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Leprosy patients cured with drugs honoured New Delhi, January 11 Nine doctors and 18 paramedics were also honoured for their outstanding contribution to the Leprosy Control Programme. The Maulana Azad Medical College was the venue of the awards ceremony. Awards were also given to 27 students who had won quiz competitions organised in November last year. On the occasion, the minister said 600 dispensaries/hospitals in NCT of Delhi were treating patients for leprosy. Hypo-pigmented anaesthetic patch, swollen nerves and muscle weakness are the symptoms of leprosy. The disease is caused by a bacterium.  |
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BODY & MIND You may dismiss such an idea as ridiculous but 29-year-old Biswaroop Roy Chowdhary, a production engineer-turned-memory trainer, and his team think otherwise. Chowdhary and his team proved their claim of having a photographic memory to a group of mediapersons here recently. Convinced of the enormous potential of the brain, Chowdhary began his career as a memory trainer from Chandigarh after completing his engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. He set a record for the Limca Book of Records in 1998 by clearing the standard memory test of memorising a shuffled pack of 52 playing cards in three minutes and 56 seconds. He succeeded in revising the record over the next five years. His next goal is to get a slot in the Guinness Book of World Records. He believes that no human being is born with a poor memory. He says that the human brain has the capacity to store information of 40 libraries with 80,0000 books. Chowdhary started the first dynamic memory centre in Vikaspuri ten months back. Today, the centres have mushroomed to 42 in various cities, besides Kathmandu. The centres have received an overwhelming response from students appearing in board and competitive examinations. Each centre has about 90 students. Any student interested in improving his memory by learning the memory techniques has to pay Rs 2,500. Ten more centres are scheduled to be set up in Ambala, Jind, Karnal and Patiala between January 14 and January 21. He says that his organisation is engaged in developing and imparting learning and retention techniques to students, teachers and parents who feel burdened with syllabus. Chowdary opines that most of us do not tap the optimum capacity of the brain. He stressed the need to catalogue information and experience and the technique of associated recall for optimum results. Dismissing the efficacy of drugs, which promise to improve memory, Chowdhary cited an experiment on a group of 30 people (one that had taken a memory enhancing ayurvedic drug and the other that had not). He concluded that both groups were able to recall the same amount of information. He has authored seven books including Dynamic Memory Methods, Seven Days to Power Memory, Speed Palmistry with Memory Tips, Vocabulary @ 100 words per hour, Memorising Dictionary Made Easy (all published by Diamond Pocketbooks) and Smart Brain (Vikas Publishing House). Another book, Impossible is Possible, will soon be published by the organisation. Zero-oil
cooking At the end of the three-day workshop (January 10-12) at Palms Court, a resort at Sheikh Sarai, 30 cardiac patients and their spouses will return home with a taste for dishes based on zero oil. Participants from Delhi, Faridabad, Haldwani (Uttaranchal), Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Varanasi will get a chance to sample 150 dishes based on zero oil besides learning about various techniques of lifestyle modification. The fee for attending the workshop is Rs 16,000. It includes a complete check-up of the patient besides training on lifestyle modification by various experts. On Sunday, SAAOl dieticians will give demonstration of zero oil recipes including mixed vegetable, roasted snacks, salad dressing with carbohydrates and proteins and ‘Gajar Ka Halwa.’ Since he quit his job at AIIMS in 1995 after practising for four years in various hospitals including King George Medical College, Lucknow and Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, this versatile cardiologist has been disseminating information about the merits of lifestyle modification through 250 workshops (attended by 10,000 persons including cardiac patients and their spouses) across the country besides Bangkok. He insists on the participation of spouses at the workshops as they entail modification in lifestyle through changes in diet, yoga, meditation, exercises and stress management. SAAOL Foundation was set up in 1995 to promote the concept of lifestyle modification and create awareness about heart diseases and treatment by non-invasive methods. Dr Chajjer has authored three books on zero oil cooking (one brought out by SAAOL) in 2002 and two others brought out by Diamond Pocket Books in Hindi and English in 2002. While the book bought out by SAAOL is a compilation of 450 zero oil recipes made with SAAOL oil or water, the book published by Diamond Pocket Books has 200 new recipes. Another book, which promises 150 recipes of sweets made without oil, is expected to be released by Diamond Pocket Books in a fortnight. Dr Chajjer owes his inspiration to Dr Dean Ornish, advisor to National Institute of Health and former Health Advisor to former US President Bill Clinton. Dr Chajjer enjoys the distinction of being the first Indian doctor to be trained by Dr Ornish in Germany and US in 1992 and ‘96 respectively. Dr Ornish was the first cardiologist to demonstrate through angiography that arterial blockages can be reduced by a combination of lifestyle management and allopathy. One of Dr Chajjer’s patients, a Mumbai-based hotelier, Jaswant Singh, has started a hotel in Juhu, which serves zero oil cooking based on SAAOL recipes. Meeting
of dental experts Over 250 dental experts and surgeons from various parts of the country are meeting here on Sunday to discuss the latest strategies in the field of dentistry. Delhi Health Minister, Dr A.K. Walia will inaugurate the meet which is being organised by the Dental Practitioners Forum of India. Eminent dental surgeon Dr Ramsh hankar will deliver the keynote address. According to Dr G.K. Gupta, Chairman, DPFI, the main aim of the meet is to help improve the quality of dental health care through continuing dental education and improve oral hygiene of the urban and rural population in the country. Stressing the importance of oral hygiene, Dr Gupta explained that it has been scientifically proved that poor oral hygienic pre-disposes individuals to various diseases including coronary heart and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and respiratory infections. Other issues which have been listed for discussion during the meet include oral health education for schools and non-government organisations, infant dental care, infection control in dental practices, preventive strategies for dental cares and periodontal diseases, prevention of malocclusion (irregular teeth and jaws) and implementation strategies as use of mass media for awareness. |
Kusum, J P adjudged best athletes New Delhi, January 11 Kusum Lata and J P Sharma emerged the fastest athletes on the final day of the eight-day meet when they won the 100m races. Kusum Lata clocked 14.0 secs to lift the gold while Leena Furtado of Western and Prem Lata of Delhi accounted for the silver and bronze. J P Sharma was timed 11.8 secs while winning the 100m gold. Pramod Kumar of Northern and Praveen of Himachal took the silver and bronze, respectively. Punjab Zone lifted the overall team trophy as well as the athletics trophy. Western Zone finished runners-up in the overall standing while Northern Zone took the second place in athletics. Punjab National Bank general manager S K Awasthi gave away the prizes. Deputy general manager P L Madan and CKD Gowda were also present at the prize distribution function. West UP Zone captain Rajesh Tomar scored a century to guide his team to title victory against Western Zone. Rajesh had cracked centuries in the quarter-final as well as the semi-final. Scores: West UP Zone: 207 for 9 in 30 overs (Rajesh Tomar 138, Ganesh Dubey 21, Waghela 5 for 14 in 6 overs). Western Zone: 169 all out in 28 overs (Dharam Parkash 4 for 27, Bisht 2 for 27, Lalit 2 for 30). Delhi retained the soccer title, defeating Eastern Zone 2-0. Anil and Bhupinder Thakur were the goal-scorers. Punjab Zone defeated East UP Zone 25-11, 11-25, 17-25, 25-14. 25-15 to annex the volleyball title. Western Zone retained the carrom title, beating Southern Zone 3-0. Punjab Zone beat Central UP Zone 3-0 in the badminton final. Uttaranchal Zone beat Northern Zone 3-2 to win the table tennis title. Himachal Pradesh beat Northern Zone in the kho-kho title clash. Bimal Jass of Northern hurled the javelin to 17.88 metres to bag the women’s javelin gold. Rajni of Central UP and Meena of Jharkhand took the silver and bronze. R P Bhalla of Delhi cleared 43.40 metres to win the men’s javelin crown. He was followed by H S Nitya of Central UP and R P Rao of East UP. Sharma also annexed the triple jump gold, with an effort of 11.20 metres. Praveen of Himachal and Banni Singh of Central UP Zone finished second and third. |
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Ten teams for DSA Clubs Super League New Delhi, January 11 The teams have been divided into two groups. Group A comprises Hindustan, Indian Air Force (New Delhi), Tarun Sangha, City Club and Moghals while Group B is composed of Indian National, New Delhi Heroes, Moonlight, Delhi Police and Goans. The top two teams of each group will qualify for the semi-finals, which will be played on a double-leg basis. Hindustan Club will take on Moghals in the opening match on January 14 at 1.30 pm. The matches will be played under gates, and the tickets have been priced at Rs 5. The title winners will receive a cash award of Rs 10,000 while the runners-up will be richer by Rs 7500. The losing semi-finalists will receive a cash award of Rs 2500 each. The winners of A and B division championships will also be awarded a cash prize of Rs 2500 each. Four best players too will be given Rs 2500 each. |
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Delhi Colts beat MTNL New Delhi, January 11 Scores: Delhi Colts: 219 for 8 in 35 overs (Harikishan 89, Anirudha Tripathi 56, R S Rawat 4 for 41). MTNL: 180 for 8 in 35 overs (N C Bhatt 52, R C Gupta 27, Suraj Verma 2 for 34). Syndicate Bank beat Oriental Bank of Commerce by 152 runs in a B Division match at the Yamuna Sports Complex ground II. Scores: Syndicate Bank: 255 all out in 34.5 overs (R. Raina 82, G. Sharma 50, Anil 4 for 57). Oriental Bank: 103 for 8 in 35 overs (Anil Kumar 29, Brijmohan 2 for 15, Sanjay Gupta 2 for 18. City Gymkhana beat Roop Nagar by nine wickets in a B Division match at the Kotla II ground. Scores: Roop Nagar: 132 all out in 27.4 overs (Sachin 52 n o, R .Lohia 3 for 39, Paramveer 2 for 22). City Gymkhana: 133 for 1 in 21 overs (Piyush 39, Karanjeet 39 n o, R. Joshi 42 n o).
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Dr Bimal Chajjer, former Assistant Professor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and founder director of the Science and Art Of Living (SAAOL) Foundation, aimed at reversing heart diseases through lifestyle modification, is now trying to convince heart patients and their spouses about the advantages of zero oil cooking.