TURMERIC LOWERS HEART ATTACK RISK BY-PASS POST SURGERY

Turmeric lowers heart attack risk post surgery

MONDAY, 16 APRIL 2012 18:15

IANS | LONDON

SOURCE  FROM  --    http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/health-a-fitness/58064-turmeric-lowers-heart-attack-risk-post-surgery.html 

Turmeric may help lower heart attack risk in people post bypass surgery, thanks to curcumin, the yellow pigment present in the spice which has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Bypass surgery improves blood supply to the heart muscle. However, during the surgery that is usually performed with the heart stopped, the organ can be damaged by prolonged lack of blood flow, increasing the patient's risk of heart attack.

The new findings suggest that curcumins may reduce such risks when added to traditional drug treatments.

The results need to be confirmed through further research, said Wanwarang Wongcharoen from Chiang Mai University in Thailand, who led the study, the American Journal of Cardiology reported.

Researchers at the Thai university studied 121 patients who had non-emergency bypass surgery between 2009 and 2011. Half the patients were given one-gram curcumin capsules to take four times a day, starting three days before their surgery and continuing for five days afterwards. The other half took the same number of drug-free placebo capsules.

The researchers found that during their post-bypass hospital stays, 13 percent of the patients who'd been taking curcumins had a heart attack, compared to 30 percent in the placebo group.

After accounting for any initial pre-surgery differences, Wongcharoen and his colleagues calculated that people on curcumins had a 65 percent lower chance of heart attack.

"It's very, very encouraging," said Bharat Aggarwal of the study. Aggarwal works with the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, which studies the use of curcumins in cancer therapy, according to the Daily Mail.

According to researchers, it is likely that the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of curcumin may have helped limit heart damage in the patients.

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V.RAGHAVENDRA RAO,

20, DESCANSO, APRT 1321,

SAN  JOSE,

CALIFORNIA - 95134. USA.

518-261-7075

80-year-old fights for dignified life 

SOURCE  FROM  --  http://ibnlive.in.com/news/80yearold-fights-for-dignified-life/248548-60-118.html

COIMBATORE: At 80, retired Central Government employee N S Mahidhara is fighting a battle with his five children, all well-settled, so that he can live a life of dignity in his sunset years.

In an unusual step, the resident of Chinniampalayam in suburban Coimbatore has petitioned the District Collector M Karunakaran to act against his only son invoking the provisions of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act. Sadly, the district administration is yet to act on the two-month old petition.

Left all alone in the house of one of his four daughters, Mahidhara has been struggling to cook food and do household chores like fetching drinking water and sweeping. Only newspapers and a television set keep him engaged for most part of the day."Even criminals in jail will have relatives visiting them frequently. I brought up five children and now they have reached good positions in life with well secured jobs. But they have forgotten me and even hate my presence," says Mahidhara in a choked voice.

He wrote to the Collector two months ago after seeing reports and photographs in the Express about aged citizens petitioning the administration for their sustenance.

All his daughters are in government service, while his 45-year old son is a CEO of a textile company in Erode.� "My health is fast deteriorating and I feel like I may not be even able to walk a month from now. It's scary when I think how I am going to survive then. My son and daughter in-law occasionally visit me only to abuse me. They plainly ask me why I am surviving for these long years," says Mahidhara failing to fight back his tears.

Unable to bear the abuses of his son and others, he lodged a complaint with the Peelamedu police station last year with little use.

"The police personnel at the station took sides with my son and (daughter/son) in-laws as though they shared some cosy relationship. I am a lonely old man and couldn't withstand their might. I was forced to withdraw my complaint," he says. "I know that my son and daughter in-law are having so much hatred against me and I have to always fear for my life if they are with me. What I am seeking is a monthly maintenance from them so that I could engage a good caretaker, which I cannot afford now with my pension," he says.

When this Correspondent brought Mahidhara's plight to Collector Karunakaran's notice, he promptly collected the details and assured that he would immediate take action as per the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents & Senior Citizens Act.

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V.RAGHAVENDRA RAO,

20, DESCANSO, APRT 1321,

SAN  JOSE,

CALIFORNIA - 95134. USA.

518-261-7075

Pensioners' counsellor

January 14, 2012

Pensioners' Counsellor, a journal by the All India Confederation of Pensioners Associations

Pensioners' Counsellor, a journal covering issues of interest to pensioners of all backgrounds – government, public sector and Provident Fund-linked (read about the PFP scheme here) is published by the  All India Confederation of Pensioners Associations, a registered body.

The journal publishes extracts from court orders, government orders and some capsules of news. It is printed and published on the 10th of the month by Ramachandran S.S., Secretary-General from 144, Surya Kiran Apartments, Plot 65, Fifth Avenue, I.P. Extn, Patparganj, Delhi 92.

The contact information provided in the journal is : email - ccpa1983@yahoo.co.in and cell phones : +91 98688 62322 ; +91 98688 99738 ; +91 98688 04795 (December 2011)

With some support, the Confederation should be able to start its own website. 

Dr P Vyasamoorthy, 30 Gruhalakshmi Colony Secunderabad 500015 Ph 040-27846631 / 9490804278. 

Don't forget to wash your hands immediately after chopping chilly; you may forgetfully touch your  eyes or anus. 

SENIOR CITIZEN ACT IN UNION TERRITORY OF PUDUCHERRY SOON

Senior Citizens Act in UT soon

SOURCE  FROM  -- http://ibnlive.in.com/news/senior-citizens-act-in-ut-soon/248367-60-118.html

PUDUCHERRY: Five years after its enactment, the Puducherry government is getting ready for implementation of Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. The department of social welfare has taken up sensitisation programmes to enable the implementation of the Act.

A sensitisation programme with NGOs and officials was chaired by Chief Secretary M Sathiavathy on Wednesday.

The government had notified the rules under the Act in October 2011 and subsequently appointed statutory officers like presiding officers, maintenance officers, conciliation officer, Secretary Welfare G Thevaneethi Dhas said.

The appellate tribunals in both Puducherry and Karaikal districts have been appointed, with respective District Collector as the Presiding officer.

Besides tribunals in all sub-divisions have been appointed with Deputy Collector as the presiding officer. A state council headed by Chief Secretary and district council headed by Secretary Welfare has also been constituted.

It also includes action plan for district police officers.

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V.RAGHAVENDRA RAO,

20, DESCANSO, APRT 1321,

SAN  JOSE,

CALIFORNIA - 95134. USA.

518-261-7075

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SON EVICTS SENIOR CITIZEN MOTHER FROM HER HOUSE BY FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINING HER SIGNATURE .

Son 'evicts' elderly woman from house

SOURCE  FROM  --  http://www.dailypioneer.com/city/56899-son-evicts-elderly-woman-from-house.html

The son of an 80-year-old woman cheated his own mother by fraudulently obtaining her signature on the papers of her house. Wife of a retired gazetted officer, who passed away in 1984, Damyanti Devi was forced to leave her house after her son and her daughter-in-law deprived her of basic amenities in her own house in Pitampura.

Damyanti, wife of Babu Ram retired as Class-I officer in 1982 who died in 1984 after remaining bed-ridden for about one-and-half years, was residing at CP-26, Maurya Enclave in Pitampura along with her son, Harinder Bhangelwal and his wife, Sujata Bhangelwal. Damyanti approached a city court to register a police complaint against his son after her complaint at Economic Offence Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police in October last year went unheeded. On the court's direction, EOW filed a case in this regard on Tuesday.

Damyanti said in her complaint that her son along with his associates forged and made a false will of her husband and illegally got  the house transferred in his name. "Since then, her daughter-in-law started humiliating and ill-treating and made my life  miserable. Not only that, both of them, son and daughter-in-law, took away all documents, including CGHS card, pension documents, documents of properties and identity proof." She said Harinder and Sujata did not provide her even food and medicine even after repeated requests. All this compelled her to leave the house and seek refuge with her daughter, Vandana Sharma.

It has emerged that Damyanti's husband had neither made any Will nor transferred the property to his son. Harinder, however, forged all documents and got the property transferred in his name. "I have been receiving my husband's pension. My son never helped me financially and they almost threw me out of the house after fraudulently acquiring the house. When I learnt about this, they started humiliating me," she said in her complaint.

Delhi Police have registered a case under Sections 471 (Using as genuine a forged document or electronic record), 420 (cheating) 467 (Forgery of valuable security, Will,) under Indian Penal Code against Harinder in this regard.

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V.RAGHAVENDRA RAO,

20, DESCANSO, APRT 1321,

SAN  JOSE,

CALIFORNIA - 95134. USA.

518-261-7075

GOVT TOLD TO CONSIDER CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR CRIMES AGAINST SENIOR CITIZENS

Govt told to consider capital punishment for crimes against elderly

SOURCE  FROM  --  http://www.indianexpress.com/news/govt-told-to-consider-capital-punishment-for-crimes-against-elderly/936265/

Observing that crimes against senior citizens are similar to "epidemics" and require urgent and serious remedies, a Delhi Sessions court has called on the government to counter the steep rise in such crimes, by making them punishable with death.

Additional Sessions judge Narinder Kumar noted that while the lawmakers have recently taken steps to provide for harsher punishment in cases of sexual offences, a similar move can be considered for crimes committed on the elderly.

"Having regard to gravity of nature of sexual offences, the Legislature has taken steps to provide for stricter punishments for the criminals. This court feels that our wise representatives in Parliament should provide for capital punishment in such cases also, where senior citizens are the victims, so as to teach a lesson to the offenders and to deter others from indulging in crimes against senior citizens," the judge said.

The observation came while the court was awarding a jail sentence to two men, Sunil Kumar and Arjun Sharma, convicted of conspiring to rob a 70-year-old woman. According to the prosecution, the woman used to run a shop near her home in Karol Bagh. On the day of the incident, Sharma and an accomplice allegedly followed her to her home and attacked her by tying her hands and feet. They then allegedly blindfolded the woman, and locked her inside the bathroom, where they removed her jewellery before stealing money and gold from her almirah.

Prosecution said Sharma and his accomplice were given information about the woman's movements by Sunil Kumar, who worked as a domestic help in the neighbouring house. The woman was eventually rescued by her son, who had come to visit her.

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V.RAGHAVENDRA RAO,

20, DESCANSO, APRT 1321,

SAN  JOSE,

CALIFORNIA - 95134. USA.

518-261-7075

SENIOR CITIZEN'S COMMISSION - MP

Senior citizen's Commission 

SOURCE  FROM  --  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/Senior-citizens-Commission/articleshow/12630846.cms 

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh will have aCommission for Senior Citizens, which would recommend measures to the State government for betterment of senior citizens. Besides, a rehabilitation policy for senior citizens would also be laid, according to an official release.

In order to help senior citizens go on pilgrimage,Mukhya Mantri Teerth Darshan Yojana - Chief Minister Pilgrimage Scheme for Senior Citizens will come into effect from this financial year. The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made these announcements while addressing a Panchayat of Senior Citizens at CM House here today. Senior citizens from across the state participated in the Panchayat and shared their views.

Elaborating on the structure of Chief Minister Pilgrimage Scheme for Senior Citizens, Shri Chouhan said that senior citizens will be given assistance for pilgrimage to major pilgrimage centres. Responding to suggestions from the senior citizens, he said that more pilgrimage centres would be included. Those above 65 years of age will have attendant with them. The department of religious endowment will be nodal department for implementing the scheme. Chouhan said that every district will have Ashram for destitute aged persons. Rules for setting up such Ashrams in public private partnership mode will be laid soon. Besides, a training certificate course for taking care of old persons will also be introduced, he added.

The Chief Minister said that Senior Citizens' Day would be observed in honour of services to them. He informed that Day Care Centres in urban areas would be set up in first phase for taking care of senior citizens. Effective implementation of the Parents and Senior Citizens Maintenance and Welfare Act in the state would be ensured. The committees set up in districts headed by respective SDMs under provisions of the Act would be made more powerful. Antyodaya Ration Cards would be given to the aged persons in rural areas who have no one to take care of so that they could have meals. Adequate arrangements would be made for health care of pensioners and measures would be taken for addressing their grievances. Deen Dayal Upchar Yojana and State Illness Assistance Fund would be effective for government aided Old Age Homes. Arrangements for Rain Basera (night shelters) would be set up at all major religious places for them. There would be a separate policy for the safety of senior citizens living alone in urban areas.

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