Sugar, the poison

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/sweet-suicide-sugar-deadlier-than-drugs.html

I have been told  white sugar can be dangerous, and a cause to alter our system with in and with out, but i never knew it could be so well put as in this small article and video.

I have  heard and been asked , if sugar is bad  why does so many sugar factories come up and how could it be available with so much advertising.

The only answer is our unawareness and the lobbying of the sugar companies  that the secrets are hidden .

Let us let the secret out.

A simple breath - as intended

Many a master is remembered, who has acted as a path and guide to a realisation.

This is about Swami Shajananda, who was at Atheetha Ashram , on the banks of Ubbannur lake , near Hosur in Tamil nadu .

He was so close to nature, he shared with us observations and lessons from doing things naturally.

Many a Christmas ago, during one of the days at the health camp, He talked to us on the simple act of breathing.

Watching the breath of a child during activity or sleep, and the breath of an adult during sleep , we find so much similarity, and much to be studied, how we have moved away.

Ever since our first visit to a doctor , who asked us to take a deep breathe, and our days at the defense academy training at  NCC,where we learnt the " chest out stomach in," our breathing  methods have altered.

How stupid it may look to wonder why should one talk on the simple act of breathing.

Let us make a small try , may we slide back to normal breathing.

Take a relaxed inhalation, watch the abdomen grow, now let it an equally relaxed exhalation and watch the tummy get small.

Now let it happen naturally --  happy breathing.

Watering the plants without pinching them

One can notice an involuntary act of pinching plants  by the by standers when they walk along  plants, i have wanted to slap many a person doing that, but i knew i would never be able to stand the retaliation, or they would catch me and get me  an electro shock  therapy, thinking me mad.

Last Sunday morning we had a chance to do some thing else, i was just getting ready to hose the garden , when my lady said why don't we give a chance for the kids to water the plants.

The local neighborhood kids were coming home some of the week ends for a relaxation time and this Sunday was one such week.

Between the dances and exercises , the kids were asked to move out into the garden and water the plants orderly with out causing a mess, and with love and care, with out breaking branches or hurting the plants, and clapping the hands to encourage those who were watering .

It was a simple start to a great compassion in the lifetime to happen.

Careless Calories

There has been a shift in nutrition classes (which do not exist in the curriculum)   from discussing healthy food to discussing calories.

I had a chance to notice this when i was attending a health camp at an ashram , where many had come with illness and some like me to know what is health, i had been reading too much on diseases that i did not know health.

Many had been told to cut their food , to so much of calories per day, at earlier places.

I had since wondered how one could be on a fixed calories /day when the seasons changed, the work shifted and the mind was different every day.

The same folks had no idea if the calories came from junk food or organic food, but calories was their yard line, or guard line.

If one is on natural food, u cannot eat more than u need, the body mechanism will tell u .

If u have a way of listening to it and respecting it , i guess the calorie theory would be a sham, and we would not add up carbonated drinks so many calories, chips so many calories and well they are within the limit of my calorie requirements--- stupid.

Easy is right ,you are hungry , eat ,choose  your food according to the availability,and its closeness to nature, and cook with your expertise in not destroying it, no self respecting person will stuff  like a pig,( may be they are force fed)and then worry about calories.

(kannaku potu  sapidu vatha , illai  kannaka  sapiduvatha.)

Are u going to eat after calculation, or are u going to eat calculatively.

Shocks and further shocks following an anaphylactic shock

We had a rural gathering of doctors meet last month, and the topic was " medico legal aspects - caring for ourselves while we care for patients".

A village close to ours was affected with a death of a patient , in transport from there to Salem.

The public demanded action, the relatives were shocked , the doctors astonished, in short it was hell for all.

The pharmacy companies do not seem to be affected at all in this confusion.

I heard about the child s death at Bangalore thro' a patient from there yesterday, in this we are all confused , who should do what, the western doctors comments on the articles , say we should follow protocols, right we do not have them for any thing, but what about the situation as it happens , and where do we point our finger, today it has happened to a common patient, but we doctors too are patients some time.

How are such situations managed legally , and how is the heart dealt with for the doctor.

Screaming sirens clears a path

There is not a day when one does not hear the screaming sirens of the ambulance on its way to the emergency of a hospital.

The availability of the 9 11 and 108  has got the vehicles on their tyres reeling in early for their action.

In these days medical emergencies have become too common, with the quick pace of life and no rest in between.

The sirens on ,clears the path immediately for the injured person to be transported , and for many who are far away ,but still hear the sirens, it is an anxious call  of " how are u , do u hear me ?"

kids will be kids

The 20 odd kids were slowly trooping in at the appointed time of 10 am , some came in shyly with their moms, other joyfully with mysterious bags, across the shoulders, sharing a joke with their friends.

This time there was more exercises, a drummer  was on his drums, and a key board instrumentalist who shared his spirit with music, a few budding singers, jokers and dancers.

Some brought out their drawings for exhibition, there was one who even shared a maths magic.

To top it all a few minutes of silence , before the group shared their energies , namstheing and seeing eye to eye, and dispersing away, promising that they would be back for more fun the next time.