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Doctor's day! A good doctor’s comforting and reassuring words are sometimes more powerful than medicines.  A message from an Intern who did her dissertation at WELLBEEING during this Covid-19 lockdown...   - By Dr. Shreeka Prakash, MBBS, PGDHM (pursuing) After having completed my 5-year long MBBS along with a strenuous year of internship, I was inclined towards pursuing a specialization and continuing with my further studies. However there still existed some hesitancy to follow the conventional path that most of my fellow peers chose, considering the many issues faced by the post-graduates working in hospitals across the country. I was driven into the field of medicine due to the sheer love of learning how the human body functions. Though the basic human sciences and how various pathologies worked were well established for most of the human diseases; the treatment protocols undergo regular alterations to this date and some medications are still unconvincing. Indeed, there is

Human Safety Is National Safety! Is healthcare costs increasing and our nation is getting sicker by the day?  This problem could be solved by creating healthier lives. No one has to die from heart problem unless they have a significant genetic threshold. Let's take diabetes for instance...type 2 diabetes has a root cause in modifiable lifestyle factors. Nutrition, exercise or movement, environmental factors, stress, sleep issues. These factors are extremely controllable, but under guidance of doctors if you realize they are part of the root cause and choose to do something about them. If you are not sure how you came to be where you are, medical systems and experts can always dig in and figure it out for you. Research shows that there is a possibility of increasing the overall health by working with a health coach. Illness does not have to be one's future if wellness track is taken much ahead of time for creating the best of one’s life. A life full of energy, free from pains an

  Is wellbeing the ultimate goal for all of us? Pause! Think about it. Are we actually working against achieving it? Reasons: no time! Busy! Can’t help it! Who are we giving this excuse? It’s time to turn around and make some drastic decision on disciplining ourselves, and taking care of our body, mind and spirit. Why hesitate to know more about self? Little more than what we did all this while. Of the attention we give to know more about the technology and improve our personality and communication, a small percentage of time if we had given to the health of our body-mind, today the increasing statistics of lifestyle problems such as diabetes, hypertension, thyroid, high cholesterol, etc. would not have been so alarming. For instance, Diabetes has already gained the status of a potential epidemic in India with more than 62 million diabetic individuals currently diagnosed with the disease. In 2000, India (31.7 million) topped the world with the highest number of people with diabet

If you are getting started or contemplating to start yoga, do get to know more about yoga benefits—getting better sleep or getting fewer colds or just feeling more relaxed and at ease, may be few quick observations you could do when you start with yoga regimen.  Researchers are catching on to Yoga’s benefits. As health & wellness Initiative for proactive lifestyle, I have laid out few benefits of yoga that are proven. If you thought that yoga was all about bending and twisting your body in odd shapes, it's time to rethink. Yoga is much more. In very simple words, giving care to your body, mind and breath is yoga. This means that the century-old practice includes yoga postures (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayamas) and meditation. Through these, the body, mind and breath come in harmony with each other. The word yoga itself means "union"of the individual with the External intelligence. Though many people think of yoga only as physical exercises — the asanas or pos

                                                                                                                                                                                        The childhood experiences of the child with his/her father and mother has a very strong influence on the child’s relationship with others in life later. The role of a father is always related to mother too, because, the married life is complemented with addition of values to one another. The child is born with energy and genetic components of both father and mother and both are interested in promoting growth and wellbeing of the child, till the child’s adulthood, until he/she becomes independent of living and settles down in life. In this direction, father and mother share the responsibilities depending on the strengths and weaknesses of one another, while both of them are equally interested in the growth and welfare of the child through his/her life . Till schooling level, father extends supporting role