Re: [silk] Why Bother?

2008-04-22 Thread Martin Senftleben
Nice reading this is. However, I miss mentioning alternative, regenerative energy resources. We supply our household with such energy, it feels at least better and doesn't cost the world. Am Dienstag 22 April 2008 schrieb Udhay Shankar N: ... But while some such grand scheme may well be

[silk] Tigers in the sunderbans

2008-04-22 Thread Gautam John
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[silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Deepa Mohan
Calorie counts Ed Pilkington New York: It was the first city in America to ban trans-fats from food outlets. Now New York has set another U.S. first — from Monday , larger food chains such as McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks must display the calories of their products on menus. The new

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | Over the next five years, the city says, the labelling | will help prevent 1,30,000 New Yorkers from becoming | obese and 30,000 from developing diabetes. reminds one about the small entry in

Re: [silk] Killing our feet with shoes

2008-04-22 Thread va
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/ ...payyoli express (PT Usha) anyone !?

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | Over the next five years, the city says, the labelling | will help prevent 1,30,000 New Yorkers from becoming | obese and 30,000 from

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Radhika, Y.
average size can be very scary for anybody who has not paid attention to their food. when i became diabetic two years ago i found out that the amount of pasta that fits in my palm (not including fingers) is the average size. by that standard i had probably eaten four times that amount every time i

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Radhika, Y. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: average size can be very scary for anybody who has not paid attention to their food. when i became diabetic two years ago i found out that the amount of pasta that fits in my palm (not including fingers) is the average

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | Over the next five years, the city says, the labelling | will

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread ashok _
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Thaths wrote: And parents don't help either by instilling cleaning up one's plate as a value. And insisting that cooking things in pure ghee is somehow healthy ! ashok

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:09 AM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Thaths wrote: And parents don't help either by instilling cleaning up one's plate as a value. And insisting that cooking things in pure ghee is somehow healthy ! True. But Dalda (a brand of

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread ss
On Tuesday 22 Apr 2008 7:15:39 pm Deepa Mohan wrote: New York: It was the first city in America to ban trans-fats from food outlets. Now New York has set another U.S. first — from Monday , larger food chains such as McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks must display the calories of their

[silk] One Laptop Per Hamster

2008-04-22 Thread Biju Chacko
http://xkcd.com/413/ So, who else has got an eeepc? I bought one and haven't yet been able to pry it out of my non-techie wife's hands. -- b