ABSTRACT
Preventive lipostasis, ie lowering/controlling the various lipid levels to protect the coronaries from atherosclerosis, is firmly entrenched in modern therapeutics, to the point of being an almost knee-jerk prescription to every cardiac patient, a genureflexopathy of some sort. Enforced lipostasis through dietary measures and drugs has spawned a new syndrome characterised by an obsession with lowering the levels of lipids with the much-celebrated statins and by a fanatical abstinence from fats, and as a by-product, it has robbed cuisines of the joys of fat. Alex Comfort, better known for his best-selling The joys of sex, had penned another mini-classic, The anxiety makers – the curious preoccupation of the medical profession. The new syndrome has been named lipochondria, the sound of which harmonises well with that of the well-recognised hypochondria. A reassessment of lipostasis, lipophobia and lipochondria seems overdue.
ABSTRACT
Gandhiji penned Hind Swaraj on board a ship in 1909, and its continuing and universal relevance has been reaffirmed even today. Dr. Ulhas Jajoo’s book is an encore of Hind Swaraj. The book is charged with core truths, applicable anywhere, for anybody, with no need for any financial largesse. The widespread applicability of Prof. Ulhas Jajoo’s pioneering work requires only the will to act, with results assured in many ways. Dr. Jajoo’s thesis, his vision, is beyond the caprices of space, time, and statistics