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
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Headaches are as old as civilisation. Our ancients, perhaps, believed that certain spirits were to blame for headaches, including insanity and epilepsy [fits]. It is contended that William Harvey — the first physician to discover the function of the heart and circulation of blood — recommended trepanation, or the process of
Lakshmi KRISHNANKUTTY responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? For me, beauty is being yourself and comfortable in your own skin, as also the ‘skin’ of your own thought. It’s rightly said, that, “Self-confidence is the best make up you can wear.” If you love yourself, it reflects on your face, body language, and
Words: Kerry DULIN When you bump into people who coin excuses, at the ‘drop of a sinew,’ don’t let their pretences rub off on you. Brush the dust off your feet and hit the gym, right away. I have been playing the iron game for more years than some of you have been alive. I
Dr Sridevi REDDY responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I just can’t recall how it happened, or emerged. It’s a fact that we’ve a handful of doctors in our family. My dad too wanted to become a doctor, but he opted for a doctorate in zoology and
Words: Dr Muralidhar ACHARYA Ayurveda — Ayur [Sanskrit], meaning, way; veda, knowledge — is the most ancient science of natural health and wellness. It is closely ‘fused’ with the yogic vision of life and consciousness. Health, to use a standard platitude, is not merely the absence of disease, or limited to a few measurable physiological
Words: Dr Frank GRUBER This is a case of a 28-year-old woman complaining of no motivation [3]. She can’t really seem to change her life, even though she wants to, because she can’t get started. Most of that revolves around a difficulty focusing [3]. She doesn’t really know what she wants. She has difficulty on
Words: Prof G G GANGADHARAN Diabetes mellitus [DM], ranked as one of the four principal non-communicable diseases [NCD], affects 422 million people worldwide. It is the seventh leading cause of disability and is directly responsible for 1.5 million deaths, with another 2 million attributed to related causes. The economic cost of DM, which includes cost
Words: Nelressa Stallings-FAYE It was a few years ago that on my way to a local food market I was walking past a group of middle school-going South Korean boys. As they came closer, I felt heavy stares and quiet pointing. Moments later, they passed me and burst into uncontrollable laughter. I thought to myself
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN It is often so hard for some of us to give up foods like ice-cream, juicy steaks, and French fried potatoes, even when we know that eating these foods regularly is actually making us ill and shortening our lives. When I ask my patients why they continue to eat these foods,
