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Publisher’s Note

I scream, You scream

We all scream for Ice-cream!

A friend who lived in a joint family and had to — all seasons call for ice-cream. Go to a Punjabi
manage 5/6 kids devised a great strategy to get the wedding in winter and you can eat hot jalebi with
kids in a good mood. Crying was infectious once vanilla ice-cream, you can also have kulfi with the
one kid started to cry and one by one everyone vermicelli and the red sweet-sweet rose sherbet. At
joined in the chorus. She got out a cup of ice-cream a Gujju wedding you can have gulab jamun with
and with that a little plastic spoon fed each one vanilla ice-cream. In the mango season, vanilla is
of them and suddenly they stop crying the mood served with fresh mango and if nothing else have
changed. One cup of vanilla ice-cream was all that ice-cream with hot chocolate sauce. Vanilla, malai
it took to get the kids back into a happy mood. kulfi, and kesar pista are a favourite with Indians.
Neuroscientists at the Institute of Psychiatry We have all grown up eating them, and the brain
in London wanted to find out if eating ice cream does not need to process the taste.
actually made people happier. The study used a It doesn’t matter how it is served but once it enter
functional magnetic resonance imaging machine our mouth something changes. Ice-cream remains
to watch the reaction in participants’ brains upon our escape to the better side of ourselves. Scientist
swallowing a bite of vanilla ice-cream. With a found that eating ice cream activates the part of the
single swallow, the orbitofrontal cortex at the front brain called the Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), which
of the brain lit up in response. This part of the indicates the positive emotional pleasure and
brain is known for “processing” and is known to reward value of the ice-cream. So if you are feeling
become activated when people enjoy themselves. down and out go and indulge yourself. Happiness
Science has now shown what ice-cream lovers is simply having a good dollop of your favourite
have always known: a little bit of ice-cream goes a ice-cream.
long way in chasing the blues away.
Ice- cream contains proteins, fat and sugars,
which help elevate our mood. Eating ice-cream
takes us back to our childhood days where we
can reminisce in our happy memories. There is Vickram Sethi
no season to eat ice-cream or to word it better Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

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