Dr harold Gunatillake

Visit to the Super Fish Market, Kandy – By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Visit to the Super Fish Market in William Gopallawa Mawathe, Kandy. Make it a morning outing and enjoy seeing the variety of ocean fresh fish and how they are cut and parceled. Parking available. Fish is moderately priced and the service is most courteous – Filmed by Dr Harold Gunatillake on his vacation   ...

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Good advice by Dr. Harold – People who enjoy a drink are now confused There is a featured article in HealthDay News- dated Aug 23, 2018, with the caption, “Alcohol Helps Kill 2.8 Million People Globally Each Year”. It further says, the new analysis of hundreds of studies conducted between 1990 and 2016 found that one in three people worldwide (2.4 billion people) drink alcohol, and that 6.8 percent of men and 2.2 percent of women die of alcohol-related health problems each year. How the United States fits into those figures is unclear. It was not among the top or bottom 10 for the most or the heaviest drinkers in 2016. Denmark led the list for most drinkers (97 percent of men and 95 percent of women), while Romania (men) and Ukraine (women) had the heaviest drinkers. Denmark has a long history of brewing and distilling tasty alcoholic beverages, including Akvavit, ...

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Coconut is a Poison- By Dr.Harold Coconut is a poison- so it is going to kill all people who eat coconut products and using oil for cooking. Half the population of the world will be wiped out soon.     Coconut is a Poison Coconut is not a Poison…… Coconuts-its meat, water and the oil have stood the test of time as a beneficial and health providing ingredient in daily Asian cooked foods for millions of years since the existence of the coconut palms, for humans along the equator, Pacific Basin, Islanders, Thais, Indians, Sri Lankans, middle East inhabitant, They have all been using coconut meat in the preparation of foods (curries included), as scrapings or as squeezed milk,or as an oil for deep and stir frying, daily. Remember the ‘Pol Sambol’ a healthy treat and a good accompaniment to most Asian preparations. As you fly into Kerala, you might be ...

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Keeping your Circulatory system, healthy   There are two circulatory systems: blood circulatory system and lymphatic system in our body, and efficient working of those systems keep us healthy and shapely, too.  We are only discussing about the blood circulatory system, also called cardio-vascular system, in this article. The central pump (heart) including the receiving pump in thissystem are the central figures most important to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the cells of the body and return the de-oxygenated blood (bad blood) back to the right chambers of the heart be sent to the left chambers of the heart after purification( oxygenation) in the lungs.Just like the circulatory system the pump (heart) needs to be maintained in prime condition to remain healthy.  The complex system of circulation that supplies nutrients and oxygen can get disturbed and result in diseases detrimental to our health.  The pipes (arteries) in this system can get damaged. In healthy situations, ...

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“Good advice by Dr. Harold – Just one drink a day will keep you away from Dementia- latest finding”   This would be the best news that most middle-aged people would want tohear, yes, it is true the latest studies reveal. Just drinking one glass of wine a day, lowers the risk of your developing dementia later in life, the researchers have come to that conclusion. This study was done on 9,000 British adults for a period of twenty years. This study also revealed that the teetotallers and heavy drinkers have a high incidence of dementia. Just one drink means 14 “units” of alcohol per week, that is a medium-sized glass ofwine or one pint of beer, each day. No wonder, those adults working hard during office hours and patronizing the pub,drinking just a pint of beer and going home and greeting their love one, would keeptheir brain stimulated, then the guy who goes ...

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Eggs Do not Cause Heart Disease or Stroke –  By Dr. Harold Gunatillake   It was taken for granted right along, because an egg nicknamed a ‘ball of cholesterol’ posed a danger for heart disease. Housewives did not give their husbands eggs for breakfast for the same reason. Ten years ago, we did say that the cholesterol in foods, including the cholesterol in the yolk of eggs, did not influence or affect the bad cholesterol level in your blood. Some studies in the past revealed that those who had cardiovascular episodes should never touch eggs. So, everybody joined the band wagon, including popular websites and health magazines saying that eggs are bad for you. If an egg has the nutrients to give birth to life, those nutrients should benefit mankind too. One study published in 2013 in BMJ, revealed that eating an egg a day was not tied to any ...

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  Media Release It’s not too late to vaccinate before flu season kicks Off Take-up of the free flu vaccine for under-fives has risen following the recent death of a toddler but NSW Health is urging all people eléible for a free flu shot to vaccinate before the flu season kicks off. NSW Health’s latest Influenza Surveillance Weekly Report shovved 232 confirmed flu cases for the week ending 15 July, much lover than the 2,127 notifications in the week in 2017. Dr Vicky Sheppeard, Director Comnwnicable Diseases NSW Health, said the nunber Of flu cases across the state rernained low, indiating the flu season has not yet arrived. “Following reports last week about the death of a srrull child from influenza. there has been a notable increase in parents taking advantage of the free influenza vaccine for children up to five years of age,” Dr Sheppeard said. “There are plentiful supplies ...

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