Husband/Father, Healthcare Educator. Learning from experiences. RTs are NOT endorsements! Passionate about Science, Sports, Spirituality and Political affairs.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM DR AMBRISH MITHAL
I have learnt from friends and patients that an advertisement for a drug Diofin for "curing" diabetes is being widely circulated, supposedly endorsed by me. The claim is accompanied with detailed descriptions about my research saying that I discovered and developed this drug.
I wish to say that this is completely false. I do not know of this drug and I have not been involved in its development. I have never even heard of this drug prior to this episode.
The post also refers to minute details of my life, education and qualifications to seem authentic. All these personal details are also false.
I would like to reiterate that this advertisement is a complete fabrication. Please do not get misled.
Meanwhile appropriate steps have been initiated to address this false advertising.
Go to any hotel gym, be it outside India or within, and you will always find gyms occupied by foreigners. I rarely see our people working out at the gym during vacations or work trips. Compare this to a buffet, opposite. Why don’t we have this intrinsic calling to prioritise workouts before food?
The country’s most popular tourist destinations seem to be becoming victims of their own success.
Every week, social media is filled with images of traffic jams and overcrowded hill stations. Holidays that were meant to be relaxing end up testing people’s patience.
Those places will have to find ways to cope with the surge in visitors.
But India is vast. And there is no shortage of beautiful destinations that remain relatively undiscovered.
So do share your hidden gems with me and I’ll try to amplify them here.
To start with: Valparai. Tamil Nadu
From these photographs, it looks like the Munnar many of us wish we had seen 30 years ago.
A winding drive up 40 hairpin bends from Pollachi, dams, rainforest views, and wildlife ranging from elephants to lion-tailed macaques and great hornbills.
#SundayWanderer
Photos courtesy @rakesh_pulapa. They may be a little enhanced, but I have a feeling the real thing is every bit as spectacular.
Every day in India, dozens of men die by suicide.
Most are not strangers to us. They are fathers, sons, brothers, husbands, colleagues, students, farmers, workers and professionals.
NCRB data consistently show that nearly three-quarters of suicide deaths in India occur among men. Yet men remain less likely to seek help, less likely to talk about emotional distress and more likely to struggle alone with depression, substance use, financial stress, relationship difficulties and social expectations.
For generations, many men have been taught to endure rather than express, to suppress rather than seek support. That comes at a cost.
This is why I am pleased to see the Indian Psychiatric Society (@IndianPsychiat1) launch a dedicated Section on Men's Mental Health. The message is simple: men's mental health matters.
Not because men need special treatment, but because their suffering deserves the same attention, compassion, research and care as anyone else's.
Some conversations save lives.
#MensMentalHealth #SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth
What's the right amount of time for resistance training?
A new study supports 90-120 minutes/week across multiple outcomes, which plateaus beyond that for lack of additional benefit
From 30-year follow-up of ~150,000 participants
https://t.co/mUy9o4HkbH
What 28 years of Corporate experience taught me!
1.Never take rejection personally.
2. You can learn from those you disagree with.
3.Never be late; punctuality is a sign of respect for other people’s time.
4.Permit yourself to make mistakes; most of our success comes from failures.
5. Pay off your credit card in full; if you don’t, you are wasting your money.
6.Prioritize your reputation; it is the only thing that lives on when you die.
7. Value time over money; money comes and goes, time only goes.
8. Don’t let a bad day turn into a bad week.
9. Success and failure are transient; don’t go overboard or underground.
10. Life is a marathon and what matters is not how well you start, but how you end.
A Swiss hotel once displayed a list of special rules exclusively for Indian guests which I personally saw and was appalled.
Today, videos of garba in restaurants, loud conversations in airports, and turning aircraft cabins into picnic spots keep doing the rounds. Even in Davos, an Indian businessman blasted Punjabi music in a club so the whole town could hear it, calling it “soft power” but to everyone’s annoyance.
Japan earned global admiration through their courtesy and civic sense. If India wants to be a true global superpower, the world should remember Indians for its excellence, consideration and respect for others.
Our civic sense seriously needs to be upgraded.