Computers cannot be modified in whatever way without a keyboard. It’s far even more important than the mouse. Which is why when problems hit the keyboard, it renders your computer useless. Unlike some computer components which only have one to a few problems, the keyboard may encounter several. Here are some keyboard problems:

•    You can see the keyboard has power and is supposed to work fine, but it doesn’t detect and respond to your presses. In this case, you can see the lights on the upper right side of your keyboard (i.e. Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock) but when you press the letters or the numbers, nothing appears on the screen.
•    The keyboard beeps when you press a key.
•    Special functions of keyboards (Fn for laptops, ALT+0241 for “ñ”, etc.) do not work.
•    Device manager of your operating system cannot detect a keyboard plugged in.
•    Keyboard malfunctions upon loading of the operating system. You may press DEL and other keys during boot-up but all keyboard functions fail to work upon entering Windows.

These problems can really annoy everyone. However, troubleshooting is possible for this issue. Just before you phone for replacement on your keyboard, try these steps first:

1.    Check the connectors of the keyboard to the back of your CPU is it is well-attached in its proper places. There are times when the plug for keyboard has been put on the plug for mouse.
2.    Inspect the cable if it is cut, or if some teeth of the plugs are missing or broken.
3.    If your computer keyboard has a driver, look for updates through the internet. If you have the current one, reinstall it.

Otherwise, swap your keyboard for another. If the problem still not works, maybe the connector on your CPU has the problem.

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Rapid weight loss sounds like the ideal way to lose weight. But with weight rapid weight loss, comes rapid weight gain. Yes, many of us have seen it, that if you’ve lost a ton of weight, then you would’ve had a hard time also keeping the weight down. Read on to know why your body gains weight after drastic weight loss, and how you lose weight without gaining it back.

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To achieve rapid weight loss, you need to take extreme measures like crash dieting, excessive exercising and others. Weight loss efforts like these can result in nutritional deficiencies in the long run, and other long term health effects. Besides all the detrimental  side effects on your health, your body has a strong tendency to gain the weight back. Let’s explain one concept first: Your brain controls a lot of what you feel, including hunger. Hunger is a feeling that is created by the brain because its a signal that the body needs calories. Often our body signals something else (like water, sleep, etc), and our brain assumes its a need for food. Now, assume that you’re weight was X kg for some time. Now, to keep it at X kg, your body was used to eating a certain amount of food (calories), and spending a certain amount of calories through your physical activities, and your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). So, your body was basically used to maintaining X kg of weight.

Now, by taking some measures like crash dieting, or excessive exercising, etc, you manage to reduce your weight to Y kg in a couple of weeks. Since this was a crash diet or a crazy exercise plan, you burnt a ton of calories. But since it was extreme, you did it for a short time of a few weeks and got the results. Now, in these few weeks, your body was shocked into burning calories and you lost weight. Your brain assumes it was a traumatic period, and life will come back to normal. So, after these extreme couple of weeks, you return to a normal lifestyle at Y kg. Your brain does not realize that your weight has actually reduced and still operates at a level of X kg. So it still creates hunger for X kg. Since your weight is much less at Y kg, and you eat for X kg (where X is more than Y), your brain makes you overeat, and you land up slowly gaining the weight back. Also, over the past few weeks, your body was deprived of its expected calories.

So, it will try to make up, and your brain will direct you to attack high calorie food to make up for the calorie loss (also called binge eating). Your brain is still trying to go back to the X kg weight. Eventually, after returning to your normal lifestyle, you will slowly inch your way back to gaining the weight, and reaching X kg. Maybe even more than X kg. This yo yo process of weight loss and weight gain, besides affecting us at a psychological level, also affects us physically. Can even lead to stretch marks. It stinks, but its true.

To really create a sustainable weight loss, you need to follow 2 rules:
- Creating a large calorie deficit in your lifestyle is not the way to sustainable weight loss
- It needs a gradual lifestyle change for you to slowly improve your eating habits, and your physical activity.

Again, drastic measures don’t work!

It took you time to gain the weight, so give yourself time to lose the weight. Create a gradual change in lifestyle with small steps towards a healthier body through nutrition and exercise. Whatever your goals might be - weight loss, weight gain, muscle gain, losing the baby weight, etc .. we design our fitness plans that help you embrace a healthier lifestyle, so you get fitter and look better!

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Soft Drinks: Flavored sodas, iced teas & other sweetened beverages are a huge source of HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup), which acts like sugar in promoting fat storage. Research indicates that fructose can trick our brains into craving more food, even when we’re full. It works by impeding the body’s ability to use leptin, the hormone that tells us when we’ve had enough to eat.

Enough Breakfast: You know that eating breakfast is essential to being fit. Further, researchers found that those who ate just 300 calories for breakfast gained almost twice as much weight as those who ate 500 calories or more for breakfast. The reason: Eating a big breakfast makes for smaller rises in blood sugar and insulin throughout the day, meaning fewer sudden food cravings.

Folate rich green: Most people don’t eat enough greens, which are rich in the essential B-vitamin, Folate and helps protect against depression, fatigue & weight gain. In one study, dieters with the highest levels of Folate in their bodies lost upto 8 times more weight as those with the lowest levels. Leafy greens are also high in vitamin K that helps to regulate insulin, that helps quash cravings. Best sources of Folate: Green lettuce, spinach, collard greens, radicchio.

Black Tea: According to a study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, people who drank one cup of black tea after eating high-carb foods decreased their blood-sugar levels by 10 percent for over 2 hours after the meal, which means they stayed full longer and had fewer food cravings.

Dehydration: Lack of water often mimics the feeling of hunger. If you’ve just eaten and still feel hungry, drink a glass of water and wait 10-15 minutes, before eating more, and see if your desires don’t diminish. In most cases, you’ll move on from your cravings.

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A study conducted among 68,000 women recently at the Case Western Reserve University in the US found that those who sleep less than five hours a night gain more weight over time and are more likely to become obese than those who sleep seven hours a night.

According to experts, a person suffering from sleep deprivation tends to be hungrier the next day, and it takes more food to make them feel full.

They also gravitate towards sweeter, starchier or saltier foods typically with higher calories. Over time, this leads to an accumulation of higher levels of body fat, explaining why many people have such a difficult time losing weight when they don’t sleep well.

“We lead such busy and stressful lives that going to bed at a reasonable time is no longer a priority. Research done in recent years shows a strong link between lack of sleep and obesity and also confirms the association between sleep debt and an assortment of health problems such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and diabetes among others,” said Himanshu Garg, a consultant at Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon.

According to the study, when a person sleeps, the body uses the time to accomplish what it cannot during waking hours. This includes regeneration of damaged cells, repairing tissue, allowing the mind to mend itself and an overall renewal process for the entire body so that upon wakening, a person feels fresh and ready to tackle the day.

However, when sleep deprivation takes place, the body responds negatively in the form of fatigue, irritability, emotional problems, weight gain and poor health.

In the long run such a cumulative build-up of sleep deprivation becomes more serious and has potentially life threatening consequences.

“What many do not know is that the body does not burn as many calories when it is functioning on less sleep and thus hoards calories as fat which makes our weight loss goals more difficult than they need to be,” said Garg.

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Lack of adequate sleep can result in weight gain

But science suggests that all these claims are baseless. When questioned about the purported miracle properties of raw cane juice, Roger Clemens, professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences at the USC, told the Los Angeles Times: “No studies have proven these health benefits.”

When asked whether raw cane juice could help soothe a sore throat or energise the body, he replied: “I’ve been working in this field for 40 years, and I’ve never seen any evidence for any of this.”

What about so-called alkalising properties that can help fight breast and prostate cancer? “Nothing in science backs it up,” said Clemens.

How about raw cane juice as an energy drink – maybe it could, at the very least, serve as a pick-me-up to get you through the 4 o’clock slump at work?

“There’s a difference between nutritionally rich and calorically rich. The bottom line is there isn’t any scientific evidence to support these purported claims,” Clemens said.

So, drink raw cane juice if you like the taste, but don’t expect miracles. Or much at all.

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Is sugarcane juice a health drink?