10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits - Read and Share..

10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits - Read and Share..

■Lacking in Stimulating Thoughts - Do you know? Thinking is the best way to train your brain, so think more, write more, explore more all this will help you to keep your brain fresh. Lacking in brain stimulation, may cause brain shrinkage.
■Over Eating - This is the most usual cause, most of the times we find tasty food and start eating more than what our body requires. This causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
■No Breakfast - Due to our busy schedule, we normally forget to take breakfast. People who do not take breakfast are most prone to have a low blood sugar level. Thus leads to insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing degeneration.
■Smoking - It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimers disease in later life.
■Sleep Deprivation - Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells. Oh! more cells dead, more loss of memory.
■Head Covered while Sleeping - Sleeping with the covered head increases the concentration of Carbon Dioxide and decreases concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
■High Sugar Consumption - Extra Sweets! can interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere in brain development.
■Air Pollution - As brain is the largest oxygen consumer in the body, inhaling polluted air will decrease the supply of oxygen to the brain, thus there will be damage to the brain. So try to be away from the polluted air.
■Working your brain during Illness - Giving stress to the brain when sick may lead to decrease effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
■Talking Rarely: Intellectual conversations promote efficiency of the brain. So be active participants in meetings and get-together's.
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Sneeze etiquette - Saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes.

Sneeze etiquette - Saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a milli-second.

The practice of blessing someone who sneezes, dates as far back as AD 77.

One explanation holds that the custom originally began as an actual blessing. Gregory I became Pope in AD 590 as an outbreak of the plague was reaching Rome. In hopes of fighting off the disease, he ordered unending prayer and parades of chanters through the streets. At the time, sneezing was thought to be an early symptom of the plague. The blessing ("God bless you!") became a common effort to halt the disease.

A variant of the Pope Gregory I story places it with Pope Gregory VII, then tells the common story of "Ring Around the Rosey" being connected to the same plague.

A legend holds that it was believed that the heart stops beating and the phrase "bless you" is meant to ensure the return of life or to encourage your heart to continue beating.

Another version says that people used to believe that your soul can be thrown from your body when you sneeze, that sneezing otherwise opened your body to invasion by the Devil or evil spirits, or that sneezing was your body's effort to force out an invading evil spirit. Thus, "bless you" or "God bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil.

Another belief is that people used to see sneezing as a sign that God would answer your prayers or an omen of good fortune or good luck.In this case, "Bless you" would be in recognition of that luck.

Appetizers, Hors d'oeuvres, Canapes:

Appetizers, Hors d'oeuvres, Canapes:

Food that is served at a cocktail party or during a pre-meal cocktail hour is intended to be eaten with the fingers. This includes olives, pickles, nuts, canapes, deviled eggs, and chips.

Hors D’oeuvres and Appetizers – Buffet style
> Reasonably fill your plate - Don’t fill up – that’s what dinner is for.
> Do not snack around the table.
> Use forks if available.
> Shrimp is eaten by hand when served at an appetizer buffet, eaten with a fork when served at dinner as shrimp cocktail
> Avoid ordering appetizer at a business lunch – but take the lead of the host.

Passing dishes or Food -

Passing dishes or Food -

1. Pass food from the left to the right. Do not stretch across the table, crossing other guests, to reach food or condiments.

2. Use your common sense. If the person sitting to your immediate left asks you to pass them a plate of food, do not pass the plate to the person on your right and wait for it to be passed around the entire table until it reaches the person on your left. The general idea is that several dishes being passed at one time go in the same direction.

3. If asked for the salt or pepper, pass both together, even if a table mate asks for only one of them. This is so dinner guests won't have to search for orphaned shakers.

4. Set any passed item, whether it's the salt and pepper shakers, a bread basket, or a butter plate, directly on the table instead of passing hand-to-hand.

5.Never intercept a pass. Snagging a roll out of the breadbasket or taking a shake of salt when it is en route to someone else is a no-no.

6.Always use serving utensils to serve yourself, not your personal silverware.

Soup - Finished position.

Soup - Finished position.
When finished, place the spoon on the right side of the under plate where the soup bowl sits, never on the tablecloth. If a cup is used, place the spoon on the plate, if a soup plate is used; if not, leave it resting in the soup container.

Soup - Resting position.
The spoon should rest where it is least likely to fall. When resting, place the spoon in the bowl. This sends a message to the server that you are still eating.

Soup - tips

Soup - Dip the spoon into the soup, moving it away from your body, until it is about two-thirds full, then sip the liquid (without slurping) from the side of the spoon (without inserting the whole bowl of the spoon into the mouth).

It is perfectly fine to tilt the bowl slightly (again away from the body) to get the last spoonful or two of soup.

To eat bread while eating your soup, don't hold the bread in one hand and your soup spoon in the other. When ready to eat a bite of your bread, place the spoon on the under plate, then use the same hand to take the bread to your mouth.

When you are served soup or bouillon in a cup with handles, or even a small bowl, it’s acceptable to pick it up and drink the soup.