You Can Be Healthy

B M Hegde - Former Vice Chancellor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education.

What is Health? • Has Medicine Found its Holy Grail? • Emotions are Chemicals • Western Medicine: A Confidence Trick Driven by the Drug Industry? • Bath for the Mind • Antibiotic Crisis: A Time Bomb? • Health Benefits of Exercise • Exercise – Sense Versus Nonsense • Our Biosphere • Ageing Gracefully • Ayurveda – The Mother of All Medical Wisdom • Cholesterol Ghost Everywhere • Euboxic Medicine: Doctors’ Dilemma • Facts and Fiction about Alcohol and Tobacco • Genes, Dreams and Realities • Hatred Begets Hatred • Have a Heart • Human Body’s Intelligence • How to Avoid Modern Medicine? • Inverse-Care Law (Rural Health Care) • Life Expectancy Versus Health Expectancy • Matter of the Mind • Man and His Problems • Medical Phenomenon • Stress versus Distress • The Fine Art of Living • Where is the Mind? Never Mind! • Eat to Live • Woman, Moon and Menstruation • Faith Heals • Disease is an Accident • Absence of Evidence Need not be Evidence of Absence • Index