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 ...
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 / ...
Aug 21, 2021
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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 ...
Aug 17, 2021
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Climate changes and perils to our health-Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Is there any hope for mankind? Australian National University professor Mark Kenny Today he writes about the frustration many Australians feel at the government’s refusal to face what’s clear to everyone else: “a galloping climate emergency which portends death, suffering and species loss on a planetary scale”. Today, I watched on Tele how the global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases having detrimental effect on climate changes due to global warming and the dangers to our health, and the necessity for unprecedented drastic steps be taken by the governments of the day, to curtail it. ...
Aug 14, 2021
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Health & Views August 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 / ...
Delta ‘Breakthrough’ infections becoming noticed-by Dr Harold Gunatillake If large numbers of people remain unvaccinated, vaccinated people will be exposed to the Delta variant, and that could be the way variant could breakthrough No vaccine can protect everyone all the time. When there is a lot of viruses around, some vaccinated people will still get infected, but in most cases vaccinated people experience mild symptoms – Doctor, I got both jabs but got the virus again a call from Sri Lanka from a friend, what am I to do now? A question that is being asked by many people and becoming a worry to the researchers and health admin personnel. When there is a lot of viruses around, some vaccinated people will still get infected, but the consolation is that the symptoms may be mild and may need no hospitalization, but again there are a few exceptions, and few ...
Should you eat Processed Meat?-by Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: Covid-19 outbreaks at meat processing plants in US kept quiet. By reading this captioned article, I thought I should talk about processed meat. A chicken processing facility in western North Carolina reportedly underwent widespread testing for Covid-19 in early June. On 8 June, the health department for Burke County, where the Case Farms facility is located, reported 136 new Covid cases, a 25% increase in its total caseload. Yet neither the company, county officials nor the North Carolina department of health and human services would confirm whether those cases were connected to Case Farms. Workers at the plant were scared. Several employees had already tested positive and the company, Case Farms – which has been repeatedly condemned for animal treatment and workers’ rights violations – was not providing proper protective equipment. What is processed meat? Let us first understand what ...
What is your preferred Jab?-by Dr Harold Gunatillake Transcript: People are confused these days, to choose the vaccine of choice available- Pfizer or AstraZeneca, in Australia. The confusion starts with the publication of the efficacy of the respective vaccines. Pfizer and Moderna had the highest efficacy rates-95% 7 days after the second dose and 94% and 14 days after the second dose respectively. AstraZeneca the vaccine the Australian Government recommends and available for over 60’s is 67%, 15 days after the second dose. Vaccine efficacy rate is calculated after giving the vaccine to 10s and thousands of people and they are broken into two groups. Half of the people get the vaccines, and the other half gets a placebo. After several months they are reviewed. In this trial-170 people were infected with COVID-19. ...
Aug 1, 2021
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Importance of knowing your Lymphatic system in the present COVID Endemic-by Harold Gunatillake Lymphatic system is an additional subsystem ‘pipeline’ network to the circulatory system that has a hand in glove relationship. Lymphatic system is composed of a network of minute vessels like threads, and lymph glands. If you compared to a railway line system, lymph glands are the railway stations, and the threads are the network of railway lines. What its importance to know in the present crisis of Covid endemic, is that to feel confident that you have an inbuilt defensive system to defend your body by destroying the COVID virus even before vaccinations. It does this by defending the body against infections by supplying disease-fighting cells called lymphocytes. ...
Jul 30, 2021
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