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Aug 2025
24:
Revisiting Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and QRISK3
Aug 2025
17:
Perhaps Smartphone and Other Tech Usage is a Good Idea as We Age
Aug 2025
10:
Personal Air Purifiers Do Make a Difference to Blood Pressure
Aug 2025
3:
Being Safe on the Roads is As Important as Screening for Cancer
Jul 2025
27:
Diagnosing Diabetes Early and in the Elderly and the Prediabetes Label
Jul 2025
20:
The Cardiovascular Syndemic - 5 Threats, 1 Battle
Jun 2025
29:
The Relevance of Visceral Adiposity and Android Fat
Jun 2025
21:
Understanding the Importance of Lipoprotein(a)
Jun 2025
8:
The Tragedy of Successful Prevention - You Only Realize When You Fall Sick...Or Perhaps Not Even Then
Jun 2025
1:
Should You Take Ozempic or Mounjaro if You are Not Obese or Diabetic?
May 2025
18:
Why "Fatty Liver" is Now an Important Condition to Pay Attention to
May 2025
4:
50-Plus and Vaccines - An Update on Adult Immunization in an Otherwise Normal Person
Apr 2025
27:
Tech Fixes to Manage Hearing Impairment
Apr 2025
20:
Does an Ideal Diet Exist?
Apr 2025
13:
The Unfounded Perceived Dangers of Running
Apr 2025
4:
Is It Too Late to Change or Can We Turn Things Around Even after Age 55?
Feb 2025
21:
Updated Salt and Sodium Guidelines and Research
Feb 2025
11:
Prolonged Sedentary Behavior is Harmful Even if You are Physically Active
Feb 2025
3:
Balancing Safety and Freedom: Understanding "Dignity of Risk"
Jan 2025
19:
The Two Lies and the One Moral Failure of Traditional Medicine in Cancers
Dec 2024
29:
How Long and Healthy Will We Live?
Dec 2024
21:
How to Reduce and Manage Healthcare Costs
Dec 2024
3:
Diagnosing Diabetes Early: For Ourselves and For Those Around Us
Nov 2024
17:
The Three-Second Choice: Buckle Up or Risk Becoming a Backseat Bullet
Oct 2024
30:
When and Why Would You Prefer a Branded Drug Over a Generic!
Oct 2024
20:
The Essential Travel Medicine Kit
Oct 2024
13:
Auditory Wellness...Protecting and Improving Our Hearing...Ourselves
Sep 2024
16:
When Speed Matters...And Doesn't!
Aug 2024
20:
From Presbyopia to Cataracts to AMD - Why Regular Vision Checks are Important
Aug 2024
4:
The Overweight Myth: Why Overnutrition Is Better Than Undernutrition Every Single Time!
Jul 2024
22:
Cognition and Dementia Updates
Jul 2024
14:
The Healthspan of the Mind: Preventing Cognitive Decline
Jul 2024
8:
Foo-Foo Healthcare: How to Identify Snake-Oil Treatments and Separate Fact from Fiction
Jun 2024
30:
Food Updates - III - Healthy Nutrition for Longevity: Deconstructing the 2024 ICMR-NIN Dietary Guidelines - Part II
Jun 2024
2:
Food Updates - II - Healthy Nutrition for Longevity: Deconstructing the 2024 ICMR-NIN Dietary Guidelines - Part I
May 2024
26:
Food Updates: From Parle-G to Pringles - Examining the Evidence on Ultra-Processed Foods
May 2024
19:
Thriving After 55: Staying Healthy and Preventing Major Health Risks - Based on the GBD 2021 Data
May 2024
12:
Lecture: Atmasvasth - A Guide to a Long Healthspan
Apr 2024
28:
Longevity is Inevitable: Extended Healthspan is Not and Requires Effort
Apr 2024
21:
Sweat and Science: How Wet-Bulb Temperature Dictates Safe Outdoor Exercise
Apr 2024
13:
"Death as Treatment" - A Slippery Slope to Disaster
Apr 2024
5:
Cancer Prevention in a Shot: Halting Cervical Cancer with the HPV Vaccine
Mar 2024
27:
Physical Activity Update - II (What, When, How Much)
Mar 2024
18:
Physical Activity Update - I (Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Cancers, Falls, Sleep, Dementia)
Mar 2024
5:
The Ban on E-Cigarettes in India - Has the Time Come to Reconsider?
Feb 2024
19:
The Blood Money Obstructing the Prevention of Oral Cancer
Jan 2024
21:
Saying No to Preventive Gallbladder Surgery for Silent Gallstones
Jan 2024
13:
Poor Vision can Increase the Risk of Falls and Fractures
Dec 2023
28:
Caries in the Teeth Can Reduce Your Lifespan
Dec 2023
16:
Recognizing and Managing Suicidal Thoughts in Us and Those Around Us
Dec 2023
3:
The Retirement Conundrum - Managing the Remaining 1500 Weeks
Nov 2023
15:
Avoid Being in Road Accidents at all Costs
Nov 2023
9:
Falls-Proofing the House
Oct 2023
29:
The Book - Atmasvasth - A Guide to Ageing Healthfully
Oct 2023
23:
Climbing Stairs
Oct 2023
16:
The Impracticality of Salt Control
Oct 2023
8:
How Much do Our Genes Control How Long We Live?
Sep 2023
25:
The Coronary Calcium Score Test - A Useful Test, But...
Sep 2023
3:
What is the Point of Living Long, if We don’t Enjoy the Journey? Some Ruminations on Alcohol and Other "Sinful" Stuff While Invoking John Steinbeck
Aug 2023
9:
Do Air Purifiers at Home and Work Make a Difference?
Jul 2023
25:
Some More Data on Time-Restricted Eating (TRE) as a Means to Manage Food Intake
Jul 2023
16:
The Crossroads of Physical Activity, Sleep and Cognitive Decline
Jul 2023
5:
Delinking Fitness and Health from BMI, Weight and Obesity Labels
Jul 2023
1:
Crosspost: Choosing the Right Doctor: The Futility and Uselessness of Google Search and Reviews, Online Aggregators and Social Medial Platforms
Jun 2023
25:
Disease Hell...What Can We Truly Prevent or Control
Jun 2023
19:
Chest X-ray for Screening for Tuberculosis
May 2023
28:
The Extremes of Fire and Ice
May 2023
21:
The Sleep Apnea Testing Problem
May 2023
9:
Is Tea as Good as Coffee, to Live Long, Healthy?
Apr 2023
23:
Your Mouth is a Window to Your Health
Apr 2023
16:
The Magic of a 30-45 Minutes Walk Every Day
Apr 2023
9:
Life's Essential 8 and Annual Health Scoring
Mar 2023
29:
Living on Main Roads can Raise Your Blood Pressure
Mar 2023
25:
Running Safely on Indian Roads - Run Facing the Traffic
Mar 2023
11:
The Paradox of Walking Aids
Feb 2023
28:
I Would Always Choose Active, Healthful Ageing over "Graceful" Ageing
Feb 2023
15:
Do Not Go Gentle into That Deaf Night
Jan 2023
25:
Your Living Will
Jan 2023
14:
Every Move Counts
Jan 2023
2:
What if You Just Threw Away Those Salt-Shakers and Stopped Adding Extra Salt During Mealtimes?
Dec 2022
22:
Say No to Vitamin D Testing and Supplementation
Dec 2022
15:
It is Better to Be Fit and Overweight than Normal Weight / Lean and Unfit
Dec 2022
8:
Is it Safe to Walk or Run Outdoors When Air Pollution is High?
Nov 2022
22:
The Ideal Annual Health Check-Up - Less is More
Nov 2022
1:
It is Never Too Late to Stop Smoking
Oct 2022
14:
Screening for Osteoporosis
Oct 2022
4:
Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Sep 2022
25:
Hospitals Should Only Be Places of Last Resort
Sep 2022
13:
Being Physically Active is Good, But Being Fit is Better
Sep 2022
6:
Is Regular Self-Weighing Necessary or Important?
Aug 2022
20:
Logging What You Eat and Drink Instead of Counting Calories
Aug 2022
11:
Potassium-Enriched Salt Substitution (PESS) - Why It Makes a Difference
Jul 2022
30:
Colorectal Cancer Screening - Is it of any Use in India?
Jul 2022
13:
Does Reading Reduce Cognitive Decline?
Jul 2022
4:
Physical Activity - Why, When, Where, How Long, Which ?
Jun 2022
26:
Does Yoga Help Increase Healthspan and Lifespan?
Jun 2022
19:
The Meditation Conundrum - The Lack of Good Science, but an Ancient Practice that Feels Good Anyway
Jun 2022
12:
Iatrogenesis of Vitamins, Minerals and Herbal Supplements
Jun 2022
5:
Preventing and Reversing Frailty
May 2022
15:
Polypharmacy: More than 5 Tablets a Day can Often Cause More Harm than Good
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