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    What are Ketones and Keto Diet- Is it confusing-By Dr Harold Gunathilaka Is keto diet though popular as a weight reduction method, is it superior to other standard weight management plans? Are there health risks involved including nutritional deficiencies in a keto diet? That’s what we are going to discuss today. Sri Lankans eat rice and curry as the staple diet. This is a balanced diet consisting of a large amount of carbs as rice, or a few slices of bread and spicy curries to accompany. Curries such as the veggies, fish, meat or the salty dried fish with an occasional egg curry, provide the required proteins, fats and other micronutrients. The answer to the Western salad, Mallum’. It is a bevy of greens wilted, spiced and combined with shredded coconut amongst other spices. Onion pickle is always there on the dining table as a ‘rice puller’ that ...

Sep 14, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , Comments 0
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    The Way Heart Works-By Dr. Harold Gunatillake Keep your heart rate between 60 to 80 beats per minute If you use an average of 80 beats per minute, your heart beats about 4,800 times per hour. That’s a whopping 115,200 times per day. Over the course of a year, your heart would beat about 42,048,000 times! Let’s listen to a healthy steady heartbeat. That is the way you must keep your heart beating through life. Take care of your heart and your heart will give you a healthy good lifespan. Athletes and others who do strenuous exercises, may bring down their heart rate according to the extent of training. Olympic athletes bring down their heart rate to 40 beats per minute, for competitive performance If you are sedentary, your heart rate may go up to 90 per minute, or more If your heart rate is more than 90 ...

Sep 10, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , , Comments 0
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    Let’s Talk about Mental Health Today – by Dr. Harold Gunatillake It has been shown that playing mental sports like chess lowers the risk of dementia by 74% according to studies conducted by the researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Neuroscientists agree that in addition to proper diet, fitness memory can be improved by learning something new to sharpen your brain over the years. Sri Lanka has paved the way to the world how playing chess at a young age or other challenging mental sports do lower the risk of developing dementia as mentioned earlier, as much as 74%. School going children and young adults from 800 families, a few from abroad, being members of the 64 Squares International Chess Academy, had their annual chess championship in August in Kandy, Sri Lanka from the 22nd of August for a week, ending with a grand finale of ...

Aug 31, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0
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    Osteoporosis is a silent disease-By Dr Harold Gunatillake Your bones in the body,especially those that are weight bearing such as the spine, and hips should be strong to carry out everyday functions. When you are young, they are strong, engaging in activities such as sports and being active, keeps the bones strong.   Age being a risk factor, leading a less active life, and especially among women when they reach their menopause with low sex hormone, tend to soften their bones being more porous and the density and the quality of the bones weaken and become more fragile due to accelerated bone loss, that occurs after menopause. This condition is called osteoporosis of the bones which is a silent process without early warning symptoms. In the US. there are over 10 million suffering from osteoporosis and another 44 million suffering from low  bone mass called osteopenia, according to ...

Aug 19, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , Comments 0
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  What should be the normal Blood Pressure for a Sri Lankan By Dr Harold Gunatillake The blood pressure that is considered normal for men and women seems to be changing from time and again. When we were medical students in the fifties, we were told that the upper pressure should be less than your age plus 100: meaning, if you are 50 years, your normal systolic pressure should be 150mm.Hg or less. With time, studies revealed that the incidence and the risk of heart disease and stroke was quite high with such blood pressure readings.   Then, it was realised that the strain on the Heart muscles with this respective BP considered normal, was too severe, resulting in high incidence of heart problems, including failure.         The blood pressure of an individual depends on the force of blood ejected from the left lower chamber (ventricle) of the ...

Aug 8, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0
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    Colon Issues By Dr. harold Gunatillake Script Let’s talk today on Large Bowel Issues, focussing more on dreaded colon cancer. Your alimentary canal includes pharynx, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus. Today, we are discussing on the debilitating medical conditions in your large gut only. This last part of your digestive system functions to absorb water from the remaining indigestible food matter, and to pass the waste material from the alimentary canal, through the anal canal. It is the segment of the alimentary canal where the beneficial microbes dwell producing chemicals to protect the inner lining of the large gut through a process of fermentation of prebiotics like fibre. The large intestine consists of the cecum, colon, rectum, and anal canal. If you ever experience frequent bloating of the abdomen, colic’s, discomfort in your tummy, alteration in bowel movements, tiredness at the end of the day, ...

Jul 30, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , Comments 0
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