Eating Bananas During Pregnancy

Fruits and veggies naturally aid in the healthy growth of the fetus. Banana is one such fruit women should consider. You might still be doubtful about taking banana during pregnancy. You would be wondering if the fruit would really be good for your baby. Is banana good during pregnancy, you ask. Relax and read on, we say!

14 Health Benefits Of Banana

• Rich In Folic Acid: essential for the development of nerves, brain, spinal cord of your growing foetus.
• Reduces Anemia: accelerate iron in body, by producing haemoglobin and reducing anemic symptoms.
• Fights Constipation: contains fibres which enable smooth bowel movement and easy movement of stools.
• Source Of Calcium:for healthy bone development of your growing child.
• Boosts Blood Cell Growth:Vitamin B6 acts as a neurotransmitter. Boosts up the growth of Red Blood Cells
• Antioxidant:Fights the ageing. Boosts your immune system.
• Protein For Bodybuilding: best pre-exercise snack.Increase protein intake for vegeterians.
• Reduces Nausea:
• Blood Pressure Stabiliser: source of Potassium that reducing those muscle cramps and leg pains
• By checking on eating habits but not genetic influence.
• Energy Booster: Contain energy source; glucose, fructose and sucrose.
• Stops Hunger Pangs: Acts as a full meal to stop binging between meals.
• Maintains Blood Sugar And Cholesterol Level: Crucial if you have pregnancy diabetes.
• Good For Breastfeeding Moms:Your pre- and post-natal diet should be rich in energy iven by a banana.
• Ulcer Pain Sufferers: Used to fight bowel disease, because the texture is soft.

7 Yummy Ways To Enjoy Banana During Pregnancy

• Banana With Milk: 
• Banana Shake
• Banana Smoothie With Honey
• Banana Fries
• Banana Chips
• Green Bananas
• Raw Banana Curry

Causes Of Vomiting And Nausea During Pregnancy

• Rise In The Hormone HCG Human chorionic gonadotropin
• Increase In Estrogen
• Increase In Odor Sensitivity
• Bacterium known as Helicobacter pylori
• bacterium known as Helicobacter pylori

Causes Of Severe Nausea In Few Women

• Multiple Pregnancies
• History Of Nausea And Vomiting
• Side Effects Of Birth Control Pills
• Motion Sickness History
• Genetic Predisposition
• Migraine Headaches
• If The Fetus Is Girl Child

When Should You Contact The Doctor

• You do not pass urine for long hours 
• If your system is unable to keep fluid or food for even couple of hours.
• If you are feeling severely weak and dizzy
• If you vomit blood.
• If you have high fever of 38°C or more.
• If you are suffering from UTI (Urinary tract infections).
• If you feel pain while passing urine or pass blood during urination.

Preventing Morning Sickness

• Avoid fatty, spicy and acidic foods.
• Avoid foods with hard aroma
• Increase smaller meals put less stress on your digestion.
• Increase intake of nutrition smoothies, shakes and soups.
• Increase consumption of foods with ginger. 

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Being Your External Hard Drive's Doctor when it demands Formatting.

This is a common hard drive fault that I think most of us have run into at one time or another . This problem seems to be even more prevalent with the popularity of portable external hard drives like the Transcend. 

I attribute the need for Data Recovery Help to not safely removing the USB drive from the operating system before unplugging the drive. The reason this causes a problem is that Windows is always caching to the hard drive temporary files needed for operation, when you just pull the USB cord of these drives that data has no where to go and inevitably writes somewhere that is inconvenient.

 

How to fix the external hard disk drive using Command Prompt

CHKDSK [volume[[path]filename]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:size]] [/B]

• volume     Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.

• filename     FAT/FAT32 only: Specifies the files to check for fragmentation.

• /F     Fixes errors on the disk.

• /V     On FAT/FAT32: Displays the full path and name of every file on the disk.

• On NTFS: Displays cleanup messages if any.

• /R     Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F).

• /L:size     NTFS only: Changes the log file size to the specified number of kilobytes. If size is not specified, displays current size.

• /X     Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary. All opened handles to the volume would then be invalid (implies /F).

• /I     NTFS only: Performs a less vigorous check of index entries.

• /C     NTFS only: Skips checking of cycles within the folder structure.

• /B     NTFS only: Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume (implies /R) 

  The /I or /C switch reduces the amount of time required to run Chkdsk by skipping certain checks of the volume. 

   

  Help with CMD on how to fix the external hard disk 

  chkdsk E: /? will guide you on how to navigate through the CMD

  

  Help Link

   

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History

Begun in 2000 has now grown from 180 runners in 2000 raising $50,000 to 1,200 runners in 2014 raising $725,000. In addition to this, since the inaugural marathon in 2000, US$4.9m has been raised. The unique marathon is exceptional in many ways. It combines an unusual fundraising initiative with one of Kenya’s greatest sporting passions - running.

Registration

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    Two race categories for ages 10-13 and 14-17
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Among the most amazing apps, wearables are becoming the new type of device that all major companies are developing for consumers, and with new hardware comes new applications.

Microsoft has unveiled a new “analog keyboard” for Android Wear that lets you enter text on a smart watch by drawing letters and numbers with your fingers. It has also developed:

• highly acclaimed Outlook email app
• buying up popular calendar app Sunrise.
• Android apps, Torque allow voice command in Google
• Next Lock Screen forshortcuts to your lock screen
• Journeys & Notes app for location bassed notes

Microsoft really started to embrace mobile app development when it released mobile versions of its popular Office productivity suite and it hasn’t looked back since and it’s not just that Microsoft is making good apps of its own but that it’s wisely decided to offer more integration with established apps that are already popular, such as its decision to integrate cloud storage service Dropbox with its own Office software instead of forcing users to only use the company’s own OneDrive.

The bottom line is even if Windows Phone never closes its app gap, Microsoft’s position in the mobile app realm looks pretty strong.

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The social media giant and India's fourth largest mobile operator have called a joint press conference in Mumbai and the app released into the Google play on February 9, 2015.
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