Health & Ayurveda
Where to Get Protein?
My family enjoys a variety of food sources By Vandana Nathoo Anyone who has attempted a vegetarian or plant-forward life…
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Listen to Your Body
When “doing everything right” still leaves you unwell By Dr. Virender Sodhi People don’t come to me because they’v…
Spiritual Life
Combatting Aging
How to stave off the debilities of old age By Dr. Virender Sodhi Rejuvenation is an ayurvedic specialty whose main [&hel…
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How to Heal Hypertension
Natural methods ensure a healthy body By Dr. Virender Sodhi Any visit to the doctor can be stressful—even raising your […
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A Testimony to Turmeric
Celebrated for its many benefits, this golden spice offers anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, enhancing well-bei…
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Cinnamon for Your Well-Being
This pungent ingredient brings a full and savory flavor to a wide variety of Indian curries, condiments, teas and pickle…
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Teenage Depression
Beware the drawbacks of standard treatments for this common ailment By Dr. Virender Sodhi What is depression? Fift…
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How One Hospital Pursues Dada Vaswani’s Goal of Sight for All
K K Eye Institute developed a financial model to provide large numbers of people–regardless of personal income level–wit…
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Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life
Ancient Ayurvedic wisdom for modern man’s malaise Change your schedule, change your life contains what might just be the…
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Intermittent Fasting
The ancient and still-popular discipline of fasting is strongly supported by modern medical research By Dr. Devadasen Vy…
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Diabetes: Part Two
Eat and exercise your way to health, or pay the price of neglect By Dr. Virender sodhi Prevention is decidedly [……
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Religion: Ayurvedic Astrology
With the Covid-19 era focusing humanity on wellness more than ever before, we present a little-known branch of knowledge…
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Role of Sattvic Food in Spiritual Growth
Why a pure diet improves our emotional balance and makes it easier for us to connect with God through bhakti […]
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On Point with Ayurveda in Italy
How a neuroscientist frustrated with the allopathic approach to health became one of Europe’s foremost champions of Ayur…
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Educational Insight: Modern-Day Ayurveda
A South Indian clinic follows traditional methodologies—which foreshadow such cutting-edge insights as epigenetics, soun…
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<strong>The Magical Realm of Our Sleep</strong>
A Hindu view of sleep and dreams, with insights from rishis and experts in ayurveda and modern medical science By …
Magazine
Science: The Mysteries of Memory
Our teenage correspondent explores the extremes of the human ability to remember, finding that some of the greatest acco…
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AYURVEDA: Preventing Cold and Flu
A balanced immune system is your best friend in the quest for health and the conquest of disease BY DR. […]
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Assessing the Meat Industry’s Impact on Earth’s Climate
Aside from the deplorable treatment of farm animals, consider for a moment that giving up beef alone can have more [&hel…
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Spice World: Bitter Is Better—the Magic of Methi
For thousands of years fenugreek and its seeds have wielded their powers on our plates, our palettes and in nature’s [&h…
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Nutrition: You Are What Your Ancestors Ate
A new gene study investigates how the biological evolution of humans in certain regions makes them more adapted to a [&h…
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The Innovative, World-Class<br>Patanjali Food & Herbal Park
Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna repackage ancient ayurveda with high-tech processing and marketing savvy to snatch $1…
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Educational Insight: Secrets of Indian Gastronomy
A Synopsis of the Ayurvedic Fundamentals of Food and its Preparation ALL TEXT EXCERPTED FROM THE BOOK SECRETS OF INDIAN …
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From The Vedas: The Creation and Purpose of Soma
FROM THE VEDAS THE CREATION AND PURPOSE OF SOMA _______________ A poetic Vedic insight into the God’s ancient and myster…
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Healing: Grasping Palliative Care
HEALING GRASPING PALLIATIVE CARE ______________________ How one Canadian doctor is applying the ancient Hindu approach t…
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Healing: Living with Aging Parents
HEALING LIVING WITH AGING PARENTS ______________________ Kindness, compromise and tenacity are daily visitors as I look …
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Educational Insight Part II: A Health-Care Provider’s Handbook on Hindu Patients
EXCERPTS FROM A NEW BOOKLET BY QUEENSLAND HEALTH, AUSTRALIA Photos: Dinodia A SKILLED MEDICAL GROUP IN AUSTRALIA has pro…
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Health: “Diabesity:” A Modern Pandemic
H E A L T H “DIABESITY:” A MODERN PANDEMIC ______________________ A shift toward sugared foods and less physical activit…
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Health: What’s a Veggie Student to Do?
BY POOJA PATEL Every year a new group of hindu seniors heads off to their first year of college, many […]
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Health: What to Do about Childhood Obesity?
BY MRUNAL PATEL Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today nearly one in [&…
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Spiritual Living: How to Deal with the Winter Blues
BY SONIA SWEET KUMAR One of Chicago’s most famous residents, media mogul Oprah Winfrey, recently extolled the city…
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The Protein Nemesis
Some years ago, Dr. Campbell received a telephone call from a distraught woman who told him, “I have a strong [&he…
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Aging Gracefully
BY SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI Growing old. Let’s talk about it. There is a false concept that stops people fr…
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Tackling Depression
BY VIRENDER SODHI In my article in the July/August/September issue I wrote about clinical depression in young people and…
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Combatting Aging
BY VIRENDER SODHI Ayurvedic medicine has delineated rejuvenation as a speciality whose main purpose is to maintain healt…
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Preventing Colds & Flu
BY VIRENDER SODHI Everyone has respiratory infections. statistics show that an average adult can expect to get two to th…
Environment
‘I Love Cloth Diapers’
By Darshani Sukumaran When I had our daughter a few months ago and people found out I was using cloth […]
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Ayurveda Gets a Boost
By Mamta Landerman The California Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, CAAM, brought together 300 people for a weekend of …
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The Alcohol Trap
By Greesh C. Sharma The Indian community in America, now just over one million people, has a positive image. Its [&helli…
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We Need a Different Sexual Revolution
By Swami Brahmeshananda Etymologically, the word brahmacharya means to dwell in, to be attuned with and to realize one&#…
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Schooling the Blind
Since its establishment in 1979, the Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre, located in the famed temple town of Tirupati in Sou…
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The Ways and Joys of Eating With Your hands
In our July/August issue, Maya Tiwari introduced the myriad benefits of using the hands in cooking and eating. In this […
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Got Milk? And How!
By Hari Bansh Jha Seventy-year-old Doodh Dhari Baba lives on two liters of milk a day and nothing else. His […]
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Freedom? Write On!
American President Abraham Lincoln was known for his wisdom. One day his Secretary of War, Edwin Santol, sought the pres…
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Miracle Girl of Mumbai
By Javier Moro You may not have heard of her, but she is one of the world’s best known women–Sudha [……
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India Doesn’t Need More Tobacco
BY SADHU MUKUNDCHARANDAS Imagine a country releasing a biological weapon on another country. Firstly, using a biological…
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Karma: the Unseen Source of Stress
By Serena Wadhwa Most of us, when it comes to stress, have some difficulty in being able to handle it. […]
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You Call This Food?
In the fall of 1997 a california high school biology class started their week just like any other week, or […]
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GM Foods: Gift or Curse?
Microbiologist Vatsala Sperling argues ‘that genetic modification of foods is fraught with so much uncertainty and…
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Deepak Chopra: Vedantic Evangelist
By Lavina Melwani He’s the vedantic sage who’s a mouse click away (www.chopra. com). But is he the Wise Man …
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Hand-Made Food
By Bri. Maya Tiwari Aruna was a twelve-year-old girl who developed an aversion to food. Her parents tried all kinds [&he…
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Please Don’t Hit Us
By BBC News Hundreds of children marched through central London April 15 to demand an end to smacking. They paraded [&he…
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Death by Healthcare
As many as 98,000 americans die unnecessarily every year from medical mistakes made by physicians, pharmacists and other…
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Disarming the Doctors
The famed saint of South India, Sathya Sai Baba, is well known for his spiritual teachings and his vast projects [&helli…
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Merchants of Spice
By Lavina Melwani The modern spice trader is likely to be a recycled immigrant engineer, accountant or other gray-cell p…
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Medics Win Nobel Prize
By Lavina Melwani Say the word “Kosovo” or “East Timor” and immediately images are conjured up o…
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Their Healing Hands
“Healing Touch” is a therapy that works with the energy fields of the body. It stands in apparent opposition…
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BOOKS
YOGI’S YUMMIES HEALTHY AND DELICIOUS IS THE THEME FOR THIS COOKBOOK By Tara Katir, Kapaa, Hawaii One day my mother…
Hindu Basics
Baby Massage
By Vatsala Sperling Beautiful, precious, what a joy. This is how mothers, even those who have experienced the most diffi…
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The Raga’s Ultimate Reference
India’s raga is on a roll, and musicians, musicologists and connoisseurs all have reason to celebrate. The raga is…
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Is Your House a Home Or a Hotel Room?
By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami What is it that makes a house a home? A home is a place of companionship […]
Hindu Basics
Indra Devi at 100
By Mukunda Stiles Indra Devi has traversed the entire twentieth century. In the 1920s, she toured Europe as a star [&hel…
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Meet Yogi Hari
“The most effective way to teach children anything is to live it yourself,” says Leela Mata. She is wife of …
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Lotus: Food For the Body
By Anil K. Goel Besides its sanctity and beauty, the lotus is extensively used as both food and medicine in […]
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Compassion Hospital
India is a land where advanced medical services are unavailable or too expensive for many who need them. Now Sri [&helli…
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Food: Friend Or Foe?
By Vatsala Sperling When Hindu parents explain the meaning and purpose of our household rituals and traditions, children…
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Rediscovering Ayurveda
By VRINDAVANAM S. GOPALAKRISHNAN K. Nair had a gut feeling, and it wasn’t caused by his painful peptic ulcer. Drug…
Opinion
Fearless Compassion
By Chandra Devi My Guru Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati taught me to serve in the name of Shiva and that […]
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The Selfless Life of Serving Siva in All
By Lavina Melwani Did you know that the sacred soil of Kashi, City of Light, lies in America? That the […]
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Their Family to Yours
By Shikha Malaviya How to do homework without Throwing Up. Bullies are a Pain in the Brain. How to Bring […]
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Breathe Your Stress Away
By Devananda Tandavan Stress is a natural and necessary consequence of living. But there’s no need for us to be [&…
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The Little-Known Noni
Most people instinctively avoid things that smell like this. But this is supposed to be medicine, and we all know [&hell…
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Time to Veg Out
October 3, 1998, saw the Boston Vegetarian Society host numerous eateries, markets, nonprofit organizations and over 7,0…
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Be Dental with Yourself!
BY Devananda Tandavan Dental problems seem to be more common with the diet and nutritional levels of today’s urban…
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Meatless Motherhood
By Devananda Tandavan There is absolutely no requirement for humans, including pregnant humans, to ingest animal foods. …
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How About a Diet to Die For?
By Devananda Tandavan As I have mentioned in the past, the traditional South Indian vegetarian diet is an excellent bala…
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Sweet and Insidious: Please Pass the Sugar
BY DEVANANDA TANDAVAN Sugar’s effect on our well being is a very controversial subject. Any of the following sympt…
Environment
The Buttersweet Benefits of Ghee
BY BRAHMACHARINI MAYA TIWARI Vedic seers considered milk to be the most sattvic (peace-producing) food for humankind. Fr…
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Cool, Windy, Dry-How to Acclimate
BY DEVANANDA TANDAVAN The months of October, November and December constitute in the northern hemisphere the fall, autum…
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Appetite for Asian Spice
By AJITH BRIDGRAJ Transcending any other cultural considerations, the allure of Asian food wins Indians a welcome seat w…
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Buyers Beware of The Tamoxifen Hype
BY DEVANANDA TANDAVAN In May 14, 1998, the medical journal Lancet published a glowing report of the 15-year study of [&h…
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Consequences of Corporal Punishment
By Devananda Tandavan In emergency rooms across the US it’s fairly common for young people to be admitted in a [&h…
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Opening Shop in America
Navin is a cashier in a New York bookstore. But he is no ordinary cashier. Navin (not his real name) […]
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Will Nepal Go Veggie?
By Hari Bansh Jha Hari Singh estimates that 15 per-cent of Nepal’s 20 million citizens are vegetarians. Now 52, he…
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Fabric Begets Fashion
With tucks and pleats, flowing folds and knotted ties, Indians have for tens of centuries fashioned impeccable apparel f…
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No Cannable Cannibals!
With reports from Associated Press Now doesn’t that concern you all a little bit, learning that? It just stopped m…
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Food and Breath: Sustaining the Body
BY BRAHMACHARINI MAYA TIWARI Food is divinely intertwined with the body. According to ancient Vedic seers, all things gr…
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“I Can, I Will, I Am Able to Get Well”
By Devananda Tandavan Has there been anyone among us that has not injured himself, to only experience a complete and [&h…
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The Yellow Miracle Root
Think “natural healing,” and you likely conjure an image of rare herbal extracts with exotic names. But don&…
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Smokers on the Run
from Associated Press reports With jeers and catcalls, many Californians kept right on puffing early Thursday as the new…
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The Goodness of Guggal
Alternative medical practitioners share a common fate in America–they often serve as a “last resource”…
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Minus the Hellfire, Brimstone Is Essential
BY DEVANANDA TANDAVAN Brimstone, the legendary yellow substance that burns with malodorous fury, is very toxic to humans…
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BOOKS
RUBBED WRONG BY LIFE? JOHARI ADVOCATES DAILY MASSAGE AND A NON-TOXIC DIET With Tara Katir in Kapaa, Hawaii Asked for [&h…
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Reclaiming Sadhana: Nourisher of Health
BY BRAHMACHARINI MAYA TIWARI My early life was fostered by wholesome practices that preserved the good Earth–the p…
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Welcome The New Healers
By JULIE RAJAN, PHILADELPHIA Last time you visited a doctor, you probably gave little consideration to the impact of Ren…
Opinion
Ayurveda: Choicest Health-Care Choice
BY DR. VASANT LAD Beginning in 1979, I traveled from the East to the West coast of the United States, […]
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Wear Your Body Like a Sandal
BY THE EDITOR Human malady is no trifling matter. suffering and death prowl daily in the village of mortality, and [&hel…
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RX: Reiki
By LAVINA MELWANI, NEW YORK Can gall-bladder stones disappear without surgery, and umbilical hernias vanish? Can cancer …
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Reiki: Restoring Prana’s Natural Flow
By Devananda Tandavan Reiki is the Japanese name for an ancient healing method rediscovered by Usui from the Sanskrit Bu…
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Spanking Hurts Forever
Corporal punishment of children does not improve behavior, concludes a newly published study by Professor Murray A. Stra…
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Better Ways to Help An Overactive Child
By Devananda Tandavan When children are in adults’ presence or environment, many of them are fidgety, cannot sit s…
Publisher's Editorials
Forgiving Others Is Good for Your Health
By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Most people today are working harder to correct the faults of others than they are th…
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BSE: The Ruminant Empire Strikes Back
By Devananda Tandavan We have previously discussed Great Britain’s epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. B…
Environment
World’s Most Effective Enviromental Attorney
New Delhi attorney M.C. Mehta has successfully argued before India’ Supreme Court that pollution as a hazard to li…
Health & Ayurveda
Cures For BHP, the Older Man’s “Curse”
By Devananda Tandavan BPH stands for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, or enlargement of the prostate, a small, walnut-sized…
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Ways to Soothe that Heartburn
By Devananda Tandavan Thirty percent of the American public suffers from it at least once a month and 10 percent [&helli…
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Ayurvedic Principles For Pubescence
By Devananda Tandavan We have emphasized that exercise is very important for boys and girls going through puberty. Exerc…
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Boys Will Be Boys, But Not for Long
Puberty in boys proceeds about the same as in girls, except the changes are more external due to the differences [&helli…
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Vegetarianism: Roots of Righteousness
BY SWAMI PRAGYANAND Sanatana Dharma, today known as Hindu Dharma, the eternal religion, is an integration of nature and …
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Coming of Age, From Lass to Lady
By Devananda Tandavan Here are three important milestones which we reach in our lifetimes–childhood, from birth to…
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Your Teenage Vegetarian
By JANICE JAMES, M.S. , R.D. (AP) Teenagers who become vegetarians can be developing dietary habits that help provide th…
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A Toxic Monster In Your Mouth
If you have silver amalgam dental fillings, you may have a time bomb ticking in your mouth. Amalgam is a […]
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Yoga for India’s Army
By DIPANKAR DAS, NEW DELHI What do you think is the latest addition to the Indian armed forces’ arsenal? Early [&h…
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DHEA – Menace or Miracle?
Stop aging now!” “Do we have the fountain of youth?” These are some of the exaggerated claims found in…
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Antidotes For Andropause
By Devananda Tandavan Are you a man 45 years or older who is finding himself becoming more irritable and argumentative […
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Beedies, a New American Fad
When the marlboro man moved to India, who would have guessed that “Ganesha Beedies” would invade America in …
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Veggie: Norm in the Dorm
By Maryellen La Bosco, New York While vegetarianism is no longer an aberration in America, at Sarah Lawrence College in …
Opinion
Media’s Madness in Sex and Violence
BY SHYAM KUMARI AGARWAL Does liberty mean the licence to debase oneself and in the process undo the social fabric? [&hel…
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Hospital Hopes and Hazards
By Devananda Tandavan Historically the hospital has been an institution created as a central place to give nursing care,…
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72 – Hour Marthon Dance
BY JENNIFER M. FLAKER What drives a marathoner to go the extra mile? When Vidya Chandra Sekhar set a new […]
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Mitigating Menopause
Vegetarian diet, proper supplements and appropriate exercise can ease the transition By Devananda Tandavan One of the mo…
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The Yoga of Endurance
Sri Chinmoy beats 65 Age is in the mind and not in the heart. With determination we can con-quer the […]