Following are the excerpts of an interview held with Dr. Prasad Deshapriya, Director of Acupuncture Treatment Centre in Kalubowila. More and more people are resorting to cosmetics and beauty care treatments to have a fair and healthy skin. Do you have solutions in acupuncture to have a fairer and healthier skin? Yes, we have. Skin [...]
By Dr Harold Gunatillake Health writer FRCS, FACS (US), FIACS (US), AM (SING), MBBS (Cey) Cell phones emit radiofrequency energy, and their constant usage close to your ear has raised suspicion that the increasing brain tumors, such as gliomas meningiomas especially among youth and adolescence could be linked to such non-ionic radiation. The scare of [...]
The belief that gum disease can lead to heart attacks and strokes is unfounded, experts said yesterday. A panel of 13 U.S. scientists insisted there was no evidence for a causal link between bad gums and cardiovascular disease. They reviewed 500 articles in scientific journals and concluded that while people with gum disease may be [...]
Your skin is the first thing people notice. As you age, your skin naturally ages as well. But have you noticed that there are people who don’t look their age? Some of them look as if they are in their 40s when they really are nearing their 60s already, while some look like they are [...]
By Dr Harold Gunatillake Health writer FRCS, FACS (US), FIACS (US), AM (SING), MBBS (Cey) Coconut oil is being given damaging reports again, as an unhealthy cooking oil for daily use, due to its misguided association with saturated fat. Dietary guidelines inevitably fail to distinguish between different kinds of saturated fats and insist that saturated [...]
By Dr Harold Gunatillake Health writer FRCS, FACS (US), FIACS (US), AM (SING), MBBS (Cey) CoQ10, also known as ubiquinone is an oil soluble vital vitamin like substance, found in the mitochondria in all tissues in the body. This chemical helps to generate energy in the form of Adenosine Tri Phosphate (ATP). 95% of energy [...]
How did Coconut oil reverse Alzheimer’s disease? By Dr Harold Gunatillake Health writer FRCS, FACS (US), FIACS (US), AM (SING), MBBS (Cey) Two of my regular readers wanted to know something: The first asked me whether two of her friends having Alzheimer’s should take coconut oil? And the second reader indicated that coconut oil consumed daily [...]
By Dr Harold Gunatillake – Health writer FRCS, FACS (US), FIACS (US), AM (SING), MBBS (Cey) (Senior Registrar in Orthopedics, and subsequently acting Orthopedic consultant, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey- 1966-1969) The Life span of Sri Lankans was approximately about 60 years some years back, and they invariably succumb prematurely. Compared to current survival data, [...]
By Dr Harold Gunatillake – Health writer Ghee, butter, and coconut oil are favurite cooking oils, composed mainly of saturated fats. Like fatty acids in coconut the fatty acid chains in ghee are also short, having less than 11 carbon atoms in one chain of fatty acid. We call it saturated because all carbon atoms [...]
Text and Pictures by S. H. Fernando Jr. Though the excursion to Jaffna made for a memorable trip full of tasty meals and interesting people—including the Sinhalese soldiers who invited us to dine with them in their humble barracks–ironically, my quest for the real deal Jaffna cuisine leads me right back to where I started, [...]
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