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December 2011

December 02, 2011

Eating meat and animal produce: Collective Cruelty from Apathy, Ignorance and Masochism

Why should one care about vegetarianism? Specifically, in the West? There are lots of reasons...

September 2011

September 11, 2011

The Travails of the Annual “Physical” Exam

Getting an annual physical exam is something that my wife has to remind me. Probably...

August 2011

August 07, 2011

For Long Life, Love your Colleagues!

Do you have a great relationship with your colleagues at work? If not, the chances...

August 06, 2011

Only 46% of Mothers in India Breast-feed

Breat Milk is very important for the future of the newborns.

August 06, 2011

Sexual Stimulation in Women has been mapped

Medical researchers have mapped out the Genital sensations in women and the findings seem to...

August 04, 2011

Indian Hospitals: Killing Fields?

An unfortunate incident has come to light that showcases the insensitivity of the medical practitioners...

March 2011

March 08, 2011

Yoga: Indian Export for US Health Care Reform

Modern medical science now recognizes that conventional allopathic medicine cannot treat everything, especially chronic illnesses.

January 2011

January 10, 2011

Tears of Women and Men

Tears help us express ourselves at times. Specially women. Women use tears - emotional tears...

December 2010

December 30, 2010

Do shape and size of your body parts decide diseases?

Medical science is coming a full circle. I remember hearing about the Ayurvedic medicine men...

December 29, 2010

A Story of Unhealthy, Careless and Lazy Indians

India prides in Vedas, Spirituality, and yoga. One would assume that people would have the...

December 01, 2010

Our Health and Their unHealthy Studies

Heisenberg once said that the position of an electron and the accuracy of the measurement...

October 2010

October 21, 2010

Brain can LISTEN to shapes

Interestingly, we hear shapes pretty well.

October 07, 2010

Strange connections – Body Magnetism, Electric Currents and our World

At the moment, you're the current astrological equivalent of a magnet, so there'll be no...

September 2010

September 21, 2010

Lack of Friendships and Longer Working Hours

These days we work a lot of hours in office. Sometimes and in some cases...

September 19, 2010

Short Distance between a Creative Genius and a Psychotic

Learning is by acquisition of knowledge which exists in mind by associations.

September 16, 2010

Being Sober on a High?!

"Mujhe chadi nahin hai, abhi bhi poora hosh hai! Main iski tarah nahin jisse dhakan...

September 15, 2010

The Gene Responsible For Myopia Found!

This is one happy day for me!! Finally, I hear this news that the rogue...

September 02, 2010

Water and Weight loss: Useful companions

Do you want to lose weight? And use the natural things? Think seriously about using...

September 01, 2010

Forget Fat genes, go exercise!

In US, there is an entire society built on accomodating Obesity. Not obese people, but...

August 2010

August 26, 2010

Yoga, the Crown Jewel of India – Threads of Connection, Part 2

The physical, mental, and emotional effects of my first yoga class were immediately noticeable, although...

May 2010

May 11, 2010

From Botox to Yoga, a body full of toxins

Katie Price alias Jordan, a model, is struggling to conceive because of all the tox

May 03, 2010

Massaging your mind and body into submission in India

One thing is for sure.. we Indians like our massages rough and hard. I still...

April 2010

April 02, 2010

Men programmed to be obsessive about sex

Dr. Louann Brizendine M.D., is a neuropsychiatrist and the author of "The Female Brain".

March 2010

March 29, 2010

Food and Addiction

Addiction for anything can be acquired and be harmful. Ordinarily, society only cares for something...

March 19, 2010

Darwin versus Science: Survival of the masochists!

Modern Science is just amazing. It has been able to create babies out of test...

February 2010

February 12, 2010

What's in a Pill?

This week I was in bed still recovering from the flu for the fourth time...

January 2010

January 19, 2010

Genetically Engineered crops and the colonization of Farmers globally

Genetically engineered seeds and the entire selling machine created around it (pesticides and fertilizers) by...

January 08, 2010

Peach fruits and the Facebook Statuses

Peach.

November 2009

November 27, 2009

Peanut-Banana-Honey Porridge from Isha Yoga

When we were going through the Isha Yoga Inner Engineering class, our lunch was all-natural...

November 15, 2009

Persistant Sexual Arousal without the drive: PSAS

Sex is a taboo subject for most societies and many families. Orgasm fares even worse.