Concerned World Citizen

The Covid-19 pandemic has me thinking. Which are the areas that are affected the most today AND why is it so difficult to contain? Urban areas with a sizable population that live in slums or clustered houses. Areas where social distancing is near impossible. Where access to education is absent and literacy level is very poor. Where access to public dispensaries and hospitals are very poor. Where they are available are of such low quality that going there might get a person more ill-health than when they went there in the first place. These need not be super speciality hospitals but where basic curtesy, cleanliness and availability of supplies exist. India must realize now the cost of neglecting and appeasing its squatters and hutment areas. India must realize the importance of education, multifarious skill-building and building preventive, predictive and clinical health facilities. India must understand the importance of the collective where small and medium scale ...

Here we go again! One more post about diet. At the outset, I would like to say that there is NOTHING new that you will see here. You know everything already. I might even be plagiarizing this since all I know is either from talking to/ observing others and from reading articles. Another note: I am not a dietitian or a doctor. If you have health complications, I suggest you check with them before you read any further. Then WHY am I writing this? Because we all know what we are doing wrong and what we should be doing to set things right. Correct? Yes. However, are we able to do it? Unless we repeatedly suggest this to one’s subconscious, it just does not stick. For some, a diet may be difficult to follow given an underlying physiological or psychological condition. Will I say cut out all your carbohydrates and sugar? NO! What I am going to say is profoundly simple. Yet it will be very difficult at first. It will be difficult for achieving this conti...