1960 Medical batch, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Grow your own happiness

How meditation physically changes the brain

People can boost their happiness by growing a part of the brain which increases positive thinking, scientists believe Aristotle said that ‘happiness depends upon ourselves’ and a new study suggests it is possible to physically grow a happier brain through practices like meditation. Although scien...

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Religion Without Quantum Physics Is an Incomplete Picture of Reality

Dalai Lama

Ever since Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543 to outline his heliocentric cosmology and thereby kick start modern scientific inquiry, an uneasy truce has existed between science and religion. Although Copernicus wasn’t persecuted for his views by the dominant ...

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Drinking Water Before Meals

Science Says Can Make You Much Fitter

“Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci If you drink two glasses of water before one or two meals a day, can it help you to lose weight faster? One small study by the …

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Eating in the 1950s in England

email from JKS Weerasekera

To be in Jingaland, 1950s!

Good old England

*EATING IN THE FIFTIES*

Pasta was not eaten in the UK.

Curry was a surname.

A takeaway was a mathematical problem.

A pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.

All potato chips were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.

Rice was only eaten as a milk pudding.

Calamari was called squid and we used it as fish bait.

A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.

Brown bread was something only poor people ate.

Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.

Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves and never green.

Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being white gold.

Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.

Fish didn't have fingers in those days.

Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.

None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.

Healthy food consisted of anything edible.

People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.

Indian restaurants were only found in India.

Cooking outside was called camping.

Seaweed was not a recognised food.

"Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food.

Prunes were medicinal.

Surprisingly, muesli was readily available, it was called cattle feed.

Water came out of the tap.

If someone had suggested bottling it and charging more than petrol for it, they would have become a laughing stock!!

The one thing that we never ever had on our table in the fifties ......

"Elbows Or Phones."