QUESTIONS ON HEALTH
1. Our digestive system is made of flesh. If it can digest chicken, mutton that we eat, then why can’t it digest itself?
2. Is there no other method for taking insulin injection?
3. Why can’t we take insulin orally?
5. What are the latest kidney transplantation techniques?
6. Why am I suffering from calcified brain lesion?
8. Is typhoid contagious?
10. What is artificial pancreas?
11. Am I receiving the right treatment for membranous kidney?
12. How can you identify that there are stones in the kidney?
13. What is the specialty of allopathic medicine?
14. What is the specialty of Ayurvedic medicine?
15. Whose medicine is Unani?
16. Does oil help hair growth?
17. Why do tears come when we are in grief?
18. When we take excess water or proteins our body eliminates them, but when we take in
excess fat it is stored in our body. Why?
19. How does exposure to Sun help produce vitamin-D in humans?
20. Why does hair turn grey?
Grey is merely the base colour of hair. Pigment cells are located at the base of each hair follicle. As a person grows older and older pigment cells die and colour is lost from individual hairs.
21. Does hair grown even after death?
22. Why does the skin on the palm peel?
23. What makes blood groups differ?
24. How do doctors estimate the time of death?
25. Energy in Kilo calories….
Sleeping 50
Awake 55
Standing 100
Light exercise 190
Walking slowly 200
Swimming 450
Climbing upstairs 1100
26. Why food is not spoiled when kept in low temperature?
27. Why do people sweat more before a heavy rain?
28. Why does cutting an onion produce tears?
29. What chemical causes sedation and how does it work?
30. What is pulse polio vaccine?
This is aimed at replacing the virus causing the disease polio-mellitus with a vaccine virus. This virus is at a low ebb during December to January.
31. What induces vomiting while travelling or seeing from a height?
Giddiness occurs when we lose our sense of balance. The sensations perceived by the eye, inner ear, skin, muscles and joints help the body to know its stability. When this balance is
lost we feel giddiness.
32. Why do vegetables such as cucumber, snake gourd and bottle gourd sometimes taste bitter?
Bitterness in cucumber and others is due to the presence of compounds called cucurbitacins. These chemicals are tetra cyclic triterpenes having high oxidative levels.
33. Why is alcohol added in tonics and syrups?
34. When something cuts us blood comes out and clots. Why not the blood in our veins?
WBC, RBC, and platelets are blood. There is one more thing in blood called heparin. This keeps the blood from clotting.
35. Why do we blink?
When we blink water oozes and the eye lids keep the eye balls wet. Generally eye lids save the eyes.
36. All the eye balls are of not same colour?
It is because 46 chromosomes decide the colour of the eye balls.
37. When we age the skins gets folds. Why?
It is because the elasticity of the skin gets reduced.
38. Acids give burning sensation. Why?
Acids are very useful to us. HCl in stomach helps digestion. There are eight types of amino acids to save our life. Acids of carbon compounds are non-dangerous. But acids of non-carbon compounds suck more water and release heat. When they fall on our body they suck water from our body. This causes burning sensation.
39. What is acupuncture?
It was first implemented in China 2500 years ago. Different sizes of needle are pricked into the body and treatment is given. There are 787 spots when these needles are pricked. For different diseases different combination of spots is selected. How does it work till todate not known.
40. What is protein?
1. Protein means first.
2. It is a compound of polypeptide chain of amino acids.
3. They are complex organic compounds of C, H, O, N, S
4. Amino acids are about 21.
5. In potato, and rice amino acids proteins are less.
6. If proteins are less we get exhausted fast.
7. There are more proteins in milk, eggs, fish, mutton, cheese,groundnut, beans, cereals, pulses
8. They are the building blocks of our body.
9. Proteins are to be taken daily because they cannot be stored in our body.
41. Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself?
1. The surface of the stomach is always covered by a thick layer of mucus secreted by the columnar cells lining its surface.
2. The cells lining the stomach walls secrete about 1.5 litres of gastric juice a day.
3. The mucus lubricates food facilitating movement within the stomach.
4. The mucus forms as a protective layer to stomach.
5. The mucus is alkaline so neutralises the acidity of the gastric juice
42. How do doctors determine the time of death?
43. How can potassium cyanide cause sudden death?
44. Why is not cutting nails or hair painful?
45. When we run immediately after taking meals we get stomachache. Why?
46. What are stones in kidney?
Calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate when solidify become stones. Laxalo bacter pharmy is bacteria which breaks oxalates. For this purpose it produces some enzymes. If these enzymes are not produced in our body, then they are given in artificially to break the stones.
47. Why do we yawn?
48. Why do we get hiccups?
49. Why doesn’t blood clot?
For clotting of blood platelets are necessary. They are also called thrombocytes. They are generally in 1 cubic millimeter 1,50,000 to 3,50,000. If their count decreases below 66,000 then blood will not clot.
50. What are there in egg?
There are
1. 8 types of amino acids.
2. Vitamin A, B, D and K.
3. there are 11 minerals.
4. There are 6% fats.
51. What is digestion?
The process of conversion of non-diffusible form of food into simple and diffusible form by chemical and mechanical processes in the elementary canal is called digestion.
52. For what digestion insulin is needed?
Carbohydrates.
53. Why do dogs always keep tongue out?
Dogs have no sweat pores. They cannot sweat. So in order to maintain body temperature they keep their tongues out from where water gets evaporated
54. .why appendix is not developed in human beings?
In animals still appendix participates in digestion process. The secretions help digesting their food.
55. Why do we get cold in winter?
Virus develops at 32 degrees centigrade. Our body is at about 37 degrees C. as we remain indoors because of poor ventillation inside the nose becomes host to virus.
UV rays kill virus. But as the sun’s heat is less, less germs are killed.
56. What happens when we are afraid?
1. The brain releases a hormone called “adrenalin”
2. This increases the glucose content in the blood so that the muscles are given extra energy.
3. This adrenalin increases the heart beat and quickness of breath.
57. Why should we breath?
58. Why is heart beat more sometimes?
Carbonic acid is created because of movement of muscles. This reaches heart in 10 sec. if carbonic acid reaches heart more, then heart beat increases.
1. When heart is agitated
2. When we get fever
3. When we are afraid of
Then heart beat increases.
1. When we are depressed
2. While sleeping
Heart beat is slow.
Beat to beat the time gap is 0.8 sec.
59. What is cold blood?
60. Why do we need water?
61. When mosquitoes bite there will be rash. Why?