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The link to the ebook is as given https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P7HVQCQ Sorry for missing the link in my last post. Rajaratnam Abel Advertisements

As a special Independence day promotion, I am happy to make the ebbok ‘Businessmen for the Poor’ available for a free download on August 15, 2019. When I made the book avavilable for free download last time, some complained that they could not download. Just to be doubly sure, please download first the free Kindle […]

I started this set of blogs by asking the above question, “Are chocolates good for the heart?” In this blog I conclude by answering this question. You may be surprised to learn that chocolate isn’t as bad for you as was once believed. Most chocolate falls into one of three categories: white chocolate, milk chocolate, […]

Yes, I have to complete my blog on cocoa and chocolates. There is an urgent need to complete this task. So bear with me. For the past few months, I have been promoting my book, Businessmen for the Poor. Ordering a book from many countries is difficult and costly. Therefore, I thought I’ll use the […]

Before We get into the issue of chocolates and their health issues, I thought at least some of you may be interested in knowing where cocoa comes from. As a child of about 8 years, I visited a relative near Kandy in Srilanka where they had a cocoa farm. It was more of a slope […]

We bid good bye to Vietnam three weeks ago. We enjoyed our stay of two months. The weather was fine. We also enjoyed the seasonal fruits of Vietnam. We came back to water starved, hot Chennai. Catching up with pending work kept us busy. We are back to our routines. The one thought that came […]

In my last post I shared about the fruit sour sop, how I had the privilege of enjoying the fruit of my childhood days here in Vietnam. My stay in Vietnam is coming to an end as I will be returning to India shortly. During my stay here some of the other fruits I enjoyed […]

I did not mean to write on this topic. I wanted to continue on the healthy foods that I had started. Something interesting happened and so I am pitching thi blog in. Some of you may know that I am in Vietnam enjoying a good holiday with my daughter’s family. Some of you may also […]

Gradually more viewers are visiting the site. I want to take the question I raised earlier one step further. For a long time we were teaching community to avoid coconut oil and ghee as they both contribute more to heart diseases.  It appears that the cycle has gone one complete round. Now nutritionists are saying […]

There are number of questions that arise as the list of foods that are good for the heart grows. Today I want to raise the question of chocolates. Chocolates have always been considered bad for the heart. Now the message that is being promoted is that dark chocolates are good compared to white and other […]