Health Blog

  Coping With Depression (1)   What exactly depression is? Nowadays, the word ‘depression’ is on everyone’s lips and no doubt, every one of us does experience it one time or another. But even then, it is quite difficult to find a comprehensive definition of depression and the depressive states. To figure out the nature of depression, an interesting experiment was conducted: A dog was chained and his various physical states including pulse rate, blood pressure level, and blood chemistry, were carefully monitored. Then his favorite food was brought near to him, but he was not allowed to eat it. The dog became angry, his pulse rate and blood pressure increased and notable changes occurred in his blood chemistry. Then, another dog was brought there to eat the food before him. That made the chained dog extremely furious. In a state of agitation, his heartbeats became very irregular, blood pressure mounted to a critical level, his coronary veins started narrowing, somet...

    General Health Care   Usually, our general attitude towards health and well-being is rather casual, leaving everything on the fate; ‘whatever will happen will happen, so no need to be too cautious!’ But in reality, this is not how things work in the physical world. Diseases that take a middle-aged person to the graveyard or make an old person paralyzed or force someone to have an early retirement from his or her job, are not matters of fate. We contract them by not taking the recommended precautionary measures. Careful consideration will show that all such health disasters do have their earlier warning signs that, if taken seriously, can help in forecasting the coming dangers and we can surely avoid them by making positive changes in our daily diet and lifestyle. In fact, we can keep several health issues at bay or at least put a delay on them, by just learning some preventive habits and these simple but healthy habits can bring a huge amount of blessings in o...