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Health

What happen to your body when you skip a meal

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Everybody wants to lose weight and people’s instinctive reaction in this situation is to eat less. But instead of consuming smaller portions, thus fewer calories, people decide to skip entire meals. That’s a big mistake, Susan Engle, registered nutritionists at Nutrition Matters, says. It will eventually lead to overeating, and possibly weight gain, among other things. There are plenty of fulfilling foods that help you drop pounds. Regardless of whether you have a big dinner ahead or a wedding, you can’t let your stomach growl. Mornings are chaotic and there…

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JK to implement free drug policy from June 1

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Free medicines will be provided in all state-run hospitals in Jammu and Kashmir from June 1 this year and a 100-bed hospital would be constructed in the mountainous Kishtwar district. “Government will implement the policy of providing free medicines in all the state government hospitals from June 1 this year as this has been a long pending demand of people” state Health Minister Bali Bhagat said today. He said the government would soon establish a 100-bed hospital in Kishtwar district as it has witnessed fatal road accidents because of its…

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JK has only two outdated food-testing labs, HC told

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With the state authorities admitting that the only two food testing laboratories in the state are completely outdated, with most of the installed equipment dysfunctional, the J&K High Court has observed that the report filed by the authorities concerned is sufficient to indicate that the people of the state have been left at the mercy of the God. The HC has sought personal appearance of the state Chief Secretary and other officials, including the Commissioner Secretary, Health and Food, Commissioner, Food Safety, and the Financial Commissioner, Finance and Planning Department,…

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Two Kashmiri docs in race for PGI top post

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Two senior Kashmiri doctors are in race for coveted post of Director, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. Director, North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS), Shillong, Dr AG Ahangar and Director, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Dr Showkat Zargar, have submitted their applications for the Director’s post of the PGIMER. The tenure of the present director Professor Yogesh Chawla is ending on October 7. The last date of the applications was April 20. Professor Ahangar was working as the…

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Are you drinking pure milk?

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DFCO launches valley-wide anti-adulteration campaign Jammu and Kashmir government is in a tight spot over the revelations made by officials in High Court following the media reports about the sale of adulterated food items including milk and milk products. Although there was a relief for a leading milk manufacturing company facing adulteration charges following a stay on District Court Budgam’s order by the High Court but there is still a question mark over the quality and standard of the milk sold in J&K. After HC’s cognizance, the authorities have launched…

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Cancer in Kashmir

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Dr. Rumana Makhdoomi I am glad that in a turmoil hit valley where security related issues always dominate the scene, Greater Kashmir has come out with scary statistics about cancer in Kashmir (GK dated 20th and 21st March, 2015). Cancer burden in Kashmir is steadily increasing – not denying the fact. There is lot that is being done in premier institutions of the State to combat the disease and lot that is not done, and lot that needs to be done. You need to read on to understand, how cancer…

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Stop ‘bad cholesterol’ production to prevent tumour growth

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Cancerous tumour cells expand in the human body by feeding on “bad cholesterols” found in the lipid metabolism, finds a new research. Tumour cells grow as a result of scavenging on very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) and low-density lipoproteins (LDL) — commonly known as “bad cholesterol” — in the body. The findings of the clinical trials showed that minimising the liver’s production of LDL would deprive a tumour from its constant supply and therefore reduce its possibility of growth. Tumours not only use lipids as “building blocks” to grow, but they…

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Post-Khyber conviction, 30 samples of other milk brands lifted for testing

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With a court convicting the Khyber Agro Farms Private Limited for selling misbranded, sub-standard and unsafe milk products in Kashmir, the authorities concerned have lifted over 30 samples of packaged dairy products of six different brands from across the region for testing. The samples were collected by the officials of the Drugs and Food Control Organisation from different markets during last two days and sent to local government lab for analysis, said a senior Drugs and Food Control Organisation official. Sources said the officials also lifted three samples of Khyber’s…

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Govt bans sale, production of ‘unsafe’ Khyber milk products

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In the wake of orders of a court in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, the J&K government Wednesday ordered recall of milk and all milk products manufactured by Khyber Agro Farms and directed that these products should not be supplied till further directions. The government has issued orders for implementing the judgment of Judicial Magistrate Budgam and ordered Controller Drug and Food Control Organisation to “remove milk and milk products manufactured by Khyber Agro Farms Private Limited ‘immediately’.” The Health and Medical Education Department, in its order No HD/Legal/Drug/MR-56/2016 dated 06-04-2016…

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Private practice by govt docs hits patient care badly

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DAK terns it root cause of ‘health care mess’ Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that the private practice by government doctors in Jammu and Kashmir particularly in teaching hospitals has badly hit patient care. Calling for complete ban on private practice, President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said that it is the root cause of healthcare mess and patients suffer the consequences. “It is ironical that full-time government doctors are allowed to run private clinics depriving poor and underprivileged of essential health care,” Dr Hassan said…

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