CEREAL WITH MILK BEST WAY TO START THE DAY

A new study has revealed that the healthiest breakfast choice is cereal with milk. According to the research, breakfast is the key to a healthy lifestyle determining the quality of your whole day's nutrition.

And the best way to start the morning is with a simple bowl of cereal, as it makes people less likely to turn to fatty, sugary food through the rest of the day. The study, by nutritionist Sigrid Gibson, and published in the BNF Nutrition Bulletin, revealed that cereal is a good source of calcium and numerous other key nutrients, such as fibre, protein and carbohydrate.

The research team analysed 12,068 food records from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey, which interviewed Britons aged from 19 to 64. The results showed that one in five adults ate no solid food for breakfast, one third chose cereal and 45 percent enjoyed a non-cereal breakfast. The most popular item was tea or coffee, taken on 84 percent of breakfast occasions.

Milk was consumed with 82 per cent of breakfasts, followed by cereal (39 percent), bread (33 percent) and fruit (14 percent). Women were less likely than men to choose bread, sausage, bacon or eggs and more likely to have fruit instead.

The study found that eating breakfast was associated with a lower fat and higher carbohydrate intake over 24 hours compared with skipping breakfast. But this was mainly attributable to cereal-based breakfasts as non-cereal meals were associated with a higher intake of saturated fatty acid and lower protein intakes.

"This provides yet more evidence of the importance of eating breakfast and shows the value of making wise choices," a newspaper quoted Newcastle University's nutrition professor Chris Seal, a member of The Breakfast Panel which commissioned the study, as saying. "People who eat breakfast cereal generally eat less fat, saturated fat and sugar than those who do not and have better intakes of protein and important micro-nutrients, such as iron, vitamins and calcium." 

Culture of Punjab

The Culture of Punjab is really unique in itself. It resembles with no other culture in the world. But still it has all the good points found in many cultures all over the World. Punjabi Culture is though not complex but very simple, still it have several unique points in it. It is really unique, warm, hospitable, humorous, aggressive, lovable, colorful, enjoyable and full of taste.

Folklore, ballads of love and war, fairs and festivals, dancing, music, and Punjabi literature are characteristic expressions of the state's cultural life. The origins of Punjabi literature are the mystical and religious verse of the 13th-century Muslim Sufi (mystic) Shaikh Farid and of the 15th-16th-century Baba Nanak, founder of the Sikh faith, who were the first to use Punjabi extensively as a medium of poetic expression.

Punjabi food is famous all over the world. Punjabis spend much on their food and they are stronger than others. The main food to which any Punjabi can’t resist themselves includes “Makki Di Roti”, “Sarson Da Saag”, “Chatti Di Lassi”, "Aloo Da Parantha”, “Gobi Da Parantha”, “Poori Sholey”, “Kheer”, “Ghee Shakar”,“Alsi Di Pinni”. The list is unlimited when it comes for Punjabi Food. In Punjab, Punjabi Dhabas can be found all over on the highway full of crowd anytime.

Punjabis are always aggressive and they are known all over the world. If they once decide to do a thing they leave no stone unturned until they reach their goal.Punjabis are really warm people. A Punjabi, even if he meets someone for the first time, he meets him with the warmth and respect which is generated from his heart and can be felt by the heart.Even words cannot explain the Hospitality shown by Punjabis because they treat the guest before their own self. In Punjab guest are compared with the God.

Punjabis are always secular. They are respectful to all religion. The example of it is the four doors of the GOLDEN TEMPLE in Amritsar which was made to keep it open for persons belonging to all religions from all the four directions. Punjabis are Patriotic. The History is full of many examples where Punjabis have laid their lives for the up liftment and maintenance of glory of the country.Punjabis volunteer themselves immediately to do any burrito they like. They do not waste any time in thinking it over again and again and they do not fear for the adverse consequences of the same. Punjabis always positively initiate to undertake their responsibility. "Chak de Phatte" is the Mantra by which they perform even sometimes otherwise thought to be impossible things to do.Punjabis are healthy people. Their healthy mind lives in their healthy bodies and they are famous for 'Kushti', 'Akhara' and 'Kabaddi'. These are their favorite traditional sports.

Punjabi Culture is incomplete without mentioning the Punjabi Folk. The bhangra, jhumar, and sammi are the popular dance forms. The Giddha, a native Punjabi form, is a humorous song-dance performed by juices. In addition to Sikh religious music, semiclassical Mughal forms, such as the khayal, thumri, ghazal, and qawwali, continue to be popular. Folk Songs includes world famous songs like ‘Lohri’, ‘Heer-Ranjha’, ’Mirza-Sahiba’, ‘Sasi-Punnu’, ’Jugni’, ‘Das Main Ki Piar Ch Khatia’, ’Laddu Kha Ke Turdi Bani’, ’Juti Qasoori’, ‘Doli Chardiyan’, ‘Long Gowacha’. Punjabi folk is so rich it can’t be completed in words. The Punjabi’s Famous Folk Singers includes ‘Yamla Jatt’, ‘Surinder Kaur’, ’Kuldeep Manak’, ‘Hans Raj Hans’.

Attrection of Jalandhar - Haveli (Rangla Punjab)

 

Rangla Punjab Haveli: A traditional Punjabi village themed resort. Haveli, a traditional Punjabi restaurant on the G.T. Road, Jalandhar-Phagwara Highway, a wayside eating resort off Jalandhar.The resort that came up a few years ago, close to the popular Lucky Dhaba, has clicked like anything. It offers the ambience of a lost Punjabi village with a truck interior very much a part of the interior and waiters togged in tehmat-kurtas and phulkari jackets. Now it has grown to add a marriage palace and an enlosure called Rangla Punjab, which has a cultural programme every evening. Many wayside resorts are trying to go the Haveli way but this place, run by Jains of Jalandhar, remains unparalleled in success. The only thing that is not to be found here is non-vegetarian fare but people still come out in large numbers to Haveli. It's a new-age dhaba with a heady flavour of bygone Punjab. Haveli, a traditional Punjabi restaurant on the Grand Trunk Road near Jalandhar, has redefined roadside eating by a delectable blend of Punjabi cuisine and culture. Making it a clean break from the dust-and-flies fixture of the highway dhabas, this 23-acre food plaza offers ethnic food in a folk-laced ambience imbued with neatness and nostalgia. Haveli spawned a couple of copycats with "Haveli" suffix in Punjab and Haryana. On average, this 24x7 eatery attracts 5,000 to 8,000 customers every day per one of their employee.

 

The high turnover makes Haveli's gastronomical delights easy on the pocket. Haveli's USP is its ethnic look. From an exterior of "Nanakshahi" bricks to a bevy of antique artifacts, the place evokes the old world charm. Even the music is distinctly folk. Not surprisingly, it has become a must-stop eatery for the NRIs heading to or from Punjab in winters. While Haveli has expanded into a one-stop food plaza, Rangla Punjab, its entry-on-coupon eatery, takes the cake.

Haveli has an all-vegetarian menu of Punjabi food cooked in desi ghee (clarified butter). Dal Tadka, Karahi Paneer and Kheer are its top-selling all-season delicacies. In winters, Saron Da Saag and Makki Di Roti (Punjabi village winter speciality) is the most favourite dish. Saron Da Saag & other eateries offered in Haveli are specially mentioned in one of the famous Punjabi/Bollowood Singer Gurdas Mann's song (Apna Punjab Hove...Ghar Di Sharaab Hove... Mooli Naal Gandha Hove...Baan Wala Manja Hove... Ho Manje Ute Baitha JAT Oye Banea Nawaab Hove... Apna Punjab Hove...Ghar Di Sharaab Hove... Apna Punjab..........Apna Punjab..... Saron De Saag Vich Main Gheo Hi Gheo Pai Jaavan.. Makki Diyan Rotiaan Nu Bina Gine Khai Jaavan.. Khoo Te Jaa K Ganne Choopan.... Apna Punjab Hove...Ghar Di Sharaab Hove... Apna Punjab..........Apna Punjab.....). One finds many of the items listed in Gurdas Mann's song in Haveli restaurant except Sharaab (so far I know).

Every evening, the place reverberates with folk songs and dances, keeping Haveli's cash registers ringing. Somone in our family who works for an exporter in India, accompanied their foreign clients more than 50 times to this place though I visited it once only.