Public Health

Sodium and life

Sodium promotes life activities and its low levels cause loss of memory in humans. In C4 plants its needed for metabolism also. How does sodium regulate in positive and negative manner. Can it replace Calcium I dont know may be you can tell ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 23 2010 - 11:19pm

Nature can make you happy

If you ask a non doctor what are the remedies of hypertension and blood pressure its like asking solutions from a student of maths or physics. However great contributions have been made from people who have changed their field of study from one to another. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 27 2010 - 8:21pm

Live Longer Thanks To Science 2.0: Social Networks Influence Health Behaviors

Do social networks which features many distant connections, or "long ties," produce large-scale changes most quickly, as social media lore claims?    No, says a new study by Damon Centola,  assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Managemen ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2010 - 6:28pm

What Are Babies Made Of? Junk Food These Days, It Seems

A 19th century nursery rhyme called " What Are Little Boys Made Of?" and generally attributed to Robert Southey goes "What are little boys made of?   What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy-dogs' tails, that's what ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2010 - 6:04pm

Health care systems and society East vs West.

I had a chance to pass on the road in front of hospital in West recently. I never had a chance to enter hospital from inside there. I remembered the poem of Ernest Hemmingway “East is East and West is West and twin shall never meet”. Its not to hurt anybod ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 8 2010 - 8:27pm

Health care in East and West..

Human body has 10 raise to the power 13 cells and it has 10 raise to the power 14 microbes in it if I have heard the lecture correctly delivered in a seminar abroad. Microbes have different interpersonal relations when alone. They behave differently if the ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 9 2010 - 1:24am

Euphorbia tirucalli L. (Family, Euphorbiacae) a succulent cactus-like plant has medicinal properties

Euphorbia tirucalli L. (Family, Euphorbiacae) a succulent cactus-like plant growing to a height of about 10 m, was introduced from Africa as a garden plant. E. tirucalli Grows in arid zones as well as zones that are more mesophytic, the species makes a goo ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 11 2010 - 1:50am

Soybean Cookies That Are Good For Your Heart?

Soybean cookies sound pretty disgusting, right?   Soybeans and soybean oil were among the many approaches to healthier unhealthy food once it was discovered that saturated fats, which can be found in foods such as cream, cheese and butter, were bad for the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 13 2010 - 3:08pm

Obesity can be reduced taking herbal medicines.

Obesity is increasing in India, Europe, America all over the world in that sense and its painful to see young children having disproportionate body. Obesity could cause hypertension, diabetes and blood pressure. It reduces the quality of life also. An Obe ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 16 2010 - 5:32am

Is Ayurveda correct when it advocates curing of innerself.

 To be at peace with inner self for a man something different then being healthy. Being at peace with oneself is a great achievement. Man aspires to achieve what he can not achieve, unachieved goals lead to frustration, man takes to alcohol or depression ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 16 2010 - 6:24pm