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What is depression

In today's stressful life, almost every other person suffers depression but very few people notice the signs. Too much of stress at home or office, always want to make more and more money, cut throat competition, pressure from there peer group, tireless efforts to maintain a high social status are some of the causes of depression. Other than these, relationship failure, feeling let down by people and always being angry with yourself are some of the important factors. But the point is how do you recognise depression. There is so much stigma attached to it that people who are suffering will never seek help. Some of the common symptoms are you feel like a failure and you blame yourself constantly. You don't feel like meeting anyone and working seems a burden. Your social life gets compromised and you are always at a short fuse. Getting out of the bed becomes too difficult and you can't focus on anything. Whenever you feel these symptoms, best is to see a psychiatrist instead of suffering silently. Life is meant to be lived happily so seek help and believe me, it's curable. Of course, few life style changes will be required but it's worth it. God bless.

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Live to eat or eat to live

From time immemorial this debate has been going on that what should we eat to keep ourselves healthy and have a disease free body. Our grandfather’s and great grand father’s lived a very disciplined lifestyle to ensure that they remain healthy as much as possible. Infact my grandfather lived till the age of 75 and only in the last 2 years of his life, he developed high blood pressure and finally started taking allopathic drugs. All his life, he used to believe only in ayurvedic system of treatment, yoga, simple vegetarian diet and adequate rest. So now the question is when you have so many choices to eat, doctor available for almost every human organ, investigation s can be done for almost anything, mortality rate has come down, super speciality hospitals are there at almost every nook and corner of the city, people are still suffering. Kids are suffering from diseases like obesity, diabetes etc which was not so prevalent in earlier times. Unfortunately, lot of these changes started coming in when we started to copy the west indiscriminately. In India, we never had the culture of “heat it, eat it”. It’s an American culture which slowly made its way into India. That’s why in America, medical is an industry, it’s not about health anymore. Pizzas and burgers were never a staple diet in the Indian culture. Kids got the flavour of them and hence problems like obesity, diabetes etc came up. So the question now is what should actually one eat? I have also gone through this entire trauma and all kinds of experiments where your nutritionist thinks she is is the best person to tell you what to eat, your doctor thinks thinks he is the best, so on and so forth. In the end, you are still struggling either with weight issues or stomach issues. Finally I decided to take charge myself and thought since it’s it’s my body let me observe and listen to it carefully what it is accepting and what it’s not. The tongue has its own choices but the body will repel so I decided to listen to my body. Since I have been on medication for a very long time, first I had to reduce intake my antacids. Prolonged use of antacids affect the natural production of acid in the stomach so slowly I started cutting down on my antacids and at the same time minimised the use of oil and spices to strengthen my digestive system. My target was that my food should get digested within 1-2 hrs of my eating. Next, I stopped all flour products so no biscuits, bread or rusk. Flour has one very bad quality that it sticks to your intestine walls which in the long run can cause damage. Third, I gave up non veg completely. Precisely because it takes plenty of time to digest non veg food. So, I categorised food items into three categories: acidic, precooked and predigested, heavy duty

The kind of food we consume also has lot of impact on our nature. Yes of course you also have to be conscious at every moment but food has a very important role to play. People who consume simple bland food are less aggressive and suffer less from stomach ailments.

Hope you find this article useful. Please feel free to share your feedback.

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Live to eat or eat to live

From time immemorial this debate has been going on that what should we eat to keep ourselves healthy and have a disease free body. Our grandfather’s and great grand father’s lived a very disciplined lifestyle to ensure that they remain healthy as much as possible. Infact my grandfather lived till the age of 75 and only in the last 2 years of his life, he developed high blood pressure and finally started taking allopathic drugs. All his life, he used to believe only in ayurvedic system of treatment, yoga, simple vegetarian diet and adequate rest. So now the question is when you have so many choices to eat, doctor available for almost every human organ, investigation s can be done for almost anything, mortality rate has come down, super speciality hospitals are there at almost every nook and corner of the city, people are still suffering. Kids are suffering from diseases like obesity, diabetes etc which was not so prevalent in earlier times. Unfortunately, lot of these changes started coming in when we started to copy the west indiscriminately. In India, we never had the culture of “heat it, eat it”. It’s an American culture which slowly made its way into India. That’s why in America, medical is an industry, it’s not about health anymore. Pizzas and burgers were never a staple diet in the Indian culture. Kids got the flavour of them and hence problems like obesity, diabetes etc came up. So the question now is what should actually one eat? I have also gone through this entire trauma and all kinds of experiments where your nutritionist thinks she is is the best person to tell you what to eat, your doctor thinks thinks he is the best, so on and so forth. In the end, you are still struggling either with weight issues or stomach issues. Finally I decided to take charge myself and thought since it’s it’s my body let me observe and listen to it carefully what it is accepting and what it’s not. The tongue has its own choices but the body will repel so I decided to listen to my body. Since I have been on medication for a very long time, first I had to reduce intake my antacids. Prolonged use of antacids affect the natural production of acid in the stomach so slowly I started cutting down on my antacids and at the same time minimised the use of oil and spices to strengthen my digestive system. My target was that my food should get digested within 1-2 hrs of my eating. Next, I stopped all flour products so no biscuits, bread or rusk. Flour has one very bad quality that it sticks to your intestine walls which in the long run can cause damage. Third, I gave up non veg completely. Precisely because it takes plenty of time to digest non veg food. So, I categorised food items into three categories: acidic, precooked and predigested, heavy duty

The kind of food we consume also has lot of impact on our nature. Yes of course you also have to be conscious at every moment but food has a very important role to play. People who consume simple bland food are less aggressive and suffer less from stomach ailments.

Hope you find this article useful. Please feel free to share your feedback.

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Live to eat or eat to live

From time immemorial this debate has been going on that what should we eat to keep ourselves healthy and have a disease free body. Our grandfather’s and great grand father’s lived a very disciplined lifestyle to ensure that they remain healthy as much as possible. Infact my grandfather lived till the age of 75 and only in the last 2 years of his life, he developed high blood pressure and finally started taking allopathic drugs. All his life, he used to believe only in ayurvedic system of treatment, yoga, simple vegetarian diet and adequate rest. So now the question is when you have so many choices to eat, doctor available for almost every human organ, investigation s can be done for almost anything, mortality rate has come down, super speciality hospitals are there at almost every nook and corner of the city, people are still suffering. Kids are suffering from diseases like obesity, diabetes etc which was not so prevalent in earlier times. Unfortunately, lot of these changes started coming in when we started to copy the west indiscriminately. In India, we never had the culture of “heat it, eat it”. It’s an American culture which slowly made its way into India. That’s why in America, medical is an industry, it’s not about health anymore. Pizzas and burgers were never a staple diet in the Indian culture. Kids got the flavour of them and hence problems like obesity, diabetes etc came up. So the question now is what should actually one eat? I have also gone through this entire trauma and all kinds of experiments where your nutritionist thinks she is is the best person to tell you what to eat, your doctor thinks thinks he is the best, so on and so forth. In the end, you are still struggling either with weight issues or stomach issues. Finally I decided to take charge myself and thought since it’s it’s my body let me observe and listen to it carefully what it is accepting and what it’s not. The tongue has its own choices but the body will repel so I decided to listen to my body. Since I have been on medication for a very long time, first I had to reduce intake my antacids. Prolonged use of antacids affect the natural production of acid in the stomach so slowly I started cutting down on my antacids and at the same time minimised the use of oil and spices to strengthen my digestive system. My target was that my food should get digested within 1-2 hrs of my eating. Next, I stopped all flour products so no biscuits, bread or rusk. Flour has one very bad quality that it sticks to your intestine walls which in the long run can cause damage. Third, I gave up non veg completely. Precisely because it takes plenty of time to digest non veg food. So, I categorised food items into three categories: acidic, precooked and predigested, heavy duty

The kind of food we consume also has lot of impact on our nature. Yes of course you also have to be conscious at every moment but food has a very important role to play. People who consume simple bland food are less aggressive and suffer less from stomach ailments.

Hope you find this article useful. Please feel free to share your feedback.

brownearchana-blog1

Live to eat or eat to live

From time immemorial this debate has been going on that what should we eat to keep ourselves healthy and have a disease free body. Our grandfather’s and great grand father’s lived a very disciplined lifestyle to ensure that they remain healthy as much as possible. Infact my grandfather lived till the age of 75 and only in the last 2 years of his life, he developed high blood pressure and finally started taking allopathic drugs. All his life, he used to believe only in ayurvedic system of treatment, yoga, simple vegetarian diet and adequate rest. So now the question is when you have so many choices to eat, doctor available for almost every human organ, investigation s can be done for almost anything, mortality rate has come down, super speciality hospitals are there at almost every nook and corner of the city, people are still suffering. Kids are suffering from diseases like obesity, diabetes etc which was not so prevalent in earlier times. Unfortunately, lot of these changes started coming in when we started to copy the west indiscriminately. In India, we never had the culture of “heat it, eat it”. It’s an American culture which slowly made its way into India. That’s why in America, medical is an industry, it’s not about health anymore. Pizzas and burgers were never a staple diet in the Indian culture. Kids got the flavour of them and hence problems like obesity, diabetes etc came up. So the question now is what should actually one eat? I have also gone through this entire trauma and all kinds of experiments where your nutritionist thinks she is is the best person to tell you what to eat, your doctor thinks thinks he is the best, so on and so forth. In the end, you are still struggling either with weight issues or stomach issues. Finally I decided to take charge myself and thought since it’s it’s my body let me observe and listen to it carefully what it is accepting and what it’s not. The tongue has its own choices but the body will repel so I decided to listen to my body. Since I have been on medication for a very long time, first I had to reduce intake my antacids. Prolonged use of antacids affect the natural production of acid in the stomach so slowly I started cutting down on my antacids and at the same time minimised the use of oil and spices to strengthen my digestive system. My target was that my food should get digested within 1-2 hrs of my eating. Next, I stopped all flour products so no biscuits, bread or rusk. Flour has one very bad quality that it sticks to your intestine walls which in the long run can cause damage. Third, I gave up non veg completely. Precisely because it takes plenty of time to digest non veg food. So, I categorised food items into three categories: acidic, precooked and predigested, heavy duty

The kind of food we consume also has lot of impact on our nature. Yes of course you also have to be conscious at every moment but food has a very important role to play. People who consume simple bland food are less aggressive and suffer less from stomach ailments.

Hope you find this article useful. Please feel free to share your feedback.

brownearchana-blog1

Live to eat or eat to live

From time immemorial this debate has been going on that what should we eat to keep ourselves healthy and have a disease free body. Our grandfather’s and great grand father’s lived a very disciplined lifestyle to ensure that they remain healthy as much as possible. Infact my grandfather lived till the age of 75 and only in the last 2 years of his life, he developed high blood pressure and finally started taking allopathic drugs. All his life, he used to believe only in ayurvedic system of treatment, yoga, simple vegetarian diet and adequate rest. So now the question is when you have so many choices to eat, doctor available for almost every human organ, investigation s can be done for almost anything, mortality rate has come down, super speciality hospitals are there at almost every nook and corner of the city, people are still suffering. Kids are suffering from diseases like obesity, diabetes etc which was not so prevalent in earlier times. Unfortunately, lot of these changes started coming in when we started to copy the west indiscriminately. In India, we never had the culture of “heat it, eat it”. It’s an American culture which slowly made its way into India. That’s why in America, medical is an industry, it’s not about health anymore. Pizzas and burgers were never a staple diet in the Indian culture. Kids got the flavour of them and hence problems like obesity, diabetes etc came up. So the question now is what should actually one eat? I have also gone through this entire trauma and all kinds of experiments where your nutritionist thinks she is is the best person to tell you what to eat, your doctor thinks thinks he is the best, so on and so forth. In the end, you are still struggling either with weight issues or stomach issues. Finally I decided to take charge myself and thought since it’s it’s my body let me observe and listen to it carefully what it is accepting and what it’s not. The tongue has its own choices but the body will repel so I decided to listen to my body. Since I have been on medication for a very long time, first I had to reduce intake my antacids. Prolonged use of antacids affect the natural production of acid in the stomach so slowly I started cutting down on my antacids and at the same time minimised the use of oil and spices to strengthen my digestive system. My target was that my food should get digested within 1-2 hrs of my eating. Next, I stopped all flour products so no biscuits, bread or rusk. Flour has one very bad quality that it sticks to your intestine walls which in the long run can cause damage. Third, I gave up non veg completely. Precisely because it takes plenty of time to digest non veg food. So, I categorised food items into three categories: acidic, precooked and predigested, heavy duty

The kind of food we consume also has lot of impact on our nature. Yes of course you also have to be conscious at every moment but food has a very important role to play. People who consume simple bland food are less aggressive and suffer less from stomach ailments.

Hope you find this article useful. Please feel free to share your feedback.

Good night

From time immemorial this debate has been going on that what should we eat to keep ourselves healthy and have a disease free body. Our grandfather's and great grand father's lived a very disciplined lifestyle to ensure that they remain healthy as much as possible. Infact my grandfather lived till the age of 75 and only in the last 2 years of his life, he developed high blood pressure and finally started taking allopathic drugs. All his life, he used to believe only in ayurvedic system of treatment, yoga, simple vegetarian diet and adequate rest. So now the question is when you have so many choices to eat, doctor available for almost every human organ, investigation s can be done for almost anything, mortality rate has come down, super speciality hospitals are there at almost every nook and corner of the city, people are still suffering. Kids are suffering from diseases like obesity, diabetes etc which was not so prevalent in earlier times. Unfortunately, lot of these changes started coming in when we started to copy the west indiscriminately. In India, we never had the culture of "heat it, eat it". It's an American culture which slowly made its way into India. That's why in America, medical is an industry, it's not about health anymore. Pizzas and burgers were never a staple diet in the Indian culture. Kids got the flavour of them and hence problems like obesity, diabetes etc came up. So the question now is what should actually one eat? I have also gone through this entire trauma and all kinds of experiments where your nutritionist thinks she is is the best person to tell you what to eat, your doctor thinks thinks he is the best, so on and so forth. In the end, you are still struggling either with weight issues or stomach issues. Finally I decided to take charge myself and thought since it's it's my body let me observe and listen to it carefully what it is accepting and what it's not. The tongue has its own choices but the body will repel so I decided to listen to my body. Since I have been on medication for a very long time, first I had to reduce intake my antacids. Prolonged use of antacids affect the natural production of acid in the stomach so slowly I started cutting down on my antacids and at the same time minimised the use of oil and spices to strengthen my digestive system. My target was that my food should get digested within 1-2 hrs of my eating. Next, I stopped all flour products so no biscuits, bread or rusk. Flour has one very bad quality that it sticks to your intestine walls which in the long run can cause damage. Third, I gave up non veg completely. Precisely because it takes plenty of time to digest non veg food. So, I categorised food items into three categories: acidic, precooked and predigested, heavy duty The kind of food we consume also has lot of impact on our nature. Yes of course you also have to be conscious at every moment but food has a very important role to play. People who consume simple bland food are less aggressive and suffer less from stomach ailments. Hope you find this article useful. Please feel free to share your feedback.

Live to eat or eat to live

From time immemorial this debate has been going on that what should we eat to keep ourselves healthy and have a disease free body. Our grandfather's and great grand father's lived a very disciplined lifestyle to ensure that they remain healthy as much as possible. Infact my grandfather lived till the age of 75 and only in the last 2 years of his life, he developed high blood pressure and finally started taking allopathic drugs. All his life, he used to believe only in ayurvedic system of treatment, yoga, simple vegetarian diet and adequate rest. So now the question is when you have so many choices to eat, doctor available for almost every human organ, investigation s can be done for almost anything, mortality rate has come down, super speciality hospitals are there at almost every nook and corner of the city, people are still suffering. Kids are suffering from diseases like obesity, diabetes etc which was not so prevalent in earlier times. Unfortunately, lot of these changes started coming in when we started to copy the west indiscriminately. In India, we never had the culture of "heat it, eat it". It's an American culture which slowly made its way into India. That's why in America, medical is an industry, it's not about health anymore. Pizzas and burgers were never a staple diet in the Indian culture. Kids got the flavour of them and hence problems like obesity, diabetes etc came up. So the question now is what should actually one eat? I have also gone through this entire trauma and all kinds of experiments where your nutritionist thinks she is is the best person to tell you what to eat, your doctor thinks thinks he is the best, so on and so forth. In the end, you are still struggling either with weight issues or stomach issues. Finally I decided to take charge myself and thought since it's it's my body let me observe and listen to it carefully what it is accepting and what it's not. The tongue has its own choices but the body will repel so I decided to listen to my body. Since I have been on medication for a very long time, first I had to reduce intake my antacids. Prolonged use of antacids affect the natural production of acid in the stomach so slowly I started cutting down on my antacids and at the same time minimised the use of oil and spices to strengthen my digestive system. My target was that my food should get digested within 1-2 hrs of my eating. Next, I stopped all flour products so no biscuits, bread or rusk. Flour has one very bad quality that it sticks to your intestine walls which in the long run can cause damage. Third, I gave up non veg completely. Precisely because it takes plenty of time to digest non veg food. So, I categorised food items into three categories: acidic, precooked and predigested, heavy duty The kind of food we consume also has lot of impact on our nature. Yes of course you also have to be conscious at every moment but food has a very important role to play. People who consume simple bland food are less aggressive and suffer less from stomach ailments. Hope you find this article useful. Please feel free to share your feedback.

Laila- my hurricane

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Finally closure of a relationship

In life we come to a point where it’s best that the chapter is closed. But what does it mean? You are reading a book, you don’t like and just shut it. Is it that simple. Actually not. A relationship goes through many stages- it evolves from being a potential loving association before turning into good or bad experience. If good, well then you are lucky and if it turns sour, that’s the time a closure is needed because all it gives is pain, sorrow, setback and negativity. No one deserves this kind of constant pain but very few times we realize on our own that the time has come when a closure is required. We need a third person to tell us. We are in so much of pain that we are not in a situation to decide. We somehow want to hold onto that relationship without realizing the fact that it was over long time back. But when a third person pops up this option, for a second, we are not willing to consider because we are not willing to face our own fear but the reality is that there is no other option but closure if the healing process has to start. When I was put up with this option, for a second I didn’t want to consider it. It meant breaking all ties but actually speaking was there anything left in that relationship to save except for pain, deceit, setbacks, letdowns. What was positive in that that I wanted to save it and speaking the truth it was over long time back. It was a tough call but finally I took it and decided that there is no other option but closing the chapter forever and leaving the book never to touch it again. I will learn to live again without that relationship in my life though the entire meaning will change. This is what life is. Learn to Live through the biggest setback which can shake you up completely.

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A smile which will remail through this struggle ..

Keep smiling!

Finally closure of a relationship

In life we come to a point where it's best that the chapter is closed. But what does it mean? You are reading a book, you don't like and just shut it. Is it that simple. Actually not. A relationship goes through many stages- it evolves from being a potential loving association before turning into good or bad experience. If good, well then you are lucky and if it turns sour, that's the time a closure is needed because all it gives is pain, sorrow, setback and negativity. No one deserves this kind of constant pain but very few times we realize on our own that the time has come when a closure is required. We need a third person to tell us. We are in so much of pain that we are not in a situation to decide. We somehow want to hold onto that relationship without realizing the fact that it was over long time back. But when a third person pops up this option, for a second, we are not willing to consider because we are not willing to face our own fear but the reality is that there is no other option but closure if the healing process has to start. When I was put up with this option, for a second I didn't want to consider it. It meant breaking all ties but actually speaking was there anything left in that relationship to save except for pain, deceit, setbacks, letdowns. What was positive in that that I wanted to save it and speaking the truth it was over long time back. It was a tough call but finally I took it and decided that there is no other option but closing the chapter forever and leaving the book never to touch it again. I will learn to live again without that relationship in my life though the entire meaning will change. This is what life is. Learn to Live through the biggest setback which can shake you up completely.

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