To all those interested in the future generation of India.

President of India.

Prime Minister of India.

Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission.

Minister of Human Resource Development.

Health Minister of India.

Information Minister, Govt. of India.

Chief Ministers of all States.

Education Ministers of all States.

Health Ministers of all States.

Chairman, University Grants Commission, Delhi.

Director General, DoorDarshan and AIR.






(Health Awareness Programme for High School Children)



* This could be an additional subject of instruction to boys and girls in the 8th through 10th classes. No examinations and ranks at the end, though. The children could get a certificate, if needed.

* It is a comprehensive HOLISTIC wisdom of PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL, SPIRITUAL (SECULAR), EMOTIONAL AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAMME.

* It is audiovisual, assisted by trained teachers. Suitable to be aired through DD on the UGC educational network. Could be broadcast on AIR also.

* Based on most recent research data* on MIND/BODY medicine from India and abroad.

* The main points are:



1. Holistic Definition of Heath, stressing that even social health is as important as physical health-spiritual health of sharing and caring, while keeping society tranquil would improve personal health to a great extent.

2. Simple rules of healthy foods and eating habits.

3. Simple hygienic rules to avoid infections.

4. Vaccination principles.

5. Family Planning ideas:

a. For girls the need to keep studying up until the 25th year of age before marriage, to reduce fertility rate and,

b. for boys the simple truths in this context, coupled with giving incentives to village barbers to put peer pressure on men who come for haircut. Peer pressure is the best way to influence our rustic wise, but illiterate people.

6. Principle of Yogic breathing. If one knows how to breathe properly, healthy body and mind will automatically result from that.

7. How to avoid unnecessary drugs.

8. Proper awareness of the twin menace of ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO, THE TWO GREAT ENEMIES OF HUMAN LIFE ON THIS PLANET-NOT TO FORGET OTHER DRUGS ABUSE.

9. Toilet use to eradicate the major menace in India-hookworm. The so-called “Toilet Plus” scheme. Teaching children the dire need to use toilets when provided. Model toilets must be built in every school.

10. How to avoid cooking smoke in village homes.

11. Personal hygiene, bath, nail health, etc.

12. Relation between germs and man-suggestions as to how to keep bugs like AIDS virus at a distance. Incidentally, without going into minor details, this part gives the child a judicious dose of sex education stressing the importance of emotional long-term relationship in marriage, compared to the quick-fix free sex.

13. Stressing the need for social harmony to keep one’s health and indirectly conveying the importance of co-existence and co-operation rather than competition.

14. Stress on the major role played by negative feelings like anger, greed, jealousy and hatred as the most important causes of killer diseases like heart attacks and cancer.

15. To stress that a healthy society needs all kinds of people to keep society going. All of them are equally important. A cobbler is as important as a doctor is, for example. Dignity of labour, taught to children, aims to remove the greatest stress for diseases-frustration.

16. Awareness that poverty is the mother of all illnesses-need for sharing is stressed.

17. Clean drinking water and how to get that.

18. Preserve the environment to remain healthy-SYMBIOSIS.

19. To learn to live and let live.



I am doing this work in my own small way in schools around here with good results. I am keen to share this with the millions of future leaders of this country, so that we could hope to have a more tranquil and healthy society that might even get rid of narrow mentality, corruption and fissiparous tendencies. Children are very intelligent. That every generation is better than the previous one is a genetic truth. They need to be put into the right path in the midst of the multitude of noises that they get daily from their surroundings, especially the electronic media that has invaded their environment in a big way. Earlier we do this the better for them. Teach them to pick the wheat from the chaff.



If any of you ladies/gentlemen think that there is something in this for the future good of this great country, I shall be pleased to be asked for more details. I want your help. This scheme is not for my good and I do not want anything from it, including patent right!



I shall eagerly await your response.



Loving regards,



Yours in Service of this country,




*FURTHER READING IF NEEDED



1) Hegde BM. Holistic Living. Bhavan's Publication 1994, Mumbai.

2) Hegde BM.How to maintain Good Health? UBSPD. Delhi reprint 2001.

3) Hegde BM. Health and Happiness for all. Corporation Bank Economic Foundation Publications, 1993.

4) Hegde BM. Heart Manual. UBSPD, Delhi 2000.

5) Hegde BM.Health Care delivery in India. Jr. Assoc. Physicians of India 2002; 50:425-428.

6) Herbert Benson. Timeless Healing. 1999. Mind/Body medicine Institute, Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

7) Editorial. Social Support, Hostility, and other Psychosocial Conditions in Coronary Heart Disease. American Cardiovascular Review Journal. June 2001 Pages 332-334.

8) Hegde BM. Where is the Mind? Bhavan's Journal 2001.