Category Archives: Health and Health Care
Ten Tips From Yogic Texts And Sages
1. Eat nutritious foods that suit your constitution … in moderate quantities.
2. Walk every day … if possible.
3. Avoid people who are manipulative, loud, obnoxious, and destructive … if at all possible.
4. Keep company of people who are pleasant, easy going, cheerful … and supportive.
5. Remain silent when you have the urge to be … sarcastic or make fun of someone.
6. Help people who are in need … within your capacity.
7. Take the time to be alone everyday … and be with yourself.
8. Never give into peer pressure to drink or do drugs or go to wild parties (Get together with good friends for fun – singing & dancing is OK!).
9. Develop confidence in your own ability to do what you need to do.
10. Engage in introspection at the end of the day. Mentally wishing everyone well, always go to bed with a clean slate.
Drugs Make You Sicker!
You may have been consuming drugs for health – but getting sickly more and more? Did you ever think why? Drugs don’t cure! Do you know that? They only relieve or control..! Medicines alone help cure! Actually Body & Mind can completely cure themselves with the right kind of help. Do you know the actual difference between a drug and a medicine? Contrary to the normal belief that they are synonyms (same) – they are actually antonyms (opposite). Drugs take away control of your body & mind from you! Medicines reverse this and restore the control back to you!
Let me elaborately clarify here how it is so …
Drug: A drug is a chemical substance that takes control of your body or mind depending on its own inherent nature. For example – when you take a sleeping pill, it puts you to sleep no matter how much you want to be awake! It rules over your body & mind. You can repeat this exercise many times – and you will experience the same every time.
It does not stop there! Subsequently when you want to sleep, it will make your body ask for the pill again. As you start yielding to its demand, it will keep asking progressively for more and more pills for the same amount of sleep while reducing the quality of sleep! You will finally end up in a state that – unless you have many pills each time – you simply cannot have even normal sleep – which is so natural to all living creatures. By now you have become totally a slave to that pill. Pill is the lord & master! This state is called drug dependence. Your life will not be under your control – but the drug.
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Can Nutrition Prevent and Cure illness?
The new question that is gaining momentum all over the health starved world is – can Nutrition cure? What is nutrition? Is it not same as food? No! Junk food is not nutritious! Food is the combination of nutrition and waste. Nutrition is that which is absorbed by the body for utilization to build and sustain the body and waste is excreted to prevent collapse. The study of Nutrition as a prophylactic or as a medicine is called “Nutriceuticals” or “Nutraceuticals” and is the fastest growing sector for healthcare in the western world.
By the above mentioned definition of nutrition, water becomes a nutrient? Yes it is! How else was the concept of hydrotherapy evolved? What other reason can be there for so many moisturizers in the world market! But, water is not only the most important nutrient by itself, but also the carrier in the body of nutrients inward and wastes outward. So, water is the most important of all the nutrients as it is food and medicine … that is two-in-one.
The normal thought that occurs to any mind, when one thinks of treatment of a disease is that, it is essential to have a drug or a medicine for the Cure — while the word “Cure” itself is not well defined both medically and technically. It is necessary here to differentiate between a drug and a medicine here. Read the rest of this entry
Anatomy & Physiology of Pain
Life is all about “Survival”. No matter what you do – it is always for the purpose of momentary survival –or- to enhance future potential for survival.
Primary cause of pain is enforcement. This can be internally self-imposed, or externally imposed by others. An enforced compression (blow) – or- enforced expansion (pull) on any body part can cause pain. Similarly on the mind too! If a capable person is given lesser position of responsibility – it amounts to enforced compression and thus the pain. Similarly if an incapable person is given heavy responsibility – if amounts to enforced expansion and thus the pain again.
Pleasure is pro-survival. Pain is contra-survival.
Hence all our conscious actions are directed towards obtaining pleasure and avoiding pain. But our sub-conscious instincts drive us and misdirect us towards pain – as a result of confusion – while actually seeking pleasure.
Pain is inevitable in life – as life is dynamic. But sufferance is optional. Read the rest of this entry
Global Medical Excellence
I am now the invited and elected member of “Ethics & Quality Control Board” of GME (Global Medical Excellence) … a Global Organization based in USA and involved in ensuring highest quality in Surgery in Hospitals all over the world. You can read about GME here – http://www.gme-surgical.com/
The professionals at GME are dedicated to your surgical care within and outside the United States. They currently operate in India and in Lebanon because of the islands of medical excellence that these two countries have. India and Lebanon have excellent doctors and hospitals that have successfully treated patients from all over the world.
GME is dedicated to reducing the problems associated with surgeries no matter where you choose to have them. GME’s Care Managers who speak eight languages and perfect English will monitor your progress and attend to your legitimate needs from the moment you arrive for surgery in the country of choice to the moment you leave.
GME deals only with the highest quality hospitals that have the highest level of accreditation from the Joint Committee International (JCI), and with surgeons that are U.S. Board Certified or its equivalent in the Western European context. Yet, GME still monitors the performances of the hospitals and the doctors to ensure that only the highest standard is maintained for the patients
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