About 10,000 years ago, humanity discovered farming and agriculture, or so the records tell us. Did farming lead to the advancement of civilization, or was it the worst mistake we ever made?Farming helped us grow grains - Emer, Khorasan, Spelt, and Millets, to name a few. The commonly
Failure in life can be attributed to a host of reasons. What are the reasons you fail? Cassius famously said in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves that are underlings." But what does it really mean when
Did taking the Covid vaccine increase the risk of cancer? Increasingly, we are hearing about the effects of both Covid and its vaccine. Stories of people who got long-term Covid, people who repeatedly get it and continue to suffer from its effects. Also, stories of an increased risk of cancer
Water makes up approximately 70% of our body. Strangely, it is a similar number for our planet. I guess there is symmetry in nature. But are we running out of water? Climate change has been a hot topic for some time now. A recent report I read suggested that discussions
Nutrition and modern medicine do not align, or so it would seem. Many doctors would scoff if you spoke about nutrition in an emergency situation, though it is changing now. Say someone had a heart attack. Surely, you are not thinking about nutrition at this point; a doctor may inquire.
Laughter, they say, is the best medicine. However, for many of us, laughter is the result of spontaneous but ad-hoc interactions. You might have met a friend who is really funny. If you did, you laughed a lot. Of course, you can't always find such friends. You could
Weight. Does it always coming back? One of the enduring myths about losing weight is that it will always come back. Studies cite individuals who gain weight after losing it. Read anything on social media, and they speak about weight as something that will come back. So what is the
Anxiety is a state of mind that affects all of us. What, if anything, is a bullet-proof cure for anxiety? Anxiety is characterised by a feeling of worry, thoughts, and bodily changes. Your blood pressure may go up, for example. Even before the global pandemic, millions of people felt anxious
My daughter, while lying down, crosses her legs in the exact same way I do. Did she genetically inherit the trait? Did she simply observe me doing so and copy me? Can she genetically inherit traits and characteristics? So, for example, can a person go from having terrible habits to
Orbital enlargement is a condition characterised by the swelling or enlargement of the eye socket. While it can result from a spectrum of factors ranging from tumours to inflammatory conditions, one notable association is with Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder affecting the thyroid gland. The orbit, a bony cavity
Quick! Think of a moment that gave you immense joy! Meeting your spouse. Buying a home. Graduation perhaps? Wonderful! Now I am going to share a lesson that might help you regulate the way your brain works. Memories are, in some sense, a way for our brains to construct the
Strangely, the founder of homoeopathy coined the term allopathy. Samuel Hahnemann, widely credited as the father of homeopathy, was trying to differentiate between homoeopathy and other forms of medicine when doing so. He therefore coined the term allopathy. Allopathy is derived from the Greek words allos and pathos, which mean