Month: September 2020

Cancer? Types, Stages, Symptoms and Causes

Cancer
Body Cells
  • What is cancer?
  • Types
  • Symptoms
  • Stages
  • Cancer causes

What is cancer?

Cells are the basic building blocks in our body, which grows big and divides into the new cells. This process is natural and streamlined as needed, in this way old cells die and replaced with new. When cells grow abnormally without control they form a mass called a tumor. Tumor can be benign or malignant, only malignant are cancer and benign tumors are not.

Cancer is the result of abnormal growth of the cells in the human body. It is a genetic disease, the way cell grows and divides function of gene changes. 

DNA damage caused by environmental exposure also impacts cells behavior in the body. Before converting normal cell to cancer it will undergo couple of stages.

Cancer can start almost any part of the body and spreads to the other organ, latter this process is called metastasizing. 

The name cancer is given to a collection of related diseases (more than 100 types) in the body.

WHO estimates that worldwide 9.6 million people died from cancer in the year 2018, that is 1 in six deaths and total of 18 million cases globally. 

Cancer considered as second-leading death cause. Australia had the highest cancer rate for men and women together, at 468 people per 100,000. Read more on cancer data.

Types of cancer

There are over 100 types of cancer, classified based on the organ where it starts and in tissues its formed. eg. lung cancer starts in lung cancer and brain cancer starts in brain cells and etc.

There are certain cancers which start in a specific type of cells:

  • Carcinomas. These are the most common type of cancer, it begins in the skin or the tissue that covers the surface of internal organs and glands usually form solid tumors. eg: Breast cancer and lung cancer.
  • Sarcomas.  It begins in the tissues that support and connect the body. A sarcoma can develop in fat, muscles, tendons, joints, lymph vessels, nerves, blood vessels, cartilage, or bone. 
  • Leukemias. Leukemia is blood cancer, it starts in healthy blood cells and grows abnormally. 
  • Lymphomas. It begins in a network of vessels and glands called the lymphatic system, which fights infection in the body.

Symptoms

Cancer can cause many symptoms, and it varies based on affected part of the body. A screening test can detect cancer and you can also find the early warning signs with a close observation on your body changes. 

cancer does not cause pain, so do not wait to feel pain before seeing a doctor. Below are the common symptoms that cancer may cause include.

  • Severe Fatigue
  • Breast changes – Lump or firm feeling in your breast, nipple changes or discharge
  • Weight loss or weight gain
  • Bowel changes or Bladder changes
  • Trouble swallowing
  • Skin color changes or changes in moles
  • Muscle or joint pain for unknown reasons
  • Cough or breathing issue
  • Mouth changes – white or red patches, bleeding or pain
  • abnormal pelvic pain or periods
  •  Headaches, vision or hearing changes. 

Stages of cancer

It refers to the cancer severity in the body, most of the cancers have four stages indicates with Roman numbers. Other cancers like blood cancers, lymphoma and brain cancer, have their own staging systems but all refer to cancer severity.

  • Stage 0 – No cancer yet, only abnormal cells potentials to become cancer.
  • Stage 1 – It is the initial stage of cancer and it is limited one area in the body.
  • Stage II and III Indicates that cancer is bigger and has grown into nearby tissues or lymph nodes.
  • Stage IV – it refers to cancer has spread to other parts of your body. It’s also called advanced or metastatic cancer.

A physical test, lab test, X-ray or tests like Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Computerized tomography (CT) and Ultrasound will be conducted to check the cancer stage. Sometimes tumor removed in surgery and exams with a microscope for more results.

Cancer causes

There are many factors which may cause cancer, and it varies for the type of cancer. It can be lifestyle, food, environmental, genes, virus or bacteria.

  • Heavy alcohol consumption , Smoking and Tobacco
  • Exposure to UV rays, Radiation and chemicals
  • Hormonal drugs usage
  • Unsafe sex
  • Sedentary lifestyle 
  • Overweight or obese
  • Red , Processed meats
  • Poor nutrition
  • Family history, inheritance, and genetics
  • Human papillomavirus (HPV)
  • Hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) viruses
  • Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) etc

3 Easy yogasanas – Trikona, Ardhakati Chakra & Veerabadra

yogasanas
Yoga pose

Introducing three standing yogasanas in this sequence, before the start of these asanas, go through the basic rules.

  1. Trikonasana / Parivrutha Trikonasana
  2. Ardhakati chakrasana
  3. Veerabadrasana

Trikonasana In Sanskrit ‘Trikona’ means triangle and ‘asana’ means pose. This asana pose looks like a triangle shape. The body will be stretched such way it forms a triangle.

It has two forms triangle (Trikona) and twisted triangle (Parivrutha Trikona) the following videos show how to do this asana. It improves the wellness of the body.

Trikonasana pose

Parivritta trikonasana pose

Trikonasana benefits

  • Improves your digestive system.
  • Nerves in the thighs get strengthens
  • Your legs, knees, ankles and back becomes strong
  • Chance of growing your height and expand your chest and shoulders.
  • Helps to reduce stress, anxiety and back pain
  • It balances your mental and physical conditions
  • Helps to burn your fact, you may overcome overweight or obesity
  • Improves your stamina, energy and concentration

Ardhakati Chakrasana means half waist wheel pose. It is much familiar asana to do daily. Ardha means half, Kati means waist and chakra means wheel. Lets watch below video to perform this asana.

Ardhakati Chakrasana

Ardhakati Chakrasana benefits

  • Practicing this asana regularly, you get relief from constipation.
  • It burns excess fat in your waist
  • Hip joints will become more flexible and free
  • It strengthens your back muscles
  • Blood pressure and Asthama get controlled

Veerabadrasana ‘Veera’ means warrior, we can name it as the warrior pose. This asana has many variations, the following video show how to perform Veerabadrasana 2.  Lets watch following video.

Warrior pose 2

Veerabadrasana benefits

  • Arms, legs, shoulders and lower back will become strong
  • Increase stamina and body balance
  • Simple and effective asana for a sedentary lifestyle
  • Relief from stress, effective and immediate
  • Brings auspiciousness, spirit, grace and peace

Diabetes, types, symptoms & 10 Risk factors

Diabetes
Diabetes test
  • What is diabetes?
  • Types
  • Symptoms
  • Risk factors

What is diabetes?

Diabetes is a condition of the body unable to process food into energy. Most of the eaten food broken into glucose, insulin is the hormone produced in the pancreas gland which helps to add glucose into cells to energize. If It does not happen glucose or sugar levels will be increased in the blood. 

It is mainly due to lack of insulin or ineffective use of insulin. This is the much-complicated situation of the body, insulin treated as glucose regulated hormone.  Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by high levels of blood glucose or sugar, which leads over time to serious damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves.

  • 463 million people worldwide have diabetes in the age group of 20-79 years, particularly in low and middle-income countries.
  • India has 77 million, while China has 116 million and the USA has about 38 million diabetes patients.
  • 1 in every 11 adults has diabetes in the world. This is one of the leading cause of death in the world.

Diabetes essentially categorized as Type 1, Type 2 and Gestational.

Type 1 Diabetes :

This is due to lack of insulin in the body, pancreas not producing insulin as required. this can be developed at any age, but occurs generally in children and adolescent.

This type of diabetes previously called as ‘juvenile diabetes’. To date the cause for this form of diabetes is unknown. In the world, around 10% of diabetic patients fall under type 1.

Symptoms

  • Unusual thirst and dry mouth
  • Abrupt weight loss
  • Consistent hunger
  • Frequent urination
  • Frequent urination
  • Lack of energy, tiredness
  • Bedwetting
  • Blurred vision

Type 2 Diabetes :

Around 90% of the diabetes patients fall under this class. Body cells do not make good use of produced insulin, this results in tyep2 diabetes. This form of diabetes was previously known as ‘adult-onset diabetes’.

Symptoms

  • Extreme thirst and dry mouth
  • Frequent urination
  • Lack of energy, tiredness
  • Slow-healing wounds
  • Recurrent infections in the skin
  • Blurred vision
  • Tingling or numbness in hands and feet.

Gestational Diabetes :

This diabetes is due to excessive weight and high levels of blood sugar during pregnancy. If it is a severe threat to maternal and childbirth. Many women Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) experience more complications like high blood pressure, large birth weight babies and obstructed labour

There are other forms of diabetes in 1% to 5% of people. Diseases of the pancreas, certain surgeries, medications and infections are the causes.

Risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes.

  • Family History of diabetes
  • Overweight or Obesity
  • High Blood pressure
  • Sedentary lifestyle
  • Aging
  • Junk food or Unhealthy diet
  • Ethnicity – group of people in particular geography
  • History of gestational diabetes
  • Poor nutrition during pregnancy
  • Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT)
Green Veg
Green Veg

Change in diet, no physical activity, work culture and no mental relief or stress and urbanization led to a steep increase in type 2 diabetes people.

Dr Khader Vali -5 Rich grains (Siridhanyalu) Benefits.

Siridhanyalu
Rich Grain - Foxtail Millet

Who is Dr Khader Vali ?

Dr Khader Vali, in recent days this is the most familiar name in Telugu and Kannada states in India because of his diet plan with natural millets, other plants based kashaya and their role in cure Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer and heart-related problems. 

He was native of Proddature town, Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh. He got masters in Science from the Regional Institute of Education, Mysore and he did PhD on steroids from the IIS, Banglore. He married his classmate Ms Usha. Later Dr Khader pursued his post-doctoral research fellowship on environmental science from Beaverton Oregon, USA. At that time when food was being rapidly commercialized. 

He returned to India from the US in 1997 intending to construct a healthy society in his own country and settled down in Mysore. Since his graduation relentlessly worked to revive millets, further worked hard to revive five distinct types of millets that were fast disappearing.

He discovered that each of these millets having healing properties and if you consume them it could cure even deadly diseases, Hence he named these five types of millets, ‘Siridhanyalu’, these millets fall under the category of positive grains / rich grains.

5 Types of Millets / Siridhanyalu / Rich Grains

  1. Foxtail millet
  2. Kodo millet
  3. Little millet
  4. Barnyad millet
  5. Browntop millet

Watch below video to know the shape, size and colour of the different millets (Siridhanya).

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Dr Khader highlighted the fact that the health of the people depends on food intake. The ratio of dietary fibre to carbohydrates in the food determines the health of the consumer. The 5 millets mentioned are rich in fibre when compared to Rice and Wheat.

Foods which have carbohydrate to fibre ratio is less than 10 are has shown medicinal properties. 5 millets above mentioned contains fibre ranges from 8 to 12.5 whereas in paddy rice and wheat 0.2 to 1.2 respectively. This high ratio of fibre to carbohydrates in millets make you healthy.

Glucose will be released into the blood within a few minutes when you consume carbohydrates food. With fibre rich food the activity delays, glucose will be released to the blood in a regulated manner between 6 to 8 hours.

In earlier days people used to consume fibre rich millet food before use of rice and wheat was the reason why people are healthy, strong not victims of modern diseases like diabetes, blood pressure, cancer and heart-related issues. Millets not only rich in fibre but also having many micronutrients which certainly for our health..

Foxtail millet

  • Foxtail millet rice is a balanced food with 8% of fibre and 12% of protein.
  • The right food for pregnant women, it also cures constipation in the pregnant woman.
  • Can get rid of epileptic fits, nervous weakness and convulsions in children.
  • Heals certain kinds of skin disorders, mouth cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, Parkinson’s disease and asthma (along with Kodo millet rice). 

Kodo millet

  • Kodo millet has 14.3% fibre content, 11% protein and low fat 4.2%.
  • Helps cleansing blood, boosting the efficiency of bone marrow, cures asthma.
  • Fights various cancers like kidney, prostate, blood, intestinal, thyroid, throat, pancreatic glands and liver.
  • Purifies the blood of the people who become weak after affected by dengue, typhoid, viral fever etc.

Little millet

  • Contains 8.5% fibre and 11% Protein.
  • Cures issues related to male and female productive systems. It controls Poly Cystic Ovary Disease (PCOD) in women and enhances sperm count in men.
  • Plays a great role in cleansing the human lymphatic system and combating brain, throat, blood, thyroid, pancreatic gland cancers.

Barnyard millet

  • It will have 11.2% protein and 10.1% dietary fibre.
  • Controls the problem of the thyroid, pancreatic glands and diabetes.
  • Efficacious in the cleansing liver, urinary bladder and gall bladder.
  • Work well in healing jaundice but also strengthens liver after the illness.
  • Liver and uterus cancer can be cured with Barnyard millet. 

Browntop millet

  • It will have 11.5% protein and 12.5% dietary fibre.
  • Roots out the problem with the digestive system. Besides, a wide range of condition like on piles, fistula, haemorrhoids and ulcers.
  • Brain, blood, breast, bone, stomach, intestine skin cancers have an effective answer with Browntop millet rice.

You would like to know more on Dr Kadher works and guild lines on food habits, please go through the link.

Video: Dr Khader Vali speech on millet ( Siridhanya )

Satisfied in your way? .. if yes or no why?

Satisfied
Satisfied

Before the move to satisfied, one should distinguish satisfaction and happiness. Some times these two words will be used interchangeably. But these two are different concepts.

Satisfaction not linked with your joy or cry. Happiness is a specific moment, immediate and short, whereas satisfaction is a general feeling in your life. Satisfaction linked to many domains in your life like education, job, friends, relation, marriage, romance, health, wealth etc and particularly with your attitude. Satisfaction is a stable state but your happiness leads to exciting or cry. One can measure your happiness but your satisfaction cannot be measured.

“Life satisfaction is the degree to which a person positively evaluates the overall quality of his/her life as a whole. In other words, how much the person likes the life he/she leads”                                                                                                                                         — Ruut Veenhoven.

The foremost fact is the satisfaction is internal to you concerning any circumstances. you are the sole owner of your satisfaction and you can only experience the whole. Your surrounding or any relation can’t experience your internal feelings.

Your income, age, living and other amenities will not keep you in the stable state – satisfied.

This is the incomparable state with others mean first of all you stop comparing yourself with others in any aspect. Every personality is unique. Then follow or review what kind of characteristics makes you satisfied.

  • Be honest
  • Be Proactive
  • Self-appreciation
  • Be Simple
  • Care your body
  • Commemoration
  • Positive Thinking
  • Understanding
  • Clarity on life-cycle

Honest: You should have an honest estimation of your abilities and efforts. Do not underestimate or overestimate. 

The same principle you can apply in your surrounding, accept the facts and check what you deserve. 

Then you can able to accept success or failure or neutral, at the end your internal spirit will not end with frustration or excitement.

Proactive: Once you know your strengths, then use them in the right way. Your rational thoughts are much matter to execute your duties. 

Do not except favor beyond your limits. Be proactive in the tasks which you can complete and which is required for your growth.

If you are thinking and spending more time on other matters, mean it just unnecessary tasks with no end. 

Do not be reactive to unnecessary matters at the end your brain feel restless. Check what is your duty what not? 

Self-Appreciation: You should have a hobby of think about yourself not mean as selfish. You may or may not get a return for what you did, but appreciation more than the return. 

You should acknowledge yourself for any kind of achievement in the form of thankfulness. Spend time with your inner soul and talk only concerning you (‘I’).

Simplicity: This has the main contribution to your satisfaction. You are a simple person mean you can adjust any situation with less damage. 

It does not mean that you do not have goals in your life. Your lifestyle will be simple, flexible and practical. 

You are a simple mean in one or many ways you have clarity on the current world in the right direction! Then you can estimate what is next.

Care Your Body: The known fact is your mental health depends on your body condition. The body is not only for usage till it dies. 

It requires care as well. You should thank full to your body and its service. Make a practice of doing exercises or yoga, Pranayama regularly and keep your body fit and strong. 

When you are active with physical strength, your thoughts will be healthy.

Commemorate: Your past is the base for the present that not mean that dig into your past, drag your misfortunes to present and live in that. 

Consider success, failure, mistakes or just experience in your past as a strength, commemorate your sweet memories that give a pleasant mind and  balanced view. 

A person never alone your past always with you learn from your past then build present.

Positive thinking: When you are mentally strong next you can able to accept any results without disappointment, you will lead your duties with hope further. 

This kind of attitude indicates that you have positive thinking. 

This nature makes you keep negatives aside and you can ready to face more than your abilities. You can dream big and witness success. 

You can influence your surrounding with your motivation and guidance. Challenges take you to a more satisfying world or satisfied.

Understanding: Once you understand yourself honestly means you can understand others as well because the same views you can apply to others. 

Understanding not just limited to a person, it’s extended to the environment, circumstances and also your religious beliefs. 

Understanding not in theory, it should be in practice then your external expectations will be less, you become truly confident and you are in the path of rational.

Clarity on life: This topic is an extension to your understanding or you can treat this as spiritual if you belong to any religion or no religion the fact is you were born, then you die one day. 

you got your body and lost your body in simple words it is not permanent. Material life may give you happiness, not satisfaction. 

Then what lasts with in you (‘I’) or life (to feel yourself) is satisfaction. Create a constructive mindset for your uninterrupted feel for peace.

Honest
Balance - Honest

Follow or Review on Satisfied?

Bring most of the mentioned things above into your practice and make it a hobby, no hurry. The result is a mix of all and how you balance rest. Your satisfaction is not instant, it’s in-depth, not apparent,  your qualities, and acceptance in your way.