scholarly journals ROLE OF AHARA IN GRACEFUL AGING

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonali Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Green Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Old Age Depression

Aging has become an important issue in developing countries. Ageing is an inevitable process. Although one cannot escape from this reality but one can be able to age gracefully. Ayurveda and its principles can play an important role in to relieve the hardships of old age. As Ahara, Nidra and Bramhacharya are three pillars of Life, Certain Dietary rules and sleeping pattern can increase healthy life span and prevent the development  of diseases. The key to balance Vatadosha in old age is regularity,  rest and warmth One should  pay equal attention to physical as well as mental health. Depression is also a very common problem in old age. Depression can hamper digestive one should adopt capacity of an individual. Sattvik ahara, fresh and hot food, green leafy vegetables & seasonal fruit, proper nidra as part and parcel of old age. Rasayan chikitsa, Sattvavajay chikitsa, yoga, can add years to the life of old persons.

scholarly journals Nutritional Compositions of Selected Green Leafy Vegetables in Oyo State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
S. A. Okewole ◽  
L. O. Oyekunle ◽  
O. O. Akande ◽  
T. T. Adebisi ◽  
T. P. Olubode
Keyword(s):  
Crude Protein ◽  
Proximate Analysis ◽  
Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Crude Fibre ◽  
Amaranthus Hybridus ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Green Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Moisture Contents ◽  
Celosia Argentea

The nutritional compositions of selected green leafy vegetables obtained from major towns in Oyo State, Nigeria, (March and April) were determined using standard analytical methods for proximate analysis. The following nutrients in percentage were determined; moisture contents, ash, fat, crude fibre and crude protein. The green leafy vegetable used are Talium triangulare, Amaranthus hybridus, Launaena taraxacifolia Ocimum gratissimum, Celosia argentea, Cucuribita maxima, Abelimoschus esculentus, Solanum macrocarpon, Vernonia  amygdalina  and Sesamum indicum. All nutrients were present in appreciable quantities. Moisture contents ranged from 5.33 ± 0.06% - 8.33 ± 0.06%, ash (23.07 ± 0.06% - 61.27 ± 0.06%), fat (1.13 ± 0.06% - 3.37 ± 0.06%), crude fibre (2.43 ± 0.12% - 22.03 ± 0.06%), and crude protein (18.50 ± 0.10% - 55.23 ± 0.06%). The functional properties of vegetables were close in term of high protein level indicating that they are more nutritious. Also, the level of their ash content showed that the vegetables are very rich in essential minerals for healthy life when compared with one another and recommended dietary allowance (RDA). Thus, there is a need for farmers in the area to engage in dry season vegetable production so as to ensure availability of leafy vegetables throughout the year.

scholarly journals Role of telemedicine in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Abdul Kadir
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Virus Spread ◽  
Chronic Respiratory Diseases

Abstract: COVID-19 is a public health emergency of international concern. Ensuring primary healthcare during this pandemic appeared to be a great challenge. Primary healthcare services are being disrupted due to lockdown, lack of protective gears and hospital facilities, risk of infection spread to non-COVID patients and health professionals. People with acute and chronic ailments including diabetes, pregnancy, obesity, chronic respiratory diseases, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mental health conditions are in trouble. In this article, the challenges in primary healthcare in developing countries during COVID-19 pandemic have been analyzed and the role of telemedicine in addressing these challenges has been discussed. Telemedicine can play an important role in this pandemic by minimizing virus spread, utilizing the time of healthcare professionals effectively and in alleviating mental health issues.

Physical Activity and Health in Old Age

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 154-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.E.T. McMurdo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Older Population ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Exercise Habits ◽  
Mental Health Benefits ◽  
The Uk

Regular physical activity is an important component of a healthy life at all ages, and mounting scientific evidence has linked exercise to a wide array of physical and mental health benefits. This article will highlight some recent advances in knowledge. It will explore common myths that discourage the largely sedentary older population of the UK from changing their exercise habits.

Science and imagery in the ‘war on old age’

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 941-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN A. VINCENT
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
The Body ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Human Life Span

ABSTRACTSeveral professional groups present themselves as ‘waging war’ on old age. They construct old age as a naturalised, self-evidently negative, biological phenomenon, which must be attacked and defeated. These groups make different claims to technical expertise and their ability to control natural phenomena, and use different weapons to defeat ageing. There are those who focus on cosmetic interventions, that is, the control of the body and the removal or masking of the signs of ageing. There are those who equate old age with ill-health and identify themselves as warriors in a battle with disease, and others whose objective is to understand the fundamental intra-cellular processes of ageing and what controls the human life span, and then to extend its limits. A fourth group aims to make human immortality possible. Examination of the language and symbolic practices of these groups reveals that they share a dominant cultural view that devalues old age and older people. The use of military metaphors to describe the importance and difficulties of their task is most prolific among the first and fourth of these groups. The second and third groups disguise a contradiction in their aim of understanding the diseases and disorders of old age by advocating the goal of an extended ‘healthy life span’, which avoids having to confront the moral dilemmas of extending the lifespan for its own sake.

Service innovations: The role of a consultant in old age psychiatry

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lawley ◽  
John Bestley ◽  
Andy Talbot ◽  
Gary Hostick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Consultant Psychiatrist ◽  
General Psychiatry ◽  
Old Age Psychiatry ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

There is increased recognition that the role and function of a consultant psychiatrist is ill-defined and associated with excessive workloads, low job satisfaction, high levels of stress and high rates of premature retirement (Kennedy & Griffiths, 2001). This has led to an examination and debate about how consultants in general psychiatry could adapt models of working to address these difficulties, and also face the agenda of change facing the NHS as a whole and the mental health services in particular (Kennedy & Griffiths, 2001; De Silva & Sutcliffe, 2003). These challenges are not, of course, unique to general psychiatry, but as yet, there has been little debate about how consultants in other specialities, including old age psychiatry, could begin to try and address these difficulties. This article aims to stimulate debate, by describing an adapted model of working adopted by two consultants in old age psychiatry within the Hull and East Riding Community Health NHS Trust.

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