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From the Desk of the Editor ..........-Dear Readers,The growing shift to alternative health careshould be understood fully. Now it is evident

that patients are becoming more and morefrustrated with the prevalent health care system. Manyself-help methods are practised by patients. Patients lookfor alternative care for their health problems. Patients arenow prepared to pay the alternative health care providers.

"Simply put, patients are sick and tired of being sick andtired." All over the world alternative care is gainingground. Everyday, more and more, patients turn to

alternative care.Now, patients know of side effects of allopathic medicines.As a result of which patients want options other than

taking more medicines.Physicians who understand the benefits of healthy diet,modest exercises and change of life style have started

advising patients on these lines. Physicians who knowthe importance of high quality potent nutritionalsupplements are finding more success in their practice.

The approach has to change. Physicians are disease -oriented. They study disease. They look for discase. Letphysicians concentrate on the preventive aspect and

adopt the motto - 'Prevention is the only cure.'Let us not forget that health is a multi-sided issue wherephysical, mental, social, emotional and physical aspectsare to be taken into account.

As far as health-care is concerned, let everyone have atrue holistic approach.

With divine love...Naturally yours,

BIPIN PAREKH 'ANAND'

(Mob.: 98332 05550)

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THE HOLISTIC HEALER THE HOLISTIC HEALERNO. 26 NO. 26

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MEDICAL HUMANISMWe talk about medical ethics and medical science,

but often forget about the most important aspect of

medicine, medical humanism. You may be wondering

what is medical humanism. It is about medicine and man,not the sex not the species, but about human beings

who as patients talk to us and question us about their

personal medical problems. It is not about humanity and

the general problems that arise from advances in medical

science. Daily I am reminded that in our profession we

are forgetting the man while thinking of mankind.

The word 'humanist' was first used at the time of the

Renaissance to describe those scholars who studied not

only the older Latin writers on theology, such as

Augustine and Aquinas, but classical Greek and Latin

writers, such as Aristotle and Cicero. It continued to have

this restricted use until early in the nineteenth century

when German scholars and later French ones extended

its meaning, as described by the French historian

Fernand Braudel, in his book. 'A History of Civilizations',

which was a best seller. So the word is a relative

neologism. Braudel goes on to state :

"An inquiry in 1930 turned up expressions such as

'new humanism', 'Christain humanism', 'pure humanism'

and even 'technical' and 'scientific humanism'. A survey

today would produce similar results, proving that if the

word was once a learned or technical expression, it has

tended to become popular and take on new meanings."

In the early hours of one morning in October fifteen

years ago, despite our best efforts, we lost a young man,

who had a massive heart attack. Scientifically we had

done everything which was then possible to save him.

He was a picture of health hours before the attack and

had gone to bed as usual after dinner, only to be woken

up with severe pain, and he soon collapsed and died.

His young widow then asked me the profound question,

'Why my husband, doctor?'.

I had no profound answer, but tried my best to explain

with the help of conventional risk factors, although he had

none of the multitude of these. Several years later, reading

a book by Stehbens, The Fat Theory of Atherosclerosis

made me realise how fragile were the risk factor

hypotheses. Reading McFarlane Burnet's book -Genes,

Dreams, and Realities - further demystified me. The results

of two large studies of risk factors from the USA have also

cleared the air in this field. The concepts of fractals and

chaos have now much to teach us in medicine, but

unfortunately they are not easy to understand. They havemade me think again about my failure to answer adequately

the question asked by the widow.

Clinical research, I was told by my teachers, is 'asking

questions at the bed-side and going as far away from the

bed as you can to get an anser'. In this case, I went to the

medical literature to get an answer. We have many theories

as to why this or that man gets a disease at a given time.

All risk factor theories apply to cohorts of men (good

scientific jargon) but may be of no practical importance

when applied to the man sitting across the table in your

clinic with a problem. Having thus failed, I then turned to

philosophy starting from Plato, Kant, Karl Marx, Jung,

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Bertrand Russell, even people like Koestler, Orwell, Kafka,

and many others, without an answer to the question. The

logic or anti-logic of Karl Popper did not help.

Having failed in the Occident, I turned my attention

to the Orient, and specially to the Eastern ancient

wisdom. My inability to fully understand the Sanskrit

language was a great handicap, I had to rely mostly on

English commentaries of our ancient wisdom. From

theology (divine wisdom) I went into religion. I studied

Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, though

superficially and mainly from translations. I used to

discuss with people I knew to be authentic, and this

process is going on. I have not got a good answer,

although I could now reassure that wife and her kind, by

saying that the human soul has no death, it is only the

material body that apparently dies, the soul is immortal

and so on and on. Whether that satisfies them or not is

another question altogether.My education in this field is still incomplete and I am

still an ardent student, recently reading Thornton

Wilder's Novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The bridge

was on the high road between Lima and Cuzco,

considered the finest bridge in all Peru. It had been

woven of osaer by the Incas more than a century ago.

St. Luis of France himself protected it by his name and

by a mud church on the farther side. The bridge seemed

to be among things that last forever. However at noon

on 20 July 1714 it broke and precipitated five travellers

to their death in the gorge below. Brother Juniper, the

priest at the church, spent many years enquiring into

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the lives of the five victims. He assessed the quality of

each life, grading them for goodness, piety and

usefulness each on a s scale of 10. He was seeking for

evidence of a divine intent behind their deaths but could

find none. His findings were recorded in a large book.

This fell into the hands of the Inquisition who

pronounced it heretical and ordered it to be burnt in the

Cathedral Square and Brother Juniper with it. The novel

ends with the Abbess Madre comforting a woman who

had lost an uncle and a son when the bridge broke.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five

will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved

for a while and then forgotten. Even memory is not

necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a

land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival,

the only meaning.

In a lighter vain, I once read a story about a medical

student in London early in this century who had an itchyskin lesion on his thigh. He went to see a young skin

specialist, who casually dismissed him with an ointment,

the itch increased and bothered him, he went to the

dermatology professor, who was a big name in those

days. The professor examined him in detail and

prescribed another ointment, again without much

benefit. Sometime later he took up courage and asked

the great professor 'Why have I got this eczema' and

'Why is it not going away?' The professor became

pensive and patted the young student on the back saying

'Young man, if only I had known the answer to your two

profound questions, they would have erected my statue

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in the Trafalgar Square!'

We are back to square one. What happens to each of

us can never be predicted with confidence despite all

the advances that new investigations and treatment may

bring. As D. H. Lawrence wrote :

Our ingress into this world was naked and bare

Our progress in this world is trouble and care

Our egress from this world will be nobody knows where.

May I add when and how also?

Medical science has labeled the various exits through

which we go out to meet our maker with awe inspiring

names, our end is the same as that of our ancestors who

used labels such as God's anger, a curse or what have

you. Human life span has not changed. With the fall in

perinatal mortality, better hygiene, better nutrition and

some degree of success in the control of communicable

diseases, the life expectancy at birth has gone up

markedly in the west, and to a significant, but lesser,degree in the developing world. This has resulted in more

elderly people living in society, with all the problems in

provision of medical and social care of them. Life is the

only condition with one hundred percent mortality. It is a

queue for people to go to meet their maker but, as is any

other queue, people sometimes jump it.

When the end comes, the bereaved family needs the

succour of the presence of God. Does God exist? How I

wish I knew!, However, I agree with Voltaire, when he

said "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent

him?" The concept of God must have saved more people

in this world from suicide than all the support providedby medicine. Medical humanism is a new concept, where

the kingpin is the man and not mankind.

– Prof. B. M. Hegde8

THE MIND AND THE HEARTCoronary heart disease (entailing anginal chest pain

and heart attacks) still remains some sort of a mysteryfor the medical world. Although as many as 200 riskfactors have been identified, we are not able to explaina substantial proportion of the 'sociodemographicvariations' in the occurrence of this disease. Such asituation obviously means that we are missing otherimportant factors, which definitely exist and need to beidentified.

I have regularly emphasised the pivotal role playedby the human mind in fostering all human ills. Of all theknown risk factors, some are genetic, some probablyrelated to our life in our mother's womb and many others(such as smoking and sedentary living) are associatedwith our 'civilised' way of life. Despite all these factors,an ability to either predict or even manage coronary heartdiseases has been hampered by a lack of adequate

knowledge in this field.A recent study published in the US journal

Epidemiology specifically addressed the question of therole of depression especially the recent feeling ofhopelessness in fatal and nonfatal syndromes of coronaryheart disease in a cohort of 2832 subjects aged between45 and 77 years who were prospectively studied for amean period of 12.4 years. This study clearly showed thatthe fatal event risk was increased by 50 percent in thosepersons with severe depression and the non-fatal eventrisk by 60 percent. The feeling of hopelessness was themost important aspect of the person's personality. Severalother established risk factors such as age, sex, race,

education, marital status, smoking, blood cholesterol,systolic blood pressure, body mass index, alcohol useand physical activity were all taken into consideration by

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a multivariate analysis technique before deciding on therole of depression in its own right.

The aforementioned study clearly reinforces my beliefthat psychological ill-health plays a leading role incoronary heart disease.

Psychological alterations produce significantchanges in bodily functions. Schizophrenics in mentalinstitutions have been found to offer resistance to manyinfective diseases. For example, patients with manicdepressive psychosis, during the manic phase, possessan enormous amount of physical energy. They neverseem to get tried at all, and they can make do with verylittle sleep. The same people, during the depressivephase, succumb easily. Ottoson in Sweden carried outdetailed post-mortem studies on 270 consecutive suicidevictims and was amazed to find some cancer growingsomewhere in their bodies. He concluded that cancerand depression have a close relationship. Cancer

produces reactive depression, while depression acts asa stimulus for new cells to become malignant.I have earlier dealt with extensively at that, on the

somatisation of depressive symptoms which usuallyputs the physician off guard in diagnosis and treatment.One of the common misdiagnoses in these occultdepressives is mild, moderate hypertension. As manyanti-hypertensives are capable of worsening depression,this becomes a vicious cycle.

The aforementioned milestone study should alert thewary doctor to be vigilant and listen to every patientcarefully, irrespective of the situation lest the doctorshould easily miss the underlying depression.

- Dr. B. M. Hegde

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• When we become the master of our mind, nothing

good or bad will work upon us. There is no more

slavery for us. We will be free from the bondage of

anything.• A man can achieve anything which he can conceive

in his mind.

• In your entire life span, you can change only one

person and that is yourself.

• It is doubtful that you can change the world but you

can certainly change yourself.

• Happiness is neither fulfillment of desires nor

suppression of desires. It is overcoming the desires.

• There is no problem in the world which is greater

than the strength of your mind.

• Once you surrender yourself to God, there is no limit

to what you can achieve.

• Your happiness should be in your hands and not inothers'.

• Truth has a power which sustains all the trials and

tests of life.

• Truth will always remain truth even if there is not a

single follower of it.

• When you realize that you know very little, you are

fit for learning.

• A man is judged by every small thing he does. Big

things are not necessary for the evaluation of a

person.

• You deserve the best of everything in life. It is not

your desire but is your right as a divine child of God.

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So never compromise in doing or accepting anything

which is less than the best.

• Spirituality doesn't mean non-possession of things.

It only means non-attachment. A king possessing

enormous wealth may be totally unattached while a

beggar with torn clothes may be a highly attachedperson.

• Strictness for oneself and liberality for others is the

real greatness.

• Greatest man is he who is the servant of all.

• Truth can never be destroyed. It can only be

temporarily subsided. Truth contains a force which

does not rest until it is revealed.

• Untruth can never stand because of the inherent

weakness associated with it. It has to fall one day.

• The busiest man has the greatest leisure.

• Final say in every matter is of God and not of yours.

The freedom given to you is only in the performance

of actions but not in the results.

• Ego is the greatest barrier between you and God. It

acts like a wall between you and God. Once ego

dissolves, you come face to face with God.

• Spirituality doesn't mean leaving the world and

actions and going into solitude. It only means a

change of attitude while doing the same karmas and

living in the same world.

• There is always a power with you which is greater

than all the odds which can ever come to you in

your life.

• The best way to keep yourself happy is to ensure

that others are happy.

• Nobody can exercise any power upon you unless you

allow him to do so.

• The greatest fear to a man in the world comes from

himself only and not from any outside source.

• If you have a determined mind backed by firm faith

in God, it is impossible for you not to achieve yourgoal.

• If you like to win but think you can't, it is almost

certain that you won't. Such is the power of thought.

• Nothing in this universe can affect or frighten you,

unless your mind allows itself to be affected. Such

is the power of mind.

• Mind is your greatest friend as well as your biggest

enemy. If you use it properly, it is your best friend, if

you misuse it, it is your greatest enemy.

• Don't demand material things from God. Your

demands only have become a barrier between you

and God. Instead, just thank God for whatever you

have got.

• Purpose of life is not to die one day. You have to

fulfill some aim here.

• One ounce of practice is better than tons of theory.

• The degree of your surrender to God decides the

extent to which you will receive help from God. If

your surrender is total everything will be done by

God for you.

• God is simple. All other things are complex.

• World is meant for our use and not for possession.

It is to be used only as a means to achieve our ends.

• Real preaching is through behaviour and conduct

and not by words. Effect of former is ten times greater

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than that of the latter.

• All our actions should give the reflection of our

original nature which is ever pure and blissful. All

our actions should become divinized.

• A joyous spirit will always find reasons to be happy

in any circumstances. A gloomy spirit will always findreasons to be unhappy in any circumstances.

• For doing something time will never be separately

available to you. It will have to be carved out from

the same 24 hours, if you want to do something.

• When you surrender to God, you have a kind of

assurance that whatever you need or wish, will

certainly come to you and that there is no question

about its non-receiving.

• If you can take care of things which are in your hand,

things which are not in your hand will be

automatically taken care of.

• Nobody can be helped unless he wants to be helped.

Desire and will are the prime requirements for the

progress.

• The fears which we experience in the outside world

come from our inside only, although it doesn't

appear to be so. By deep contemplation you may

realize that you yourself are the source of your fears.

• If your demand is sincere and is in conformity with

cosmic order, supply will certainly come to you.

If a thing doesn't exist in the universe, it will be

created for you.

• Sickness is more in mind than in the body. You can't

be sick until you feel sick.

• No one can make you happy except you yourself.

• No one was ever really taught by another. Each of us

has to teach himself in the long run. External teacher

only arouses the internal teacher.

• Anger, provocation, irritation only show that instead

of being the master, we are still the slaves of our

lower mind (also called animal mind or automaticmind).

• Know that you are separated entirely from the world

though you are in the world. Then no action will have

any binding effect on you.

• You can see in others only what is in yourself. You

can't see the faults in others unless the same faults

are in yourself.

• The problems and sufferings in our life are like the

tests and exams in the school of life to teach us

certain lessons and to tell us where we stand.

• World is a theater or a stage where we all are actors

playing our designated roles. How well we play our

roles is only important and not the role itself. In

different births we may be given different types of

roles to enable us to grow in various directions.

• The more you will resist sufferings and miseries in

life, the more they will trouble you, the more you

accept them, the more easily they will leave you.

• You can be to others only what you are to yourself. If

you are honest with yourself, you will be honest to

others as well.

• True spirituality goes beyond all religions.

• Money can give you everything except happiness. It

has the power to make you miserable in comforts.

• Whatever is within us, the same appears to us in the

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outside world. Hence every person makes his own

world which is different from each other.

• Real pleasure is in giving or losing and not in

receiving.

• Accepting and recognizing your weaknesses is the

first step for removing them.• You are not a helpless creature revolving endlessly

in the wheel of destiny. You have the power by which

you can neutralize, partly or fully, the effect of destiny

on you. What you have done, you can undo also.

• Unless you are ready to accept responsibility for the

conditions in which you are, there is very little which

can be done to change your conditions.

• If you want to work most efficiently but with least

stress, work as a servant of God considering every

work entrusted to you by the divinity (GOD).

• If you can just walk towards God, He will run to you.

If we are ready to take one step towards him, He is

ready to take two steps towards us.

• Don't overstress yourself by taking responsibilities

of those things which are not in you hands. Leave

the results of everything on God and become light.

You are simply an humble worker and not the

decision maker or destiny maker which is totally

God's job.

• Wise men learn from fools more than what fools learn

from them.

• Whatever we do, God should be in front of us. In this

'mela' of the world, we are safe only so long as we

are moving with our hands in His hands. As soon as

our hands slip, we get lost in this 'mela' and are left

in a highly miserable and confused state.

• Have all that you want and even more but try not to

have any idea of proprietorship or possessorship.

• Ideas of respect and acceptance of all religions are

not contradictory but complementary to each other.

Every religion reinforces another religion.• Any work or action that doesn't place God at the top,

is incomplete. Without associating God in your work,

there is no guarantee for success. You never know

from which quarter disaster may strike.

• If you have taken the first step, you are likely to take

the last step also. Well begun is half done.

• The person who has learnt to bow, has almost

reached to God.

• Make God your partner and associate Him in

everything you do. There is nothing which you can't

do with the help of God.

• A person's mental reaction to an event is more

important than the event itself. However hard the

realities of life may be, they are not as important as

our attitude towards them.

• The person who is same in thought, word and deed

is only fit to be a realized soul.

• Silence is the hardest argument which can

sometimes be offered to your opponent.

• No matter at what stage you are, there is always a

scope for further advancement.

• Nothing goes in vain in this world. Even a thought you

think, a word you speak, make a definite impact on the

whole universe, howsoever infinitesimal it may be.

• The person who sees the kind hand of God even in

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miseries and sufferings is the true recipient of His

grace.

• Your worst difficulties are your best opportunities.

• The purpose of spiritual development is to rise above

the limitations of mundane life.

• For a true spiritual seeker, there is nothing which islow or high, trivial or important. Everything and every

occasion is an opportunity for him in the path of

liberation.

• Mind is the most powerful thing in this world. One

who has fully conquered his mind has all the powers

at his command. Whatever he says becomes words

of scriptures. Wherever he goes becomes a place

for pilgrimage.

• World is a laboratory where we do various types of

experiments to learn various things and are also

ourselves tested off and on by facing various trials

which are offered to us.

• If you want to avoid pains, you will have to avoid

pleasures also.

• The pleasure and joy which we want to enjoy from

the body and the world, considering them as real,

are in reality only nightmares.

• Appearance of problems and difficulties and their

disappearance after sometime are like the day

following night. One should tolerate them patiently

without getting upset.

• Never think that you are inferior to anybody and never

think that you are superior to anybody. All differences

are unreal.

• Mind is a mysterious something which is really

nothing but does everything. There is nothing in all

the three worlds which is not its creation. Creation,

existence, and dissolution of this universe are

projections of this mysterious mind.

• One who is neither unduly elated by success nor

grieved by sorrow, who is equipoised in most adversecircumstances, in praise and censure, in wealth and

poverty, rather in all conditions of life, ever conscious

of his real nature unaffected by the play of the

elements, is a perfect person.

• The person who has controlled his mind has almost

attained God.

• When you are able to overcome worldly pleasures

and pains, attractions and repulsion, you don't

experience simply a blank or void, you experience a

spiritual awakening in yourself.

• We always think that by changing this or that

condition, we will be in a more comfortable position

in this world. But in the new conditions also we find

ourselves surrounded by new problems. Unless we

realize that source of happiness is within us, we may

live anywhere and in whatever conditions, we will

always be stressed.

• The more we involve in worldly pleasures and

enjoyments, the more we get bound and entangled

and the more difficult it becomes for us to be free

from it and get liberated.

• Once you know the truth of life, you cease to see the

differences in the world. There is no difference

between a friend and a foe, big and small, rich and

poor, strong and weak, and neighbour and common

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Everytime a physician writes a prescription he or she must weigh the inherent risks of the drug against the possible benefits for the patient.

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man. All are seen as the children of God and all are

actors in the world playing different roles.

• A person, who is stabilized in soul consciousness

and God consciousness, considers all worldly things

and objects of pleasure like garbage. For him there

is no difference between gold and stone.• If I like praise, it means, I can be easily hurt by

defamation.

• You can give to others only what is inside you. If you

have anger, irritation, hatred inside you, you will give

the same to others.

• A child always remains tension free. Similarly you

can also be tension free if you consider yourself as

the child of God.

• The greatest men of the world also had only twenty

four hours in a day like you have. They hadn't any

more time than you for becoming great.

• World is a great training school where we train

ourselves by learning various lessons in the form of

facing variable conditions, events, circumstances,

joys and sorrows, etc.

Compiled by – M. K Gupta, Suptdg. Engr.

Nuclear Science Centre

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Having blind faith in the FDA, your doctor or your pharmacist may prove to be costly.

Soothing Touch of 'Nature' Whenever you get tense, go close to nature like gardens, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes etc. See the open sky, clouds and inhale fresh air. Listen to chirping of birds, sounds of moving breeze, Take healing rays of the sun on your body. Play with children in open fields.

TIME MANAGEMENTWhether it's in the office or the more close setting of

family relationships, perhaps one of the greatest

challenges today is developing the ability to say 'NO' for

the right reason, at the right moment and in the right

way. There are many reasons why we tend to say 'YES'

when we know we should say 'NO'. These include the

fear of irritating someone (loss of approval), looking

incapable (loss of face), avoiding an argument (loss of

temper) or even feeling guilty at not being there for

someone (loss of relationship).

When it comes to saying NO, time is not the real issue,

it is self-esteem / self-respect. If they are intact they will

influence both why you say so and how you say it. Saying

NO out of fear or hatred will only generate the same

reaction in return. However an confident and positive

NO once made is never defended, explained or justified.

SELF ESTEEMThe rebuilding of 'real' self-esteem is an inner process

of self-realization, self-knowledge and self-awareness.

We need to spend sometime seeing our own inner

qualities and appreciating them, and most importantly

expressing them for the benefit of others. In this way we

slowly come to know our own true beauty. Are you ready

to rediscover what is already there?

Question : Imagine five people in your life were asked to

identify a specific positive quality within you. List the five

different qualities, which you think they would see in you.

Reflection : Now spend a few minutes with each ofthese qualities and visualize yourself expressing them

in your life.

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RAW ENERGYOur body is an assembly of interrelated organs and

parts (heart, brain, liver, kidney etc.) Each works for the

good of the whole body. Though our body is made from

the foods we eat, it is programmed for growth already.

That is, it is pre-programmed for growth (Genetics). For

true health, we need to eat according to this programme.

Our genes and chromosomes carry the message of this

programme.

• The proteins, carbohydrates, fats etc, that are

essential for growth, are extracted as nutrients,

according to the genetic programme, from the foods

we eat, through enzymes and hormones, by the body.

• The foods we eat are the foundation of the tiny cell.

Right food makes the right body. A brick house is

made from bricks and a mud house with mud. Can

you expect to have a good healthy, strong body,

without the right foods? For factories, computers andmachines, we follow all the rules and regulations to

get the necessary results. Should not we do the same

with our body?

• Only natural, wholesome foods (fruits, vegetables, nuts

and sprouts) provide according to the genetic code.

• Humans are biologically, physiologically,

anatomically and digestively, adapted to eat fruits.

We are Fruitarians.

• Fruits are the ideal, sun cooked food for humans. It

requires no preparation, no cooking, no seasoning,

no additions or subtractions to make it palatable. In

short, fruit is perfect.

• Fruit can be eaten as a complete meal to maintain

health, at its highest form. Fruits provide all the

unknown and known nutrients.

• It is far more important to think in terms of "How

much fruit to eat", rather than how many calories,

proteins or how much vitamins?• Only our present lifestyle and misinformation about

food, prevent us from giving fruits their due.

• Eat raw instead of cooked foods, juicy before dry

food, easy-to-digest foods before longer-to-digest

foods. For example, eat salads before fried foods,

non-vegetarian foods and cooked foods. The raw

salad eaten first, helps in easier digestion.

• Fruits are blood cleansers and energy givers.

Vegetables are blood builders. You cannot cleanse

and build at the same time. Therefore do not mix fruits

and vegetables, and eat fruits for breakfast and

vegetables for lunch.

• Raw food leaves the body or is utilized within 24hours.

Fruits 2-12 Hours

Juice 2 Hours

Cooked Vegetables 35 Hours

Meat upto 100 Hours

- Dr. Vijaya Venkat & Associate

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FIVE METHODS I HAVE USED TOBANISH WORRY

By Prof. William Lyon Phelps (I had the privilege of spending an afternoon with Billy

Phelps, of Yale, shortly before his death. Here are the five methods he used to banish worry - based on the notes I took during that interview. – Dale Carnegie)

1) When I was twenty-four years old, my eyes suddenlygave cut. After reading three or four minutes, my eyesfelt as if they were full of needles, and even when I wasnot reading, they were so sensitive that I could not face awindow. I consulted the best oculists in New Haven andNew York. Nothing seemed to help me. After four o'clockin the afternoon, I simply sat in a chair in the darkestcorner of the room, waiting for bedtime. I was terrified. Ifeared that I would have to give up my career as a teacherand go out west and get a job as a lumberjack. Then a

strange thing happened which shows the miraculouseffects of the mind over physical ailments. When my eyeswere at their worst that unhappy winter, I accepted aninvitation to address a group of undergraduates. The hallwas illuminated by huge rings of gas jets suspended fromthe ceiling. The lights pained my eyes so intensely that,while sitting on the platform, I was compelled to look atthe floor. Yet during my thirty-minute speech, I feltabsolutely no pain, and I could look directly at these lightswithout any blinking whatever. Then when the assemblywas over, my eyes pained me again.

I thought then that if I could keep my mind stronglyconcentrated on something, not for thirty minutes, but

for a week, I might be cured. For clearly it was a case of

mental excitement triumphing over a bodily illness.I had a similar experience later while crossing the

ocean. I had an attack of lumbago so severe that I couldnot walk. I suffered extreme pain when I tried to standup straight. While in that condition, I was invited to give

a lecture on shipboard. As soon as I began to speak,every trace of pain and stiffness left my body, I stood upstraight, moved about with perfect flexibility, and spokefor an hour. When the lecture was over, I walked away tomy stateroom with ease. For a moment, I thought I wascured. But the cure was only temporary. The lumbagoresumed its attack.

These experiences demonstrated to me the vitalimportance of one's mental attitude. They taught me theimportance of enjoying life while you may. So I live everyday now as if it were the first day I had ever seen and thelast I were going to see. I am excited about the dailyadventure of living, and nobody in a state of excitementwill be unduly troubled with worries. I love my daily workas a teacher. I wrote a book entitled The Excitement ofTeaching. Teaching has always been more than an artor an occupation to me. It is a passion. I love to teach asa painter loves to paint or a singer loves to sing. BeforeI get out of bed in the morning, I think with ardent delightof my first group of students. I have always felt that oneof the chief reasons for success in life is enthusiasm.

2) I have found that I can crowd worry out of mind byreading an absorbing book. When I was fifty-nine, I hada prolonged nervous break down. During that period, Ibegan reading David Alec Wilson's monumental Life ofCarlyle. It had a good deal to do with my convalescencebecause I became so absorbed in reading it that I forgot

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my despondency.3) At another time when I was terribly depressed, I

forced myself to become physically active almost everyhour of the day. I played five or six sets of violent gamesof tennis every morning, then took a bath, had lunch,

and played eighteen holes of golf every afternoon. OnFriday nights I danced until one o'clock in the morning.I am a great believer in working up a tremendous swear.I found that depression and worry oozed out of mysystem with the sweat.

4) I learned long ago to avoid the folly of hurry, rushand working under tension. I have always tried to applythe philosophy of Wilbur Cross. When he was Governorof Connecticut, he said to me : "Sometimes when I havetoo many things to do all at once, I sit down and relaxand smoke my pipe for an hour and do nothing."

5) I have also learned that patience and time have away of resolving our troubles. When I am worried aboutsomething, I try to see my troubles in their properperspective. I say to myself : "Two months from now Ishall not be worrying about this bad break, so why worryabout it now? Why not assume now the same attitudethat I will have two months from now?"

Nothing on earth renders happiness less approachable than trying to find it. Historian Will Durant described how he looked for happiness in knowledge, and found only disillusionment.He then sought happiness in travel and found weariness,in wealth and found discord and worry. He looked for happiness in his writing and was only fatigued. One day he saw a woman waiting in a tiny car with a sleeping child in her arms. A man descended from a train and came over and gently kissed the woman and then the baby, very softly so as not to waken him.The family drove off and left Durant with a stunning realization

of the real nature of happiness. He relaxed and discovered that "every normal function of life holds some delight."

- 'The one Sure way to Happiness' by June Callwood, Oct. 1974.

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