Biological and chemical warfare  Use of harmful or deadly chemical or biological element, as weapons of war are generally known as biological and chemical warfare. These elements can say many people in one go and are considered weapons of mass destruction. Chemical weapons are prepared from poisonous chemical compounds, while biological weapons are generally living micro-organisms. Chemical and biological weapons can cause harm in numerous ways. Most cause injury or death...

Meditation  The correct definition of meditation is to think constantly of something. You become that on which you meditate. Think of God, you become God. Think of stone you become a stone. Meditation is a form of religious or spiritual contemplation, and the basis of most Eastern religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Daoism, as prayer is to the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish religions. The difference between prayer and Eastern meditation is...

Eating Disorders There are many different categories of eating disorders in our world today and many people suffer from them. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is characterized by a person with a body weight less than 85% of what is considered normal weight. Anorexics have a fear of being fat. Anorexics limit their food intake. People who are anorexic continue to diet even when they are bone thin; they...

Diet and Nutrition  Nutrition is a science that deals with nutrients and other food substances, and with how the body assimilates them. The extremely complex processes that nutrients undergo in the body—how they affect one another, how they are broken down and released as energy, and how they are transported and used to rebuild countless specialized tissues and sustain the overall health of the individual—are understood only approximately. The word nutrient...

Ayurveda – The Ancient Indian Medicine System Ayurveda originated in India long back in pre-vedic period. Rig Veda and Atharva-veda( 5000 BC), the earliest documented ancient Indian knowledge have references on health and diseases. Ayurveda texts like Charak Samhita and Sushruta Samhitaweree documented about 1000 BC The term Ayurveda means ‘Science  of life’. It deals elaborately with measures for healthful living during the entire span of life and its various phases....

Are Mobile Phones a Health Hazard? Mobile phones have brought revolution in human life. Before  the,  invention of mobile phones very few people very few people would have imagined that in future they would have instrument like a mobile phone. But this great invention has brought with itself many health  hazards. The problem is that mobile phones are still too new to know the long-term effects on human. Mobile phones are...

Breast Cancer  There exists more than 200 different types of cancers and breast cancer is one of them. It is a wrong notion that it is a woman’s disease but actually this disease has affected both men and women. Statistics says that more than 2,00,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, 13 per cent of all women will get the disease and 3% of them will die. The disease...

Science of Homeopathy  Homeopathy can be defined as a science, which treats the composition of the bodies of animals and vegetables and of the, processes by which the numerous fluids and tissues are formed, and of the nature and causes of the abnormal condition called disease and of the restoration of health by supplying to the body the deficient cell-salts. Every normal cell has the mechanism of absorbing or rejecting certain...