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A N O S O G N O S I A: What is it? Anosognosia, is a temporary forgetfulness, according to French Professor, Bruno Dor, of the Institute of Memory and Alzheimer's Disease (IMMA), La Pitié-Salpêtrière, Hospital, in Paris. He addresses the subject in a rather reassuring way: "If anyone is aware of his memory problems --he does not have Alzheimer's." 1. I forget the names of families; 2. I do not remember where I put some things; This is "Anosognosia" or temporary forgetfulness. Half of people 60 and older have some symptoms that are due to age, rather than disease. The most common cases are: 1. forgetting the name of a person; 2. going to a room in the house and not remembering why we were going there; 3. a blank memory for a movie title or actor\actress; 4. a waste of time searching where we left our glasses or keys; After 60 years, most people have such a difficulty, which indicates that it is not a disease, but rather a characteristic, due to the pas

Dr Gauri Rokkam is a well-known Holistic Nutritionist with experience in helping thousands of people worldwide for more than two decades. She firmly believes that healthy food and lifestyle can change lives, for good. It does not mend the body in parts but as a “whole” and is candid enough to claim: “When the body is rightly fed(in every sense), it wins battles while one experiences true health”. In an interaction, Dr Gauri Rokkam spoke on several issues revolving around human health, current practices of dealing with disease and the way out. Here are her viewpoints on a few issues: Holistic health is from a “whole person” perspective: Neither food nor body should be broken down into its parts. Food is a complex chemical factory. It should not be broken down into its components or specific nutrients because the components of food work in synergy with each other to produce desired effects. The body can work to its best and be in the best of health with whole foods, the way plants produ