Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Working women wear ‘two’ many hats. They run the household and also pursue a career outside of their home to help support the family. It’s obviously a big challenge for them to juggling such a responsibility. Many of them skip meals to ‘make-do’ with time; this may sometimes cause nutritional imbalance, leading
Dr Devanshi THAKUR responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? My interest, also passion, stemmed from my profound love for science, particularly biology, and a strong desire to helping others. I was always fascinated by the human body and its functioning. My family physician inspired me, no less.
Words: Dr Devanshi THAKUR & Dr/Prof Amar BODHI Lifestyle disorders are primarily based on the day-to-day habits of people. Of habits that distract people from activity and push them towards a sedentary routine, while triggering several health issues, including two major ‘headline grabbers,’ diabetes and high blood pressure — with near life-threatening consequences. Causes
Dr Vyshnavi N KINI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? When I was growing up, I was fascinated with doctors, the manner in which they performed, not just did, their job — healing people, also changing lives, and managing their other responsibilities. Add to this, my penchant
Words: Drs Nigam PAUDEL, Amulya DAHAL, Bijendra SHAH & Sangita MAHARJAN Hypothyroidism refers to any state that results in a deficiency of the thyroid hormones, including hypothalamic, or pituitary, disease and generalised tissue resistance to thyroid hormone and/or disorders that affect the thyroid gland directly. It is a condition associated with deficiency in the thyroid
Words: Nelressa STALLINGS-FAYE Emotional intelligence [EI], in real life, determines our potential to learning practical skills. Emotional competence shows how much of that, or what, potential we have realised by learning and mastering skills and/or translating intelligence. They hold the key to success and fulfilment. In his landmark book, Working with Emotional Intelligence, noted psychologist
Words: Dr David Le BRETON Once upon a time, human relationships unfolded without smartphones. The reality may be hard to recall; so profoundly have these devices transformed the way we relate to the world and others in fifteen years, or so. As an anthropologist interested in modernity, I am particularly preoccupied by the impact of these devices on
Words: Team THINKWELLNESS360 Q: I find it hugely confusing — what quantity, or just how much, water to drink on a daily basis. Please help me cut the confusion, or clutter. — YK, Puducherry A: Popular notion ‘holds’ that eight glasses of water is the optimal amount to drink each day, but many people find
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Osteoarthritis is a bone-joint disorder. In a purely literal sense, it simply means inflammation of one, or more, joints. Here is everything you wanted to know about the disorder, but did not ask. There are several forms, or types, of arthritis. It is estimated that there are over one hundred, or
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Women might be pleased to learn that by adjusting their diet slightly and adding daily magnesium supplements, they could banish the more unpleasant symptoms of PMS. It’s been discovered that women suffering from headaches, intense muscle cramps, and fatigue had extremely low levels of RBC magnesium, leading many researchers to conclude
