Category: Health

  Are you sure you are in control of your own brain? If the answer is “yes”, I strongly feel you must introspect at this stage. Did you ever get emotional while watching a daily soap on TV or some movie with a tragic story? Did you ever get scared watching some horror movie or a TV show? The answer is yes, more than often. Didn’t you know that its just a TV show or a movie and is far from reality? You knew it. It happened because you got…

What causes TB? TB is caused by a bacteria – Mycobaterium tuberculosis. How does it spread? The most common mode of infection is via respiratory root. The bacteria reaches air when a person carrying bacteria (patient or career of TB) coughs or sneezes. The bacteria reaches your lungs through breathing. If your immunity is strong, you can beat the bacteria, and if your immunity is poor you catch the infection. What are the common symptoms? Patients with pulmonary TB (lung infection) usually have symptoms like cough with sputum, evening fever…

Most of often keep wondering why am I putting on weight. This article explains the energy balance of body in simplified language. Once you understand the equations of input and output it would be quit easy to manage your weight.

In summary it would suffice to say that glucose and oxygen are the basic necessities of every organ of human body and the task is accomplished by gastrointestinal system (digestion and absorption), circulatory system (transportation) and respiratory system (exchange of gases)

Dipawali (Diwali) – the festival of crackers, lighting, shopping, sweets and worshiping goddess Laxmi. A few tips that most of us know of but often overlook would ensure that the celebration remains uninterrupted. Crackers Firing crackers is part of celebrating Diwali. But lets also keep in mind the air and noise pollution it would cause. If you have an infant in your family, you can easily see how terrorizing it can be for a new born infant. It has similar impact on the pet animals. You would notice a lot…

A very happy Dipawali to all of you. I have been writing for a while on various issues. During school days I use to write on a lot of basic science subjects. Growing older, started writing on my understanding about the universe, super power etc. During medical school wrote a few medical hypotheses and a lot of academic original research. For last 3 years have been spending a lot of my time on socio-political movement. I am just one of the millions of people who might be writing on all…