Gastroenteritis is an inflammation/irritation of the gastrointestinal tract (the pathway responsible for digestion that includes the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, and intestines). Gastroenteritis is majorly caused…
DIET THERAPY OF DISEASES
Achalasia is a rare disorder of the food pipe (oesophagus), which can make it difficult to swallow food and drink. Normally, the muscles of the oesophagus contract to squeeze food along towards the stomach. A…
Lowering your carb intake might give you an edge on weight loss — at least in the beginning. But first, you have to get over…
Irritable bowel syndrome is a disorder of the large intestine that causes abdominal pain, excess wind, diarrhoea, mucus in stool, constipation and irregular bowel habits to the individual. Well, the cause is really not know,…
The craze to lose weight now is really becoming a social menace and a means to distort money from people. Everyone seems to be a…
NUTRITION AND CANCERCancer is simply termed ‘growth of unhealthy tissues (malignant) which results from abnormal or uncontrolled cell division.Cancer occurs in all parts of the…
Beauty they say is in the eye of the beholder. The main crux will be what will be the yard stick to define something as beautiful and as the entire opposite. A big question I…
As a first time mother and a health practitioner, on being pregnant, I had already decided to exclusively breastfeed my baby for 6 months and…
A colleague of mine requested for an article on stress and I thought we could all learn from it. It contains virtually a little of…
I recently accompanied my aunt to see an old relative who suffers from Alzheimers Disease. Her state was so pitiful and she had degenerated so much that my aunt teared up. A virtual shadow of…