સ્મિત કરે ને હાથ મિલાવે પણ ભીતર છે ખાલી ખાલી
મોજા જેવો ઉછળે માણસ પણ સાગર છે ખાલી ખાલી
છોડ્યું ગામ ને ગલીઓ છોડી સિમ સિમાડાં ખેતર છોડ્યા
વર્ષોના વર્ષોથી જાણે એક પાદર છે ખાલી ખાલી
દાદાનો હોંકારો ક્યાં છે? પૂજા પાઠ ને શ્લોકો ક્યાં છે
આમ બધી સગવડ છે કિન્તુ લાગે છે ઘર ખાલી ખાલી
થોડા લય ને થોડા શબ્દો જીવતરની મૂડી છે જાણે
કોઈ ગઝલ લઈ લે તો લાગે સચરાચર છે ખાલી ખાલી
યામિની વ્યાસ
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અભિનંદન…
તિથિ આર્ટસ દ્વારા ચાલી રહેલાં ચાર દિવસીય હાસ્ય નાટ્ય મહોત્સવ, ૨૦૧૫ દરમિયાન દસ નાત્યાકારોનું ‘નાટ્ય સેવારત્ન’ થી સન્માન થયું. આ પ્રસંગે એ દરેક કલાકારના પ્રદાન વિષે વીડીઓ પ્રેઝન્ટેશન પણ કરાયું. જેને યુ-ટ્યુબ પર Naresh Kapadia ટાઈપ કરતાં મળી જશે. નરેશ માટે બનેલું પ્રેઝન્ટેશન જોવા માટે આ લીંક ક્લિક કરો:http://youtu.be/ysBP7OGOAJI
અભિનંદન યમિની
Today I shall like to write about my gallbladder problems
and how was it solved!
It was a routine gallbladder operation, on a routine
day: on the operation table was me, my body was
covered by blue paper drapes except for my round,
antiseptic coated belly. The gallbladder is a
floppy, finger length sac of bile like a deflated
green balloon tucked under the liver and when gall
stones form, as I learned, they can cause excruciating
bouts of pain. Once they remove my gallbladder, the
pain would stop. They have learned to take out
gallbladder with a miniature camera and instruments
that they manipulate through tiny incisions. The
operation often done as a day surgery, is known as
laparoscopic cholecystectomy, or “lap chole”
When the attending gave Dr Panthaki the go ahead, he
cut a discreet inch long semicircle in the wink of
skin just above the belly button. He dissects
through fat and fascia, until he was inside the
abdomen, and dropped into place a “port” a half inch
wide sheath for slipping instruments in and out. They
hooked ga tubing up to a side vent on the port, and
carbon dioxide poured inflating the abdomen until it
was distended like a tire. He inserted the miniature
camera. On a video monitor a few feet away, my
intestines blinked into view. With my abdomen
inflated, he had room to move the camera and he
swung it around to look at the liver. The gallbladder
could be seen poking out from under the edge.
He put in three more ports through even tinier
incisions, spaced apart to make to complete the four
corners of the square. Through the port on his side,
the attending put in two long “graspers”. Watchin
screen as he maneuvered them he reached under the
liver, clamped on to the gall bladder and pulled it
up on the view. He was set to proceed.
Removing the gallbladder is fairly straight forward.
He severed it from the stalk and from its blood
supply, and pulls the rubbery sac out of the abdomen
through the incision near the belly button. You let
the carbon dioxide out of the belly, pull out th
ports, put a few stitches on the small incisions,
slap some Band-Aids on top and he During this
operation my mind was one loom danger, though the
stalk of the gallbladder is a branch of the liver’s
only conduit for sending bile to the intestine
for the digestion of fats. And if you accidentally
injure the main bileduct, the bile backs up and
starts to destroy the liver. The patients to whom
this happens will die. Those who survive often have often
have permanent liver damage and can go on to require
liver transplant. “INJURIES TO THE MAIN BILEDUCTARE
NEARLY ALWAYS THE RESULT OF MISADVENTURE DURING
OPERATION AND ARE THERE FORE A SEROUS APPROACH TO
MEDICAL PROFESSION”
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I knew the complications of my surgery and wanted to
flush out my gallstones, as done before,( suggested
by Bhupenbhai) but for the size of stones I went for so
called innocent surgery!
For Liver Cleanse and Gallbladder Flush to remove
gall stones, I used simple method as follows…
I took six apples on first day
Next day I took ½ cup of sesame oil with lemon juice
in the morning and mag.sulph 3 teaspoonful in warm
water in evening
And on third day in watery stool I had topaz green
gallstones!
I was suggested Acupressure treatment as follows-
Acupuncture for Gallstones
It is unclear whether acupuncture, by itself, can
cause expulsion of gallstones, but acupuncture is
used to treat symptoms of gallstones, such as billiary
colic. The two acupuncture points mentioned in this
article, qimen (LV-14) and riyue (GB-24), are the
main ones mentioned in the literature. These points lie
over the liver on the right side, and are located
one rib apart and directly below the nipple. Only the
right side is treated. An extensive analysis of the
value of these points was presented in an article on
treatment of biliary colic (6), along with brief
mention of the nearby point juque .
We found that the most sensitive and tender point of
qimen [among our patients with biliary colic] is in
the area defined by the lines connecting qimen,
riyue, and juque points, which, according to traditional
Chinese medicine, is the dividing line between the
liver and the gallbladder, and is indicated mainly
for treating diseases of the internal organs in the
vicinity. Qimen is the mu point [alarm point] of the
liver, riyue is the mu point of the gallbladder, and
juque is the mu point of the heart. The front mu
points are used mainly in the treatment of diseases
of the internal organs. Various painful lesions are the
result of failure of the heart and liver to remove
stagnancy of vital energy, leading to impediment to
the flow of qi of the gallbladder, thus producing
the pain. Basing on the principle of treating pain by
needling the location where pain exists, the most
marked tender spot was detected in the region of the
three points….
Other points frequently mentioned in the literature
for treating gallstones include the lower leg points
yanglingquan (GB-34), qiuxu (GB-40), and zusanli
(ST-36); in addition, there is an extra point known
as
the gallbladder point (dannangxue), just below GB-34
(about 1-2 cun lower). The nausea and pain associated
with cholecystitis and with billiary blockage is
treated at neiguan (PC-6) and zhigou (TB-6), above
the
wrist. In explaining the use of these points, the
Advanced Textbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine
and
Pharmacology states:
Qimen and riyue are the front mu points of the liver
and gallbladder meridians respectively; zhigou and
yanglingquan can relieve hypochondriac pain, while
zusanli helps strengthen the spleen and disperse dampness-heat.
Ear acupuncture developed a reputation for being a
method for expelling gallstones during the 1980s. It
was reported to be especially effective for the
damp-heat type and less so for the qi-stagnation
types
of patients, but not effective for those with qi
deficiency. Over 60 auricular points have been used
in the treatment of gallstones, making it difficult to
pick out points that might be particularly
effective.
Not surprisingly, the most commonly used points were
those associated with the liver, gallbladder, bile
duct, pancreas, duodenum, stomach, spleen, and small
intestine. A course of treatment would be thirty
days … pressure applied to the point using various
kinds of pellets, especially vaccaria seeds (which have a
sharp point and may be substituted by the small “ear
tacks”). Pressure would be applied for 20-30 minutes
after meals (about 15 minutes after eating). Despite
the high efficacy of the therapy in alleviating
symptoms, the number of cases reported to have
complete elimination of stones was usually only
about
10%, sometimes as high as 20%. During treatment,
stone
expulsion would yield a sensation of distention or
pain in the region of the gallbladder.
At present, auriculo-point seed pressing therapy may
be used to expel gallstones, but the evacuation rate
is still very low.
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આપણે આપણાથી થતી મદદ કરીએ અને પ્રાર્થીએ કે –ભૂકંપ પીડીત
નેપાળ , ભારત,, તિબેટ ના હજારો નિર્દોષોએ પોતાના પ્રાણ ગુમાવ્યા છે .
તેમને મોક્ષ મળે અને ઘાયલ થયા છે .તે જલ્રદી સ્વસ્થ થાય અને
સગાવહાલાને આ દુઃખ સહન કરવાની શક્તી આપે
चला प्रार्थना करू या — आलेल्या भूकंपाने नेपाळ,
हिंदुस्थान, तिबेटया तिन्ही देशातील हजारो निष्पापांना
आपले प्राण गमवावे लागले. त्यांना
मोक्ष मिळो व दुखापत झालेले लौकर बरे होवोत !!
Let us Pray for those departed innocents who lost their lives due to
shattering earthquake in Nepal, HinduSthan, Tibet etc…
and
those injured get well soon !!
राघवेन्द्र रघुपति श्री राम,
शोभित सीता माता बाम ।
૦
Shri Ram is the Prince of Raghu Dynasty
and
Shri Sita is our graceful Mother.!!!!
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हो.. सुंले ज़माना समझाता हूँ
तेरी कहानी दोहराता हूँ
आए दिल-ए-बुलबुल बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
आए दिल-ए-बुलबुल बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
इक जोड़ा था नर-मादा का
भोली थी बुलबुल, नर सादा था
इक जोड़ा था नर-मादा का
भोली थी बुलबुल, नर सादा था
बर्फ गिरा करती थी
जब भर जाती थी क़ोहसारों में
इक बाज़ बड़ा बदनीयत था
हन इक बाज़ बड़ा बदनीयत था
उड़ता था, सब्ज़ा-ज़ारों में
पंखों मे उसके मौत च्छूपी थी
महफ़िल महफ़िल ढूँढ रहा था
महलों की मंज़िल
महफ़िल महफ़िल ढूँढ रहा था
महलों की मंज़िल
बुलबुल के ख्वाबों में जाकर
ज़हर के डॅंक लगाए तहे
खुश्बू-ए-गुल में ज़हर भरा
और मादा को भिजवाए तहे
ज़हर के डॅंक लगाए तहे
(बुलबुल के ख्वाबों में जाकर)
मादा को भिजवाए थे
(ज़हर के डॅंक लगाए थे)
ओ ओ.. वादी मे छिड़का बारूद
झील मे जाल भिच्छा डाले
च्छूरियों से बेचारे नर के
च्छूरियों से बेचारे नर के
दोनो पंख कटा डाले
अरे दिल दिल दिल दिल झूट कहे ये
झूट कहे बुज़दिल
मत मिल मत मिल गुल से मत मिल
आए बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
आए बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
आए बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
ज़ख़्मी नर को क़ैद किया (क़ैद किया, क़ैद किया)
ज़ंजीरों में बँधवया
अरन्मूला के शिरी पुल से
फिर पानी में फिकवाया
जहलूँ.. जहलूँ..
लाल लाल हुआ
लाल लाल हुआ
लाल लाल हुआ लाल
जहलूँ.. जहलूँ..
लाल लाल हुआ
लाल लाल हुआ
लाल लाल हुआ लाल
कश्मीर के पानी की तासेरें
खुल गयी ज़ंजीरें तक़ड़ीरें
ज़िंदा है वो ज़िंदा होगा
मुजरिम भी शर्मिंदा होगा
ज़िंदा है वो ज़िंदा होगा
मुजरिम भी शर्मिंदा होगा
ज़िंदा है वो ज़िंदा होगा
मुजरिम भी शर्मिंदा होगा
होश में आ जेया
होश में आ जेया
आए बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
आए बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
खुश्बू-ए-गुल मे ज़हर भरा है
होश में आ जा, होश में आ जा
आए बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
होश में आ जा
होश में आ जा
आए बुलबुल-ए-बिस्मिल
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ગંગા નદી ભારતની મહાનતમ નદીઓ માંની એક ગણાય છે. હિંદુ ધર્મમાં તે સૌથી પવિત્ર નદી છે. ગંગાનું મૂળ ઉત્તરાંચલ રાજ્યમાં હિમાલયની ગંગોત્રી હિમનદીમાંછે. શરુઆતની નદીને ભાગીરથી કહેવાય છે. દેવપ્રયાગ નજીક તે અલકનંદા નદીને મળે છે. આ બેય નદીના સંગમ પછી તે ગંગા નદીને નામે ઓળખાય છે.
ગંગાની લંબાઇ ૨૫૧૦ કિ.મી. (૧૫૫૭ માઇલ) છે. યમુના અને ગંગા મળીને ઉતર ભારત અને બાંગ્લાદેશનાં ફળદ્રુપ અને સપાટ પ્રદેશો રચે છે અને દુનિયાની સૌથી વધુ વસ્તીને પોષણ પુરું પાડે છે. દુનિયાના ૧૨ માંથી ૧ માણસ (દુનિયાની વસ્તીના ૮.૫%) ગંગા અને યમુનાના પાણીથી સિંચાતા પ્રદેશમાં રહે છે. વસતીને લીધેપર્યાવરણ અને વનચર પ્રાણીઓનો નાશ એક ચિંતાનો વિષય બની ગયો છે રામાયણમાં મહર્ષિ વિશ્વામિત્ર રામ અને લક્ષ્મણને ગંગાની ઉત્પતિની વાત કરે છે. તે પ્રમાણે સગર રાજાને ૬૦,૦૦૦ પુત્રો સરખી પ્યારી પ્રજા હતી. જ્યારે સગર રાજાએ અશ્વમેઘ યજ્ઞ કર્યો ત્યારે યજ્ઞમાં બાધા નાખવા ઇન્દ્ર તે અશ્વને કપિલ મુનિના આશ્રમમાં મુકી આવ્યો. સગરના પુત્રો ઘોડાને શોધતા આશ્રમમાં ગયા અને કપિલમુનિને અશ્વ ચોરવા માટે અપમાન કર્યુ. ત્યારે કપિલ મુનિએ તેમને બાળીને મારી નાંખ્યા. સગરને આ વાતની ખબર પડી અને પોતાના પુત્રોની સદ્ગતિ માટે પ્રાર્થના કરી. ત્યારે તેમના જાણવામાં આવ્યું કે સ્વર્ગની નદી ગંગા ને જો પૃથ્વી પર લાવવામાં આવે અને તેમાં તેના પુ્ત્રોના અસ્થિ પધરાવવામાં આવે તો તેમને સદ્ગતિ મળશે. સગર પછી તેનો પુત્ર અંશુમાન પછી દીલીપ વગેરેએ ગંગાને લાવવાના વ્યર્થ પ્રયત્નો કર્યા. છેવટે ભગીરથ રાજાના તપ અને કાર્યથી ગંગા પૃથ્વી પર આવવા રાજી થઇ. પરંતુ ગંગાના પ્રવાહને જો પૃથ્વી પર રોકવામાં ન આવે તો તે પાતાળમાં જતી રહે. આથી ભગીરથે ભગવાન શંકરને ગંગાના પ્રવાહને ઝીલી લેવા વિનંતિ કરી. છેવટે ગંગા સ્વર્ગમાંથી પૃથ્વી પર ઉતરી આવી અને ભગવાન શંકરે તેને પોતાની જટામાં સમાવી લીધી. શંકરે જટામાંથી ગંગાની નાની ધારને વહાવીને પૃથ્વી પર પડવા દીધી. પછી ભગીરથ જ્યાં પણ ગયો ત્યાં ગંગા પાછળ આવતી ગઇ. રસ્તામાં જહ્નુ ઋષિના આશ્રમમાં ગંગાએ વિનાશ કર્યો આથી જહ્નુ મુનિ તેને પી ગયા અને ભગીરથની વિનંતિથી તેને પોતાના કાનમાંથી બહાર કાઢી. આમ તે જહ્નુની પુત્રી ગણાઇ અને તેનું નામ જ્હાનવી પણ પડયુ. ભગીરથ ગંગાને હિમાલયથી બંગાળ સુધી લઇ ગયા કે જ્યાં સગરના પુત્રોના અસ્થિ હતા. આમ તેમને પણ સદ્ગતિ પ્રાપ્ત થઇ.
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Google ‘cancer’ and you’ll be faced with millions of web pages. And the number of YouTube videos you find if you look up ‘cancer cure’ is similarly vast.
The problem is that much of the information out there is at best inaccurate, or at worst dangerously misleading. There are plenty of evidence-based, easy to understand pages about cancer, but there are just as many, if not more, pages spreading myths.
And it can be hard to distinguish fact from fiction, as much of the inaccurate information looks and sounds perfectly plausible. But if you scratch the surface and look at the evidence, many continually perpetuated ‘truths’ become unstuck.
In this post, we want to set the record straight on 10 cancer myths we regularly encounter. Driven by the evidence, not by rhetoric or anecdote, we describe what the reality of research actually shows to be true.
It might be more prominent in the public consciousness now than in times gone by, but cancerisn’t just a ‘modern’, man-made disease of Western society. Cancer has existed as long as humans have. It was described thousands of years ago by Egyptian and Greek physicians, and researchers have discovered tell-tale signs of cancer in a 3,000-year-old skeleton.
While it’s certainly true that global lifestyle-related diseases like cancer are on the rise, the biggest risk factor for cancer is age.
The simple fact is that more people are living long enough to develop cancer because of our success in tackling infectious diseases and other historical causes of death such as malnutrition. It’s perfectly normal for DNA damage in our cells to build up as we age, and such damage can lead to cancer developing.
We’re also now able to diagnose cancers more accurately, thanks to advances in screening, imaging and pathology.
Yes, lifestyle, diet and other things like air pollution collectively have a huge impact on our risk of cancer – smoking for instance is behind a quarter of all cancer deaths in the UK – but that’s not the same as saying it’s entirely a modern, man-made disease. There are plenty of natural causes of cancer – for example, one in six worldwide cancers is caused by viruses and bacteria.
Blueberries, beetroot, broccoli, garlic, green tea… the list goes on. Despite thousands of websites claiming otherwise, there’s no such thing as a ‘superfood’. It’s a marketing term used to sell products and has no scientific basis.
That’s not to say you shouldn’t think about what you eat. Some foods are clearly healthier than others. The odd blueberry or mug of green tea certainly could be part of a healthy, balanced diet. Stocking up on fruits and veg is a great idea, and eating a range of different veg is helpful too, but the specific vegetables you choose doesn’t really matter.
Our bodies are complex and cancer is too, so it’s gross oversimplification to say that any one food, on its own, could have a major influence over your chance of developing cancer.
We’ve also written extensively on the scientific evidence about anti-oxidants and cancer in these posts – part one, part two and part three. [Added 28/03/14 KA]
The steady accumulation of evidence over several decades points to a simple, but not very newsworthy fact that the best way to reduce your risk of cancer is by a series of long-term healthy behaviours such as not smoking, keeping active, keeping a healthy body weight and cutting back on alcohol.
Some myths about cancer are surprisingly persistent, despite flying in the face of basic biology. One such idea is that overly ‘acidic’ diets cause your blood to become ‘too acidic’, which can increase your risk of cancer. Their proposed answer: increase your intake of healthier ‘alkaline’ foods like green vegetables and fruits (including, paradoxically, lemons).
This is biological nonsense. True, cancer cells can’t live in an overly alkaline environment, but neither can any of the other cells in your body.
While eating lots of green veg is certainly healthy, that’s not because of any effect on how acid or alkaline your body is.
There is something called acidosis. This is a physiological condition that happens when your kidneys and lungs can’t keep your body’s pH (a measure of acidity) in balance. It is often the result of serious illness or poisoning. It can be life-threatening and needs urgent medical attention, but it’s not down to overly acidic diets.
We know that the immediate environment around cancer cells (the microenvironment) can become acidic. This is due to differences in the way that tumours create energy and use oxygen compared with healthy tissue. Researchers are working hard to understand how this happens, in order to develop more effective cancer treatments.
But there’s no good evidence to prove that diet can manipulate whole body pH, or that it has an impact on cancer.
Another idea we see a lot is that sugar apparently ‘feeds cancer cells’, suggesting that it should be completely banished from a patient’s diet.
This is an unhelpful oversimplification of a highly complex area that we’re only just starting to understand.
‘Sugar’ is a catch-all term. It refers to a range of molecules including simple sugars found in plants, glucose and fructose. The white stuff in the bowl on your table is called sucrose and is made from glucose and fructose stuck together. All sugars are carbohydrates, commonly known as carbs – molecules made from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
Carbs – whether from cake or a carrot – get broken down in our digestive system to release glucose and fructose. These get absorbed into the bloodstream to provide energy for us to live.
All our cells, cancerous or not, use glucose for energy. Because cancer cells are usually growing very fast compared with healthy cells, they have a particularly high demand for this fuel. There’s also evidence that they use glucose and produce energy in a different way from healthy cells.
Researchers are working to understand the differences in energy usage in cancers compared with healthy cells, and trying to exploit them to develop better treatments (including the interesting but far from proven drug DCA).
But all this doesn’t mean that sugar from cakes, sweets and other sugary foods specifically feeds cancer cells, as opposed to any other type of carbohydrate. Our body doesn’t pick and choose which cells get what fuel. It converts pretty much all the carbs we eat to glucose, fructose and other simple sugars, and they get taken up by tissues when they need energy.
While it’s very sensible to limit sugary foods as part of an overall healthy diet and to avoid putting on weight, that’s a far cry from saying that sugary foods specifically feed cancer cells.
Both the ‘acidic diet’ and ‘sugar feeds cancer’ myths distort sensible dietary advice – of course,nobody is saying that eating a healthy diet doesn’t matter when it comes to cancer. You can read about the scientific evidence on diet and cancer on our website.
But dietary advice must be based on nutritional and scientific fact. When it comes to offering diet tips to reduce cancer risk, research shows that the same boring healthy eating advice still holds true. Fruit, vegetables, fibre, white meat and fish are good. Too much fat, salt, sugar, red or processed meat and alcohol are less so.
Also, this post, “What should you eat while you’re being treated for cancer“, is packed with links to evidence-based advice from our CancerHelp UK website. And this post, from the Junkfood Science blog, explores the science behind sugar and cancer in more detail.
[Edited to add more information and links KA 28/03/14]
This ‘theory’ comes from the not-very-observant observation that “cancer is always white”.
One obvious problem with this idea – apart from the fact that cancer cells are clearly not fungal in origin – is that cancer isn’t always white. Some tumours are. But some aren’t. Ask any pathologist or cancer surgeon, or have a look on Google Image search (but maybe not after lunch…).
Proponents of this theory say that cancer is caused by infection by the fungus candida, and that tumours are actually the body’s attempt at protecting itself from this infection.
But there’s no evidence to show that this is true.
Furthermore, plenty of perfectly healthy people can be infected with candida – it’s part of the very normal array of microbes that live in (and on) all of us. Usually our immune system keeps candida in check, but infections can get more serious in people with compromised immune systems, such as those who are HIV-positive.
The ‘simple solution’ is apparently to inject tumours with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). This isn’t even the treatment used to treat proven fungal infections, let alone cancer. On the contrary,there’s good evidence that high doses of sodium bicarbonate can lead to serious – even fatal – consequences.
Some studies suggest that sodium bicarbonate can affect cancers transplanted into mice or cells grown in the lab, by neutralising the acidity in the microenvironment immediately around a tumour. And researchers in the US are running a small clinical trial investigating whether sodium bicarbonate capsules can help to reduce cancer pain and to find the maximum dose that can be tolerated, rather than testing whether it has any effect on tumours.
As far as we are aware, there have been no published clinical trials of sodium bicarbonate as a treatment for cancer.
It’s also worth pointing out that it’s not clear whether it’s possible to give doses of sodium bicarbonate that can achieve any kind of meaningful effect on cancer in humans, although it’s something that researchers are investigating.
Because the body strongly resists attempts to change its pH, usually by getting rid of bicarbonate through the kidneys, there’s a risk that doses large enough to significantly affect the pH around a tumour might cause a serious condition known as alkalosis.
One estimate suggests that a dose of around 12 grams of baking soda per day (based on a 65 kg adult) would only be able to counteract the acid produced by a tumour roughly one cubic millimetre in size. But doses of more than about 30 grams per day are likely to cause severe health problems – you do the maths.
From cannabis to coffee enemas, the internet is awash with videos and personal anecdotes about ‘natural’ ‘miracle’ cures for cancer.
But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence – YouTube videos and Facebook posts are emphatically not scientific evidence and aren’t the same as good-quality, peer-reviewed evidence.
In many cases it’s impossible to tell whether patients featured in such anecdotal sources have been ‘cured’ by any particular alternative treatment or not. We know nothing about their medical diagnosis, stage of disease or outlook, or even if they actually had cancer in the first place. For instance, we don’t know what other cancer treatments they had.
And we only hear about the success stories – what about the people who have tried it and have not survived? The dead can’t speak, and often people who make bold claims for ‘miracle’ cures only pick their best cases, without presenting the full picture.
This highlights the importance of publishing data from peer-reviewed, scientifically rigorous lab research and clinical trials. Firstly, because conducting proper clinical studies enables researchers to prove that a prospective cancer treatment is safe and effective. And secondly, because publishing these data allows doctors around the world to judge for themselves and use it for the benefit of their patients.
This is the standard to which all cancer treatments should be held.
That’s not to say the natural world isn’t a source of potential treatments, from aspirin (willow bark) to penicillin (mould). For example, the cancer drug taxol was first extracted from the bark and needles of the Pacific Yew tree.
But that’s a far cry from saying you should chew bark to combat a tumour. It’s an effective treatment because the active ingredient has been purified and tested in clinical trials. So we know that it’s safe and effective, and what dose to prescribe.
Of course people with cancer want to beat their disease by any means possible. And it’s completely understandable to be searching high and low for potential cures. But our advice is to be wary of anything labelled a ‘miracle cure’, especially if people are trying to sell it to you.
Wikipedia has this excellent list of ineffective cancer treatments that are often touted as miracle cures, which is worth a browse.
If you want to know about the scientific evidence about cannabis, cannabinoids and cancer– a topic we’re often asked about – please take a look at our extensive blog post on the subject, including information about the clinical trials we’re helping to fund.
And if you’ve seen links to article about scientists in Canada “curing cancer but nobody notices”, these refer to an interesting but currently unproven drug called DCA, which we’ve also written about before. [Added KA 28/03/14]
Hand in hand with the idea that there is a cornucopia of ‘miracle cures’ is the idea that governments, the pharmaceutical industry and even charities are colluding to hide the cure for cancer because they make so much money out of existing treatments.
Whatever the particular ‘cure’ being touted, the logic is usually the same: it’s readily available, cheap and can’t be patented, so the medical establishment is suppressing it in order to line its own pockets. But, as we’ve written before, there’s no conspiracy – sometimes it just doesn’t work.
There’s no doubt that the pharmaceutical industry has a number of issues with transparency and clinical trials that it needs to address (the book Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre is a handy primer). We push regulators and pharmaceutical companies hard to make sure that effective drugs are made available at a fair price to the NHS – although it’s important to remember that developing and trialling new drugs costs a lot of money, which companies need to recoup.
Problems with conventional medicine don’t automatically prove that alternative ‘cures’ work. To use a metaphor, just because cars sometimes crash doesn’t mean that flying carpets are a viable transport option.
It simply doesn’t make sense that pharmaceutical companies would want to suppress a potential cure. Finding a highly effective therapy would guarantee huge worldwide sales.
And the argument that treatments can’t be patented doesn’t hold up. Pharma companies are not stupid, and they are quick to jump on promising avenues for effective therapies. There are always ways to repackage and patent molecules, which would give them a return on the investment required to develop and test them in clinical trials (a cost that can run into many millions) if the treatment turns out to work.
It’s also worth pointing out that charities such as Cancer Research UK and government-funded scientists are free to investigate promising treatments without a profit motive. And it’s hard to understand why NHS doctors – who often prescribe generic, off-patent drugs – wouldn’t use cheap treatments if they’d been shown to be effective in clinical trials.
For example, we’re funding large-scale trials of aspirin – a drug first made in 1897, and now one of the most widely-used off-patent drugs in the world. We’re researching whether it can prevent bowel cancer in people at high risk, reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, and even prevent cancer coming back and improve survival.
Finally, it’s worth remembering that we are all human – even politicians and Big Pharma executives – and cancer can affect anyone. People in pharmaceutical companies, governments, charities and the wider ‘medical establishment’ all can and do die of cancer too.
Here at Cancer Research UK we have seen loved ones and colleagues go through cancer. Many of them have survived. Many have not. To suggest that we are – collectively and individually – hiding ‘the cure’ is not only absurd, it’s offensive to the global community of dedicated scientists, to the staff and supporters of cancer research organisations such as Cancer Research UK and, most importantly, to cancer patients and their families.
Let’s be clear, cancer treatment – whether chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery – is no walk in the park. The side effects can be tough. After all, treatments that are designed to kill cancer cells will inevitably affect healthy cells too.
And sometimes, sadly, treatment doesn’t work. We know that it’s very difficult to treat late-stage cancer that has spread throughout the body, and while treatment can provide relief from symptoms and prolong life, it’s not going to be a cure for very advanced cancers.
Surgery is still the most effective treatment we have for cancer, provided it’s diagnosed early enough for an operation to be done. And radiotherapy helps cure more people than cancer drugs. Yet chemotherapy and other cancer drugs have a very important part to play in cancer treatment – in some cases helping to cure the disease, and in others helping to prolong survival.
The claims on the internet that chemotherapy is “only 3 per cent effective” are highly misleading and outdated, and are explored in more depth in these two posts from the Science Based Medicine blog.
We also wrote this post in response to concerns that chemotherapy might “encourage cancer”.
It important to point out that in an increasing number of cases, the drugs do work. For example, more than 96 per cent of all men are now cured of testicular cancer, compared to fewer than 70 per cent in the 1970s thanks in part to a drug we helped to develop called cisplatin. And three-quarters of children with cancer are now cured, compared with around a quarter in the late 1960s – most of them are alive today directly thanks to chemotherapy.
We know that we still have a long way to go until we have effective, kinder treatments for all types of cancer. And it’s important that doctors, patients and their families are realistic and honest about the best options for treatment, especially when cancer is very advanced.
It may be better to opt for treatment aimed at reducing pain and symptoms rather than attempting to cure the disease (palliative care). Balancing quality and quantity of life is always going to be an issue in cancer treatment, and it’s one that each patient must decide for themselves.
This simply isn’t true. Thanks to advances in research, survival from cancer has doubled in the UK over the past 40 years, and death rates have fallen by 10 per cent over the past decade alone. In fact, half of all patients now survive at least ten years.
This article by our chief clinician, Professor Peter Johnson, outlines some of the key facts.
By definition, these figures relate to people treated at least 10 years ago. It’s likely that the patients being diagnosed and treated today have an even better chance of survival.
To see how the picture has changed, make yourself a cuppa and settle down to watch this hour-long documentary we helped to make – The Enemy Within: 50 years of fighting cancer. From the early days of chemotherapy in the 50s and 60s to the latest ‘smart’ drugs and pinpoint-accurate radiotherapy, it highlights how far we’ve come over the years.
There’s still a long way to go. There are some cancers where progress has been much slower – such as lung, brain, pancreatic and oesophageal cancers. And when you lose someone you love to cancer, it can feel as though no progress has been made at all.
That’s why we’re working so hard to beat cancer sooner, to make sure that nobody loses their life prematurely to the disease.
Yes they do.
This excellent article goes into why the myth about the cancer-free shark has been so persistent.
Olly and Kat
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મેળો છે એવો મોટો કે મેળાનો થાક છે,
તમને થયું કે આપણી દુનિયાનો થાક છે ?
મારા વદનના ભારથી
વ્યાકુળ બનો નહીં,
હમણાં જ ઊતરી જશે રસ્તાનો થાક છે.
– હરીન્દ્ર દવે
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પછી બેંગકોકથી થાઇ એરવેઝનાં વિમાનમાં પાંચ દિવસ પહેલાં જ પાછા ફર્યા. રાગા ક્યાં હતા? શું કરતા હતા? કયો રાગ આલાપતા
હતા એ આ લખાય છે ત્યાં સુધી કોઇએ ફોડ પાડીને કીધું નથી. કોઇ કાચો કુંવારો બાંકો જુવાન બેંગકોકમાં શું કરતો હોય? એવા કોઇ
પણ તોફાની વિચારોને તુરંત અટકાવો કારણ કે એવું કાંઇ નથી. તેઓ આજ કુછ તૂફાની કરતે હૈ- કરવા નહોતા ગયા. તેઓ
મય્નમારમાં વિપશ્યના કરી રહ્યા હતા. જો નમો મનકી બાત કરતા હોય, તો રાગા પોતાનાં અંતરમન સાથે વાત કરે એમાં બધાને
વાંધો શું છે?
જો કે રાજકારણીને ક્યારેય થાક લાગતો નથી. સત્તાનાં નશાખોરોને વિશ્રામનું કોઇ કારણ નથી. સિવાય કે એમને કોઇ ફરજિયાત
લાલકૃષ્ણ અડવાણી કે વજુભાઇ વાળા બનાવી દેય. રાજકારણમાં ગેરહાજરી ઘાતક નીવડી શકે. એહમદ ફરાઝની ગઝલનો મત્લાનો
શે’ર છે ને કે આંખસે દૂર ન હો, દિલ સે ઉતર જાયેગા, વક્તકા ક્યા હૈ, ગુઝરતા હૈ ગુઝર જાયેગા.. રાજકારણમાં રાજકારણી જો
લાંબી રજા પર જાય તો પાછળથી એની રાજકીય કારકીર્દીનું ફીંડલું વળી જાય. પણ અહીં તો એમનાં માતા કોંગ્રેસનાં ગઢને
સાચવીને બેઠા હતા. સંસદનાં અગત્યનાં સમયગાળામાં રાહુલનું આમ સાવ અચાનક ચાલ્યા જવું એક રહસ્ય હતું તો તેમનું પાછા
ફરવું પણ કંઇ કેટલાં સવાલો કરે છે. એક અફવા એવી પણ છે કે નરેન્દ્ર મોદીએ જ રાહુલ ગાંધીને વિપશ્યનાનો રસ્તો સુઝાડ્યો
હતો. નમો સમજી ગયા છે કે કોંગ્રેસમુકત ભારત એ ભાજપની ખૂબ મોટી ભૂલ હતી. કોંગ્રેસ હશે તો મતનાં વિભાજન થશે અને
તો… ભાજપ જીતશે. નહીંતર દિલ્હીની માફક અન્ય રાજ્યોમાં પણ નાના નાના રાજકીય પક્ષો જીતશે અને અન્ય રાજ્યોમાં તો
યુનાઇટેડ જનતા દલની છત્રછાયા નીચે ખીચડી સરકારનો દૌર પાછો ફરે તો નવાઇ નહીં. ચાલો એ જવા દો. રાજકીય વિશ્લેષણ
બહુ થયું. અમે તો શબ્દનાં ચાહક . રાહુલ ગાંધીની ઘરવાપસીનાં સમાચારમાંથી અમને એક શબ્દ મળ્યો સબૅટિકલ(Sabbatical)
રજા. હવે રજા એ તો સૌનો અધિકાર છે. સરકારી નોકરો માટે અનેક રજાનું પ્રાવધાન હોય છે. અઠવાડિક રજા, તહેવારની રજા,
માંદગીની રજા, માતૃત્વની કે પિતૃત્વ પ્રાપ્તિની રજા, પરચૂરણ રજા, હક્ક રજા. પણ આ સબૅટિકલ રજા? એટલે વળી શું?
લેટિન શબ્દ સબ્બૅટિકસ, હિબ્રુ શબ્દ શબ્બત, હિંદી શબ્દ સીતનિદ્રા. શાંતિથી દીર્ઘકાળ સુધી સૂઇ જવું. લાંબો વિશ્રાંતિકાળ.
બાઇબલ અનુસાર પ્રભુએ સૃષ્ટિ રચી પછી પોરો ખાધો હતો. વિરામ કર્યો હતો. ટેન કમાન્ડમેન્ટ્સમાં તો પૃથ્વીને પણ સાતમાં
વર્ષે વિરામ આપવાનો આદેશ છે. સાતમા વર્ષે ખેતરને ખેડવું ન જોઇએ. ખેડવામાં મદદ કરનારા પાળેલા પશુઓને પણ આરામ
મળી રહે અને આઠમા વર્ષે બધામાં નવીન ઊર્જાનો સંચાર થાય અને મબલખ પાક થાય. રાહુલ ગાંધી કોંગ્રેસ પક્ષનાં જનરલ
સેક્રેટરી બન્યાને સાત વર્ષ થયા. સબૅટિકલ રજાનો એમનો અધિકાર છે.
સાંપ્રત સમયમાં સબૅટિકલ શબ્દનો અર્થ થાય છે નોકરી કે કારકીર્દીમાંથી લાંબા સમયનો વિરામ લેવો. અને એ પણ કોઇ ઉચ્ચ
લક્ષ્યની પ્રાપ્તિ માટે. કોઇ ધ્યેયની સાથે. માત્ર મોજમસ્તી માટે લેવાયેલી લાંબી રજા સબૅટિકલ કહેવાતી નથી. સામાન્ય રીતે
આવી સબૅટિકલ રજાઓ શિક્ષણવિદો, વૈજ્ઞાનિકો કે તબીબો લેતા હોય છે. તેઓ આ રજાઓનો ઉપયોગ પુસ્તક લખવામાં અથવા
તો એ માટે રીસર્ચ કરવામાં ઉપયોગ કરે છે. કેટલીક યુનિવર્સીટી પોતાનાં અધ્યાપકોને ચાલુ પગારે રીસર્ચ માટે રજા આપે છે.
કેટલીક કંપનીઓ પોતાના કર્મચારીઓને બિનપગારી રજા પણ આપે છે.
સબૅટિકલ રજાઓ સાવ અમસ્તી અમસ્તી મસ્તી માટે નથી જ નથી. એટલે આવી રજાઓ લેતા પહેલાં એ માટે થોડું ચિંતન કરવું
જરૂરી છે. પહેલા તો નક્કી કરવું કે જીવનમાં આપણે કાંઇક કરવું છે અને એ માટે આ રગશિયા ગાડા જેવી જિંદગીમાંથી થોડો સમય
વનવાસ લેવો છે. શું કરવું છે?- એ પણ નક્કી કરવું અગત્યનું છે. પછી એનો સમય પણ નક્કી કરી લેવો જોઇએ નહીંતર કટાણાનો
વનવાસ કાયમી સંન્યાસ બની જાય. અને હા, થોડા પૈસા તો જોઇએ જ. કારણ કમાણી થાય નહીં, અને બહાર જઇએ તો ખર્ચ તો
થાય. પણ યાદ રાખો આ તમારું ઇન્વેસ્ટમેન્ટ છે. પછી એક નોંધપોથી લઇ લો. કે પછી લેપટોપ અને એમાં રોજનીશી લખતા
જાઓ. તમારી યાદદાસ્ત તેજ હોય તો પણ લખેલું હશે તો વંચાશે. ફોટોગ્રાફી પણ કરતા રહો. અને છેલ્લે પરત ફરીને લોકોને કહો
કે તમે ક્યાં હતા? શું કર્યું? અને હવે રજા પરથી પાછા ફર્યા છો, ચેતનાનો નવો સંચાર રગેરગમાં કે હાડોહાડમાં વ્યાપ્યો છે ત્યારે
હવે પછીથી તમે શું કરશો? જાત વિષે નિખાલસતાથી વાત કરવાની અગત્યતા એટલી જ છે. રાગા પણ કહેશે કે તેઓ ક્યા હતા?
અથવા આ છપાય ત્યાં સુધીમાં કદાચ કહી પણ દીધું હશે. મજબૂત વિપક્ષ જરૂરી છે. રાગાને એમની સબૅટિકલ રજા ફળે એ પણ
જરૂરી છે. જિંદગીનો મેળો છે. મેળોનો થાક લાગે. અને એટલે તેઓ સબૅટિકલ રજાઓ લે અને… ફિર વોહી દિલ(ઇમ્પ્રુવ્ડ વર્ઝન)
લાયા હૂં. હશે, એમનાં વદનનાં ભારથી વ્યાકુળ થવાની જરૂર નથી, એ હમણાં જ ઊતરી જશે, આ રસ્તાનો થાક છે. આપને પ્રશ્ન
થશે કે… એમ? ખરેખર? મારી પાસે અત્યારે એનો ઉત્તર નથી. પણ આવનારો સમય જ બતાવશે કે રાગાનું સબૅટિકલ શું રંગ
લાવશે? દરમ્યાન આપણે આપણી સબૅટિકલ રજાનો પ્લાન બનાવીએ. હેં ને?
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“પૃથ્વી અને આકાશ, ખેતર અને જંગલ, સરોવર અને નદી, પર્વત અને દરિયો- આ તમામ કુદરતે આપેલા શ્રેષ્ઠ શિક્ષકો છે; અને
તેઓ જે શીખવાડે છે એ આપણે પુસ્તકોમાંથી ક્યારેય શીખી ન શકીએ.” –અંગ્રેજ રાજકારણી જહોન લુબોક(1834-1913)
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Here is a modern 2014 song for the earthday
આજે વિશ્વ પૃથ્વી દિવસ છે. તાજેતરમાં જ અર્થ અવર સીટી ચેલેન્જ (EHCC)માં અલગ અલગ દેશોએ ભાગ લીધો હતો. વિવિધ પ્રોજેક્ટ રજુ કર્યાં હતાં, જેમાં ભારત થાણેને અગ્રતા મળી હતી. એ સિવાય ગુજરાતમાંથી એકમાત્ર રાજકોટને સ્થાન મળ્યું હતું. જેમાં રાજકોટ મહાનગર પાલિકા દ્વારા વિવિધ પ્રોજેક્ટ રજુ કરાયા હતાં. રાજકોટને સ્થાન મળવાથી ભવિષ્યમાં બહારના દેશ અને સંસ્થા તરફથી પૃથ્વી બચાવવાના પ્રોજેક્ટને આગળ ધપાવવા મોટું ફંડ મળતું હોય છે. આ પ્રોજેક્ટમાં પણ રાજકોટને સ્થાન મળવાથી એક ચોક્કસ રકમ મળશે. કેટલી અને ક્યારે મળશે એ હવે નક્કી થશે તેવું મહાનગરપાલિકામાંથી જાણવા મળે છે.Happy Earth Day! Every year on April 22, the world celebrates this amazingly diverse planet we call home, focusing on ways to protect it from the often destructive practices of its human inhabitants. While many of these efforts focus on the conservation of Earth’s most fragile habitats, we frequently forget just how extreme and alien-like our own planet can be. The photos below showcase Earth’s unbelievably varying landscapes and remind us that we often live our lives confined only to a minuscule part of this amazing planet.
Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
This strange landscape was formed around 50 to 60 million years ago. The geometric features are actually basalt columns that fractured into these shapes after a volcanic eruption, though legend has it that they’re the remnants of an ancient road built by a giants. (Photo: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)
Svartifoss, Iceland
The same type of features are found here, in Iceland, where they play host to a frigid waterfall.
Fingal’s Cave
And here, on the island of Staffa, in Scotland.
Sahara Desert, Libya
Shifting textures of the sand in the Sahara Desert, the largest sand desert in the world at over 3,600,000 square miles, somehow resemble human features.
Sand Dune, Namibia
This massive dune in the Namib Desert blocks light to one side of the slope, showcasing a stark contrast in an often unchanging desert landscape.
Skeleton Coast, Namibia
On the west coast of Africa, the desert and its dunes run right up to the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo: David Yarrow Photography via Getty Images)
Grand Prismatic Spring, Wyoming
The bacteria and microbial mats that thrive in this naturally heated pool change colors depending on the temperature of the waters.
Abraham Lake, Alberta, Canada
Ice Cave, Washington State
Melting and refreezing has created an alien-like texture on the ceiling of this cave.
Lake Baikal, Russia
Thick cracks are seen in the ice of Lake Baikal, the deepest and largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of volume. The lake plummets to nearly a mile deep in one of its basins.
The Wave, Arizona
This iconic sandstone rock formation is the result of millions of years of erosion by water and now primarily wind.
Bryce Canyon, Utah
These jagged red rocks form the spectacular Bryce Canyon amphitheaters. The widely varying topography was formed by weathering and erosion of less resilient sedimentary layers.
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Millions years of erosion have carved a wide variety of gorgeous features into this vibrant landscape.
Chocolate Hills, Philippines
More than 1,700 of these grass-topped limestone hills may dot the Bohol Province in the Philippines, millions of years after being weathered by erosion. The domes range in size from around 100 feet to 160 feet tall. (Photo: Per-Andre Hoffmann via Getty Images)
The Pinnacles, Australia
These ominous limestone formations are a big draw in Western Australia. While science has come to an agreement that they are made of the remnants of sea life at the bottom of what was once a vast ocean, there are some conflicting theories about why these specific spires are so far above ground. (Photo: Richard I’Anson via Getty Images)
Zhangjiajie, China
The renowned pillars in Hunan Zhangjiajie National Forest Park are the subject of both Chinese art and Western cinematography. The spires served as an inspiration for the alien world in the blockbuster film “Avatar.”
Nubra Valley, India
This desert-scape high on the Tibetan Plateau is home to some of the most stunning slopes you’ll find on Earth.
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, Madagascar
Erosion has carved the land on this part of the African island into a remarkable stone forest. Much of the wildlife found in this area lives nowhere else in the world. (Photo: Haja Rasambainarivo via Getty Images)
Mono Lake, California
With no access to freshwater, the water in this shallow lake is highly salty and alkaline, a result of the erosion of minerals that make up the surrounding geologic layers. Beginning in the middle of the 20th century, Los Angeles began diverting water from Mono Lake for use. It drained much of the lake’s waters, exposing the now-iconic tufa towers seen in the photo above.
Mount Nyiragongo Volcano, Congo
At least 34 eruptions have been recorded at this highly active volcano since 1882. It contains the largest known lava lake in the world.
Lava Flow, Hawaii
Molten lava from the Kilauea Volcano streams toward the ocean. (Photo: G. Brad Lewis via Getty Images)
Volcano, Iceland
Runoff from a volcano flows down a bed and into the water.
Er Wang Dong Cave, China
This enormous cave in central China is so large that it houses its own weather system — meaning clouds and rain can appear below ground.
Death Valley, California
A storm moves in over the salt flats in barren California.
Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia
The Salar de Uyuni are the largest salt flats in the world. The near-uniform topography makes for amazing sight-lines andgreat photo-ops.
More Uyuni Salt Flats
Though photographers don’t always use human subjects. (Photo: Art Wolfe via Getty Images)
Dallol Volcano, Ethiopia
At 150 feet below sea level, this is the lowest known volcano on land. Acidic discharge from the geologic activity has bleached the land in all sorts of extreme colors.
A Closeup Of Dallol Deposits
Round 50 years ago, a mining settlement of the same name was occupied just a few miles from this harsh terrain in Ethiopia. It was abandoned in the 1960s, though holds records for being one of the hottest continuously inhabited places on Earth.
The Richat Structure, Mauritania
This enigmatic geological feature in the heart of the Sahara desert (seen here from space) has been the subject of much debate among scientists. Once thought to be an impact crater, geologists now consider it to be a deeply collapsed dome that was initially formed around 100 million years ago.
……It was a beautiful afternoon yesterday (20-4-2015) with Smt . Yaminiben Vyas…in Shri Krishna Institution of Education (Sanskar Kendra)…run by Dr. Jayaben Halatwala..
It was a great occasion to hear Yaminiben speaking on super model Waris Dirie…a girl from a poor tribe of herdsman from Somalia Desert…a very touchy one n an inspirational too as it showed the rising graph of her….Waris Dirie. ….from that background. …Yaminiben took us to the journey of her drama…” Ranma Khilyu Parijat “…in such an interesting way. …in her natural detailed narrative manner that the audiance literally experienced that period….as if….. were one of its characters…
We could visualise the whole transformation of the movie. ..’Desert Flower’…into Yaminiben’s Gujarati Drama..RANMA KHILYU PARIJAT….
You deserve a hundred salutes…Yaminiben. …thank you very much for being with us..
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feeling awesome with Yamini Vyas.
અક્ષય તૃતીયા એક એવી તિથિ છે જેનો ક્યારેય ક્ષય થતો નથી. આ દિવસનું એ રીતે પણ મહત્ત્વ આંકવામાં આવે છે કે અક્ષય તૃતીયાના દિવસે કરવામાં આવેલાં દાન-પુણ્ય, ધાર્મિક કાર્યોનો,પુણ્યોનો ક્યારેય ક્ષય થતો નથી. તૃતીયા એટલે કે ત્રીજની તિથિ, માતા ગૌરીની તિથિ છે, જે બળ, બુદ્ધિવર્ધક માનવામાં આવે છે, તેથી આ દિવસે ગૌરી માતાની પૂજા પણ કરવામાં આવે છે.
આ દિવસે બ્રહ્મમુહૂર્તમાં ઊઠવું જોઈએ. ઘરની સાફ-સફાઈ અને નિત્યકર્મથી નિવૃત્ત થઈને સ્નાન કરો. શક્ય હોય તો સમુદ્ર, ગંગા અથવા યમુના નદીમાં સ્નાન કરવું જોઈએ. આ દિવસે ઉપવાસ રાખો અને ઘરમાં કોઈ પવિત્ર સ્થાને અથવા મંદિરમાં ભગવાન વિષ્ણુની મૂર્તિ અથવા તસવીર મૂકીને પૂજનનો સંકલ્પ કરો. સંકલ્પ કર્યા બાદ ભગવાન વિષ્ણુને પંચામૃતથી સ્નાન કરાવો, ત્યારબાદ તેમને સુગંધિત ચંદન, પુષ્પમાળા અર્પણ કરો. અક્ષત દ્વારા ભગવાન વિષ્ણુનું પૂજન કરો. નૈવેદ્યમાં જવ, કાકડી અથવા ચણાની દાળ અર્પણ કરો. ભગવાન વિષ્ણુને તુલસી ખૂબ જ પ્રિય છે, તેથી નૈવેદ્યની સાથે તુલસી જરૂરથી ચઢાવો. આટલું કર્યા પછી વિષ્ણુ સહસ્ત્ર નામનો પાઠ કરો અને છેલ્લે ભક્તિભાવપૂર્વક આરતી કરો. જ્યોતિષશાસ્ત્ર અનુસાર સૂર્ય અને ચંદ્ર આ દિવસે ઉચ્ચસ્થ હોય છે. આ દિવસે ઉપવાસ રાખી વિવિધ અનાજ અને ચોખા દ્વારા ભગવાન વિષ્ણુનું પૂજન કરવામાં આવે છે. આ દિવસને નવાન્ન પર્વ પણ કહે છે. ભગવાન વિષ્ણુનું વિધિપૂર્વક પૂજન કર્યા પછી વાસણ, મિષ્ટાન્ન, તરબૂચ, દહીં, દૂધ અને ચોખાનું સુપાત્ર વ્યક્તિને દાન કરવું જોઈએ. આ અક્ષય તૃતીયાના વ્રતનું વિધિ-વિધાન છે, પરંતુ ભગવાન તો માત્ર ભાવના ભૂખ્યા છે. શ્રદ્ધાપૂર્વક જેવું આવડે તેવું પૂજન કરવાથી પણ તેઓ ભક્ત પર પ્રસન્ન થાય છે.
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This is a presentation on heart wrenching story on life n times of American super model Ms. WARIS DIRI – A journey of a poor girl from Desert to Dazzling world of Glamour પ્રવચન માટે શુભેચ્છાઓ વધુ જાણવા મળે તે આશા……………………………………………………………………..
Researchers at Rush University in Chicago have developed the MIND diet, which their recent study suggests could significantly reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The study is published in the latest issue of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Professor Martha Clare Morris and her colleagues combined elements of the Mediterranean diet with elements of DASH, a diet aimed at combatting high blood pressure, to create MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay).
To test the effectiveness of various diets on preventing the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease, the study’s authors recruited 923 participants aged 58 to 98, who responded to food questionnaires that reflected how closely their diets followed the Mediterranean, DASH or MIND diets.
After following the subjects from 2004 to 2013, the researchers found that the MIND diet was associated with a 53% reduction in the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in subjects who followed it regularly, compared to a reduction of 54% and 39% for the Mediterranean and DASH plans respectively.
However, while the Mediterranean and DASH plans were only effective when applied rigorously, the MIND diet was associated with lower risk even when applied only moderately (35% reduction). According to the research team, this could be an important argument in its favor, particularly since the MIND plan is already said to be easier to follow than the other two options.
The new diet is based on two main categories: 10 brain-healthy food groups (green vegetables and other vegetables, nuts, berries, beans, whole grains, fish, poultry, olive oil and wine) and five groups to avoid (red meat, animal fats, sugary foods, fried foods and fast food).
A few simple rules indicate the minimum targets of each brain-healthy food group to be consumed throughout the week. For example, vegetables and nuts should be consumed daily, while poultry and berries should be eaten twice a week. The harmful foods are not entirely off limits, but their consumption should be restricted as much as possible (less than 1 tablespoon of butter per day, for example).
While the researchers point out that further study is needed among different populations, they estimate that the MIND diet can already be considered as a way to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, particularly when followed over the long term
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