Home  ⁄  Articles  ⁄  Dr harold Gunatillake (page 82)

Dr harold Gunatillake

What are Inflammatory Diets? By Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS, FICS, FIACS, AM (Sing), MB,BS-Health writer

What are Inflammatory Diets? By Dr Harold Gunatillake FRCS, FICS, FIACS, AM (Sing), MB,BS-Health writer In Sri Lanka when our parents took us to the aurvedic physician for minor ailments, when asked what food should be given, you hear the words “heaty foods”(Giniham kama) and “cooling foods”(Seethala kama), and the physician would rattle off some vegetables to be eaten as cooling foods and meat as a heaty food. Western qualified doctors’ then did not believe it. ...

Read More →
Mar 7, 2017 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Comments 0

Heart healthy Diet in a nut-shell Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake-health writer

Heart healthy Diet in a nut-shell Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake-health writer This Mantra should be registered in your memory – both partners preparing daily foods for them. Forget the diet fads around and learn the basics- you’ll not go wrong.   The bottom line of a heart healthy diet is one that’s high in fruits (diabetics should restrict), dark vegetables (green leafy), whole grains (unprocessed rice and wheat products), legumes (lentils), and include less than a handful of nuts daily. The diet may include limited amounts of lean meat, fish twice a week, low-fat and non-fat dairy products, monounsaturated oils like olive oil and polyunsaturated oils of omega-3 types like canola, and flaxseed oil, and saturated virgin coconut oil (disputed) for cooking. Limit using polyunsaturated omega-6 type of oils like vegetable and corn oils for cooking, saturated (butter) and trans-fat (margarine), less added salt, and sugars other than the natural, and ...

Read More →
Mar 3, 2017 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , Comments 0

Immunotherapy is an emerging technique to kill cancer cells Written by Dr harold Gunatillake FRCS, FICS, FIACS, AM (Sing), MBBS Health writer

Immunotherapy is an emerging technique to kill cancer cells Written by Dr harold Gunatillake FRCS, FICS, FIACS, AM (Sing), MBBS Health writer For decades, cancer has been treated with invasive procedures like surgery, combined with non-invasive- radio and chemo therapy. Some cancers are also controlled through hormone therapy specifically for those hormone dependant cancers of the breast post conventional therapy. If cancer is detected in the early stages excisional surgery could be 100% cure. If the cancer cells have spread beyond its local boundaries, say into the regional lymph glands then regional radiotherapy is planned in addition to primary elective surgery. When spread beyond the regional lymph glands –chemotherapy is added as an adjuvant therapy to kill ‘metastatic cancer cells’ in the distant sites. The problem with non-invasive procedures is that normally functioning healthy cells also get harmed, revealed by hair loss, gastro-intestinal symptoms, tiredness, lethargy loss of appetite, and ...

Read More →
Feb 26, 2017 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , , Comments 0

Drink plenty of water during the day & night

Drink plenty of water during the day & night By Dr harold Gunatillake-health writer Drink a glass of water every few hours a day. When you get up in the morning drinking a glass or two of cool water with lemon slice in it helps you to wake up and refresh you for the rest of the day. Hydrating your self has many advantages. Water is life, after all life begins in water. You not only tone your body with hydration, it helps digestion of food and corrects many other metabolic issues. Remember, always when you go for your routine blood tests drink plenty of water to hydrate the blood stream.   Drinking a glass of water before meals dilutes your gastric juice, and minimises cravings and hunger crashes. You tend to eat less and can help weight loss. It aids fat mobilisation and less fat is absorbed. Water helps ...

Read More →
Feb 26, 2017 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake, Uncategorized Comments 0

Know Your Gall Bladder – by Dr. Harold Gunatillake

Know Your Gall Bladder by Dr. Harold Gunatillake Gall bladder is a pear shaped sac hidden under the liver and connected through its duct to the common bile duct. Its main function is to store bile a greenish secretion formed in your liver. Bile is really an excretory product of the liver to get rid of excess cholesterol and bile acid required for the digestion of fatty foods in the proximal small gut. It is coloured because it contains breakdown products of the blood pigment haemoglobin. It excretes a bile pigment called bilirubin which is orange or yellow and its oxidized form biliverdin, which is green. When you eat your food, especially fatty food the gall bladder squeezes the bile into the gut. ...

Read More →
Feb 22, 2017 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged Comments 0

What are the benefits of warm water

What are the benefits of warm water? By Dr Harold Gunatillake “If you kick-start your day by drinking a glass of pure warm water, fat deposits and toxins circulating in the blood are eliminated from the body. It can help you assist with nasal/throat congestion, ease constipation, and boost digestion. It is an easy tactic to crank up your metabolism, aid weight loss goals, and reduce cholesterol quickly. Water is truly the elixir of life! Up to sixty percent of your body is water, which plays a role in everything from digestion and absorption of nutrients to excretion.But research shows that warm water can take these benefits up several notches”.CureJoy   I have heard many a times from people who believe that a glass of warm water has more health benefits than tap or cool water. Is there any truth in this belief? Any water cold or warm is warmed ...

Read More →
Jan 27, 2017 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged Comments 0
Page 82 of 88:«1...8081828384...88»