right way, it starts to take a chronic form. Even after that, if hepatitis is not treated properly, it will turn into cirrhosis of the liver, which will damage the entire liver. Liver cancer can also be caused by this. Generally, there are five types of hepatitis A, B, C, D and E. Among them, Hepatitis B is considered to be the m...