Disclaimer- I am, as of now, non-vegetarian. I was doing my residency in another state. One of my colleagues casually remarked that it was the natural state of human beings to be vegetarian. I contested this claim immediately. I had to, since I was not a vegetarian. Now, I wouldn’t have. I wouldn’t have argued; […]
Category: Healthy life – the right balance
The terrifying Ascendance of Cancer
I had a grand aunt, an unmarried lady. She was an amazingly healthy old woman. At the age of fifty, she had an ultrasound of the neck done, as part of a work up for a sore throat. The throat cleared after a few days. It was some minor infection. But the ultrasound scan picked […]
The ‘Hyperhealthy’ Good Old Days
I was seeing my friend’s granny after almost twenty years. Our gang used to hang out in his house during our med school days. She was ninety six. It was nice to see that her intellect was as sharp as ever. I had some questions for her. Nearly a century of memories were not to […]
The Stone Age body and ‘Modern’ diseases
“I got up early today. The sun was already throwing its rays to the sky, but it was not seen yet. I felt hungry. The roots and nuts we had stored from yesterday were for the children only. Our huts were on top of the hill, and I surveyed the massive plain below. Bushes dotted […]
Tobacco and the search for truth
I went to a government public school in Trichur in Kerala. There the boys start smoking early. My friend and classmate Anees Ibrahim started in the sixth standard. I don’t know where he got the money to get cigarettes and beedis from, but he was smoking all the time. Whenever the teacher was not in […]