Guide to Prevention of Lifestyle Diseases

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This book deals with issues concerning faulty life style factors and occurrence of major and ailments, lack of public awareness, ways of prevention etc. What is heartening is that most of the lifestyle ailments are preventable. Many of the lifestyle ailments owe their origin to work atmosphere, changes in daily routine, eating patterns, sexual permissiveness and the life. Three levels of prevention are now known: primary (intended to prevent disease among healthy people), secondary (directed towards those in whom the disease has already developed), tertiary (to reduce the disability consequent to disease). In addition discoveries in the field of nutrition have added a new dimension to preventive medicine. New strategies have been developed for combating specific deficiencies as for example, nutritional blindness and iodine deficiency disorders. Another notable development is the development of â€œscreeningâ€ for the diagnosis of disease in its pre-symptomatic stage, e.g. the cholesterol estimation and mammography to detect proneness to cardiovascular disease and breast cancer respectively. This approach of pre-emptying the disease or its cause by timely intervention in the life style is of great importance. Similar is the case with cancer cervix and other cancers, where prevention and early detection are the keys to longer and better quality of life. What a great difference does it make: prevention of heart attack by proper food and exercise on the one hand and surgical treatment of heart after the attack has occurred. Same is true about cancers, lung diseases and diabetes. The authors have dealt the issues in the following chapters: Preventing Diseases through Healthy Lifestyle; Lifestyle and Cancers; Cancer-free Journey in the Menopausal Zone: Pap Test is the Passport; Respiratory Problems due to your Fitness and Health; Changes in Lifestyle and Prevention of Eye Disease; Prevention of Cancer; Consume Suitable Nutrients (Chemoprevention), Common Urological Problems; Healthy Lifestyle and Prevention of Disease of Ear, Nose and Throat; Holistic Healing; Cancer News and Trends; Appendix; Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Meenal Kumar

Dr. Mrs. Meenal Kumar, a Senior Consultant Gynaecologist at Chandigarh, is a sensitive, capable and caring physician for her patients. Her work represents the essence of healing, while destroying the myths and challenges associated with health problems. The book on menopause was her first and that was based upon personal sufferings and experiences of menopause as a patient, as well as a physician . Due to extreme distress of menopausal symptoms and problems borne by her person, she became disabled, which gave her new insight and new strength to offer power of healing to her patients about menopausal symptoms. In recognition of her dedication to the cause of womenâ€™s empowerment in general and menopause in particular, she was asked to head the first menopause clinic, set up at Chandigarh, in the year 2001, the year of womenâ€™s empowerment, which is now functioning at 232/Sector 16A, Chandigarh. She was born in the family of doctors at Agra and had her medical schooling (M.B.B.S.) at Kanpur. Later on she specialized in Gynaecology from Delhi University by passing DGO and MD. He total interest, hobbies, profession is summed up in care of her patients. She continues to serve her patients through her pen, as much as her touch and prescription. Her first book â€˜Guide to Better Womenâ€™s Health after Menopauseâ€™ was highly admired.