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Real science behind Diwali

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Every year,Diwali or Deepawali is celebrated with great pomp not only in India,but around the world. As per the nomenclature,Diwali or Deepawali means an array of brilliantly burning earthen oil lamps whose luminescence dissipates the darkness of the night.  Since the atmosphere is highly contaminated due to the presence of dead bodies of night flies,the flies which keep on rotating and encircling around the lamps,the earthen lamps when burnt release soot or carbon black which is a very nice absorbing agent. It absorbs all the polluted gases and makes the environment clean. Unlike the high temperature of summer heat,the low temperature of cold winter doesn't evaporate stagnant water bodies easily. Hence,they end up becoming breeding ground for insects,especially mosquitoes,which then leads to spread of several contaminated diseases.  The Hindus,who were already experts in the sciences of yoga and ayurveda,thousands of years ago itself,had all the relevant knowledge back then

Can men breastfeed naturally?

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What an intriguing question ! Believe  it or not,men can actually lactate. Possessing all the necessary equipment,the main reasons men don't have it happen very often,is mostly just a lack of sufficient amounts of a single necessary hormone.  Milk is produced in small hollow cavities in breast tissue called alveoli,where the linings contain cells that secrete milk when properly triggered. While there are a variety of things that go into someone lactating,including various hormones,the main trigger for milk production is sufficient amounts of the hormone,prolactin,which is primarily produced by the pituitary gland,though,also produced by the prostrate gland in men and a layer of the uterine wall known as myometrium in women,among other places. Both men and women have alveoli,but typically different levels of prolactin. A normal non - pregnant woman has around one third to twice the hormone than the average man at any given time. Late in pregnancy and after giving birth,prolact