Watch out for Double Helical National Health Awards 2018

Dear Readers,
Thank you for your continuous support and encouragement. With your kind blessings, Double Helical is organising Double Helical National Health Awards 2018 at a glittering ceremony in New Delhi in September 2018.
As always, the team Double Helical humbly seeks your support and blessings to make the event a success for the further advancement of this noble profession and welfare of the suffering humanity.
The current issue carries a variety of engaging and informative stories. Our cover story “Mother of All Maladies” focuses on diabetes, which is emerging as one of the most common and challenging health problems of the 21stcentury. Rapidly increasing and reaching epidemic proportions, the disease causes substantial morbidity and mortality affecting even the youth. It has become a major public health issue, causing tremendous burden both in social and economic terms
Overall, diabetes is a common problem in older adults. Approximately 20% of individuals over 65 years of age have diabetes, and almost half of these individuals have not been diagnosed. Unlike younger people with type-II diabetes, which are often overweight, obesity is not that common among older diabetes patients.
However, there are widespread misconceptions about possible consequences of uncontrolled hyperglycemia, a condition in which an excessive amount of glucose circulates in the blood plasma.
In nursing homes, the problem of being underweight is as common as that of being overweight. Thus, nutritional management should focus on weight gain for underweight elderly patients as much as it is focused on weight loss for obese patients.
A three-pronged strategy of a micronutrient rich diet, herbal food supplements and exercise can help you prevent, reverse, and cure diabetes
Decades of countless scientific studies and research over the years have emphatically proved that proper nutrition is many times more effective than most drugs and pills at reversing, curing and eliminating diseases.
Nutrition is such a potent weapon with which you cannot only prevent but can control other lifestyle diseases like high blood pressure, constipation, acidity, thyroid, arthritis, heart disease, stroke, kidney disease (nephrites), hair loss, dandruff, various cancers like breast cancers, colon cancer, prostate cancer etc. Recently, many doctors in the US, Dr Neal Barnard, President Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine, a team of doctors at the International Council for Truth in Medicine, Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and many others through their scientific researches have established that we can achieve optimal health without any medication.
Naturopathy is a science and a way of life by which we can naturally not only prevent but reverse various lifestyle diseases. Naturopathy believes that the body has an innate amazing ability to heal itself. It treats the cause of the disease rather than the symptoms. The industrially produced synthetic drugs are all chemicals and all of them have side effects. Allopathy does “control” the symptoms of the disease but not the cause of it. It rather suppresses the disease and one has to live a restricted life with the help of various synthetic drugs.
Both humans and animals have the most powerful inbuilt mechanism of healing themselves naturally. While animals in the wild instinctively know how to heal themselves, humans have all but forgotten this knowledge because of our lost connection with nature. Scientists have closely observed as to how the animals take care of their wellbeing.
Our story covers system of health insures vs. insured way of treatment. As the number of people with employer-sponsored coverage decreases, the uninsured, especially those belonging to the middle class, face serious financial problems to afford healthcare.
Historically, disparities in access to health care and health outcomes can be seen between insured and uninsured people. However, the new approach to cost containment, which asks individuals to pay more for their own healthcare, is going to lead to tiering, in which those with higher incomes will be able to afford a wider range of healthcare services than much of the middle class and those with lower incomes. This trend is already visible. Several studies have found that middle-class insured people experience more problems getting care that are related to cost than do people with higher incomes. In addition, middle-class people are substantially more worried than those with higher incomes about paying for health insurance and health care in the future.
There are many more informative and thought-provoking stories, based on intensive research and analysis. So, happy reading to all of you!
Amresh K Tiwary,
Editor-in-Chief