Nada India Foundation News update

IOGT International, on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, calls on decision-makers worldwide to step up efforts to eradicate poverty. "The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Number 1 is `To Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger’. But eleven years into the new Millennium a tremendous rate of poverty continues to be a threat to people’s freedom and dignity," says Mr. Sven-Olov Carlsson, the President of IOGT International. According to the United Nations Development Program, the world has made progress towards achieving the MDGs, yet some countries are lagging and many of them may not be able to reach their goals. [1] "That’s what IOGT International’s call today is all about: to look closely at the facts and reasons why the global community is failing to eradicate poverty: a key problem that went unnoticed for too long is Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors like alcohol or tobacco use," emphasizes Mr. Carlsson. the World Health O...

Dear friends and colleagues,   Nada India Foundation & Indian Association Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist (IAADS)     are pleased to announce the   Regional Consultation   on use of NADA Protocol (Acudetox) among Prison population   to be held at Central Jail Vadodara, Gujarat    on 1 st Oct. and on 2nd   Oct .2011 at Nisargopachar Kendra (Naturopathy cum Yog center http://naturecure.cfsites.org/index.php ) at Vinoba Ashram, Gotri, Vadodara . The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Nayana Shah & Dr.Ajay Vats and facilitated by Suneel Vatsyayan. The workshop aims to facilitate a shared understanding of acudetox as an adjunct treatment in prison setting. This also enables the participating ADS or prison officials in building greater confidence in producing effective approach in dealing with people who avoid treatment.   If you are interested in the program please send an email along with dually filled registration form. The r...

Nada India Foundation Postal address: 1073/A-2, C-2, Sondhi Building, Ward one Mehrauli New Delhi 110030 , 09810594544 Project office : Pehchaan, 25, Jyoti Building, Near Govt. Dispensary, Chattarpur Village New Delhi 110074 India, 01126802337, nadaindia@gmail.com 27/8/2011 Dear Friends, Nada India Foundation & Association Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist are pleased to announce the   Training workshop on use of ear acupuncture as per NADA Protocol for addiction treatment and General well being   to be held at Nisargopachar Kendra (Naturopathy cum Yog center http://naturecure.cfsites.org/index.php ) at Vinoba Ashram, Gotri, Vadodara Gujarat    on 1st & 2nd   Oct .2011 . The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Nayana Shah & Dr.Ajay Vats and facilitated by Suneel Vatsyayan . The workshop aims to facilitate a shared understanding of importance of barrier free services and ski...

Drinkers who think they can tell when they've had enough are very often wrong. "Alcohol can affect your reflexes even if you feel fine," says Samir Zakhari , director of the division of metabolism and health effects at the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.  How much alcohol does it take to get intoxicated? Many people figure a few beers at a ballgame or a couple of glasses of wine with dinner won't put them over the legal limit for driving. But how alcohol affects people is highly individual, with a number of factors in the mix. Quick shots of liquor hit the bloodstream faster than slow sips of wine. Drinking on an empty stomach impairs reflexes more than consuming alcohol with food. And women and older drinkers generally hit legal intoxication levels sooner than men and younger people. Carbonated beverages raise alcohol levels faster, because the gas irritates the stomach lining, causing alcohol to be absorbed faster. (Sweet or caffeinated ...

BANGALORE: Just Rs 20 in pocket. Surviving on single banana for breakfast, rice dish from roadside vendor for lunch, biscuits for tea time. Not a life that you would expect the future CEOs from the most prestigious B-school of the country to lead. But this is what some of the   IIM-B   students experienced for a day early this week — just to know what it is to be poor.   As part of their elective programme 'Inclusive Business Models', 75 students were exposed to another world, one which many of them have only heard about — that of people who live with just Rs 20 per day (the below poverty line cut-off).   The students, in groups of five, went to different slums in and around   Bangalore , interacted with the slum-dwellers, trying to understand their lives and finally come up with suitable business solutions that can help them. Interestingly, some of them even went on to experiment what it is to live with only Rs 20 to get a hands-on experience.   "My ...

Students and teachers of CSKM Public School, Satbari, Chattarpur, celebrated World Health Week in association with the Naz Foundation(India), Nada India Foundation and World Health Organisation. Students from Std III to XII involved in various activities like an Interactive programme on HIV and AIDS, painting competition on the theme “My Delhi ! Healthy Delhi!” , oral health campaign by Dr. Raghavendra Jaiman, and a session on “Health and winning habits” by Monica Menon, Asiad player, were held. The theme of this year was “Anti-microbial Resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow!” Students had an interactive session which dealt with issues like how AMR (Anti-Microbial Resistance) hampers the control of infectious disease, how it is a threat to the pre-antibiotic era, and the increase in cost in health care due to AMR.  http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/kids/article2023242.ece  

Global Health Starts with Drug-Free Communities The most successful approaches in drug use prevention involve the critical role of families, schools, and communities to build on protective factors to ensure safe and healthy childhood and adolescent years and to provide viable and legitimate livelihoods for adults. Globally every year an estimated 210 million people use illicit drugs, with almost 200,000 of them dying annually. Drug use and drug trafficking are not only a health threat, but also threaten global stability and socio-economic development across the world. In 2008, when the world community gathered at the end of a 10-year period to fight drugs, Member States were still “gravely concerned about the growing threat posed by the world drug problem.” They re-committed themselves to “eliminate or significantly reduce” the overall drug supply and demand by 2019. “The context in which we observe this year’s World Drug Day is an ambitious but visionary challenge the world comm...