Adolescents gather information about sexuality from friends and through the print and electronic media. Often this information is wrong and unscientific. They have a great curiocity and concern about the sexuality of their own and of the opposite sex. Adolescents often have neither access to accurate information on the issues related to sexuality and sexual health, nor solutions for their...
Sex organs are the organs that are involved in the process of reproduction. It is nature's way to produce progeny of its own kind, so as to maintain the propagation of life. The sex organs are also called as “genitals”.
Puberty is the beginning of the adolescence. The height increases and the long bones grow more rapidly giving “leggy” appearance. They are clumsy. Parents pay much attention to whether or not their child is pretty. Parents feel that the child is weak and therefore they feed costly tonics. But these don’t work. A high protein and vitamin containing diet should be given at this age. The boys and...
Love is an intense affection and deep feelings for some one. It intends the welfare of the other. Love has different colours. Love for parents, love for a friend, love for elders, love for the country, etc. Each type of love has a different shade and hence the requirements, the duties, the expectations and the behaviour differ accordingly. Love between a boy and a girl or the love between a...
Obesity may be described as a bodily condition charactrised by excessive storage of fat in the adipose tissues. It usually results from consumption of food in excess of physiological needs. Obesity is common among people in Western countries and among the higher income groups in India and other developing countries.
Virgin is a person who has not had sexual intercourse. The term refers mostly to a woman, but should apply to both the sexes. On the first wedding night when the husband inserts his penis in his wife’s vagina, she is supposed to bleed due to the tear of the hymen situated at the entrance of vagina. The myth is that if she does not bleed, she is not supposed to be a virgin. T
The term stress has been borrowed by biology from engineering, where it implies an ability to withstand a defined amount of strain. Dr. Hans Selye, a great medical genius and noted world authority on stress has described stress as" a state manifested by a specific syndrome which consists of all the non-specifically induced changes within a biological system."
Diet is being recognized as the most important single factor for promoting either health or disease. Sir Robert Mc Carrison, the greatest of food scientists, who has conducted research on the problem of nutrition in India says "the right kind of food is the most important single factor in promotion of health ; and the wrong kind of food is the most important single factor in the promotion of...
Yogic practices help in maintaining good health by improving the resistence to diseases. It also harmonises and integrates the human personality at all levels and stages of life. Yogic practices ensure that blood remains free from toxins and alkaline matter. It also helps in purified blood being carried from organs like the lungs, liver, kidneys, digestive and other systems.
Fat stored in the body can be made from any food component - carbohydrates, proteins or fats. When food is eaten, it travels to the stomach and intestines. Enzymes break down food into glucose, amino-acids and minute droplets of fats. The fats travel to the liver and are processed to form fatty acids and glycerol. From the liver, the fatty-acids enter circulation where they are broken down further...
Never say diet. Come eat and live with me. This intelligent and practical way of eating is not a fad diet. Instead it is a sensible diet based on medical evidence and scientific well balanced nutrition. Follow this sensible diet designed in a way from which the body can derive the fullest nourishment and benefit, to assure good health as well as permanent weight loss.
Backache, one of the most common ailments, is widely prevalent these days due to sedentary living habits and hazardous work patterns. The psychological conditions associated with emotional stress, which bring about spasm of the muscles, may also cause backache. As the back bears the weight of the entire body it gives way when it has to carry an extra load in the case of persons who are overweight.
When the male receives sexual stimulation, the penis becomes long, erect and rigid. A colourless, sticky secretion from the pea-sized Cowper’s glands comes out of urethral opening. This serves as a lubricant. If the stimulation continues, it culminates into an “Orgasm”, the summit of the sexual pleasure. Ogasm is explosive and is associated with expulsion of “semen” through the urethra. This...
Values are strong feelings or beliefs about important issues in life. Values guide our behaviour and give purpose and direction to our life. Different individuals have different values. Different families and different cultures have different values. Values are influenced by traditions, religion, mass media, social and political situations.
"I’m so psyched and upset by remarks from people" lamented Mrs. Renu Jain "that it has become impossible for me to keep up my lost weight. My friends and well-wishers say that my body has sagged, I look older than my age. They say that I look pale and sick and that I have lost the beauty and charm I had when I used to weight seventy-six kilos. They insist that I should gain back my...