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What is Information Therapy?
The most common complaint patients have about doctors is that they don’t communicate properly. They either don’t have the time or they use medical jargon with the results that patients don’t understand what’s exactly happening to them. Today, most doctors do not spend enough time talking to their patients leading to a further widening of the doctor-patient communication gap. That’s where judicious use of Information Therapy can play a role. Just like medication, health information can be prescribed by a health care provider. Information therapy is the prescription of evidence-based medical information to a specific patient, caregiver, or consumer at just the right time to help the person make a specific health decision or behaviour change. When information therapy is prescribed as a part of health care, it can be as important as any test, surgery or medicine.

How relevant is Information Therapy in the Indian context?
Indian patients are becoming increasingly involved in their own healthcare. Every patient wants to know what his options are. The use of this therapy makes it easy to source information that people want. The transition will come soon in India too. Do you see Information Therapy as a possible substitute for a doctor’s counselling? Information Therapy cannot be a substitute but will definitely supplement a doctor’s counselling. Studies show that patients forget over half of what the doctor tells them because of the stress of consultation. Giving them printed educational material to read at home will help them remember as well as ensure patient compliance, as the printed word is often useful in reinforcing medical advice and instructions.

Individuals who make good health decisions have better health and lower health care costs. In the future, prescriptions of evidence-based medical information are slated to become an essential part of every medical encounter. Overall, Information Therapy can help reduce medical errors and health care costs-and can help you receive better care. Information therapy is powerful medicine. How important is knowledge about his condition to a patient and to what extent should it be imparted to him? Information therapy changes the way health care is delivered. By getting information prescriptions, patients and doctors are better able to communicate, especially when time is limited. A patient is the custodian of his own health and has right to know more about his diagnosis and treatment options.

Should the onus of imparting health education lie on the doctors or should it be other healthcare workers?
A patient has to be a partner in health education along with a gamut of healthcare providers including the doctors, paramedics, nurses, pharmacists as well as health insurers. In today’s age, people increasingly suffer from chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart, cancer etc. In such a scenario, what a patient does for himself even in terms of food and exercise affects his quality of health. How has this been implemented in the US? Some leading organisations like the Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute, California and Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Los Angeles have implemented Information Therapy programmes.These are becoming increasingly popular even with individual doctors. Unlike free-floating health content on the Web, information therapy prescriptions are delivered to the patient as part of the process of care, with only the information relevant to his or her current moment in care. Correctly prescribed, information becomes medicinepowerful medicine.

What kind of preparation a Christian should tale for fasting Prayer? This articles deals with some of the basics you need to take care. 

1. Reserve the Time. You should not be engaged with any other works. No appointments or Phone calls during the time of fasting prayer. This will help you to focus on prayer. 

2. No Prayer Hindrance. Examine your self whether you have any hindrances that will stop prayer not reaching to God. Confess your sins and ask for forgiveness. 

3. Have complete Faith. You should not have any doubt on your mind. Believe that God is going to hear your prayer. 

4. Be Hopeful. Do not let Satan disappoint you with many thoughts. Be confident and abide by God’s will. Do not ever give up and expect a great result through your fasting prayer. 

5. Think Heavenly. Let your mind be in Christ not fleshly things. Stay in the bible and have a open heart to accept the refreshment of Spiritual Blessing.

1. Avoid wire transfers.

2. Use a search engine. If it’s a scam, it’s likely someone else on the Internet will have published a complaint

3. Use the telephone. Nigerians will be very reluctant to give out a phone number and will try to negotiate most of the transaction over e-mail. That buys them time to answer hard questions

4. Verify the legitimacy of a bank

5. Always use a credit card. Consumers have wide protection when paying for Internet-based transactions with a credit card. Cheques are easily forged

New York: Scientists have discovered why it is harder to keep weight off than to lose it. A team at Columbia University has shown the body’s internal systems act to restore fat levels in people who have slimmed down. The body appears to interpret the loss of weight as a deficiency in the appetite hormone leptin, and acts to try to restore the usual balance. The study features in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
   It is estimated that more than 85% of obese people who have lost weight eventually put at least some of it back on. Research suggests this is due to a number of changes in the functioning of the metabolic, hormonal and nervous systems.
   The team gave doses of leptin to lean and obese volunteers who had recently lost weight. They found that most of the metabolic and hormonal changes which mean people cannot keep the weight from creeping back on were reversed once leptin levels were restored to pre-weight loss levels.
   Leptin is produced by the body’s fat (adipose) tissue. It is known to play a role in controlling appetite, but as yet the exact way that it works is unclear.
   The researchers suggest that, after people have lost weight, the body feels the need to make more leptin and so forms new fat tissue to enable it to do that. Restoring leptin to preweight loss levels would mean it no longer feel that need. Injections of leptin have been used to help morbidly obese people with a deficiency of the hormone to lose weight, but a similar approach has no effect on obese people with normal leptin levels.
   The researchers said it might eventually be possible to develop new drugs to keep weight off that work by targeting the way the body monitors leptin levels.
   Lead researcher Dr Michael Rosenbaum told a website that historically it made sense our ancestors to defend their fat reserves, as they were often subjected to periods when food was scarce.
   “We would predict that the human genome is heavily enriched with genes that defend body fatness and relatively lacking in genes that would oppose weight gain. We essentially have lived through hundreds of thousands of years of an environment that would encourage us to eat more and move less to preserve energy. We are in an environment where those traits are maladaptive.” NYT News Service

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Look at the life of Moses he was a very devoted prophet. He obeyed God in each and every step. The Bible says he heard from God and was in constant touch with God. He delivered Israelites from the bitter bondage of Egypt and led them to the land of Canaan with milk and honey. Do you know how much time it took them to reach Canaan? Forty years!! The Bible clearly says that Joshua and few others once went to spy this land and retuned after forty days. Num 13:17, “Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, ….” Num 13:25, “And they returned from spying out the land after forty days…” Num 13:27, ‘Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.”‘ So it was only few days of journey by foot not years. Bible says, “it was only eleven days journey.(Deu 1:2)” But what happened to them? How in the world somebody could wander for forty years, which could be reached by days. The Bible says, “the people were stiff necked and rebellious.” They were constantly murmuring and rebelling against God’s will and His servant Moses. That’s why God got pretty angry and He said this generation would not see the promised land. And the Bible says they wandered in wilderness going round and round around the mountain for forty years till the whole generation died.

Here we find many lost the promise of Promised Land and few who reached there also with much delay. If you are not hearing from God what to do and what not to do, how can you say what God has kept for you? Not only that when you will not hear the things and do not do it in right time how can you see your ministry promises getting fulfilled? Not only that but many times we hear from God and still fail to do it in time and it gets delayed and delayed.

How good is your prayer life? Does it matter your Christian life? Is prayerlessness a sin?

These Questions strikes most of Christian People. A Christian should reserve some time for Prayer. In other words, a Christian should start a day with prayer and end a day with prayer. It is time when you talk to your Heavenly father. Just like a child tells his needs to his dad, we have the right to tell our needs to Christ. Heaven is full of result that we haven’t prayed for yet… So if you want something from God, pray and ask and God shall provide it in time.

Prayer matter a Christian life. Satan doesn’t care how much you give or how often you go to church. But Satan will tremble and go away from you when you kneel down and start praying to Jesus. The more you pray, the more you grow in Christian life. You prayer can do a lot of things. God will use your prayer. God will honor your prayer.

Prayerlessness is a Sin. Jesus told and warned his disciples that they should be awake and pray. Jesus very clearly clarify it that every Christian must have a prayer life. If you lack prayer in your life, you lack lot of things. When you have no time to pray, Satan take advantage on your life. Your Christian life becomes weaker and weaker. But when you start praying, you get all spiritual strength.

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Make a Schedule
The best thing to do when trying to balance work and home is to make a schedule. Know how much time you have and schedule your work time and your home time. Then, you will know when you need to schedule work and home events. This will make your life significantly easier and you will know which activities fit into which time frame. Just make sure you stick to your schedule.

Share Responsibilities
Many times work and home responsibilities can become overwhelming because one spouse is handling more of the responsibilities than the other. So, learn to share responsibilities at home and each spouse can be responsible for their work. Also, older children should have some home responsibilities as well to help parents balance work and home.

Leave Work at Work
Balancing home and work can be difficult because it is so easy to take work home. If you really want to balance work and home then you will always leave work at work and keep home a sacred place for family and home activities.

Dedicate Weekends to Home Activities
A great way to keep home and work separate is to always focus on home activities during weekends, or at least on days off from work if you happen to work on weekends. When certain days are home days and other days are work days then it makes balancing work and home considerably easier.

Plan
The best way to balance work and home is to always make a plan. There are tons of tips that will help you, but there is nothing like making a plan and then following the plan to really balance work and home. It might be difficult, but if you have it planned out and follow the plan you will be surprised how easy you can find a balance.
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Advice from Tal Ben-Shahar.

1. Give yourself permission to be human. When we accept emotions — such as fear, sadness, or anxiety — as natural, we are more likely to overcome them. Rejecting our emotions, positive or negative, leads to frustration and unhappiness.

2. Happiness lies at the intersection between pleasure and meaning. Whether at work or at home, the goal is to engage in activities that are both personally significant and enjoyable. When this is not feasible, make sure you have happiness boosters, moments throughout the week that provide you with both pleasure and meaning.

3. Keep in mind that happiness is mostly dependent on our state of mind, not on our status or the state of our bank account. Barring extreme circumstances, our level of well being is determined by what we choose to focus on (the full or the empty part of the glass) and by our interpretation of external events. For example, do we view failure as catastrophic, or do we see it as a learning opportunity?

4. Simplify! We are, generally, too busy, trying to squeeze in more and more activities into less and less time. Quantity influences quality, and we compromise on our happiness by trying to do too much.

5. Remember the mind-body connection. What we do — or don’t do — with our bodies influences our mind. Regular exercise, adequate sleep, and healthy eating habits lead to both physical and mental health.

6. Express gratitude, whenever possible. We too often take our lives for granted. Learn to appreciate and savor the wonderful things in life, from people to food, from nature to a smile.