Dear readers,
English language and literature are my favourite subjects and I have already published several posts on these subjects .The purpose of my new blog is to share with readers worldwide my thoughts on what constitutes a really healthy life .Everyone will agree that the pursuit of happiness is the supreme goal of human life. But what is happiness without health?
Do we really pay as much attention to health as we ought to ? Most of us have a wrong idea of the term health . Health is associated in ordinary minds with money-guzzling medical colleges , posh clinical labs, giant pharmaceutical companies , big corporate hospitals .and the medical profession which is notorious for its greed and avarice! People generally do not realize that health is nothing but a sensible way of living which is possible if and only if we have a sound knowledge of that marvel called the human body .In my view health education must begin with an acquaintance withe the mysteries of our body It is useless to exhort people to do certain things and avoid doing certain without first convincing them how their actions are going to affect the various organs .
The death of a friend of mine from cancer a few years ago made me ponder on the way in which laymen like us could help people to escape from horrible diseases like cancer. and a host of other life-style diseases . You needn't have medical degrees to help common people! Doctors come into the picture only after people have already been afflicted with theses diseases . , and naturally their focus is on cure which has been so elusive , at any rate , in the case of cancer . . A cure for cancer ! It has remained an elusive one like the search for philosopher's stone! I heard doctors say 50 years s ago that cancer could be cured if detected early. The tricky word is early It is a fact that cancers do not lend themselves to early detection! It seems that a cure will continue to tantalize mankind for many more years to come .But we need not fall into the quagmire of despair . There is still light at the end of the tunnel!
Why can't we look at the problem from another angle ? Can't cancer , and for that matter any other disease be prevented ?Are cancer and other life-style diseases fatalistically inevitable?
i will continue the discussion in my next posts
Thank you for the visit
Prof V.P.Rajappan
English language and literature are my favourite subjects and I have already published several posts on these subjects .The purpose of my new blog is to share with readers worldwide my thoughts on what constitutes a really healthy life .Everyone will agree that the pursuit of happiness is the supreme goal of human life. But what is happiness without health?
Do we really pay as much attention to health as we ought to ? Most of us have a wrong idea of the term health . Health is associated in ordinary minds with money-guzzling medical colleges , posh clinical labs, giant pharmaceutical companies , big corporate hospitals .and the medical profession which is notorious for its greed and avarice! People generally do not realize that health is nothing but a sensible way of living which is possible if and only if we have a sound knowledge of that marvel called the human body .In my view health education must begin with an acquaintance withe the mysteries of our body It is useless to exhort people to do certain things and avoid doing certain without first convincing them how their actions are going to affect the various organs .
The death of a friend of mine from cancer a few years ago made me ponder on the way in which laymen like us could help people to escape from horrible diseases like cancer. and a host of other life-style diseases . You needn't have medical degrees to help common people! Doctors come into the picture only after people have already been afflicted with theses diseases . , and naturally their focus is on cure which has been so elusive , at any rate , in the case of cancer . . A cure for cancer ! It has remained an elusive one like the search for philosopher's stone! I heard doctors say 50 years s ago that cancer could be cured if detected early. The tricky word is early It is a fact that cancers do not lend themselves to early detection! It seems that a cure will continue to tantalize mankind for many more years to come .But we need not fall into the quagmire of despair . There is still light at the end of the tunnel!
Why can't we look at the problem from another angle ? Can't cancer , and for that matter any other disease be prevented ?Are cancer and other life-style diseases fatalistically inevitable?
i will continue the discussion in my next posts
Thank you for the visit
Prof V.P.Rajappan
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