Category: Health & Fitness
33rd National Conference on Mind-Body Medicine
33rd National Conference on Mind-Body Medicine held at Brahma Kumaris Academy for a Better World (Gyan Sarovar), Mount Abu from 26-28 August, 2016. It was meant for senior doctors of modern medicine and healthcare professionals in medical research.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA, 2017
Yoga is a system of holistic living, having the roots in Indian tradition and culture. Evolved thousands of years back by the Rishis, Yoga techniques are being widely used for meeting the changing health care needs of mankind. Yoga has attracted...
Preventing Chronic Disease by Diet & Lifestyle Changes
Coronary artery disease (CAD), ischemic stroke, diabetes, and some specific cancers, which until recently were common only in high-income countries, are now becoming the dominant sources of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Prospective epidemiological studies, some randomized prevention trials, and many short-term...
Occupational Lifestyle Diseases: Emerging Issue
People are predisposed to various diseases based on their way of living and occupational habits. They are preventable, and can be lowered with changes in diet, lifestyle, and environment. Lifestyle diseases characterize those diseases whose occurrence is primarily based on daily...
NCD & Working People
Working people normally tend to focus more on their careers than their health. This lack of concern for their health is extremely worrying. It is because of this that incidences of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart diseases have been on...
Live Longer, Live Better
We all have to die, but we don’t have to die prematurely. Most of our people are dying from lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. These diseases most often manifest in middle age or...
Lifestyle Diseases
Life diseases are economic burden on the health services. Lifestyle diseases share risk factors similar to prolonged exposure to three modifiable lifestyle behaviours -smoking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity – and result in the development of chronic diseases, specifically heart disease,...
Disease Prevention Through Diet & Nutrition
Here are three reasons why following a healthy diet is important: 1. to maintain health by preventing loss of muscle strength, bone mass, and vitamin deficiency states; 2. to prevent diseases such as heart attacks, strokes, obesity, osteoporosis, and certain cancers;...
