Disha PATANI on beauty, fitness, health and wellness. Disha Patani loves dancing — she reckons dance is the most important component of her daily fitness routine. When she featured with Jackie Chan in Kung Fu Yoga, she learnt a new dance form, square dancing, while shooting for the movie in China — a form of
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK Aging is a natural phenomenon. Add to this the decline in the production of oestrogen and progesterone — hormones vital for sexual and reproductive development — in women, in their late-40s, or early-50s, and you’d know why they attain menopause, or the cessation of menses — monthly periods, in common
Words: Nelressa STALLINGS-FAYE You always thought that getting along famously with women was easy — or, too difficult. Either way, you are right — because, it takes more than a man and woman to get a relationship going. This is just one part of the story. The other — the most important — is the
Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Q: I sometimes feel that I may freak out. Add to that my anxiety, or apprehension, and you have a classical case — of ‘me’ waking up at the middle of the night. Please suggest a homeopathic remedy that can work for me. — LJB, Bhubaneswar A: Certain homeopathic medicines have
Words: Team ThinkWellness360 The artichoke plant is an affiliate of the thistle, or sunflower family. The cones, or spherically-shaped buds, are enveloped by overlapping outer scales [bracts] and are eatable at the base. At the centre of the bud is an ‘uneatable’ thistle [choke]. The edible ‘heart’ of an artichoke is the round, tender, firm
Dr Varun JOSHI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I owe it to my parents who wanted me to become a doctor, right from my formative years. It was much later that I found joy to being one. What made you think of, study and specialise in
Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE A 2014 report, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, was primarily intended to better inform doctors about obsessive-compulsive disorder [OCD]. The report quoted Dr Jon E Grant, MD, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, US, illustrating the case of a nineteen-year-old man who
Words: Dr Carroll DUNHAM In accordance with the homeopathic law, we select for the cure of each individual case of disease that remedy of which the pathogenetic effects are most similar to the symptoms of the case. In the process of making this selection we must pass in mental review the various drugs which compose
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR “Any disease,” as Dr Farzad Farahmand, DC, the American chiropractic, homeopath, and wellness physician, puts it, “is a result of some kind of energy imbalance in the body. The imbalance may be due to either an excess, or a deficiency, of energy in the diseased area. Healing occurs when the energy of the
Words: Megan SCHUMANN “The walk to school is a wonderful moment in the day that provides children a glimpse of living an active lifestyle,” says Dr David Tulloch, PhD, a professor of landscape architecture at Rutgers-New Brunswick and co-author of the study in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports. “When people start walking early, it can
