NUTRITION: There has been a tremendous change in our food pattern within the last 2-3 decades. These are, consumption of too much fat in diet with decrease in fibre contents, consumption of fast food, soft drinks, alcohol, smoking and sugar etc. These diet contribute to the development of diabetes in two ways. First quantitatively- those [...]

Cancer is any malignant growth. Other names for cancer are carcinoma, sarcoma; and occasionally there are special types of cancer such as epithelioma. The term “oma” is used to refer to a new growth. Cancer is also referred to by the term neoplasm, which means new growth. Occasionally, cancers are called malignancies, because of their [...]

To most people arthritis means pain and stiffness in the joints. Indeed, if you trace the word arthritis to its Greek roots you will discover that it means inflammation (itis) of the joints (arthron). In practice the word is used to describe more than one hundred different joint disorders, many of which are not caused [...]