Sawan Barwal didn't have a flag to hold after winning 🥈 in the men's marathon- first medal for 🇮🇳 in nearly half a century- at the Asia's Games in Nagoya. No official showed up on race morning since no one believed he had a chance to make history. https://t.co/SQRp5WHb56
Golden Rules for good health!
1)Wake up by 5 am and go for a walk/jog, stretch in bed.
2)Sleep by 10 pm, mobile should be kept where your hands cannot reach.
3)Don’t check phone as soon as you wake up.
4)Have a glass of lukewarm water early morning.
5)Never skip breakfast, include protein in meal, avoid too much carbs.
6)Include a fruit preferably apple, eat it around 11 am.
7)If lunch is your heaviest meal, have a short walk post lunch for 10 mins, walk as slow as possible.
8)Avoid snacking, deep fried!
Exercise portion control, small portion of food after every 3 hours is fine.
9)Dinner should be over by 7 pm - the gap between Dinner and sleep should be 3 hours. Have a bath before you sleep!
10)Strength and resistance training critical after 40, no need to go to gym!
11)Pick up a challenge occasionally it can be Hyrox, Marathon or anything which scares you.
12)Trek every quarter. Nature makes you feel good, happy and at peace.
13)Annual health check up is mandatory.
14)Stress is a part of our life, don’t get engulfed by it , manage it by not overthinking or ruminating about the past.
15)One day not matter how much you exercise or eat healthy, you will die, so live in the moment.
16)Good health is freedom, it gives you the power to make choices.
Ek hi product hai hamaara, UPI, ussko kyon kharaab rahe hain ??
And Govt is under a lot of fire after it has put transaction charges on UPI…
Prime reason reported is that USA is putting a lot of pressure on India to charge UPI because a lot of its companies like Mastercard, Visa are not able to get business in India because UPI is free
Do you think it’s true ?
Because the govt says it needs money to upgrade infrastructure to maintain UPI but UPI’s parent organisation NPCI is already making a lot of money and is profitable
Things are not adding up ?
Or, are they ?
What say guys
Losing even 5 kg can reduce 15-20 kg of stress on your knees with every step.
Simple, sustainable habits work better than extremes for long-term weight loss and metabolic health.
@ndtvLifestyle featured this practical advice 👏
Full article: https://t.co/HWaAQXHPqI
The Math
Most people see a delayed bag and think:
"That's annoying."
The airline sees something else:
Potential liability.
Here's how our payout actually broke down:
💶 Flight compensation: ~$650
🧳 Baggage delay expenses: $340
🎟️ Checked bag fee refund: $70
📄 Additional baggage settlement: $590
Total recovered: $1,650
What surprises people isn't the amount.
It's how little effort was required.
No lawyer.
No court.
No consumer advocate.
Just one email thread.
A handful of receipts.
And a basic understanding of passenger rights.
The airline went from offering a small voucher at the baggage desk to paying four figures.
Not because we argued.
Because we documented.
And once the claim reached someone who understood the regulations, the conversation ended very quickly.
The payment arrived 11 days later.
*Very Long Post:
In Jaspal Rana today, I lost a hero - not an athlete, not a coach, not a friend. I lost a hero.
Growing up, we used to read about Jaspal Rana in the papers for his achievements, especially after his heroics in 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima.
Those days, some of his classmates (all older than me) from Ramjas School, RK Puram, used to stay in our society.
He would often come with his other friends in a white Maruti Jypsy car to visit his friends to our society.
I met him for the first time in late 90s, when we would be winding up our cricket matches and switched to tennis ball cricket in the evening.
He would carry always have a baseball bat in the car and would ask us ‘2-4 balls mujhe bhi khilaao.’ We would not hesitate even though we had realised after a few days that he wanted to just hit them as far as possible. Then, with his friends, he would take us for a drive in that white Gypsy - that was the first time I realised a car could do such manoeuvres.
Jaspal Rana had become a huge figure back then, someone who would win India its first Olympic medal in shooting, and I was happy to share these timeless moments with him.
And then, he was gone.
Years later, I met him in 2010 and I narrated him the stories of all those days, and he was so happy to go back in time.
My profession allowed me to follow him as an athlete and then as a coach, and there were times when people would say things about him, used athletes as bait to ridicule him. I never liked it. After all, he was my hero.
To change an existing order, there comes a man, who disrupts the arrangement for good.
Jaspal Rana was that disruptor.
At the Paris Olympics in 2024, he was with Manu Bhaker as her coach. He didn’t have an accreditation because the authorities chose not to.
He would stay in a rented accommodation, cook his own food and would get tickets to the venue when Manu and his other shooters were competing.
Never the one to mince words, unapologetic, a disruptor and my Hero.
The picture below is from the Paris Olympics when @realmanubhaker had already won two bronze and we were heading out of the venue in a golf cart. So satisfied these two seemed, and I noticed an ever-lasting relation between a coach and his ward. One of the most lasting images for me from those Games.
બબ્બર શેર વીરુના નિધન પર આજે છાપામાં વાર્ષિક શ્રદ્ધાંજલી જોઈ.
ગીરના જંગલમાં દોઢ દશક સુધી જય અને વીરુનો દબદબો રહ્યો હતો. બંને એક દંતકથા સમાન હતા.
જ્યારે જ્યારે ગિર જવાનો પ્રસંગ બન્યો ત્યારે મોટા ભાગે બંનેને જોવાનો મોકો મળ્યો હતો.
કહેવાય છે કે જય વીરુને નથી જોયા તો ગિર નથી જોયું.
બંને વચ્ચેનો લગાવ પણ એવો હતો કે વીરુના નિધન બાદ લગભગ એક મહિનામાં જયનું પણ જુલાઈ ૨૦૨૫ માં નિધન થયું હતું.
શ્રદ્ધાંજલિના શબ્દો એ બીજું કંઈ નહીં પરંતુ સિંહ પ્રેમીઓ અને પ્રકૃતિ પ્રેમીઓનો લગાવ દર્શાવે છે.
#Jay | #Viru
Tips to Lower Triglycerides Naturally. (From my clinical experience treating patients)
High triglycerides don’t always need lifelong medicines.
I’ve seen patients bring TG from 986 → below 300 in just 2 months with the right lifestyle changes.
Here’s what actually works 👇
1) Cut added sugar & refined carbs
Sodas, sweets, white bread, pastries → spike insulin → raise triglycerides.
2) Prioritize healthy fats
Replace fried foods & trans fats with nuts,seeds,coconut oil and avocado.
3) Eat omega-3 rich foods
Fatty fish like salmon, sardines, mackerel 2–3×/week.
Omega-3s can reduce triglycerides by 25–30%.
4) Lose excess weight
Even 5–10% weight loss can significantly reduce triglycerides.
5) Move your body daily
Brisk walking, cycling, swimming.
At least 150 minutes/week.
6) Limit alcohol
Alcohol rapidly increases triglycerides.
Even “moderate” intake can worsen levels.
7) Increase fiber intake
Vegetables, legumes, whole foods.
Fiber slows sugar absorption.
8) Prioritize protein at meals
Eggs, paneer, curd, lentils, tofu, fish.
Protein helps reduce carb spikes.
9) Avoid constant snacking
Frequent eating keeps insulin elevated → triglycerides rise.
10) Sleep well & manage stress
Poor sleep & chronic stress increase cortisol and metabolic dysfunction.
👉 Most high triglycerides are a lifestyle signal, not a lifelong disease.
Fix the lifestyle → the numbers follow.
ગયા વર્ષે નવેમ્બરમાં એક લગ્ન પ્રસંગે જામનગર જવાનું થયું હતું. જામનગર મારું જન્મસ્થળ અને આઠમા ધોરણથી લગભગ દર વેકેશનમાં વેકેશનમાં જવાનું થાય. પરંતુ આ વખતે હું ��રાબર સાડા ઓગણીસ વર્ષે જામનગર ગયો. આટલા બધાં વર્ષોમાં કોઈને કોઈ કારણોસર જામનગર જવાનું થયું જ નહીં. પરંતુ આ વખતે આ લગભગ બે દાયકાની ખોટ પૂરી કરી નાખવી એ નક્કી કર્યું.
એટલે મારા મામાનું ક્લિનિક (એનાં વિષે જામનગર હતો ત્યારે જ પોસ્ટ કરી હતી) જ્યાં હતું એ ચાંદીબજાર અને આસપાસનાં વિસ્તારોમાં પગપાળા ફરવાનો નિર્ણય કર્યો જેથી જૂનું બધું તાજું થાય. એવામાં શોધતો શોધતો આ વલ્લભદાસ પેંડાવાળા એટલેકે વલભ���ની દુકાને પહોંચી ગયો.
મોસાળે જતો ત્યારે કે જામનગરમાં સગાઓને ત્યાં જવાનું થાય ત્યારે ક્યારેક આ વલભાના કાળા જાંબુ ખાવા મળતાં. આ કાળા જાંબુની બે ખાસિયત, એક તો એ ગોળ નહીં પણ લાંબા હોય છે. બીજી ખાસિયત એ કે એની બરાબર વચ્ચે પિસ્તાનો ‘ઠળિયો’ હોય. કિશોરાવસ્થામાં જ્યારે પણ આ જાંબુ ખાતો ત્યારે પિસ્તું ચાવતી વખતે અનેરી લાગણી થતી.
મારી મમ્મી કાયમ કહે કે એ સમયમાં એમની આર્થિક પરિસ્થિતિ બહુ સારી નહોતી એટલે ઘરમાં કોઈ બહુ મોટો પ્રસંગ હોય ત્યારે જ વલભાનાં કાળા જાંબુ મંગાવવામાં આવતાં, આવો એનો વટ્ટ હતો. મેં એ દિવસે રાત્રે જમવા માટે આ વલભાના કાળા જાંબુ લીધા અને મારા સાળાસાહેબના પરિવાર સાથે એની મોજ માણી હતી.
ત્યારે પણ પેલું પિસ્તું ખાતી વખતે એ જ લાગણી થઈ હતી જે એક સમયે થ���ી. મારા સુપુત્રે એ બાદ એક વખત અમદાવાદમાં ક્યાંક કાળાં ગુલાબ જાંબુ ખાધાં હતાં, ઘરે આવીને મને કહે, “ડેડી, એમાંથી ઠળિયો ન નીકળ્યો એટલે મજા ન આવી!!” 😜
#સિદ્ધાર્થ
“गुजरात मॉडल” की असली पहचान तब समझ आती है, जब उसकी तारीफ कोई गुजराती नहीं बल्कि दूसरे राज्य का, खासकर ट्रांसपोर्टेशन से जुड़ा व्यक्ति करे तो समझो गुजरात में सुरक्षा सिर्फ दिखावा नहीं, ज़मीनी हकीकत है.
गृहमंत्री @sanghaviharsh आभार @GujaratPolice लोगों का विश्वास जीतने के लिए. 🙏🏻