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PUBLIC HEALTH IMPORTANCE AS SEEN FROM "THE HOLY BIBLE"

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 In the past few years, we have witnessed multiple disease outbreaks. Most notable outbreaks are:  2003: SARS 2009: Swine Flu(H1N1) 2014: Ebola 2019-2020: COVID 19 All of these pandemics have one thing in common, and that is the animal source origin. Humans have a history of domesticating animals or living on them by eating them, but without proper knowledge of what to eat and what not, can result in disease or any other major health complication. Thus, the concept of public health was initiated. This focused on the aspect where majority of the population can be targeted and the disease can be prevented or treated even before it started. Multiple aspects such as vaccination, providing medications for the disease in certain seasons, or enhancing the nutrition of the society by educating them about the food so that malnutrition or malnutrition related disorders do not happen, etc. But one interesting thing to note here is that, the holy scriptures already have detailed instructions about
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COVID 19 AND ITS EFFECTS ON CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

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 Since Coronavirus is a recent topic which is going on in discussion since last couple of months, we have been hearing various organs being affected by coronavirus. But recently, the SARS-CoV2 has been found to have effects on cardiac system. The four "common cold" human coronaviruses - HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-OC43 and HCoV-HKU1; are not associated with heart diseases. There were isolated reports of patients caused by MERS-CoV(Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) with myocarditis and a limited number of case series of cardiac diseases in patients with SARS. Therefore, a distinctive feature of SARS-CoV 2 is more extensive cardiac involvement, which may also be a consequence of the pandemic. The features of SARS-CoV with cardiac involvement are - myocarditis, necrosis of cardiac cells, mimicking heart attack, arrhythmias, and acute or protracted heart failure (muscular dysfunction). The primary structural difference between the SARS virus and SARS-CoV 2 virus is that, SARS i
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PROCRASTINATION

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  Procrastination is the act of delaying or postponing a task or set of tasks. But the question remains.. Why do we procrastinate? To answer that, we need to understand that the main reason to procrastinate is none other than our old friend Mr, MOTIVATION. So, the amount of motivation will tell you the amount of work a person can do and the procrastination he/she can do. There is an important theory that explains how motivation can be calculated. And yes, there is a mathematical equation for motivation too. This theory is the Temporal Motivation Theory - or TMT, laid down by Dr. Piers Steel in his book The procrastination equation. The quation for motivation is -  MOTIVATION = (Expectancy * Value) / (Impulsiveness * Delay) Each of the mentioned terms above are the parameters for Procrastination.  Expectancy - how strongly you believe that you are able to complete the task. Value - rewards that you get after completing the task as well as the experience of the task; i.e. Pleasant or unp
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MARSHMALLOW TEST - SUCCESS PREDICTOR?

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 Do you really feel that you can analyze the amount of success you can achieve? Well.... There happened a test earlier which was aimed at estimating the success rate of children in future.  Harvard University conducted a study which aimed to estimate this same thing. Marshmallow Test - Harvard University conducted an experiment, where they brought in a batch of children and asked them about how many of them want to eat marshmallows. Everyone said Yes. Later on, they said, if you guys wait for a few hours, until we return, you all will get extra marshmallow.  The results were as expected, majority of the subjects ate marshmallows instantly, where as some of them waited and got double the amount they were to be given initially. But the study didn't end here. The study began from this point onwards. What the researchers did, was to follow up those children decade by decade and the results were astonishing. The found out that, those who took marshmallow at that instant, had the tendenc
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SURGICAL TREATMENT OF MAJOR DEPRESSION

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 Depression is a prevalent and often debilitating psychiatric disorder with a 6-month prevalence of approximately 5%. In the United States alone, approximately 20 million people have been diagnosed with depression at some point in their lives. Depression accounts for the greatest number of missed work days due to illness, with an estimated economic burden of approximately $40 billion per year. When diagnosing depression, a distinction must be made between major depressive disorder (MDD) and major depressive episode (MDE). For the diagnosis of MDE, patients must present at least five of the following symptoms for a minimum of 2 weeks: depressed mood; markedly diminished interest or pleasure or significant apathy; significant change in appetite or weight; insomnia or hypersomnia; psychomotor agitation or retardation; fatigue or loss of energy; feelings of worthlessness, excessive or inappropriate guilt, or loss of self-esteem; indecisiveness or diminished ability to think or concentrate;
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HEALTH AND DISEASE - FROM A NEW VIEWPOINT!

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According to WHO, "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." But how many of us really know what is happening inside? We feel sick, we go to doctor be it allopathic, homeopathic, or ayurvedic practitioner  ; but we go to them to get treated.  But the basic remains the same, be there difference in the treatment modality. Today we'll look health from a different perspective. BIOCHEMICAL BASIS/PERSPECTIVE OF HEALTH -  Samuel Hahnemann, whose genius divined the great importance of inorganic cell salts are remedial agents of a high order, was the first who began thorough investigation into their pathogenic effects and therapeutic uses. It was his provings that Lime and Salt and Potash and Silica when prepared in a specific way leads to treatment of various diseases, but they should be in their crude states apparently. Theory of Schuessler's biochemic method -   The idea upon which biochemic the
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Obesity - A Genetic Predisposition?

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 Excessive body weight is something much of a concern. Obesity is when a person consumes more calories than the calories he is meant to burn. For simplicity, it means the increase in calorie intake and not burning it sufficiently to maintain your body's energy needs. Obesity is caused because of -  Lack of physical activity Increase in calorie intake Genetic predisposition Recent studies have shown that there is a Genetic predominance in the Population. People who are fat in before the age of 2 and do not fit in the parameters of the growth charts, should take their genetic testing to check for obesity markers. The markers that are used to check for obesity are - Leptin Deficiency POMC Deficiency MC4R Deficiency More commonly, people who have obesity have multiple genes that predispose them to gain excess weight. One such gene is the fat mass and obesity-associated gene (FTO), which is found in up to 43% of the population. The presence of this gene and other genes can cause: Increa
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