HEART-LUNG DISEASES NUMBER ONE KILLERS

AUM. HEART DISEASES REPLACE SEXUAL AIDS AS KILLER No ONE By Chitranjan Sawant You and I have no choice of diseases to contract to quit this world. Our mind and heart will pick and choose and decide for you. If you gave wrong signals to HEART, you are bound to get wrong food on despicable tray. Formerly human beings contracted sexually transmitted diseases owing to promiscuity. Sharing the bed with more than one female and vice-versa was considered fashionable and also an outward proof of virility. Men and women; mostly men floated the self made theory that Man is polygamous by nature and it is the Hindu Dharma or Christianity that enforces monogamy. Islam promotes polygamy but their followers are as sex starved as anyone else. SEXUAL SATISFACTION WITH ONE PARTNER When sexually transmitted diseases started taking a heavy toll of human beings, it was decided to make polygamy a social taboo for one and all irrespective of personal faith. Both men and women were advised to have only one sex-partner and bid pluralism adieu. The moralists in society succeeded in controlling the sexually transmitted diseases taking a heavy human toll. DELIVERANCE CELEBRATED MEN AND WOMEN THREW PARTIES TO ENJOY LIFE. WOMEN NOW JOINED IN FOR THE LATE NIGHT PARTIES TOO. THE MOTTO OF REVELLERS WAS: EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY FOR WHO KNOWS WHAT IS IN STORE FOR YOU TOMORROW. "Forget about Domani, Domani never comes." It was a film song that hit the top level of popularity. Even those who knew no English, hummed the tune of this English cum Italian song. When the ball dances gained in public acclaim, even greenhorns in dancing made a debut on public stage too. Liberalisation in smoking, eating, drinking and dancing brought in its wake new diseases. HEART AND LUNG DISEASES From time immemorial Heart has been associated with Love, or lack of it. The jilted lovers thought that heart had been given undue credit for Love and Loveless, the faculties and functions it knows nothing about. However, studies in how to have a healthy heart and how to counter or get over new fangled heart diseases increased many fold. Admittedly Heart pumps blood to all limbs of the body but it also needs blood for its own functioning. The new phenomenon of over smoking and eating fat rich diet without doing any exercise led to clogging of arteries and caused breathlessness or a feeling of tiredness. It led to bypass surgery and in difficult cases even open heart surgery had to be performed. Likewise over smoking and lack of physical exercise coupled with rich food containing lot of fats led to lung diseases and cardio-vascular problems that required urgent solutions. Of course, the main culprit for making lungs sick is smoking of tobacco in one form or the other. Heart surgery or taking a peep into lungs that were a cause of ill health led to fatal results at times. Before the advancement of cardio diagnosis and treatment, there were many a cardiac arrests on the operation table. Sometimes in simple procedures like angio-plasty or ballooning, an artery might be punctured with the needle inserted to clear the way for blood circulation in arteries that supply blood to Heart for its own functioning. In some cases patients died of profuse bleeding right on the operation table. Such incidents put fear in hearts and minds of prospective money bags of the hospitals and they refrained from going on the operation table. The pre-procedure nursing staff tries to counsel the patient just before the surgical procedure begins. How far will she succeed, one cannot say for sure at this point of time. Mending lungs led to a total collapse of lungs at times. It is perhaps human nature to avoid going to a hospital and consulting a surgeon as far as possible. Thus the heart and lung diseases take a heavy toll of lives of human beings who prefer to sit at home and avoid a clinic or a hospital. Moral of the story is: it is your heart; it is your lung and if you do not take care of them who else will. The answer is, None, my lord, none. Every human being wishes to live and live long. Those who wish to live long must take precautions and observe some simple directions on intake of food, doing light exercises and warding off the youth killer called Depression. Eat simple food, do light exercises and laugh a lot. Boys and girls in impressionable period of life may be encouraged to take even professional counselling on coming out of that state of depression. It would be in the interest of boys and girls going through a phase of depression NOT to lie, sit or sleep alone. Having said that, let me add that every student should have at least a couple of friends who would lend their shoulders to the student in depression to keep his head there and cry as much as he or she wished to. This will lighten pressure on his heart and mind and also know for sure that he has friends who would turn up and help him solve the problem and thus ward of the imminent crisis. Self-motivation to live long, live a healthy life and pass on the baton to the new generation will always show a person light at the end of the tunnel. If one falls on bad days and has health problems, tell yourself: every cloud has a silver lining. This too shall pass. Sharing a personal experience with our readers I may say that making a suggestion to myself has helped me in more ways than one. I pray “jeevem sharadah shatam”or saying it in English “May God guide me to be a Centenarian.” The same Veda mantra further says that the long life must be a healthy life where one is on one’s own and never dependant on others mentally, physically, financially or spiritually. UPVAN 609, Sector 29, Noida -201303 INDIA. Mobile: 9811173590. Email: upvanom@yahoo.com or sawantg.chitranjan@gmail.com