What's around us?

Hello! viewers. Welcome to what's around us. It's been a long time after me posting any articles, probably I had been a poke-easy person being a couch potato. Lack of physical activities, no balanced diet, junk food, many other unhealthy practices. It was late when I realized my weight gain, Increase in BMI and increase in the risk of various life style infirmities. Uffff.. how to get out of this health threat?? Lifestyle infirmities/disease are the diseases which are caused by a person's life style like food habits, lack of physical excersises, smoking, alcohol etc. Hypertension, Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer, Cardiovascular diseases are some of the examples of lifestyle infirmities. Diabetes is one of the major problem of concern in India with nearly 98 million people suffering from it. South Indians are said to be more prone than north Indians. Diabetes may not be because of one reason, it can be due to the combinations of these , 1. Heredity 2. Overweight/Obesity 3

Hi everyone. Welcome to what's around us.  I wish everyone a very happy World Environment Week. Collage prepared by students We all  might have celebrated the World Environment Day by either planting the saplings or by joining any awareness events or any campaign. Once the day is over then we continue our routine and the word environment may be heard on the next year itself. Why is it so nessecary for us to celebrate the environment day? Why should we conserve it? What happens if we don't conserve our nature? How can we help in conserving our environment? The World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5th every year to create the awareness on the protection and conservation of environment and to know it's importance. What is environment?  The word environment refers to our surrounding or in other terms everything around us which is natural. So What's around us? We have our plants, animals and microbes as our biotic or living components and air, water,

Hi guys! welcome to "What's around us"; a blog which speaks on the things found around us has no articles about eyespots? Well, that's not true, as today I will be sharing the message of the reason behind the presence of eyespots on insects. We all might have noticed those colourful butterflies and moths with the big dark blotches or specks on its wings, the insects with small dark spots on their bodies, have you ever thought why these spots could be for? then scroll down to see those dark spots on different insects and its function. Erbus macropus Mysore, Karnataka India  Lemon Pansy, bears numerous eyespots on their wings on the wet season forms. Melanitis leda bears number of eyespots and black spots on its wings. Tussar silk moth contains pale yellow eye spots with brown and pink margin. Luna moth has bright yellow eyespots on its wings Apart from the moths and butterflies, beetles, bugs, weevils and other insects too have contras

Greetings viewers! hope all are having a great time spending your vacations; well, my vacations are getting over and trying to get back to reality. The saddest part of vacations is its end. Getting back to the work, leaving all the memories aside, planning to achieve the targets, a new beginning, a new thought, work on it, take up the burden, pressurised, reaching the goal, success and repeat. Our cycle of life is never ending, our lives are so similar to the seeds, don't you think so?? Richard L Ratliff says, "Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle. Seed, growth, bloom and seed again. A seed is a symbol of a new beginning, a new inspiration and a new life. Seeds have remained so close to human life. We eat seeds, we wear seeds, we earn through seeds, we get healed by seed and seeds are the part of rituals, ceremonies and festivals in India. We have been using the seeds from thousands of years, we started getting civilized by the discovery of seeds and its domestic

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top. ~ Henry Ward Beecher. Hi folks, hope you had a nice time last week. I had great fun last week in Chateau woods a lonely resort on a hilltop covered by the tall hills and forest; I concur with Henry, the view is much better at the top. I just spent my time sitting in a lounge chair on my balcony, breathing the cool air, sighting the hills with the background music of insects chirping.   Balcony view     Garden area    Tea plantations  Terrace view       Amazing to see nature so close, isn't it?  Tea plantations, coffee plantations, teak, silver oak are the most common plants found in the place. Camellia sinensis  (Tea) Osbeckia species Arachis pintoi Cosmos Ferns Arthropods are the most prominent forms here; one can hear the continuous sounds produced by the insects, butterflies are present in more