Talks and learning’s

It was Republic Day yesterday.
I knew but didn't at the same time what with being around a bed in hospital the entire day.

Today is a big day in small scheme of things, that is the patient in question is leaving for another city, one that is known for its medical intuitiveness, one that excels in bypass surgeries.
I shall have to hold the fort back here and perhaps go when the time is ripe, when I'm needed and my help required but until then it's a stressful few days until the operation is successful and the uneasiness and strain of the entire episode weighs heavy each day, forming a sullied cloud of anxiety that gurgles with tears and constant needs for consolation.
I am no good at this so I stand in the background, providing solace in other forms, easing the pressure in other ways making ample space for melancholy to flow down unrestricted.

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During my numerous hours spent in the hospital wards and visitors lounges I learnt something more about heart diseases.
South Asians are the most affected community with heart problems in the whole world. People from the Indian subcontinent are most susceptible to heart diseases and type 2 diabetes, so much that even little kids begin showing early markers for future health problems.
These diseases often run in the family and are growing common among people mostly men but women are not easily spared either.
The underlying causes are not known yet but it can be mitigated by right diet and exercise.
South Asians are also know to exercise the least in the whole world, perhaps that's saying something.
Indians being the least physically active community leading to mid section obesity which is the largest reason for heart diseases and diabetes and Bad food habits which include eating large amounts of fried foods, sugars and simple carbohydrates that all form the basis of our snacks and cultural rituals that involve abundance of foods most of which are fried and unhealthy eaten in copious quantities.

There was a time when people ate like this and didn't die of heart diseases but that was a time when people worked farms, ran and laboured all day.
Food habits need to change with times and should be proportionate to amount of physical exertion one does and seeing how we are susceptible to these maladies it's much easier to prevent than look for immediate solutions.

I also learnt that South Asians are the least educated about the relationship between heart diseases and diet/exercise. They're ignorant about these connections and perhaps do not know when the time has come to take a step back and analyse.

Heart diseases take years upon years to build.
The cholesterols that spike which lead to heart attack takes more than a decade to keep collecting until one day the blood can take no more and the arteries choke.
Think of a gutter that begins blocking when the flowing water begins culminating debris and other garbage that just won't budge nor pass through the small exits.
That is much like our body, our heart, our arteries.

When it comes to food perhaps body is a place of worship.