HR Era,     Issue # 59,       Aug 27th, 2005
 

CONTENTS

Moderator's Space

1. A Note on this Collector's Issue

Human Resource Management : Executive Wellness

2. Executive Wellness : From Dropping Dead to Health & Energy - by Rajeev B Bhatnagar
3. Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease - by Dr. Dean Ornish

Exercise

4. Chale Chalo (Keep Walking) - by Neeraj Narang
5. The Five Tibetan Rites: Exercises for Healing, Rejuvenation, and Longevity - by Mary Kurus

Proper Diet

6. Yogic Principles of Eating - by Dr. Phulgenda Sinha
7. General Motors' Weight Loss Diet Program

High Blood Pressure

8. Guidelines on Hypertension or High Blood Pressure -European Society of Hypertension
9. Your Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure - US Department of Health & Human Services

Meditation

10. Meditation : The Inward Journey - by Blair Lewis

Some More Good Material

11. Heart Care Tips - by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty
12.  Executive Health and Wellness - sent by LRK Hareekirishnan
13. Heart Attack: Dealing when you are Alone - sent by K Utpal

Announcements & Messages by Members

14. Praise & Brickbats
15. Best HR Jobs (India)
16. Aims of HR Era, How to Contribute Articles.

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In this issue of we focus specially on Cardio-Vascular Diseases.

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A few days later: Ms. Sreeja narrated another incident. Late one night, at 10PM, a young friend of hers called from Bangalore from his new mobile phone to give a his new cell number.  Next day, early morning she received a call from the same mobile phone but the caller was unknown - not her friend. The caller told that the person to whom the mobile belonged had just died due to sudden heart attack. Since the last number called by the dead person was Sreeja's he was informing so that they could come and collect the body. The friend was 30 years old!

An Emerging Trend & Some Action

The point is that now-a-days employees in the prime of age are increasingly falling prey to life style diseases like Heart attack etc. Organizations loose well trained knowledge worker who could be productive for many years to come and families loose the affection & security provided by the bread winner!

Being disturbed by two events in quick succession, we have started a series of presentations on Executive Health & Wellness in our company. Doctors from reputed hospitals are invited for giving these talks with the aim to create health awareness amongst staff members who care to attend.

The Survey

I made a survey of the causes for death while in service amongst my friends and this is what I found:

 

About one third of the deaths are due to cardio-vascular diseases and another one-fifth due to cancer. These two account for half of the deaths while in service. We all know about heart attack being a major cause but cancer was a surprise to me. In the sample, it caused almost 20% deaths. Road accidents are also an important cause and account for another 20%..

Why Should Organizations Act?

I have already stated that when a person in 30s or 40s dies, organization looses a well trained knowledge worker who could be productive for many years to come. Loss occurs not only from death but also ill-health.

On the negative side, for example, a study of 200000 employees of General Motors revealed that overweight employees are sick more often ad result in higher health care expenses.

On the positive sides healthy & energetic employees are more productive & creative. Can you recall pictures of Japanese & Korean workers doing calisthenics before they begin work in shop floor?

Healthy and energetic employees are important for the success of any organization. We must move towards this goal.

Causes & Remedies: Cardio-Vascular Diseases

The happy news is that Cardio-vascular diseases and Cancer are life style diseases. They can be prevented to a large extent by proper lifestyle choices. Even road accidents are preventable.

In this issue we shall focus on Cardio-Vascular Diseases only. (In a later issue we shall take up Cancer and Road Accidents.) Prevention involves many actions like

i] Proper Exercise

ii] Proper Diet

iii] Relaxation thru Yoga & Meditation

iv] Controlling High Blood Pressure

We shall cover all these aspects in this issue.

Author: Rajeev B Bhatnagar

Moderator, HR Era. Sr DGM=Personnel, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai, India
 

http://hrera.com/article0009.htm

Dr. Dean Ornish has popularized the "Dr. Dean Ornish' Program for Reversal of Heart Disease." The success of the program in achieving reversal, hitherto believed impossible - is supported by scientific evidence. It's  has 4 elements:

    i  ] Reduce stress and increase intimacy
    ii ] Eat the Reversal Diet if you have heart disease (otherwise the Preventive Diet)
    iii] Stop smoking
    iv] Do a moderate level Exercise.

This book is a classic on heart disease - rather on reversing it. Even otherwise all of us can gain physically & emotionally from reading it. It has good chapters "opening the heart" - on communication, love. Here is a summary of the 4 elements of the program. 

Click Here to read more ...

Book reviewed by: Rajeev B. Bhatnagar
 

http://geocities.com/bhatnagar_alka/chale_chalo.ppt

Jim Fixx, who popularized running as an exercise in USA, died of a heart attack at a young age! This anecdotal proof is often cited by proponents of walking, who say walking is the "best exercise."

My father also told me the same thing - and he added - this applied specially if one is above 40. But does one listen to to father? However, I am wiser by now and agree with him since I had a damaged knee joint due "stationary running" popularized & advocated by Dr. Keneeth Cooper in his best selling book Aerobics.

This presentation describes the advantages of walking in more and the benefits it gives us.

"Chale Chalo," the title of this presentations is a Hindi phrase and translates as "Keep Walking."

Presentation, 16 Slides, 163 KB

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Sent by - Neeraj Narang

Tata Infotech, Contact: neeraj.narang@tatainfotech.com  

 

Peter Kelder's book called The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, published in 1985, for the first time fully described "The Five Tibetan Rites" - an exercise program for "youthing". This is a simple exercise program used by Tibetan monks to live long, vibrant and healthy lives. Many have lived longer than most can imagine by following the program - this book states.

Potential Benefits

Benefits of the "Five Tibetan Rites" include: looking much younger, sleeping soundly, waking up feeling refreshed and energetic, release from serious medical problems including difficulties with spine & joints; release from pain, better memory, weight loss, improved vision, youthing instead of aging, greatly improved physical strength, endurance and vigor, improved emotional and mental health, enhanced sense of well being and harmony, and very high overall energy.

How the Five Rites Work

The rites represent a system of exercise that affects the body, emotions and mind. The Tibetans claim that these exercises activate and stimulate the seven key chakras that in turn stimulate all the glands of the endocrine system. The endocrine system is responsible for the body's overall functioning and aging process.

Origin

The Five Tibetan Rites are based on Indian Yoga system which was imported into Tibet around 11th century.

Word Document, 343 KB.

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Sent by: Vinod Bhatnagar

Contact: vinodbhatnagar@yahoo.com
 

http://geocities.com/abs444/yogic_principles_of_eating.doc

These are simple rules on proper diet. But why Yoga and why Dr Sinha? I started accepting them  after the following incident:

Due to a knee injury, I developed a limp while walking and had to climb stairs putting weight on one leg. That was in 1996 and I felt quite embarrassed since I was a young executive. The injury was treated for 6 months by regular doctors with medicines, heat massage, wax etc. At the end of it all two renowned Ortho specialists had told me that the sole cure & option was a surgery to remove the meniscus that was coming out of knee joint..

Being afraid of surgery, I decided to try yogic exercises. What happened in next 3 months surprised me. I followed the program of yoga exercises in Dr. Sinha's book and the limp as well as weakness in leg simply vanished.

Here is a summary of yogic principles of proper diet as described by Dr. Phulgenda Sinha in his book "Yogic Cures for Common Diseases." It is published as Orient Paperback by Vision Books and costs less than a dollar (INR 40/= to be precise).

Click Here to read more ...

 

Bored of things like Yoga & Yogic diet! Want some thing modern! Want to do it quick!

Try this diet plan which I received in one of the yahoogroups.

Trying to verify authenticity of this program, I could locate Dr. B.H. Jajoo's testimonial. Dr. Jajoo is Professor in Indian Institute Management, Ahmedabad. Here is his comment:

"I did the following weight loss diet program and it worked wonders. I strongly recommend anyone desirous of loosing weight to start on this program immediately. Best part of the program is that it is doable!"

You can visit his homepage at http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~jajoo/  . He has also reproduced this article in his "Favorites" page as Secrets of Losing Weight.

We received this program in an email from Mr. Milan K. Kukreti, Faculty Member, MDC, Mumbai. Here is what he wrote:

" hi manoj, i m not aware about GE but GM is having a very effective diet plan for wt. reduction. have tried it and it works.i have downloaded it from their site and is sent as attachment. regards, milan k.kukreti." contact: milankay@rediffmail.com

Click Here to read more ...

Received from: Milan K. Kukreti
 

http://geocities.com/abs444/hypertension.ppt

High Blood Pressure is a well established risk factor in cardio-vascular disease which causes heart attacks. It also causes many other problems besides heart attack.

"Silent Killer" is another name given to High BP (Hypertension in medical terminology). A person can be suffering from hypertension but since it does not often show as a debilitating symptom, people either do not discover it or tend to neglect it even if discovered. During this period of non-discovery or non-treatment, it silently keeps damaging the body organs.

Here are guidelines issued in 2003 by Joint National Committee and European Society of Hypertension on what is High BP and what lifestyle modifications are needed to combat it.

Presentation: 13 Slides, 256 KB

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Sent by - J A Mandape

Mr Mandape is in Exide India, Contact: jam@chn.exide.co.in  The original presentation appears to have been prepared by one Dr. RC Saxena, OHC, Gujarat Refinery. 
 

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There are over 2000 clinical trials that have shown the positive effects of meditation on physiology and emotions. Dr. Dean Ornish has also used it in "reversal of heart disease" program.

Here is Blair's compact guide on meditation for you.

He has himself practiced meditation for over 30 years since he was 17 years of age. Blair has taught meditation for 20 years. He learned meditation from many teachers but especially from Swami Rama and Pandit Rajmani Tigunait of Himalayan Institute.

So you are in good hands trying to learn with him.

PDF File: 39 Pages, 525 KB.

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Author: Blair Lewis

Blair is a physician assistant specializing in preventative medicine and the holistic treatment of chronic disease from a wellness perspective. He has practiced holistic medicine for over 25 years.
A noted teacher and author, Blair is the creator and spiritual director of the Alive and Healthy Institute in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Please visit his website at http://www.AliveandHealthy.com

 

Here is an interview with Dr Shetty, who was also treating Mother Teresa. The contents are very useful material on Heart Care. Though they may be repetitive, it is good to spare 5 minutes for refreshing oneself.

Click Here to view ...

Sent by - S Sampath Kumar

Sampath is a colleague of mine who works in Audco, an L&T group company. Contact: sskr@audcoindia.com . The file which I received says "Courtesy : PERSONNEL TODAY, a journal of the National Institute of Personnel Management, India."
 

http://geocities.com/abs444/health_wellness.ppt

Here is a comprehensive guide & presentation on maintaining good health and high energy level. This one is based on modern medical science and all will like it.

Presentation: 39 Slides, 728 KB

Click Here to download

Sent by - LRK Hareekirishnan

He is my colleague working in Safety Department, Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai, India
 

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When you are alone and have a heart attack, what can you do?

Presentation: 9 Slides, 108 KB

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Sent by: K Utpal
Contact: utpal.kachchhi@bayercropscience.com 
 

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