Tip: BODY should develop a good resistance to diseases, build a muscle mass because fitness is dependent on gender, food and age

"Komal Shah, a yoga instructor says, "Everybody is aiming on reducing their certain body part which will enable them to wear dresses like the female actors. But they don't understand that what is important is overall fitness." Says Mumbai based Ashtanga vinyasa yoga expert Dipika Mehta "The west has much more regulated stuff for personal weight reduction regimes. People read in books about Kareena Kapoor's suryanamaskars and start doing the same. What is important is the alignment during the suryanamaskars." Not every workout works great on all people at the same time is what people are now slowly getting a grip of. Anything is achievable but the ultimate aim should always be a healthy body."
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Ways to Mitigate Climate Change: Alternative Energy: Low Carbon Aviation Fuel from steel is only half the carbon footprint of the standard fossil fuel

According to Virgin Atlantic, the "breakthrough aviation fuel technology" will see waste gases from industrial steel production being captured, fermented and chemically converted using Swedish Biofuels technology for use as a jet fuel. India, which is among the world's largest steel producers, will be one of the first countries where the fuel will be produced as Lanzatech and partners develop facilities there and with three years and Virgin Atlantic hopes to fly Delhi to London Heathrow on the new fuel sometime in 2014.

The "revolutionary fuel production" will enable airlines to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint by reusing gases that would otherwise have been emitted directly into the atmosphere and promote sustainable industrial growth, as the process enables manufacturing plants to recycle their waste carbon emissions, a Virgin Atlantic spokesperson said.

Virgin President Richard Branson has termed the partnership with LanzaTech a breakthrough in aviation fuel technology and a major step toward radically reducing our carbon footprint. The technology is currently being piloted in New Zealand and following successful implementation, a wider roll-out could include operations in the UK and the rest of the world."
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Climate Change Update: ASIA: Links between Continental-Scale Weather Events and Global Risks to Food Availability"

It is more than a year since the devastating July and August 2010 floods in Pakistan that affected about 20 million people and killed an estimated 2,000. Many believe that the disaster was partially fuelled by global warming, and that there is a real danger that Pakistan, and the Indian subcontinent in general, could become the focus of much more regular catastrophic flooding.

Indeed, right now Pakistan is again experiencing massive flooding. The UN asserts that, already, more than 5.5 million people have been affected and almost 4300 are officially reported dead, 100 of them children.

Last year’s calamity, in particular, highlights the vulnerability of much of Asia to climate change, and has helped elevate this into one of the most important and pressing political and social issues in the region. Indeed, an increasingly prevailing view is that the impact of climate change could be worse in the region than all previous social, health and conflict disasters of the past."
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