Author: @panchakarma

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• Regulate junk food sales
• Prevention instead of cure

Growing old happily and healthy

On Spektrum der Wissenschaft, an article on healthy aging mentions 5 important factors that are traditionally firmly rooted in Ayurveda/Panchakarma.
(Read here: https://www.spektrum.de/news/fuenf-tipps-fuer-ein-langes-gesundes-leben/1763052)
But what should be emphasized at this point is that in the Western health care system we focus on treating diseases and our health care system pays doctors for treating a disease rather than primarily for preventing a disease.

See the statement by Dr. Müller, head of the Villavita Day Clinic. Dr. Müller says about it:

Because to become old healthy is not the rule, but rather the exception. That is also because one concentrates today more on treating diseases instead of preventing them, says the physician Dieter Mueller: The health system is in such a way laid out that it becomes active only with illness. In addition, there are at most a few preventive examinations for early detection of diseases. Anyone who wants to increase their chances of growing old in good health should not wait until they become ill.

And this corresponds exactly to the traditional approach of medical Ayurveda and Panchakarma treatments. For the Ayurveda physician it is a question of ethics to maintain the health of a patient through individual attention even before a disease is treated.

In this way, Ayurveda and Pancha carnage maintains and promotes health and quality of life.

Wouldn’t it be a good social objective if the primary task of a health professional was to keep people healthy?

Exemplary

Mexico’s fight against corona is a strong signal and could become a model for the world in the fight against obesity. Interestingly, this could also be thought far into the future, provided that this strategy is maintained after Corona.

Age and obesity are two of the most serious risk factors for developing Covid-19 disease. The progression of the disease is then often particularly dramatic. Mexico has now taken this risk seriously and started the fight against obesity. Since obesity is also a high risk in children and adolescents, they need special protection.

Mexico wants to protect children and adolescents under the age of 18 from the consumption of junk food, sugar-sweetened beverages and highly processed foods and therefore prohibits their sale. This puts unhealthy foods on the same level as alcohol and cigarettes. This is very exemplary for the healthy development of children. Violations of these regulations are punishable by harsh punishments for repeat offenders, e.g. fines, store closures, prison sentences.

Mexico’s war against obesity could be a model for the future. Ayurvedic and Panchakarma treatments can also help to reduce the risk of obesity. These cures are excellent for this and also strengthen the immune system. A strong immune system is again the best preventive measure against the corona virus.

Obesity is a risk factor and a result of bad lifestyle, and thus favors the corona virus.

73% of Mexicans are overweight, of which 34% are pathologically obese. A trend that has taken off with increasing prosperity, a decoupling of the traditional way of life and a strong orientation towards the US-American lifestyle.

Mexico could thus become a model for the Western world – the big winner could be public health.

You can also read about this at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/08/19/mexico-kids-junk-food-ban/