CA meeting at Sunday

Kathmandu, Aug. 22: The Constituent Assembly meeting will be held at 6:00pm Sunday.

The meeting is fixed after the Constitution Drafting Committee submitted the revised draft of the constitution bill to Constituent Assembly Chairman Subash Nembang yesterday evening.

Assistant Spokesperson at the Constituent Assembly Secretariat, Sudarshan Kuikel, said the CA meeting was called to present the CDC report on the draft constitution bill.

However, formal notice on it would be made by the Legislature-parliament meeting to be held 11:00 am Sunday. RSS

The downside of treadmill desks

- Gretchen Reynolds

JUN 20 - Treadmill desks are popular, even aspirational, in many offices today since they can help those of us who are deskbound move more, burn extra calories and generally improve our health .

But an interesting new study raises some practical concerns about the effects of walking at your workspace and suggests that there may be unacknowledged downsides to using treadmill desks if you need to type or think at the office.

The drumbeat of scientific evidence about the health benefits of sitting less and moving more during the day continues to intensify. One study presented last month at the 2015 annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in San Diego found that previously sedentary office workers who walked slowly at a treadmill desk for two hours each workday for two months significantly improved their blood pressure and slept better at night.

But as attractive as the desks are for health reasons, they must be integrated into a work setting so it seems sensible that they should be tested for their effects on productivity. But surprisingly little research had examined whether treadmill desks affect someone’s ability to get work done.

So for the new study, which was published in April in PLOS One, researchers at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, recruited 75 health y young men and women and randomly assigned them to workspaces outfitted with a computer and either a chair or a treadmill desk. The treadmill desk was set to move at a speed of 1.5 miles per hour with zero incline.

None of the participants had used a treadmill desk before, so they received a few minutes of instruction and practice. Those assigned a chair were assumed to be familiar with its use. Then the volunteers were asked to complete a series of tests of their manual and mental dexterity.

The manual task was simple enough, consisting of using the keyboard to type words that flashed onto the computer screen as quickly and accurately as possible while the volunteer either sat or slowly walked.

The cognitive tests were more demanding, designed to measure practical aspects of cognition, such as working memory and delayed recall, and the ability to concentrate, all of which are important in performing office work. In one of these tests, volunteers had to learn and later recall lists of words; in another, they were asked to juggle lists of numbers and add them up in their heads even as new numbers were added to the list, possibly triggering unsettling flashbacks to high school algebra exams.

The results, when the researchers compared the treadmill walkers with the people sitting at their desks, substantially favoured sitting. The people who had walked during the testing performed worse on almost all aspects of thinking, including the ability to concentrate and remember, compared with those who had been seated. And they were much

worse at typing, being substantially slower and more error prone than the sitting group.

No one should be surprised by this deterioration of typing ability while using a treadmill desk, said Michael Larson, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at BYU who led the study. “You’re not stationary,” he said. Even if the oscillation in your body position is slight, you are moving first closer to and then farther from your keyboard. “It’s like typing while rowing,” he said.

But the lower cognitive scores among the treadmill walkers, compared with people in chairs, were unexpected, Dr Larson said.

Most studies of the effects of physical activity on cognition show that moving improves thinking.

Dr Larson noted that those studies generally had focused on the effects of thinking after someone had walked or otherwise moved around, not on how well people think while actually moving.

In the current study, he said, it appears that using a treadmill desk sopped up some of the volunteers’ available cognitive resources. By devoting a portion of their thinking to keeping themselves balanced on the treadmill, they became marginally less able to reason and remember.

This was a very limited, one-time test of people’s performance while using a treadmill desk or staying seated. It is extremely likely, Dr Larson said, that if people repeatedly use a treadmill desk, they become accustomed to its effects and get better at walking, typing and thinking simultaneously.

It is also worth emphasising, Dr Larson said, that the cognitive performance of the treadmill-desk volunteers, while worse than that of the people in chairs, “remained within what would be considered normal” on all of the tests. They didn’t forget how to add. They just weren’t quite as adept as people who sat.

The upshot, Dr Larson said, is that someone considering a treadmill desk should plan on a period of adjustment and might have to deal with lingering effects on typing and possibly even thinking.

But even with that caveat, he said, he believes that the health benefits of a treadmill desk should outweigh any declines in productivity and, in fact, he plans to buy one for himself.

—©2015 The New York Times

Speaker Nembang directs DPM Gautam to inform House

Kathmandu : Speaker Subas Nembang has directed the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bamdev Gautam to respond to the Parliament about the use of force on lawmakers and dalit rights activists on Wednesday’s meeting of the Legislature-Parliament.

Lawmakers have urged DPM Gautam to offer apology in the House, to arrange free treatment to the injured and to take action against the police official who were involved in using force against the lawmakers and the dalit rights activists. RSS

Fidgeting may benefit children with ADHD

 - Instead of telling children with hyperactivity and attention problems to sit still, perhaps we should encourage them to wriggle at will, according to a new study of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. The study, in Child Neuropsychology, found that children with ADHD concentrate much better when they fidget than when they don’t.

Hyperactivity is, of course, one of the defining symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It is in the disorder’s name and is usually the first symptom that parents, teachers and others notice. Most of us may be unable to gauge precisely how well a child concentrates. But we can tell if he or she can—or cannot—stay still.

But the relationship between hyperactivity and children’s concentration problems has been less clear. Does their hyperactivity intensify the attention deficit? Are the two problems—hyperactivity and attention deficits—unrelated except that they happen to occur together? Or could hyperactivity play some other role in the thinking and behaviour of children with attention problems, possibly even a beneficial one?

Those questions intrigued Julie Schweitzer, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis, and her colleagues.

Past studies had suggested that children with ADHD concentrate better and improve academically if they are physically active during the school day. But that research had focused primarily on how to re-channel the children’s hyperactivity.

Dr Schweitzer, who treats many children with ADHD, had begun to wonder whether that emphasis was misplaced. Perhaps experiments should look into why the children were so hyperactive in the first place.

To find out, she and her colleagues gathered 26 boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 17 who had a diagnosis of ADHD; the researchers independently confirmed the diagnosis. Then they recruited an additional 18 children without ADHD.

All of the children visited the group’s lab and were outfitted with an unobtrusive activity monitor on one ankle that could track how often and how intensely the children bobbled their leg, which is a good marker of fidgeting.

Then the scientists had the children complete a simple computerised test of attention and cognitive control, during which they had to note the direction an arrow was pointing and push a key showing that direction. The arrow in question was flanked by other arrows, which sometimes pointed in the same direction as the primary arrow and sometimes did not.

The children were told to respond as quickly as possible to the test, punching the proper key as soon as the arrows appeared on screen.

Then they repeated that same test more than 200 times in rapid succession, while the arrows shifted directions and each child’s ability to concentrate was sorely strained.

Afterward, the scientists compared the accuracy of the children’s responses during each of the more than 200 trials with the corresponding data from the activity monitors. In effect, they were examining how much and how intensely each child fidgeted every time they punched the key to indicate the arrow’s direction.

They found that the more intensely that the children with ADHD wiggled and fidgeted—the more ferociously they bobbled their legs- the more accurate their answers were. When these children were relatively still, their responses were much more likely to be wrong, indicating that they had had trouble concentrating then.

Meanwhile, fidgeting had played no discernible role, positive or negative, in the performance of the children without ADHD, most of whom didn’t fidget much anyway.

These results suggest that hyperactivity is fundamentally beneficial for children with attention deficits, Dr Schweitzer said, and probably developed to help them cope with their inability otherwise to focus.

“Hyperactivity appears to be a mechanism for cognitive self-regulation,” she said. In other words, children with ADHD may be hyperactive because the physical restlessness helps them to sharpen their mental control.

Dr Schweitzer speculated that this constant movement probably increases mental arousal for children with ADHD, much as stimulant drugs do. (Most of the children with ADHD in this experiment were taking such medications.)

Of course, this was a small, short-term study, involving only one type of cognitive test.

But its message seems straightforward, if unsettling, for weary parents and teachers who must deal with hyperactive children: let them squirm and fidget and bounce and jiggle and generally maintain that constant, disconcerting restiveness, if you want them also to be better able to concentrate.

The accommodations can be fairly discrete. Maybe install elastic bands beneath children’s desks, Dr Schweitzer suggested, so that they can pull and play with them in a way that shouldn’t bother other children. Or use yoga balls as chairs, so the children can bounce. Even encouraging them to stand more often may help.

“I know it’s difficult to accommodate hyperactivity,” Dr Schweitzer said, but it may really help children whose fidgeting bodies seem to contribute to calmer, more focused brains.  —©2015The New York Times

Top 15 Reasons To Use Apple Cider Vinegar Every Day

An apple a day keeps the doctor away is a very famous saying. Now, you can add a new twist to this saying by replacing the apple with apple cider vinegar. A daily dose of apple cider vinegar is also very effective in keeping the doctor away. It is a quick and effective ingredient for your hair, skin, cleaning coffee makers, removing coffee and tea stains from ceramic cups, polishing armor, killing weeds, making pickles as well as used for salad dressing. Apple cider vinegar is such a useful ingredient that you cannot resist the use of this ingredient every single day. It is not just used for helping you out in the kitchen and for cleaning things, but it also has many natural benefits. It is rich in calcium, potassium, magnesium, copper, phosphorus, sodium and fluorine. It is also rich in vitamins like A, B1, B2, C, E, pectin and bioflavanoid. It is such a useful ingredient that you need to use it in your daily routine.

Benefits Of Apple Cider Vinegar

1.    Detoxifying Your Home

Apple cider vinegar is made by fermenting the apple juice to form hard apple cider. Then it undergoes a second fermentation process where it becomes apple cider vinegar.
•    Using the apple cider vinegar in place of other products in your home will help you to decrease the consumption and dependence on unnatural chemicals in your homes every day.
•    Regular use of apple cider vinegar will provide a healthy environment and surrounding in your home.

2.    Regulates Skin pH

Apple cider vinegar is found to be an excellent ingredient that will help in removing age spots, ace scars, and warts apart from toning your skin.

Procedure:
•    Use two parts of water to dilute one part of apple cider vinegar and spread this mixture all over your face with the help of a soft cotton ball.
•    You can apply this at night before going to bed or even use it in the morning before applying your moisturizer.
•    It will help in reducing age spots.
Warts Treatment:
•    Soak a cotton ball in apple cider vinegar and then using a band aid seal this soaked cotton ball over the wart on your face.
•    Leave it there for overnight and there are chances for the skin to swell when the apple cider vinegar solution reacts with the wart.
•    The wart will fall off and repeat this treatment for a few more days so that wart does not reappear.

3.    Use It For Shiny Hair

If you love to see your hair shiny and full, then you need to rinse your hair with apple cider vinegar after a good shampoo. It is also an excellent remedy for dandruff.

Procedure:
•    Add half a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a cup of cold water and mix it well.
•    Apply this solution over your hair after a good shampooing process and leave it there for about half an hour and then rinse it off.
•    Repeat this process several times a week to see quick and effective results.

4.    Removes Teeth Stains

If you are finding it difficult to flaunt your yellow teeth, then apple cider vinegar is the cheapest and simplest ingredient that will help you to restore the natural white color of your teeth. It will also work effectively on the bacteria in your mouth and gums.

How To Use?
•    Gargle every day with apple cider vinegar the first thing in the morning and then brush your teeth like you do normally.
•    Also, brushing your teeth with apple cider vinegar will help in reducing the yellowness of your teeth.

5.    Treats Sunburnt Skin

If you feel that your skin has been sunburnt due to excessive heat outside, then you can always think of having an apple cider vinegar bath to soothe your skin.

Procedure:
•    Add half a cup of apple cider vinegar in a bucket of water and bath in this water. Leave the water to react on your burnt skin for some time before patting it dry.
•    You can also add one or two cups of apple cider vinegar to a bathtub filled with water. Soak yourself in this water mixture for about half an hour and then have a quick bath. All your discomfort due to sunburn will vanish instantly.

6.    A Natural Aftershave

If you find the regular chemical aftershaves to cause skin irritation, then you can think of replacing it with natural apple cider vinegar.

How To Use?
•    Add equal parts of apple cider vinegar and water and mix them well.
•    Apply this mixture over your face after a good shave and you will never experience skin irritation after a shave.

7.    Promotes Weight Loss

If being overweight or obese is a problem, then you have a good solution with you in the form of apple cider vinegar. It has been found that regular consumption of apple cider vinegar that is rich in acetic acid will help in significantly reducing abdominal fat, body weight, triglycerides and inches around your waist.

Procedure:
•    Add 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar in 16 ounces of water. Mix it well and drink it every day for 12 weeks in the morning.
•    You will find that you have reduced your weight by 2 to 3 kilos after 12 weeks.

8.    Natural Massager

Massaging apple cider vinegar on hands and feet gives relief to tired hands and feet. It helps to reduce joint pains and inflammations due to arthritis, when applied to the bone joints.

How To Use?
•    Rub your hands and feet with apple cider vinegar and massage it lightly before going to bed, to get rid of tiredness and pain in the joints.

9.    Maintains Body pH

Apple cider vinegar helps to maintain healthy pH levels in the body. High level of acidity in the body leads to higher risk of infections. Apple cider vinegar helps to lower the acidity level.

How To Use?
•    Mix 2 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in one glass of water and drink it once or twice daily to boost your immune system.

10.    Body Detoxification

While balancing the pH of the body, apple cider vinegar does the overall detoxification of the body. Studies have shown that consuming apple cider vinegar helps in improving the cardiovascular circulation and detoxifying the liver.

How To Use?
•     Sip some vinegar few times a day

11.    Cleanses The Lymphatic System

Apple cider vinegar helps in the breakdown of mucous in the body and clears the lymph nodes. It can fight allergies as it reduces mucous formation and reduces sinus congestion.

How To Use?
•     You can sip the apple cider vinegar few times a day or you can use 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar added to one glass of water and drink it in empty stomach.

12.    Fights Yeast Infections

Apple cider vinegar has anti fungal properties. It contains natural enzymes which help in fighting Candida or yeast infections in humans.

How To Use?
•    Mix one cup of apple cider vinegar with one cup of water
•    Apply this mixture to the yeast infected areas of the skin several times a day
•    Repeat the procedure for a few days or till skin is cleared of infection.

13.    Reduces Heart Burn

The hydrochloric acid present in the stomach is the reason for heartburn. Apple cider vinegar reduces the acidity of the stomach as it is a very mild acid. This helps to correct the acidity level of the stomach.

How To Use?
•    Take a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar followed by one glass of water to get relief from heartburn.

14.    Repels Fleas On Pets

•    Mix one part  of vinegar and one part of water
•    Spray this mix on the fur of your pet and rub it into the skin
•    Continue this for a few days to remove flea infestation

15.    Cleanser

•    It can be used for cleaning the toilet-pour apple cider vinegar into the toilet and keep it overnight.
•     It can be used for cleaning dishes instead of dish washing liquids.
•    Mix half cup of apple cider vinegar in one cup of water and use this mixture to wipe microwaves, kitchen counters, glass windows, mirrors etc.

Are you looking for a natural product to keep clean your home, to increase your body immunity? Do you want to know about natural methods to keep your hair and skin clean? Are you looking for a natural alternative to chemical dishwashers and toilet cleaners? Then you can start using apple cider vinegar for these purposes. You will find that apple cider vinegar is the ultimate natural method to keep clean your home and to maintain your body health.  You can also use it in many other ways according to your need.

In These Hot Days Refresh Yourself With Limonana – The Tastiest Refreshing Drink -

This Israeli beverage is the number one refreshing summer drink worldwide. We will now present how to prepare it in order to refresh and enjoy the long hot days.

The name limonana originated by the merger of two Hebrew words “limon” and “nana”.

In this article you will be able to learn how to make this beverage by its original recipe.

Ingredients needed:

– 4 midsized lemon

– 3 tablespoons of honey

– 3 cups of ice

– A handful of fresh mint leaves

Method of preparation:

First drain the juice out of the lemons and add the resulting juice in a jug. Add the mint leaves and honey dissolved in a half cup of boiling water. Finally add the ice in the jug, stir well and enjoy!

Small tips:

1. The final taste will be more intensive if you blend all above mentioned ingredients in a blender.

2. Limonana is better tasting if you leave it in the fridge for an hour before consuming.

3. The taste is amazing even if you add lime – lemon’s first cousin.

4. If you do not have fresh mint at the moment, you can add one from a tea bag. It is not completely the same but it is good substitute.

20 things to enhance your life at this time

IT'S simple to fall into a trench, having negative consequences for all aspects of our lives. We've set up this rundown together to urge you to think outside the box, carry on a bit better, baby steps. 

It's so natural to overlook that you just get one life. The time to roll out improvements, however extraordinary or little, is presently. 

ONE: Become an ambitious person 

No telephone calls, shouting children, activity – is there a superior time for working out, conceptualizing or simply having some tea? 

TWO: Get input 

Look for legitimate and direct guidance to recognize the shortcoming that you didn't even notice yet has kept you from making the following stride in your profession. 

THREE: Get an Everpurse pack 

Not any more terrifying when your cell phone's battery is low. These little however trendy packs revive your telephone wherever you are and verify you'll never miss that groundbreaking Facebook remark again. 

FOUR: Make a To Do List 

Take all the errands you need to recall from your brain to paper and appreciate crossing them out when they're at long last done. 

FIVE: Create a dream board for day by day motivation 

SIX: Get refined 

Visit your neighborhood craftsmanship display, theater, show corridor …  burst the air pocket. 

SEVEN: Prioritize 

Never get the chance to do the things you truly cherish? Delegate, take out and you'll at long last have the capacity to appreciate quality time with your children or go for the morning run that makes you feel so satisfied. 

EIGHT: Get an eye cover 

It will help you to have that abundantly required quality rest. 

NINE: Meditate 

Do it at home, in the auto or at this time. For one moment, five minutes or 15 minutes. In any case, do it! Concentrating on your breath will abandon you with a revived body and psyche. 

TEN: Do It Now! 

Whatever it is that you've been putting off – enough with the reasons and accomplish it. Presently. 

ELEVEN: Make other individuals feel unique 

At the point when was the last time you did something pleasant for a friend or family member, only in light of the fact that? 

TWELVE: Get more products of the soil 

Attempt a tasty, sound Apple Kale Ginger Smoothie: 1 apple, cored and diced; 2 stalks lacinato kale (ribs uprooted, slashed), 1 teaspoon minced, crisp ginger, juice of one orange and one lemon. Mix and appreciate! 

THIRTEEN: Unplug 

The main time you're not joined is amid rest. Expel yourself completely from innovation for 60 minutes a day. Think about all the things you can do with the time! 

FOURTEEN: Keep a diary 

This will arrange your contemplations, help you to see all the more unmistakably and possibly save you those 3am wake-ups. 

FIFTEEN: Set transient objectives 

They're much simpler to finish than the huge dreams and will keep you persuaded. What's more, they'll additionally look incredible on your schedule! 

SIXTEEN: Turn the music up uproarious! 

SEVENTEEN: Take a 10-moment rest 

You'll be compensated with more efficiency for whatever remains of the day. 

EIGHTEEN: De-mess 

Much the same as a clean work area at the workplace will make you more gainful, disposing of all the stuff you've heaped up at home will free your psyche. 

NINETEEN: Enjoy a Sobremesa (Spanish: "Sitting on after a feast") 

The Spanish don't hork their suppers down and surge back to work. They wait on at the table to process and appreciate. 

TWENTY: Try to get a touch of Sobremesa into your ordinary life 

As opposed to racing through it, stop to notice and worth the little things.