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The role of vitamin D in preventing depression and heart disease, the study found thatOf the vitamin D deficiency. The incidence of depression. And heart disease overAlthough it is not known why. Have revealed that Mortality from heart disease decreased by 7% in patients receiving vitamin D on a regular basis. In children with asthma. More asthma symptoms in children with vitamin D deficiency.

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Vitamin D with high blood pressure, we found that in people with vitamin D deficiency.And high pressure. Chance of heart disease and died later.

Vitamin D and breast cancer, the study found that vitamin D deficiency. Will increase the chances of breast cancer. Spread over more than normal. Moreover, the study found.Vitamin D intake. Prevent breast cancer.

Vitamin D and other cancers. Have found that vitamin D prevent prostate cancer.Colorectal cancer is. However, the factors of vitamin D is also a secondary from other controls, such as exercise and weight control. And avoiding the cause of cancer etc.

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Because the Doctor Said So

A visit to a doctor’s clinic is never a fun experience. We prefer to try out the various herbal concoctions prescribed by our all-knowing friends until the minor ailment, like a nagging cough, becomes more of a habit. In my case, it’s my kids who insist on my going for a general check-up every six months. Let’s face it, taking your clothes off for a male doctor and then getting your prostrate checked is not something many of us fantasize about. Besides, I know exactly what the doctor is going to tell me after going through the embarrassing routine: stop smoking, eating right, and regular walking.

SMOKING

I took up smoking many decades ago with a lot of effort. At the time, it was a sign of maturity. Also, the brand you smoked, your cigarette case and the lighter you carried reflected your social status. If you watch old movies, you will see the heroine playing a classy lady with a long cigarette holder in her fingers, and the aristocratic male character taking a puff before making a profound statement. Not anymore.

I sometime suspect the whole world was waiting just for me to take up this habit to unleash all that propaganda about smoking being unhealthy, and even brainwashing people to think that the aroma of burnt tobacco is not a refreshing scent. Smoking appears to be the only point where the whole world agrees on. I, as a smoker, consider that a great service we have rendered to the cause of uniting the world. However, what I don’t understand is why we the smokers are punished instead of being rewarded?

Discrimination towards smokers has gone beyond apartheid and other cultural, religious or gender biases. Smoking is now barred in bars and restaurants, on the airplanes and sometimes even on the streets. They rush to write on packets of cigarettes that smoking kills but never on bullets, guns, fighter planes or tanks. Of course, all living beings are going to die sooner or later. In the case of men, one wishes that some had died much earlier than when they actually did.

I am beginning to subscribe to the conspiracy theory that multinational drug companies have drummed up this hysteria against smoking to sell their various new anti-smoking products. Anyway, since our fate is said to be sealed when we are born, why not go doing something that we enjoy than being blown up by the Taliban or the drones.

EATING

I don’t believe in the theory of us having unchiseled teeth and therefore being vegetarian by nature. If it had been so, God would not have commanded us to slaughter sheep and other animals to eat and later take a ride on them to heaven. Besides, I live to eat and not eat to live.

Ask anyone and you will get the same answer that they work hard only to keep the hearth alight. Study any revolution that came about and read their slogans; you will invariably find the mention of bread before any of the other social demands. Even Carl Marx’ wife once remarked that she had wished her husband would stop writing about the just distribution of monetary resources and start earning money to make their livelihoods easier.

Let’s face it; living is all about eating and since life is short, I eat a lot. I relish all that is considered by the medics harmful. Yet, the only thing growing in my body is the belly. I look like a little pinkie finger with a wart at the knuckle. That the ballooning shalwar is our national costume rather than streamlined trousers has a lot to do with our favourite pastime: eating. There is nothing better to end a meal than smoking. The long drags and clouds of smoke exhaled are the best compliments one can pay to the chef if someone else is taking care of the bill.

WALKING

I envy brawny young men with biceps larger than their brains. I console myself by recalling something I read once that described those obsessed with bodybuilding as being sort of ‘gay.’ Besides, it’s so boring, painful and tiring to exercise. I too, wait for the machine to come out in the market that will tone up your whole body by the flick of a switch. Wake up, America! Stop developing destructive gadgetry and concentrate on a machine like this if you want to win the hearts of those who talk more and do less, i.e. opinion makers and news analysts.

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Leprosy : The Shadow Lingers

One of the hallmarks of a developing and progressive society is the degree to which it is inclusive – inclusive of minorities, marginalized and other vulnerable sections of society who may normally not expect to find a place under the sun. Such a place of equality is what the Indian constitution guarantees in Article 14(equality) and Article 15(no discrimination).

It is this provision that one takes shelter under to fight for one’s rights; whether it be gay activists, or those who are fighting discrimination against one’s HIV status. And yet, in the gargantuan labyrinths of the Indian states, discrimination is in built in to our laws itself; effectively legitimizing them.

Usually it is assumed that the law is ahead of times when it comes to social legislation for it is understood that while society has many obscurantist and divisive influences, law makers at least in theory are above such influences and will enact laws that are progressive and inclusive. That was how laws that made Sati illegal or raised the age of marriage got into the statute books ; not because society as such was ready for them but because legislators of the time thought beyond their times and into an equitable future.

So what is one to make of the recent Supreme Court ruling that those leprosy patients cannot contest a civic election or hold municipal office in Orissa state? The case was brought to court by two men who were elected to a civic body in Orissa in 2003, but were later disqualified as they had leprosy. The Orissa Municipal Act of 1950 bars people suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy from holding such posts."The legislature in its wisdom has thought it fit to retain such provisions in the statute in order to eliminate the danger of the disease being transmitted to other people from the person affected," Supreme Court judges CK Thakker and DK Jain said in their ruling.

In the colonial era, the central government passed the Lepers Act of 1898, which provided legal provision for forcible confinement of leprosy sufferers in India. A hundred and more years have passed by; politically India is an independent state, has become a signatory to the UN resolution which says discrimination against leprosy patients must be ended. Medically, leprosy is detected early and thanks to a multi drug regime, cured early too. And yet a few years short of the second decade of the 21st century, piles of archaic legislation keep those who happened to have contracted leprosy at some point on the margins of society.

The Life Insurance Corporation Act of 1956, which specifies a higher premium to the leprosy-affected, is on such law. The Special Marriage Act, Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act 1939, The Hindu Marriage Act, 1956 or the India Divorce Act, 1869, all have provisions for divorce on the grounds of a partner suffering from incurable and virulent leprosy. Similarly, the Juvenile Justice Care and Protection Act 2000 says a child found to be affected by leprosy should be dealt with separately.

A leprosy patient cannot stand for local body or panchayat elections in states like Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. This prohibition extends to tuberculosis patients in Orissa's Panchayati Raj Act. Further, if a member of local office contracts tuberculosis or leprosy during his/her tenure he/she may be declared ineligible for the job.

While there are heaps of organizations fighting for the rights of those who are HIV positive, and there is pressure to constantly enact laws that are sensitive to some one who is HIV positive. There is a ringing silence when it comes to the rights of those who are being victimized for having once contracted a disease that is now completely curable.

Mahatma Gandhi, in his life time had made tending to leprosy patients and bandaging to their wounds as a personal initiative in his mission to create a society that was inclusive. Sixty years after his death, the work of fighting stigma and discrimination in alls spheres of course continues; but more pertinently in leprosy; the battle is even against an insensitive State and the laws it has kept on the books; not only sanctioning discrimination; but actually making it legal. And that feels worse !

It began with this strange one-legged German psychiatrist with a

The path we follow is not one that we may choose to take. In fact we

are often given no choice at all but are made to follow it perforce.

We amble along, and then by way of circumstances are influenced by

events that shape what we become and what we do.

I am taking this opportunity to write on a matter that has been

weighing heavily on my mind for quite a while. I trust that reading

this will not cause much distress. What I did was unforgivable, but

shrive I must.

The problem goes back not too far. In fact it began just a few months

ago. It began with this strange one-legged German psychiatrist with a

wooden leg named von Sttutgaerstein (that was his name, not the name

of the wooden leg). Anyway, he wanders into my lab and life with a

rubber parrot on his shoulder. The parrot was of the inflatable kind,

and he had a little tube attached to its rear which passed through the

collar of what looked like a napoleonic overcoat and to a bellows that

he kept between his arm and chest. It seems that the parrot, while

quite sturdy if a trifle unrealistic in view of its clearly rubber

origin, had a small leak somewhere between its occipital area and its

garish plummage that necessitated ocassional, if frantic, pumping of

the arm to keep it inflated.

At this point I ask you to be patient. This may seem to be nothing

serious. After all, one-legged German psychiatrists with a wooden leg

are not the things to cause dismay even if they walk around with

hideously colored inflatable rubber parrots on their shoulders. Yet

this person has had the most profound influence on my life.

So he wanders into my lab in this strange overcoat, his wooden leg

going thump! screech! (this last when he dragged it forward) and asks

in a hoarse voice that sounded vaguely Dutch in accent,

"I ask for Meestair Paaneeni. Is this the lab of Menheer Paaneeni? I

asks, yes."

At that time, I remember clearly, I was occupied with a complicated

problem, and I had absolutely no time to spare even for odd looking

blokes speaking with an odd accent.

"He died yesterday" I said. "Died of hydroencephalus"

So he looked concerned. Sucked in his breath hard and slowly. "Ach!

So, Yess I am sorry to hear. Butt vere is he" and kept pumping his arm

furiously as the parrot started to deflate slowly and began to sag

forward.

I was irritated, and am afraid, a bit curt. "I don't know. Look why

don't you talk to the animal disposal people in the basement. They

came for him last afternoon and took him away in a body bag. I believe

he is due to be disposed off today. By the way, it's against building

rules to be walking around with dead animals on your shoulder."

He looked a bit startled. "Disposed off? but but.. how" Then even more

distracted he looked at the parrot on his shoulder, which was

beginning to look emaciated as the air ran out. He started to pump his

arm again. "Mein gott," he muttered to himself. "Dis animal is not

dead, it is not efen alife."

I was now really impatient with this guy who couldn't even keep his

parrot dead or alive. "Look mister, Panini is dead. He is history. We

don't keep him here anymore, it would be a health hazard to do so. Are

you his relative? If so, you can collect his personal items from the

office downstairs. And it's quite useless to tell me that the parrot

is neither dead nor alive. Either ways its against building

regulations to be walking around with an animal on your shoulder that

is neither dead nor alive."

He looked a little worried now. Torn between finding out what happened

to Panini, and his parrot that clearly was not within regulations.

I had a sudden suspicion. "Look here, do you have a license for that

animal? You could get into a frightful row if that thing isn't

licensed"

He was really alarmed now. "Liesawn?" he queried in that absolutely

barbaric accent. "Vat do you mean by liesawn?"

"Just that" I said grimly. "If you haven't gotten one, I will have to

call the animal disposal people to come and get rid of it"

He started to beg and plead. But I just called up the disposal people

and they simply dragged the wretched creature off his shoulder, and

stuffed it into a plastic bag, sealed it, and gave him a receipt.

"Right" said Jim, the cheerful animal undertaker. "One parrot of

uncertain status, unlicensed and clearly neither dead nor alive." He

looked at the odd figure in the overcoat, and said comfortingly,

"Don't worry, we will put it down as humanely as possible. It won't

feel a thing"

That poor German was so upset. He walked out of the lab in tears. I

forgot all about him until I was reading the obituaries section of the

News Gazette two weeks ago. It said that they had found this one

legged German with a wooden leg, dead in a bus shelter waiting for the

22 Illini Shuttle. The last person seen talking to him reported that

the German was in a delirious state and kept talking of some weird

neurophysiology grad student who had taken away his rubber parrot and

had it interred because it was against regulations.

So you see, I feel responsible. The last two weeks have been hell. I

can't put him and that parrot out of my mind.

You will doubtless be shocked to hear of such callous disregard on my

part for this old man. But I have shrived, and hopefully I can rest in ....

(There are vague similarities between the kind of parrot that the German had and a parrot in a Pink Panther movie. The coincidence is remarkable. But since the movie appeared before the German, I should reassure readers that the similarities are quite superficial.)

one wishes that our decision makers were as sensitive as the smoke detectors

May 31 is World No Tobacco Day – perfect for cleaning up PIA’s cabinsI can tell you that smoke detectors in aircraft toilets do actually work! On a Thai Airways flight between Bangkok and Beijing recently I was shaken by the wailing of alarms on both sides of the cabin. There are flashing lights on the walls and cabin crew on the double. The flight had been rather bumpy until then so I got a trifle worried. It transpired that this ruckus had been caused by a man in the toilet in front. I had noticed a person go back to his seat some rows behind me about half a minute ago. so I dutifully pointed the stewardess in that direction. When about three cabin crew members surrounded the offender he claimed that he smelled foul because he had smoked a lot before take-off! Meanwhile, the toilet reeked of smoke. The man got off this time – they couldn’t throw him out! The tongue-lashing he received from the staff, though, will ensure that he won’t transgress again. It really goes to show that persons addicted to tobacco will not voluntarily stop their emissions affecting others. Also, one wishes that our decision makers were as sensitive as the smoke detectors!

Airlines have long provided separate seats for smokers and non-smokers, however, tobacco smoke does not respect this division. In 1994 a British Airways passenger accepted