Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Stress is a blurred response to the demands that life places on us. This is also how it builds up. In the course of time, it leads to stressful frustration — an indivisible component of modern life. Our day-to-day life too has its allocation of stresses: peer pressure, marital, financial and workplace
Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH If you are living in a part of the world that is consistently challenged by its weather, you understand the burning desire to get out of the house and into the luscious environment brought forth by the coming of temperate days. Children are already enthusiastically awaiting temperatures that are conducive to
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN It is reported that more than 15 million people die of heart disease annually. This will continue to ‘ring out’ its death toll until we accept the whole truth — that high cholesterol alone is not the ‘root’ cause. In fact, many people die from heart attacks and coronary artery disease
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy, to paraphrase one of its cardinal tenets, looks at symptoms as being the idiom, dialect, or language, in which the body, in illness, speaks to us. The body’s response, thus, gives us the cue that a struggle to externalise is on. This provides us with the ‘prompt’ that potential damage
Words: Hiren Kumar BOSE I never realised watching clouds could be so addictive, engrossing and captivating. Virgin white bulbous, cottony clouds hitched on cerulean blue canvas. Commuting on the glass-walled air conditioned bus that takes the Ghodbunder Road, Thane, on its way to Borivali, Mumbai, my eyes got glued to the horizon and I could
Words: Paribha VASHIST Playing hopscotch, a decade ago, was the norm — and, maintaining a ‘stones’ repository and collecting chalks and bricks to draw symmetrical boxes on rugged surfaces were prerequisites. Every day, at a set time, in the evening, we would ecstatically jump from one box to another — cautiously avoiding the drawn boundaries.
Words: Nelressa Stallings-FAYE Are you taking care of a home-bound, or sick individual? It is a commendable, selfless act to put others before ourselves. The sick and elderly who need support depend on caretakers for companionship and comfort in times of sickness. But, who takes care of the caregiver? Caregivers are extraordinary people placed in extraordinary situations to take
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR One had always thought of shyness as a behavioural anomaly. It may not be so, after all. According to Dr Ward K Swallow, PhD, a noted paediatric psychiatrist, shyness is not a disorder. It is also not a disability, or the cause for parental despair and societal intolerance. His raison d’etre?
Words: Ed FEIL The latest outbreak of monkeypox has, at the time of writing, reached 17 countries with 110 confirmed cases and a further 205 suspected cases. It’s a fast-moving story, so if you need to catch up on the latest, here are the answers to some of the most pressing questions. How is monkeypox spreading?
Words: Dr Ryan N HARRISON The media are having a field day with vitamin E, spinning one story after another in an attempt to discredit it as a safe and effective nutritional supplement. Neil Levin, Nutrition Educator and Clinical Nutritionist, in his article, The Truth About Vitamin E — Vitamin E is Safer Than Implied
