Dr Hector Perera

Some signs of iron deficiency or anaemia in the body Dr Hector Perera London People just and drink but sometimes do not care if they are eating healthy food. Iron is an important element in the blood. Each haemoglobin protein is made up subunits called hemes, which are what give blood its red colour. More specifically, the hemes can bind iron molecules, and these iron molecules bind oxygen. The blood cells are red because of the interaction between iron and oxygen. Some signs of iron deficiency Some people easily feel tiredness and lack of energy and this might be a sign of lack of iron in your blood, further they might experience short breath and heart palpitations, dizziness pale skins. Not only these signs there are few others such as, these symptoms, unusual weakness and fatigue, poor concentration, brittle nails, recurrent infections, breathlessness and always feeling cold. If anyone shows ...

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Which British TV chef would demonstrate energy saving and smell avoidance in cooking? Dr Hector Perera London Back home in Sri Lanka cooking was mainly done by servants or by “Kussi Ammas” but now they are gold dust as they have gone abroad for better paid jobs. They knew cooking by sheer experience not by reading internet or papers as they are not much educated. In the past they mainly cooked on firewood stoves than on gas and electric cookers. It was not easy to cook with such traditionally old methods compared to modern facilities such as with gas and electric cookers, ovens and microwaves. The firewood stove kitchens are always quite hot, smoky and filled with smoke dust and ashes when they cook rice and curries, apart from that the smell of curries also can be easily detected if anyone walk into a kitchen. Now I am wondering how ...

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Long term exposure to cooking aroma brings cardiovascular and respiratory problems Dr Hector Perera London If anyone watched British TV cooking programmes, you would notice the contestants always produce far too much cooking aroma while cooking. When they cook, they have to stay there that means they invariably inhale those unhealthy fumes. The so called judges appear to be not taking any notice of how the contestants cook as far as the final products are palatable to them. Who would agree that kind of cooking and judgements are right and let the public watch that kind of competitions. Sometimes TV is a media for educating the public but these kinds of cooking certainly would not help the public to cook in the correct manner. ...

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Not many people are aware of the danger of cooking in Aluminium vessels – by Dr Hector Perera – London Mainly in Western countries, in baking fish, roasting vegetables or preparing a piece of meat for dinner or even for baking cakes, they use aluminium foil. What you may not realise is that some of the foil will leach into your meal – and this could be bad for your health. “Gamae Kadae” Back home in Sri Lanka as well they use aluminium but not as much as in other countries. In Sri Lanka they make delicacies like “haelapa, wandu appa, pol roti” with vegetable leaves such as plantain leaves and with “kenda kola”. Those who know the taste of those delicacies know exactly what I mean. In some restaurants as well they serve some food on banana leaves for example “Thosae and wadae” are served on them with coconut ...

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Many inventions have been made by accident or by chance, including my scientific energy saving cooking by Dr Hector Perera: London I was living in a room only boarding house near Punchi Borella, not too from The All Saints Church when I had to study for Science Advanced Level. Then I had to depend on hotel takeaways than cooking. At the start I had to cycle or walk all the way to hotels to bring in or eat in hotels. Even when it rains, I had to get something to eat from hotels because I didn’t cook anything at the start, not because I didn’t know basic cooking but I didn’t start until a little later. For one reason or the other, I didn’t like those kinds of food and one of the reasons is that maybe they are not quite hygienic. Who knows if the chefs washed the vegetables ...

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Anybody can cook but unless one apply some scientific knowledge, no energy can be saved and cannot stop any cooking aroma depositing while cooking Dr Hector Perera, London Most people think that cooking is such a difficult task. There are plenty of reasons to think why cooking is difficult and one of the main reasons is the cooking smell getting on them while cooking. No wonder our Sri Lankan working ladies always employ someone to cook and they are the “kussi ammas” who work tremendously hard to prepare food. My mum was a school headmistress and she got her promotion when I was around five years old. Who would say these kinds of professional ladies would have enough time to spend cooking during the week days. Yes in the weekends mum also cooked with the servants but most of the hard work was done by servants. I never realised why ...

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Some Health Dangers of Cooking Food at High Temperatures Dr Hector Perera London Most people are unaware of the adverse effects of high temperature cooking. We cannot blame our good old “kussi amma” because they were totally unaware of those matters but now the present generation with more modern cooking facilities must be aware of the good and bad side of high temperature cooking. Clay pots are bad conductors of that means it takes time to heat anything in them. I think the slow heating of the food inside a clay pot is really good because the food itself are bad conductors of heat. Once the food get heat lots of chemical changes takes place quite slowly, some juice ooze out while some get in. I am sure those clay pots cook the food but as I said it takes time to get them heated up. In the meantime most ...

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What is love – “You just have to wait, love does not come easy” by Dr Hector Perera – London Love is a strong feeling of affection. The parents love the babies for far too many reasons and some are the affection, fondness, warmth and attachment. Some people love the work they do, it could be sports like football, tennis, rowing, swimming or even running. Love is a great interest and pleasure in something. Love can be defined as a deep affection or sexual love for (someone). This is not an easy thing to define what is love and according to Albert Einstein, “How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?” Love is difficult to define ...

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Must apply some scientific knowledge in cooking than just juggling, joking with this and that without any explanation: by Dr Hector Perera  London I made it clear that that I wanted to avoid any cooking aroma depositing on me and on my clothes while cooking. Just like back home Sri Lanka cooking, first I didn’t worry about the energy wastage then realised higher temperature, faster those chemicals escaped while cooking. I preferred to cook and eat even from those days due to many reasons including health point of view. When I had to cook, eat, study and sleep in a single room, I really had to think very hard to avoid the cooking aroma depositing all over. May be I have to eat takeaways than cooking in the room. Again I didn’t like that much oily, salty fish and chips and chicken and chips. Honestly I didn’t eat that kind of ...

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I discovered my scientific energy saving cooking technique a long time ago. Dr Hector Perera London I was living in a boarding house near Punchi Borella, near All Saints Church when I was in Colombo doing Advanced Level science, that was a room only basis accommodation and we had to get our meals from outside. In the boarding house there were two of my friends also attended to the same private college, Stafford College to do advanced level science. We were in the same class sometimes sitting on the same desk. To begin with we tried so many options, getting parcels and packets of lunch and dinner from nearby hotels. Sometimes I cycled day and night, rain or shine to hotels in Borella to buy lunch packets from nearby hotels. Honestly when I got home then opened to eat, the appearance didn’t appeal to eat, it looks like all mixed ...

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