Had our rulers promoted bicycle culture on our roads by providing separate Lanes on the roads for cyclists the cycle culture would have struck root in the country and there would have been a marked decline in the number of blood pressure and diabetic patients in the country today.
One seldom see pot bellied persons in China because all Chinese pedal off on cycles to their place of work in the morning every day and then return home in the evening through the same mode of transport. Small wonder there are not many patients of high blood pressure and diabetes in China . It would be not out of place to mention here that Hakim Saeed the founder of Hamdard Pharmaceutical company was once asked by a newsman as to what was the main reason of his good health and long life. He was then pushing eighties. He replied that he ate only once in a day. After breakfast he would either take his lunch or dinner. More ever, he has been fasting one day every week and undertook small walks daily and he has been following this practice for half a century.
A Chinese sage had said once that one should sit only on the dining table when he felt extremely hungry and stay his hand while he was still insatiate. Truer words were never spoken.
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Putin’s steadfastness or obduracy, it seems is paying off as Trump has given the hint that Ukraine will have to give some of its land to Moscow to settle the present Russo-Ukraine imbroglio.
