Our patients have lots of questions about diet, lifestyle, health parameters and so on. I have written an article which I display in my waiting room for patients. Lots of their queries are answered there and then. I'm reproducing the same article here: Lifestyle-related disorders Not so long ago the world was not industrialized. In the last three hundred years our planet has leapt from being a mammoth village to a civilized world. We found more and more ways to make our work easy, automating tasks, making machines that made our job easier.

In doing so we increased productivity; we increased our income and we decreased our labour. Strangely this did not have as good an impact on our health. In fact, we found that our health, especially, cardiac health deteriorated. Now, industrialization was not all bad. We conquered the bane of many infectious diseases and invented vaccines, discovered…