RISHIKESH, INDIA, April 2, 1011 (by Sonal Srivastavaon): Western medicine is very effective for trauma care and in dealing with life-threatening conditions. But it is of little help when it comes to educating people on how to live healthy so that they can avoid diseases. For many decades, people were terrified of cholesterol so they ended up consuming lots of simple carbohydrates, which created its own problems. The fact is that two-thirds of cholesterol in the body is produced by it. It’s only in the past few years, that western medicine practitioners have realized, that the amount of cholesterol in the blood is secondary to the level of inflammation in the body, said Robert Svoboda, the world’s first licensed western practitioner of ayurveda, at a conference on ayurveda organized by the Punarnava Ayurveda Trust in Rishikesh.
When I was young, women in America were discouraged from breast-feeding their children because scientists felt that baby milk formulae were healthier — full of vitamins and minerals, they were considered much better for babies than mother’s milk. It was several years before doctors realized that there are other things in the mother’s milk that can’t be found in packaged baby food. This is an ongoing process; research identifies something; there is a great flurry of activity around that thing and then comes new research that refutes the earlier findings, he added.