Completed the course - Internet History, Technology and Security from University of Michigan at Coursera

I am very happy to share that I have just completed the course - Internet History, Technology and Security.

The link to the certificate can be found here.

Calorie restriction for weight reduction

Just now I posted a comment about calorie restriction for weight reduction while replying to a comment. I think it will be useful for others who might not see that comment, hence posting the information below. Any questions are welcome. I am not an expert in it, but I will try to give answers based on my current knowledge. If I don't find answer, let's try to find out answers. But all the questions are welcome. Naidu sir had said once - "No question is a foolish question"

I have mainly reduced it by calorie restriction. It is such an interesting thing to know that our daily calorie requirement is 2000 KCal on an average and if we will create calorie deficit (for example taking only 800 KCal a day and in this way creating a deficit of 1200 KCal daily), body will use it's enegy stores, which are fats. When a deficit of 7000 KCal is created, 1 kg weight is reduced. So restricting the calories (not food) is the best way to reduce weight.

Science is about measurement, hence I make use of measurement as the biggest tool. I have brought kitchen weighing scale and I can precisely monitor the number of calories I am taking.

It is all game of calories as I understand it.

Exercise is important too but it is secondary to calorie restriction and I try to do it as per time and my mood. :P

Protecting Human Research Participants - Course completion certificate

Dear All, 

I am very happy to share that I have completed the course of "Protecting Human Research

Participants" offered by The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural

Research, US.

The certificate can be found at following link: Link of the certificate

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Importance of having a goal in life

It is extremely important to have some aim / goal in life. Without aim, the life becomes boring and our actions can even become destructive ourselves. We need not keep a very big aim always. Even a short, temporary goal will also do. But we need to make sure that we are following some aim all the time. It is also fine if we get failure while chasing it, but aimlessness is a very dangerous state of mind which needs to be handled very carefully.   

My talk on the topic of 'Ayurveda:Concepts and Misconceptions (in Marathi) at Senior Citizen Club, Sinhagad Road, Pune dated 7 April 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71Xmk2OiKHI&feature=youtu.be

This seems the news about my talk in the newspapers. But please note that I have not said this. To know what I said, please listen to my talk. 

Thanks a lot Ghooi sir for sharing this video!

Only a human can!

We can further eat even if we are full. This only a human can do. Animals eat when they are hungry and then they stop as they are full. They have inborn understanding of when to stop eating. We too have this inborn sense. But we can neglect the real hunger and can modify our behavior at our will. This seems the real problem. As we 'can' eat more even if not needed, we do it sometimes and that can lead to increased weight. 

But this need not be looked with pessimism. This ability to control our behavior presents new opportunities as it presents threats. Because having ability to control our behavior means that we can remain hungry at will as well. Which an animal can't do. So remaining hungry even when our body is demanding food is something which only a human can!