Have yourself a ‘less-sweet’ Christmas!
’Tis the season to be jolly…and to keep an eye on your sugar intake too. Sri Lankans know too well that celebrations in this country come with a significant amount of extra carbohydrates and sugar. So how can we eat healthy during the Christmas season? Here Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist Dr. Prasad Katulanda and dietician [...]
The magical dragon fruit
Dragon fruit…what a cool name! While to some the name may sound intimidating, to some others it is a beautiful fruit to adorn a pantry counter top and to still others it looks like an egg from a dragon. Whatever it may be, it is considered one of the trendiest fruits to eat despite its [...]
Sports can be stressful too
She was a top teenage swimmer managing both her skill and success in the water and her lessons in the classroom very well. Suddenly, however, there was a drastic change in her behaviour. She became irritable and quarrels were aplenty not only with her siblings but also her mother. Her swimming performance began to slide as [...]
Don’t make the womb a tomb
Hopes reach sky high of cuddling a beautiful baby in nine months, but a few months later there is only heartache. The shadow of stillbirth grips the couple, leaving in its wake an aching agony and the womb as a tomb. Now, hope is being held out, with Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Dr. Tiran Dias [...]
Get ready for a long term battle with bugs
Humans have been continuously battling thousands of different bacteria throughout history with outbreaks, fear, economic loss and death. Despite being armed with all our sophisticated medical knowledge and antibiotics, we still struggle to win the war. It is surprising how fast the bacteria learn to develop resistance to even newly developed antibiotics and it is [...]
Beating your fears: Do something you like to do
Once when Erickson was in Milwaukee he was asked to see his aunt who lived nearby. She was wealthy, very religious and a regular churchgoer. Erickson found her to be very depressed. An ordinary psychiatrist would have immediately started her on antidepressant medication, but Milton was no ordinary psychiatrist. “On looking around the house I [...]