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Do you have a weight issue?

  Every third person on earth has a weight problem. Its a pandemic that is causing major health problems for individuals, societies and the economic future of many countries. The data released recently by the New England Journal of Medicine  is particularly alarming...

Count your blessings – our peaceful era

Mass media influences us in a negative sense more than we think. The emphasis is mostly on deviant behavior of the “rich and famous” or some catastrophic event , mostly in a far-off place that does not directly affect us or where we have never been. How...

Stress: A curse or a blessing?

We hear it all the time: People complaining that they are stressed out, attributing all sorts of health problems to stress. It’s a myth. Stress is not the problem – lack of rejuvenation is. Stress hormones flooding our system are crucial to our survival instincts....

Creating health to prevent disease

We are getting older but many of us are getting older with loss in quality of life as our health starts deteriorating because of poor lifestyle management – the topic of my Blog last week. We have to go back a little in history to understand why most of us have...

Major health benefits of ginger, turmeric

I’ve just had a bad bout of flu with the virus affecting a lot of people in my immediate vicinity. The immediate impulse was to take the standard medication but I remembered how my grandmother used to heal us with completetly natural substances that are being...

The healing power of language

 Monks and wise teachers from the times of yore knew of the power and resonance of language in formulating the first mantras and healing prayers. Recent psychological reasearch has confirmed that there is a direct link between the use of language and health. Thus...