It was a very quiet day, 25th Nov, after all the hustle bustle of Diwali got over Peace and Silence descended on the city and MRC witnessed a steady stream of members and visitors on that day to listen to the words of a Scientist from Canada.Thanks to Aravind, the venue had to be shifted to a more spacious room to accommodate the increased strength and truly it turned out to be a great meeting.Dr.Yogeeswaran, a scientist of rare distinction with expertise spanning Chemistry,Bio Chemistry,Cancer Cell Biology,Micro Biology,Nutrition and Nutraceuticals and Plant Biology was the guest speaker from Canada on that day and he delivered a wonderful talk on Food and Wellness.
World Health Organisation has declared that world over 65-75% of people resort to traditional systems of medicine since it provides better values and remedies in the preventive,primary care and chronic disease management.
Also the cost of medicines is increasing and present health care systems of modern allopathic care have some medicines with undesirable side effects to.This has really prompted the speaker to intensify his research in the age old Siddha Philosophy of Tamilnadu and the results are truly astonishing to the scientific community.
The siddha system thousands of years back itself has codified that the human system can be afflicted by 4448 diseases and prescribed medicines too for them.The learned speaker said that Humans develop diseases when there is an imbalance or preponderance in Vatha-Pitha-Kabha combination. With the aid of many slides he showed us the relative merits and demerits of food items and gave many useful tips to maintain a healthy balanced diet.He went on to say that two important nutritional factors that precipitate Cornonary Heart Diseases are the Oxidised cholesterol and the absence of Policosanol nutraceutical in our diet chiefly caused by the consumption of white sugar.The interaction that followed the talk was very lively and members showed great interest to buy the book authored by the guest speaker on the subject discussed.
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