Abstract

THE STUDY OF AHARA, VIHARA AND MANAS HETU OF STHOULYA

Vd. Hankare Sandip Baban*

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Abstract

Now a day Sthoulya (Obesity) has become a big problem through-out the world. The world population is estimated at about 6.5 billions. There are more than a billion over weight people in the world. This data reflect the world wise distribution of obesity and in India according to NHFS data of 2007- 12.1 percent male and 16 percent female are obese. Obesity is one of the secondarily cause of dislipidemia. Dyslipidemia is a widely accepted risk factor for coronary artery disease and is an important feature of metabolic syndrome. In the 21 st. century, continuous changes in the dietary habits, behavioural pattern, environment and sedentary life have made man the victim of many diseases. Sthoulya is one of them. Sthoulya is one of the most effective disease which affect someone social, physical and mental features. According to the above sutra, Nidan parivarjana that is avoidance of hetu is the first step of a treatment for curing of the disease. Hence, by minimizing such hetu, one can easily subside the disease further. Sthoulya (Obesity) can be prevented if effective care is taken in terms of avoidance of predisposing factors. So this observational study may help to identify the most commonly involved nidan in causation of Sthoulya (Obesity) which in turn may help for initiating preventing measures. So for that purpose, the study of ahar, vihar and manas hetu of sthoulya, in current era is being presented in this paper.

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