Month: August 2017

How to Lose Weight: Eating Can Save Your Life

Hippocrates , the father of medicine in the fifty century B.C. wrote :

‘Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.”

Diet is being recognized as the most important single factor for promoting either health or disease. Sir Robert Mc Carrison, the greatest of food scientists, who has conducted research on the problem of nutrition in India says “the right kind of food is the most important single factor in promotion of health ; and the wrong kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of disease.”

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How to Lose Weight: Arthritis, Anemia and Cancer

ARTHRITIS

In simple language arthritis is an inflammation deformity, and stiffening of joints, often causing considerable pain. As the joints stiffen they become more and more painful to move, thus crippling the affected person. There are various types of arthritis but rheumatoid arthritis, gouty arthritis, and osteo arthritis are the most common. Gouty arthritis is due to an inherited metabolic disorder, discussed earlier in this chapter.

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How to Lose Weight: Varicose Vein and Gout

VARICOSE VEINS

A problem which can be extremely annoying is that of varicose veins. It is common in young people as well as older ones and is particularly aggravated by the problem of obesity in an individual. These unsightly veins occur, usually on legs and thighs and are a result of failure of blood to return to the heart normally, due to poor muscle tone. The heart pumps pure oxygenated blood to all parts of the body through arteries. Arteries end into capillaries and capillaries from veins.

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How to Lose Weight: Diabetes Mellitus and Ulcer

DIABETES MELLITUS is frequently associated with obesity. Eight out of ten adult diabetics are obese when symptoms first appear. This is a condition arising out of the body’s failure on one hand to burn sugar (glucose) for energy and on the other hand failure to convert glucose to glycogen for storage in liver and muscles.

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Cancer Treatment: History of Cancer

Cancer, as a disease, has existed all along with man. Hippocrates, twenty-five centuries ago, called it karkinois because the swollen blood vessels going and coming from the tumour mass, gave the appearance of the claws of a crab. Susruta described cancer as a tumour which would ulcerate and would not cure and “sow its seeds in other parts of the body”.

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Cancer Treatment: Is Cancer Curable?

There are cases of some families, several members of which have suffered from cancer. In the laboratory, scientists have been able to propagate some strains or breed of mice in which a large number of the males developed lung cancer and over 90 per cent of the females breast cancer. A careful analysis of data shows that certain types of cancer arc hereditary and there is a likelihood of cancer of a particular tissue or organ developing in the descendants of persons who have suffered from cancer.

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