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...
Why and when to vaccinate a child? Vaccination is an effective achievement of medical science. Vaccination is done to protect the body from any possible disease that may occur in the future. Vaccination protects against possible future diseases. Vaccination is done by injecting the dead or weakened bacteria of the related disease into the human body. White blood cells are activated to produce disease-fighting antibodies. Especially the immune system of newborns is very weak. So they can suffer from even minor diseases. Therefore, they are vaccinated against some diseases that may occur. In particular, to keep children healthy, to protect them from disability, and to prevent them from getting serious diseases, they should complete the set amount of vaccinations. Age-wise vaccination schedule has also been prepared for newborns. In this case, first-time parents should know which vaccines are available for newborns in Nepal and when to administer them. Why wear it? After the child is...