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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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Lacto-Fermentation Foods & Health-By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Fermented Foods are a hot topic, today Let’s talk about it. We wonder why our mothers always kept a bottle of onion pickle and lime pickle(lunu-dehi) on the dining table, and we used to nickname them, as ‘rice pullers’What are Lacto-fermented foods, also called lactic acid fermentation foods? Lacto does not refer here to milk, but refers to lactic acid, produced by lacto-bacillus bacteria. These bacilli are present in yogurt, cheese and the skin of most veggies and fruits among others. It is starches and sugars in your veggies and fruits that is converted into lactic acid by friendly bacteria -lactobacilli during fermentation Fermentation was used in the ancient times to preserve food, and making alcohol, Cheese, salami and more. Fermentation is a common practice which was performed from thousands of years ago. fermentation was generally performed to produce alcohol and wine. ...

Jul 15, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0
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Abdominal bloating – BY Harold Gunatilake We all at some stage or other, frequently or less frequently feel bloated and tight in our abdomens. It is mainly due to build-up of gas in the tummy and the small gut and due to disturbances in the movement of the smooth muscles in the small gut. On feeling your stomach, it feels distended and most times you may have colicky pains and discomfort. Some people have more flatulence and bloating than others. They pass more gas, or you could call it breaking wind. Healthy people do it between 14 to 23 times each day. If you pass wind more than the typical person, you may wonder what’s going on in your gut and whether it’s a symptom of a more serious health condition. Excess bloating and flatulence could be due to harmless causes such as swallowing air, eating gas producing foods and ...

Jul 13, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged Comments 0
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Chronic Kidney Disease that You Should Know About-by Dr Harold Gunatillake Presenter-Dr. Harold Gunatillake FRCS, MB,BS, AM (Sing), FACS, FIACS Transcript WE are all concerned about our heart-health and cholesterol levels, whilst a silent disease may be brewing up in your kidneys, without symptoms for years. So, how can we find out whether our kidneys are healthy or otherwise. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects 11% of the US population- that is 30 million Americans have CKD. Additional millions are at risk. Early detection can help prevent or control the progression of CDK. In short slow down the disease in moderately advanced situation. In Sri Lanka, it is referred to as the silent Killer, and is common in the North Central and Uva Provinces, affecting more than 15% of the population. This includes children and females, in addition to affecting farmers using pesticides in the paddy fields It is important to understand and ...

Jun 30, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , Comments 0
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Diabetes – can you reverse the malady-Is there a natural therapy? – By Dr Harold Gunatillake May require headphones Let’s discuss about diabetes briefly before we find the answer to the claim by some authorities that there is a cure for diabetes. Let’s keep our discussion to type 2 diabetes only, meaning the type of diabetes healthy people get during adulthood, after the age of 40, for some unknown and known reasons. The number of people with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. The global prevalence of diabetes* among adults over 18 years of age has risen from 4.7% in 1980 to 8.5% in 2014. Diabetes prevalence has been rising more rapidly in middle- and low-income countries. China, India and the United States top the list for the most cases of diabetes per country; around 24.4 million Americans had the disease in 2013. But islands in the Pacific have the most ...

Jun 20, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0
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