BENEFITS OF USING BLACK WHEAT FLOUR

 BENEFITS OF USING BLACK WHEAT FLOUR

Black wheat flour is a gluten-free, greyish-black flour variety that is derived by processing the seeds of the black wheat plant, a variety that was developed in a lab in Mohali, Punjab, under the aegis of the Government of India. It’s named so because it is rich in the pigment called “Anthocyanin”, which also gives fruits and vegetables their blue, black, red, or purple colors. These also function as naturally occurring antioxidants that develop in a field at the time of grain filling, hence packing the wheat with a lot of nutritional value. Black wheat is enriched with 28 times more anthocyanins than the conventional wheat varieties!

The main nutritional components of this super-food are:

Anthocyanins

Antioxidants

High in Iron

Gluten-free, thus suitable for those allergic to gluten

Vitamins- Infused with vitamins such as Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, and B9.

Minerals include zinc, selenium, manganese, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, copper, and phosphorus.

Good sources of Amino Acids, that aid in tissue formation and body-building.

Folic acid

Dietary fibers

HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM CONVENTIONAL WHITE WHEAT?

The main difference between these two wheat lines lies in the anthocyanin concentration that they carry.

Regular wheat has a 5 ppm (parts-per-million) concentration of anthocyanin, whereas black wheat grain is observed to have approximately 100-200ppm of anthocyanin. This makes it a wiser, healthier option because a greater amount of antioxidants help flush the body of harmful toxins and free radicals, thus boosting the body’s overall health and functioning.

Additionally, while regular wheat carries 28% zinc content, black wheat is packed with 35% more of it, thus enhancing the body’s immune and metabolic functioning significantly. Similarly, conventional wheat varieties have about 25% iron content, but black wheat carries 60% more iron- this enormously boosts both our haemoglobin and hormone-related functions in the body.

Conventional Wheat

Anthocyanin Content: 5 ppm

Zinc content: 28%

Iron: 25%

Black Wheat

Anthocyanin Content: 140 ppm (100-200 ppm)

Zinc content: 35% more

Iron: 60% more

Apart from black wheat being more readily and easily digestible than conventional white wheat, it also carries more protein content, dietary fiber, calcium, Vitamin K, total flavonoid (TFC) and total phenolic content (TPC), and antioxidant activity than the regular wheat.

The TPC of black wheat is comparatively six times higher, with ferulic acid occupying the largest share in its TPC count. Ferulic acid multiplies the effects of other antioxidants and is especially good for the skin for reducing fine lines, spots and wrinkles.

BENEFITS ARE A PLENTY!

With so many powerful nutrients and other components in its belly, black wheat flour consequently delivers just as many health benefits when consumed on a daily level as a part of a healthy diet. Some key health benefits it offers are:

1. Combats many types of health issues

When taken in higher amounts, Anthocyanin, a powerful anti-oxidant, safeguards against inflammatory disease, and treats high blood pressure, cold, urinary tract infections, and heart diseases. It also maintains cholesterol levels and blood sugar metabolism in diabetic patients. And according to some researches, it also controls obesity.

2. Enhanced immunity

With more antioxidants than regular wheat present in it, black wheat flour maintains our antibodies and keeps the harmful free radicals under check. They further give protection against DNA damage and lipid peroxidation. Since it also has high anti-inflammatory properties, it multiplies the production of cytokines- small proteins that regulate our immune responses.

3. Supports eye function

Lack of correct nutrition due to insufficient intake of Anthocyanin can cause night blindness. Black wheat, just like the black currant fruit, is helpful in minimizing the chances of vision loss and any damage due to free radicals.

4. Effective for Heart Problems.

Black wheat is composed of unsaturated fatty acids that are perfect for keeping the heart healthy. So, those who are prone to experiencing heart disorders or other cardiovascular troubles can include this super grain in their daily diet. Additionally, it keeps under check the risk of stroke and other cardiac issues.

5. Controls Stress Levels

Since it is rich in antioxidants, it helps in relieving stress and mental fatigue.

6. Boon for Weight Loss

It has a high amount of dietary fiber that keeps the stomach full and curbs undesirable cravings. Since it also has a low-fat content, which exists in its unsaturated form, black wheat flour is ideal for fitness enthusiasts.

7. Relieves Constipation

Its rich fiber content is ideal for facilitating optimum digestion and keeping constipation and other gastro-intestinal maladies at bay. And since it also reduces unwanted cravings, issues such as constipation have greatly reduced chances of occurring.

8. Reduces cholesterol and triglycerides

It is packed with amino acids, which works wonders for bringing down cholesterol levels by eliminating extra fat from the liver. It is also beneficial for people having high triglycerides in their blood. Since it controls these two factors, this further helps keep blood pressure under watch, boosting overall heart health.

10. Helps Prevent Cancer

It helps regenerate the affected cells in cancer patients, and its consistent consumption also brings down the chances of cancer cells spreading in the body.

11. Enhances skin health

The total phenolic content (TPC) of black wheat is comparatively six times higher, with ferulic acid occupying the largest share in its TPC count. Ferulic acid multiplies the effects of other antioxidants and is thus especially good for the skin for reducing fine lines, spots, and wrinkles.

HOW TO INCLUDE IT IN YOUR DAILY DIET?

A wonderful superfood with endless nutritional benefits and boons, black wheat flour can be used as a substitute in almost all such food items that have white flour, maida, besan, or any other such item as its base. Thus, it can be easily used to make uttapams, chillas, cookies, idlis, and rotis. Even for dessert, the black wheat halwa can be both a game and taste changer, and for good!

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Ahead Of Eidul Adha, Lumpy Skin Disease Reported In KP,and Punjab

 Ahead Of Eidul Adha, Lumpy Skin Disease Reported In KP,and Punjab,

With fast approaching Eid ul Azha and sale and purchase of sacrificial animals on peak, the lumpy skin disease seems to be overshadowing as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa witnessed outbreak of the viral disease.

Director General Livestock, Muhammad Alamzeb Khan informed on Thursday that at least 95 cattle have been killed and more than 5,147 infected since April lumpy skin disease-Commonly known as cow disease outbreak. The first case of lumpy skin was reported from D I Khan district on April 22.

More than 9 million cows and bulls are vaccinated against the viral disease; DG Livestock said adding that fumigation drives were also conducted to prevent the spread of the virus. “We have requested the government to provide more vaccines for the animals,”.The vaccine costs Rs320 per dose, he said, urging affluent people to buy it so that free doses could be reserved for poor cattle owners.

To control the outbreak, he said that the government had set up 56 check posts at the entry and exit points of the province to monitor animals that were being brought to the livestock market.

Lumpy skin disease is carried by a vector, such as a mosquito or other parasites. Animals can also pass the infection on to each other in rare cases and contaminated surfaces can also sometimes spread the disease but it does not spread to other species of animals. The virus affects the nodes of animals and can eventually lead to large-sized lesions forming on the body.

The disease is known to have low morbidity but a strong impact on productivity. So far, there has been no known cure with culling cited as the only solution to stop the spread of the disease. Vaccination of cattle is the most effective method for controlling its spread, according to the European Food Safety Authority.

The World Organisation for Animal Health has said that the meat of the cattle infected with lumpy skin disease can be consumed by removing the affected areas.

Can Eating Meat Of Animal With Lumpy Skin Disease Be Fatal?

 

Can Eating Meat Of Animal With Lumpy Skin Disease Be Fatal?

 In Kafoor Dairi in Peshawar, due to consuming meat of a lumpy skin infected animal were rebuffed by experts on zoonotic diseases and officials of the Livestock and Dairy Development Department.

A news report appeared in press on Tuesday quoting Chairman  Tehsil,Sahiwal with claim that two persons of a family died after eating an infected animal which they brought from Punjab. Other members of the family are in hospital due to illness.

The press report was followed by circulation of a voice message on social media, warning people about impacts of lumpy skin disease on humans health.

The press report and voice message caused confusion and fear among people who have to purchase sacrificial animals for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

Meanwhile, officials of Livestock and Dairy Department KP and expert on Zoonotic diseases have differed these reports and urged Health Department to hold probe into the incident to find out real causes of death and illness among the family members from Kafoor Dehri.

“Lumpy Skin disease of livestock is not zoonotic and there is no example around the globe regarding contraction of infection to humans from animals,” claims Dr. Asad Ali Shah, Epidemiologist Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Livestock and Dairy Development Department.

Through out its history in the world till appearance of first case of lumpy skin disease in 1929 at Zambia, there is no example of transmission of infection among humans and on basis of scientific research, this claim is incorrect, opined Dr. Asad.

Talking to APP, Dr. Asad said lumpy skin disease has been reported in Pakistan for the first time and its severity was observed in Sindh province, but no case of infection and mortality among humans is reported in the province.

“In Karachi more than 50,000 cases of lumpy skin is reported while in Punjab the total number of cases is 5137, affecting 24 districts out of 34,” Asad informed APP.

“The number of mortality among animals in KP is 95 while 1291 have recovered and 3750 are in process of recovery.”

“Lumpy skin is a viral diseases that spreads from animal to animal through close contact and through bite of vectors including mosquitoes, ticks and parasites while it cannot be transmitted to humans,” Dr. Asad reiterated.

Dr. Asad added“Meat and milk of affected animal can not transmit virus to human through its consumption.“

He stressed upon Health Department to take notice of the claim made by Chairman Methra Tehsil and find out reason behind death and illness of family members to remove misconceptions.

Dr. Waqas, a PhD scholar on Zoonotic diseases and faculty member Agriculture University Peshawar when contacted concurs with view point of Dr. Asad and said “lumpy skin can not affect humans.”

“Reports appearing in press are unique and alarming as well that needs investigation,” comments Dr. Waqas.

“There is no report received from any part of the world that lumpy skin disease caused death among humans,” Waqas added.

“This incident needs to be probed scientifically and investigated to find out causes of death for clarification of scientists and public as well,” he went on to say.

“In view of my experience, it is very hard to believe that human death are caused by lumpy skin because even in animals the mortality is very low,”

Director Livestock and Dairy Development Punjab, Dr. Iftikhar informed that KP government has purchased a stock of around 270,000 vaccine and till today around 50,000 animals have been vaccinated.

He said“There are around nine million cattle which all will be vaccinated, but government needs resources because lumpy skin vaccine is quite expensive and is being imported in phased manner in KP.“

He said Punjab Livestock Department has set up around 54 check posts at different border points of the province to keep a check on all cattle brought from other parts of the country.

At check posts, he continued,“All animals are monitored and sprayed with insecticides. While teams are visiting different cattle markets for spray of animals and for creating awareness among dealers as how to deal with infected animals and protection of health ones.”

The Punjab government, he continued, has set up a Provincial Task Force on Lumpy Skin disease while field staff are using android apps for spreading information about animal health and disease symptoms.

He urged general public to thoroughly check animals before purchase for sacrifice and protect it from mosquitoes and other vectors by using insecticides.

In case of appearance of infection, the animal should be isolated from others and the owner forthwith inform Veterinary Department of Livestock for treatment, he advised.

Earthy colored Bear Runs In Snow In Pakistan

 Earthy colored Bear Runs In Snow In Pakistan 

An airborne video shared via online media showed the bear crossing the snow-shrouded territory as seen from a helicopter. 

Hunzukutz Kahn, a pilot and a specialist photographic artist, said he recognized the bear during a salvage mission. 

"While on our way back we needed to cross Deosai Plains and overhead Deosai we experienced this excellence running down there and it was effectively unmistakable in unadulterated white snow", Kahn told Reuters in a message via web-based media. 

As per the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) while earthy colored bears are named least concern species around the world, there are many confined, little populaces that are compromised, incorporating earthy colored bears found in the Himalaya Mountains in Nepal, India and Pakistan. 

In the Deosai National Park there is a steady populace of 40-62 bears, as indicated by IUCN.

Coronavirus: Pakistan Fears 'Looming Doom' Threatens Pakistan

 Coronavirus: Pakistan Fears 'Looming Doom' Threatens Pakistan 

For Mahwish Bhatti, picking a private lab to be inoculated against the Covid was a final retreat. 

"I was frantic. I froze," the 35-year-old from Lahore, Pakistan, told the BBC via telephone. "My mom was all the while sitting tight for her second portion of the antibody, so I figured my turn could never come. I contemplated internally, I will simply purchase whatever antibody is accessible." 

Bhatti, who lost her employment as of late, needed to pay in excess of 12,000 rupees ($78; £56) to a private lab from her own investment funds to get the Russian-made Sputnik V poke. She laughingly adds: "I got one hit of immunizations, yet additionally one hit to my wallet." 

However, the choice may yet end up being outstanding amongst other she has at any point made. Bhatti is presently among the under 2% of the nation to get a portion up until now - ready to skirt the long queue by following through on a cost far off to numerous Pakistanis. 

What's more, presently cases are on the ascent, hitting record highs this week. The burial service fires consuming right across the line in India are an obvious token of exactly how rapidly matters can heighten with regards to Covid. 

As of now Pakistan has seen dynamic cases go from as low as 16,000 in the main seven day stretch of March, to in excess of 140,000 new cases in April alone, just as more than 3,000 passings - making it the most exceedingly awful month since the pandemic started. 

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Official information uncovers that bed limit in the serious consideration units (ICUs) of Lahore's significant public and private medical clinics arrived at over 93% on 28 April, while a portion of the significant urban communities in the biggest and most noticeably terrible hit area, Punjab, are seeing more than 80% usage of ventilators and beds with oxygen. 

Should the quantity of diseases keep on developing, Pakistan may not simply be confronting a lack of beds. Government Minister for Planning Asad Umar brought up the nation was at that point utilizing 90% of its oxygen supply, with over 80% previously going towards medical services needs. 

Executive Imran Khan has cautioned Pakistan - with short of what one specialist for every 963 individuals - could be set out toward catastrophe. 

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How did Pakistan arrive? 

One of the key drivers which drove Pakistan to this stage was the appearance of the UK variation, as affirmed by Umar during second seven day stretch of March. He later announced it to be more perilous than the first strain. 

In any case, the variation has slammed into something different: lack of care. 

"After the subsequent wave, individuals thought this is it, it's finished," says Dr Seemi Jamali, leader overseer of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), one of Karachi's biggest public emergency clinics. 

"There was scarcely anyone keeping standard working methodology (SOPs, for example, veil wearing and keeping up friendly removing. Indeed, even in the emergency clinics, individuals are simply not cautious." 

To be sure, Pakistan emerged from the two its first and second waves moderately sound. The main flood came during May and June a year ago, yet leveled inside half a month. A subsequent wave arose around mid-September, and went on until late February. 

In excess of 800,000 individuals have been tainted since the main Covid-19 patient was distinguished in Pakistan in February a year ago, with in excess of 17,000 passings over the accompanying 14 months. In any case, in a nation of in excess of 216 million individuals, the total numbers don't add up to much. 

The issue is nobody is very certain how Pakistan tried not to be gravely hit at first. Dr Jamali proposes "karma" assumed a part. Others have various thoughts. 

Enormous gatherings are as yet meeting notwithstanding rising cases 

"Frankly, we are as yet not certain why our first wave was generally fleeting," said Dr Syed Faisal Mahmood, area head for irresistible infections at Karachi's Aga Khan University Hospital (AKU). 

"All things considered it might have been a direct result of exceptionally severe lockdowns that were established right off the bat, among different elements." 

However, the head administrator isn't enthused about another lockdown. Khan said exactly that in late April, disclosing he would not like to make any strides which will cause difficulty for day by day bets and the working class. 

Notwithstanding, he left the chance open "if our conditions become equivalent to India". 

Staying away from 'looming destruction' 

Yet, Pakistan's areas, which have taken choices all alone since the pandemic began, may yet assume control over things. 

Following an exacting fourteen day public lockdown last March, the administrations, both government and common, moved to "keen" or "miniature" lockdowns, zeroing in exclusively on territories which were all the more seriously influenced, a strategy which stays famous - in spite of the fact that pundits stay unconvinced of their adequacy. 

For Dr Jamali, postponing a lockdown - even with the additional actions like shutting schools, making cafés takeaway just and bringing in the military to implement cover wearing and social removing - is inadmissible. 

Rules are as a rule all the more rigorously authorized as cases rise, however no lockdown has been requested 

"It is my own view that severe measures must be taken. They need to go for a major lockdown and set out a marker. Only compromising with a lockdown won't work since individuals have gotten disobedient. The public authority needs to show its writ for everyone's benefit of the country." 

"We actually haven't halted social affairs, for example, weddings and capacities that are causing the spread of this infection," adds Dr Naseem Ali Sheik, lead for Covid-19 reaction in Lahore's Hameed Latif Hospital. 

"With Eid drawing nearer, the majority are in the city, and nobody is guaranteeing safety measures. Simply setting laws isn't adequate, implementing them is fundamental to keep away from the approaching destruction." 

There is, obviously, another approach to control the infection: inoculations. 

Be that as it may, plans to immunize to half of the absolute grown-up populace before the current year's over appear miles away. 

As indicated by Dr. Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Khan for Health, Pakistan has given a little more than 2,000,000 dosages since the inoculation drive started on 2 February. 

That adds up to 0.95 portions per hundred individuals. India, which started its inoculation program in January, has figured out how to give out more than 144 million dosages, generally 10.5 portions per hundred individuals. 

A stuffed inoculation community in Karachi 

Pakistan has additionally so far got only 18 million portions, of which the nation has gotten just barely more than 5,000,000 dosages, Dr. King said. As per information aggregated by the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, the nation needs in any event 86 million portions. 

The Economist Intelligence Unit says in its report that Pakistan will just accomplish boundless immunization - which implies 60-70% of its grown-up populace - by mid 2023. 

Dr Jamali of JPMC accepts that disinformation and fatalistic mentalities towards immunizations are making light of a job in easing back the program. In any case, she additionally adds that the "immunization acquisition measure by the public authority has been moderate". 

Then again, Dr Sheik says that while the public authority has figured out how to seek after a powerful inoculation crusade with a straightforward interaction for enrollment and immunization, it isn't adequate. 

"This is lamentably insufficient as most of our populace doesn't comprehend the idea and motivation behind immunization. The mission needs to incorporate mindfulness and alongside it, more severe SOPs should be guaranteed," he tells the BBC. 

For Mahwish Bhatti, in spite of getting her second hit of the Sputnik V immunization as of late, there isn't a lot of promising culmination of current circumstances. 

"The rollout interaction is so sluggish. I some of the time wonder when my age gathering's chance to get immunized will come. I was maybe fortunate enough to buy portions for myself, however shouldn't something be said about an average person, an every day bet? They don't have this much extra. How might they get it if there is no antibody?" 

Extra revealing by Benazir Shah, a Lahore-based writer.

Coronavirus: 'UAE Flights To Pakistan May Be Least Affected'

 Coronavirus: 'UAE Flights To Pakistan May Be Least Affected' 

 Pakistan might be least influenced' 

The Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority will hold a significant gathering this week to talk about the National Command and Operation Center's proposition to diminish the global trips by 80% from May 5 to May 20 because of a flood in Covid cases. 

The common flying controller will assemble the gathering in Islamabad on Tuesday to examine the worldwide flight tasks and classifications A, B and C regarding third flood of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The common flying secretary is probably going to seat the gathering and to be gone to by CAA authorities and agents of homegrown and global carriers. 

"The gathering is required to embrace the NCOC's proposition to lessen global flight activities and may reshuffle the rundown of three classifications to control traffic from the nations which are generally affected by the pandemic," as per the aeronautics sources. 

"The gathering may hold the solicitations made by the unfamiliar aircrafts to expand the quantity of trips to Pakistan in front of Eid this month," they said. 

NNI, a news wire, said a carrier from the UAE has mentioned the most noteworthy number of trips to Pakistan. Some different nations, for example, Turkey, Hungary and the UK are likewise intrigued to build trips to Pakistan and mentioned the CAA for consent. 

Strategy choices this week 

"The CAA will give point by point directions after the gathering. It might update its strategy on immediate or aberrant departures from specific nations. The UAE flights might be least influenced because of better treatment of the pandemic circumstance," the sources said. 

The flying controller had recently worked with three classifications, A, B and C. Classification An incorporates nations with significant degrees of Covid cases from whom individuals couldn't head out to Pakistan. Travelers from classification B nations needed to have new regrettable PCR tests which were not more seasoned than 90 hours. 

"The CAA is overhauling its strategy on traveler flights and consistently reshuffle the arrangements of nations in three classes as per the most recent advancements on pandemic on the planet. India, for instance, was moved from class B to A because of disturbing pandemic circumstance in the country. Nobody from India can go to Pakistan," as indicated by sources. 

Pakistan is additionally as of now engaging a seething third rush of Covid contaminations. It has detailed 4,696 new cass of the Covid just now just as 146 losses. 

Most recent information demonstrates that the nation directed 48,740 tests just now and found 9.63 percent are contaminated with the infection. 

As per a carrier's senior authority they have not gotten any notice from the CAA to diminish worldwide flight activities from this week. In any case, the carrier is prepared to carry out the CAA order once it gets it, the authority said. 

New help on Dubai-Lahore 

Quiet Air, what began its worldwide flight tasks a month ago from Sharjah, is prepared to extend its UAE activities with Dubai-Lahore departure from May 6. 

"We are good to go to extend our UAE activities notwithstanding the most recent advancements on global flight tasks. I trust this week CAA meeting won't affect our activities," the carrier's senior authority revealed to Khakeej Times on Saturday. 

Pakistan's Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Friday held a gathering with CEOs and agents of Pakistani transporters to examine their worldwide flight tasks. 

The senior heads of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), airblue, Airsial abd Serene Air went to the gathering and examined' matters identified with improving their worldwide tasks. 

The clergyman guaranteed the gathering members that the public authority would advance an agreement on most recent improvement on aeronautics area and advance the public carriers.