Medimanage

Adnan Sami's fitness storyBeing obese or even fat is not easy these days, along with the part of being overweight you also need to have a thick skin to bear the comments and the snide remarks people throw at you. Now imagine being morbidly overweight at 206 kilos and being in the limelight, the negative comments just come up in heaps and your weight issues are out in the open for everyone else to see…

Sensitive Skin You go on your school picnic to a water park, everyone else in enjoying in the water but as soon as you go in the water, your skin is unnaturally red and there are rashes on it. You are forced to sit out of the water for the entire day….

Music speaks to all of us. Be it an A R Rahman or Beethoven or Indian Classical music that does it for you. However different our tastes we all agree to the wonderful effect that music has on our lives. There is an anonymous quote which says "Music is how feelings sound like" and it is so true; whatever be our mood, there is some music that echoes our sentiment often reflects the sentiment better than we could ever hope to do.

sleeping on the jobYou were meeting your college pals after a really long time and as it used to happen in the good old times, you all decided to crash at a friend's place and continue your ‘catching up with the happenings in each other's' life late into the night, in fact the catching up continues till early morning! And now you are back at the office at 9 am having stayed up till 7 am, running on a mere 2 hours of sleep.

Discipline Those were the days when the smallest of mistakes were solved by the cane believing that a little beating did no harm and the child would learn from it and not repeat it again. "Don't spare the rod and spoil the child" was the belief then. Physical punishments in the form of hitting, beating or making the child kneel down on the floor, stand with the hands up and standing in the sun were common in our childhood.

The above saying is quite true, but rarely seen put into practice. Most old people instead of enjoying their present prefer spending it worrying and fretting over their past and future! Couple this with the deaths of near and dear ones, loss of an active social life, a feeling of isolation as near and dear ones get busy with their own lives and old age depression is imminent.

Drink lemon juice this summer India is renowned for its brutally hot summers and with the sun coming out in full force this time every year, people turn to drinks to refresh themselves and seek some respite from the heat. While the market remains perennially flooded with drinks that promise to cool you down, nothing comes even close to the small-round, very cheap lemon juice which not only refreshes you but also provides amazing health benefits!

Woody Allen, actor and director, couldn't be more right about it; sex for long has been a great stress buster. What more, an hour of vigorous sex is now known to burn about 300 calories! Not to forget the cocktail of chemicals released by our bodies after sex which makes us feel good and we have a winner in Sex. But despite so many obvious benefits, we often find people not being able to have good sex either due to stress, illness or simply an unfit body.

The passing of Gas or Flatulence, as it is called in some parts of the world, is quite natural as we all know! Yet, it does not take anything away from the ‘embarrassment' factor that it generates by virtue of the noise and the smell, which makes it presence felt quite strongly, especially in closed areas such as the lift and the conference room of your office! And if you are the unfortunate owner of the released gas

chocolate for kids Imagine this, you get in the lift with your little one, in enters the friendly neighbor and on spotting your child she goes, "Aww! Aren't you a cute little girl? Here have a chocolate", and that's how the day begins for your child. Kids are by default cute little people! The very moment, one of them so much as smiles at you, you melt like a gooey chocolate and end up offering them chocolate.