Health Awareness among men over forty years of age, meet by Sugam Charity

Sugam Charity Health Awareness meeting 2 on 11th of April 2010

Following the successful meet organized for women over forty on the 13th feb 2010, Sugam Charity organized the second meet for gents over the age of forty years. The aim of the meeting was to spread the awareness of life style diseases which are rife in this age group.

The format of the meet is to give awareness talk to spread the knowledge and to provide an individual assessment of these people. This is different to the master health check up though one part of it is based on the master health check up as described below.

Master Health Check up is now given as a standard to most corporate employees as part of their corporate social responsibility. The corporate bodies also take up this role to ensure they have healthy employees who in turn will take less sick leave and increase their productivity.

However this type of check up is not given to the people in the villages, one due to the lack of model of someone giving them the option of health check up as corporate bodies. but it is mainly due to the lack of awareness. sporadically the Sons and Daughters who are working in cities bring their kith and kin for these health check up, however the common man misses out.

This type of health check up can bring up the problems, hopefully at an earlier stage so that the treatment can be effective. It would also ensure people with risk factors are advised accordingly so that life style diseases do not affect them in the future.

The second part of this activity is where the charity wants to concentrate. Spreading the awareness by giving them not only their health information but also with an interactive forum at their doorstep.

This has been made very much possible by the talks given by the doctors and more importantly by the Nursing School Principal of KMC, Trichy and her Team. We at Sugam Charity cannot thank them enough as they do this on a sunday when most of us would rather spend relaxing at home. We also thank the Management of the KMC and KMC speciality hospitals for allowing us to use their team the education materials for this public exercise activity.

We at Sugam Charity hope that we have done some good to these people, only time can tell us so.

Regards

Chockalingam

"savour this moment, time is as important as money and health"

You would have read my previous blog on money and health the conundrum, if not please read before this blog.
I discussed the importance of health over money and in fact described a way of combining money and health. Thus we spend time to acquire money and assets to make us happy in the future.

Some of us would spend more time on acquiring health than the time we spend on acquiring money. this may be due to the fact that we value health more than money or we have lots of money already.

Acquiring health, we may do by going to a gym, for a swim, jog in the park, eat healthy as opposed to indulging in junk foods etc. Acquiring money, we may do by doing a job, working overtime, have a second job, work harder in further education to acquire a better job which will result in a better paid job.

But life is not entirely tomorrow. life is not yesterday either. Life is today with work towards a better tomorrow. Working in a health sector, we do see people who do not have a choice in a better tomorrow. A 39 year old, a father of two young kids, presents to me with shoulder pain, only to be diagnosed to be suffering a cancer which has already spread all over his body! shocking is it not ? this makes you think

What is life, is it more money with an ability to enjoy the wordly pleasures, or is it being healthy which we can acquire with good food and exercise. not completely. it is an ability to enjoy the worldly pleasures with a healthy mind and body at this point of time. as i said today we can plan to an extent for tomorrow, however can be unpredictable.

This brings me to the title of this blog, namely "savour this moment". Today at this point of time, be happy and healthy. Being happy and healthy now will not be enough for tomorrow which is also going to be your life. Hence whatever you do to acquire money and health for tomorrow, enjoy the act of doing so.

i.e enjoy your job which you will have to do today for a better tomorrow. If you cannot enjoy the job you are doing now, please look for your job which you will enjoy and savour the moment. Similarly if you do exercise, choose an activity which you enjoy and choose a healthy food which you enjoy.

feel sorry for people who do not do their job with pleasure and well, as they are not only wasting their life. Also feel sorry for people who do not care for their and their kith and kin's health as they are also wasting their life. Appreciate the person who enjoys doing something to a wealthier and healthier tomorrow.

now to the second part of my title,"Time is as important as the money and health". I hope you would have got this by now. Essentially savour this moment of time, as your life is the time now, .

If we savour this moment doing our job happily and keeping ourselves healthy, then we are indeed enjoying our life. Is is not what we all want.

Regards

Chockalingam