GOOD  HEALTH , DIET - HABIT   ETC
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It  Quick , short  and Cost -effective  :

Any  tummy - girth that is  more than   38 " -  40 "  ( inch-scale)  in a person of 5 '-8" height  or more, should pay an Annual fine of  $ 12,000/-( 1ooo/- per An um)  for the period of his 'Health-offence' ( pregnancy & Path-tumours  excused) and irrespective of their financial status .
See  how things take  a turn  on this  Social  regulation. This  is PiBi's regime ( not like 'At -kins Diet ').

I think  people  die  more due to over-eating ( a Social offence) than from  Starvation and then blame their heart, kidney or neighbour.
Also, Over -drugging (too many),wrong medicines , high degree of affluence are other causes  of ill-health -mortality of Developed(+) Nations.

 Know if your tummy is bigger than your chest ( circumference) , you are  ' Anti - social ' on moral ground.
You have no right to eat more  than required , when half of the WORLD  is  starving, even  if you are a millionaire, honest  way or otherwise.

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While i U.S.A,  ( 1993 --- 2008  ), I heard a lot about "At kin's  Diet'  advocating almost all protein and least Carbohydrate.  Even, Mr . At kin( ?-son) was living then and  Americans  were  mesmerised by his Diet advice .
Even my  own daughter was a big fan  and hated  Rice &  Roti ( but never  said ' No !'  to  Indian Sweets ). That  great  and rich  and successful  talent  did not out -live his own regime.

But now, my advice to all Americans , now;
 If you are  between 25  and 50 Age group, did not or do not have Diabetic parents  ,  are within good parameter of  Normal Health ( The word - NORMAL is a RANGE and  never a fixed point ), and if you  have too much wok-stress  on Brain , than physical,---  e.g Accounting , Research Or more particularly  Computer/Internet etc, do not  hesitate or feel bound only to High Protein--no Carbohydrate Diet-Mantra .

Modern Medicine declared for quite sometimes, that  Brain cells are strictly vegetarian---do  not  'touch or take Chicken , ham or beef but devour GLUCOSE   like the way Sharks devour  Aquatic flesh  or the meat of you and me.
A high grade Computer surfer often feels ( if you experienced ,heard or ever  researched ) dizzy  or lack of concentration . And the reason is more likely that his  blood sugar level drops down like a Deep-Sea Diver.
           if you happen  to be one of those victim, at such , time  (just test on the spot your Blood-Sugar with a Portable Glucometer ) take 2/3 spoon s of  glucose , wait  and see how your  lethargy and lack of concentration vanishes.
  In hard and tough brain-taxed jobs , it  easy to acquire high  Blood-pressure and  less chance to get  DIABETES !

'Man is a conscious  bi-ped  animal , maybe, at the highest rung of the ladder of Life -machine.
Man has been  given the verdict of 'supremacy ' with five special factors :

I.  Erection of Spine . (Balancing  economy)
II  Liberation of his hands .(freedom of action) 
III Apposition of thumbs ( skill) .
IV.  Binocular  Vision( Analytic Vision) .  
V.  And - dropping off of the tail.'

And with above words my anatomy  professor (1949), Dr Pashupati Bose M.B.B.S (only) would add  further :
 -'though some of you have not dropped them,- as yet !'

And  due to his  master-teaching skill , I could not forget the  lines  even in 2012.

Next time  I shall tell  his way of telling  how this 'bi-ped' animal-man grows  and also suffers due to law of Nature and also due to his own faults and follies.

FALSE  FAITH :

Your external physique and shape is nothing without your  VITAL  Organs. They are:

1 The Brain

ii. the Breathing organ  - the Lungs

iii. The heart - the central pump.

iv, the Liver -The metabolic, the storage,the 

    digestive ,the Detoxicating and Protective

    organ.

v. The Excretory  organ --the kidney.

vi. finally the Reproductive organs -the testes/ovary,the genitals , the uterus.

[Endocrine  Glands deserve a V.I.P  Class and has been spoken of in another BLOG]

Longevity (Life span) of a being is 5-times the biological growth i.e 5 -into-25 =125(+/-) in case of man.

We live by assault (irregularity,addiction,negative passions, greed,imbalance, rat-race,jealousy etc. And then we  blame  our neighbours ,fate  or the Divine).

Finally  -'man is what  & how he eats and drink' (physical aspect affecting body & mind).

* I  used to tell my patients  and Students(medical) --'Income-Tax ' should be decided by the girth of the tummy also i.e Rs 1000/-(India) [ or $ 1000/-for Western-s] per month(duration) for every inch of one whose  tummy is larger than his chest (pregnancy --exempted).

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Human-s are only a BI-PID (Two-legged)Animals with potential expanding Consciousness. That's all. Most of the other biological beings  have more sensory and executive potential than man. [shall write about on it some other time]

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*** This is only a  lay-mans  soliliquy and not a scholarly exposure.

"  Aspirin may help fight  11 cancers" -The The Times   Of India , kolkata, Saturday , March 10, 2012, Front  page.
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'ASPIRIN'  -never   dies and ever returns !
I , in spite with my M.D degree with Cardiology as specialised , have Retired and Given up Practice - more than 20 yrs now.
In student life  i learnt that Aspirin was discovered as a beneficial drug almost by accident (?on blind trial on Diabetic Patients ).
Even before and since, instead of being n the 'Obsolete' list  Aspirin has been re-incarnated myriad of times and even  found to be  essential or beneficial in so many  diseases , old and new.
  Now 'Ecotrin (U.S.A) and Ecospirin (India)i.e aspirin in 100 to 200 mg strength is competing even the 'Profit-Market ' of  long -term  Anti-depressive drugs !
 I have been  talking Ecotrin/Ecospirin  by my own choice, for many years  now(I am 80 +).
As a doctor in the past, I learnt that the important function of aspirin is that it stimulates the physiological level of Corticosteroid function even in ageing and degenerative phage of life  and is emergncy-friend[like USA 911] in many diseases, known  &  U-known !
  I advice all aging people (above 45) to  help themselves with a low dosage (70 to 80mg/day) to balace and for 'servicing' of their internal physical -world.


To me ,Aspirin  is like  Einstein's  Cosmological -Constant or Speed of  Light  that never dies inspite of  Expanding Uniniverse or  Experiment of CERN [with Neutrino].

Long -long back in 1960-s after I  became a doctor  and  learned through Boyd's  Pathology Book that our body can accumulate from 500 m  to 1000 ml of fluid (water in  our system without giving  ant symptom  or sign clinically nor even a sign of  fluid accumulation in  costo-phrenic angle  to prove fluid in Pleural -space by X-ray of chest ( may not very  very accurate in my statement after about half a century i.e  today.
 But the interesting parallel I venture to draw is that : also  long after, I  studied a book  named Charak Sanghita  of AYURVEDA, i.e the knowledge  about LIFE and Health of INDIAN  VEDIC  period  (older than Even GREEK  CIVILISATION,)  where it was advised  for women who became pregnant , to wear a ring around the little toe the  foot (?left). And if the  lady  reported any feeling of tightening around, it was a sure way to know that water was getting accumulated in the body , That  was the first symptom & sign of  oedema or body-fluid Excess, when ,as proved in Modern Medicine, the Excess- accumulation of fluid was even  less than 500 ml in the  body.

What ?-- if in Modern days of Hypertension, , Circulatory diseases  or Kidney conditions, -if all men and women are advised to wear a ring around one of the little  toes!
Well this  is only the aftermath of my stray thought and is - no SCIENTIFIC  SERMON.

As  Medical students  we were told that;

'SIPHYLLIS' ,the most dreaded  Venereal  disease of  EARLIER  days, was  a GIFT  of the WESTERN  CIVILISATION and  known as  "ROYAL  DISEASE.'
Of course ,in Modern days , it has lost place to AIDS(More things to come ).
The other Dangerous habits  in the  name of   LOVE and AFFECTIONS ,-are  also WESTERN HABITS  e.g Kissing  and Hand -Shakes.{ the easiest way to get infected through   'Contacts' by  germs and Viruses.-------..

Even to -day,  the words of my great professor of Anatomy Dr. Pashupati Bose [only M.B.B.S} of Medical College Calcutta , India,  reverberates in my ear ,: " YOUR  ANUS  is Cleaner than your mouth and 'Normal Urine 'is better  than so-called drinking water , in terms of  germs , contained in it."

All  apart, Science  now tells that 'Hand-shakes ' can spread  VIRUS  faster than than many other means !
And it has been advised by SCIENCE-World (reported recently) to prefer   ELBOW-SHAKE' to Hand-shakes.
Strange  !  How are  opinions ,- Changing or  Evolving  in rapid progress..
So!  &  Finally ,- think twice  before  the  Kiss or be close  to any one , even Face-to-Face ..