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Heartburn- Why you should know about it?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Transcript: 25 million adults experience heartburn daily- so says the stats. About one third of them experience heartburn at least once a month in the US. It is a feeling of burning sensation behind your heart in the gullet, food related and due to a weak gastroesophageal sphincter muscles mechanism, resulting in acid reflux into your gullet. It is not a life-threatening disease, but annoying and can lead to sleepless nights, and cause complications, such as inflammation of the lower third of the gullet, referred to as esophagitis, progressing to ulcers and narrowing of the esophagus called a stricture. Even babies are born with this weak valve mechanism. Therefore, all babies are held vertically and given a pat on the upper back after a feed by the mother. ...

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Our body Fat- good and the bad-By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Transcript: Keeping your body fat percentage in a healthy range, assists your natural innate immunity to fight against external invaders like SARSCoV2 and others. Obesity is a worldwide disease and has tripled since 1975. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese. Most of the world’s population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 39 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2020. Over 340 million children and adolescents aged 5-19 were overweight or obese in 2016. Obesity is a disease, can be preventable. ...

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Health & Views September 1st issue 2021 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Download the PDF file .   Disclaimer: The information contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and whilst the author will endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, eLanka makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the eLanka website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this article for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. In otherwords, eLanka In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website ...

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Flatbreads – how healthy are they?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Transcript: Sri Lankans are blessed with three traditional hot foods- hoppers, Kottu Roti and Pol Roti, all are insanely popular. They are popular flatbreads, are cheap street foods quite readily available in almost every little street in Colombo and other towns. Hoppers are low calorie, hardly any added fat other than the coconut milk that goes into the fermented mix, quite healthy, low calorie and friendly to the gut microbiota, due to the addition of yeast to ferment the batter. On the other hand, kottu roti is hot plate fried chopped food ingredients with plenty of fat in the mix and is high calorie dense food quite unhealthy. Pol Roti consists of coconut milk, red onions, chopped curry leaves, green chillies, desiccated coconut lime and flour. These Pol Roti’s are much healthier and nutritious than Kottu Roti, because no additional ...

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Why do Sri Lankans and Tourists love hoppers?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake The most popular street food in Sri Lanka today on your next visit you will notice on the wayside boutique hotels along the main roads or in the busy streets in the cities, the hot food delicacy available are the hoppers and seeni-sambol, pol sambol, and meat curry to go with. When departing from the Bandaranaike Airport, on the way to your destination, most visitors stop at these wayside hotels to enjoy a hot hopper treat to feel good you are at home. When you leave the airport, however much you eat on the plane, your hunger pangs start activating, and the best choice of foods are the hot hoppers, especially when you travel during the late hours ours in the morning. ...

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Health & Views August 3rd issue 2021 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Download the PDF file . Disclaimer: The information contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and whilst the author will endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, eLanka makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the eLanka website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this article for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. In otherwords, eLanka In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website / ...

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Why is Delta variant so transmissible?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Let us discuss the present and the future of the plight we are faced in with the Delta variant of SARSCoV2 virus and learning to live with it. Let’s look forward and upwards. We understand this Delta variant much better now than when it was first identified in India in December 2020. Delta variant is very worrying, it is highly contagious, highly transmissible, undergoing changes, and will be with us with more mutations for a very long time. While antibodies from COVIC-19 infection, not the vaccine, may offer some degree of protection against another future COVID infection, those who have already had the virus may still be vulnerable to the Delta variant, the current predominant strain, which is more contagious than the previous variants. So having had the COVID-19 infection is no guarantee that you will not get a breakthrough ...

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What are the health benefits of humble Bananas?-By Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: If you must eat a banana in public, never make eye contact. Darynda Jones Almost every Sri Lankan home on the dining table, there is always a fruit bowl included a bunch of bananas. It is always there for you to enjoy, so easy to eat after breakfast or lunch, or anytime you wish, assisting in your digestion. They help digestion because the 27 grams ofcarbs they contain are easily broken down. They are beneficial to eat if you suddenly get stomach discomfort like nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and in such a situation restores the lost electrolytes back into your body. Bananas is the staple food in Uganda, Bukoba and Tanzania. Bananas and avocados are fruits that is easier to digest, and easy to munch and swallow. The ripe banana when the skin is bright yellowish with brown ...

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Health & Views August 2nd issue 2021 – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Download the PDF file . Disclaimer: The information contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and whilst the author will endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, eLanka makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the eLanka website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained in this article for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk. In otherwords, eLanka In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website / ...

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What Supercentenarians ate to live longcontrary to foods that is recommended today-by Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: There are an estimated 1,500 super centenarians in the world and exceeding 600,000 centenarians. One in 1,000 people who reach the age of 100 live on to 110; several dozens are alive today including a woman in Japan who was born on 1903 There are over 100,000 centenarians in the US, 40,000 in Japan and 8,500 in England and Wales. There are a few Indian supercentenarians in India and abroad. Inspiring doctors and patients alike a 110-year-old woman from Kerala recovered from COVID-19 a few weeks ago. You have been told that less than 7 per cent of your total daily calorie intake should come from saturated fat. From a daily intake of 2,000 calories, it amounts to 140 calories. Saturated fat seems to raise the bad cholesterol LDL in your blood which raises ...

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