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A Note for the Reader, and the Sources

The book's end matter: his important notice to the reader, a list of verifiable sources, and his own note about the expert check that should come before publication.

By Ramesh Chand Jain

हिंदी English

Health — the chapters

20 of 20 chapters written

॰ Introduction

Lifestyle and the body

  1. 1 The heart
  2. 2 Diabetes
  3. 3 Blood pressure
  4. 4 Obesity
  5. 5 Cancer
  6. 6 Thyroid
  7. 7 Bones
  8. 8 Vitamins
  9. 9 Anaemia

Mind and society

  1. 10 The mind
  2. 11 Sleep
  3. 12 Old age
  4. 13 Children
  5. 14 Women
  6. 15 Addiction
  7. 16 Sexual health
  8. 17 Stigma

Infection and environment

  1. 18 Infection
  2. 19 Environment

Science and Jain thought

  1. 20 Science and Jain thought
॥ Notice and sources
Summary · AI
  • This book is for health awareness; it is not a substitute for anyone's diagnosis, treatment or medical decision.
  • Pregnant women, children, the elderly, people with long-term illness and those on regular medication should not take up fasting or food restriction without medical advice.
  • The sources are verifiable ones — ICMR-INDIAB, NFHS-5, NMHS, LASI, WHO and the ICMR–NCRP among them.
  • His own note: before publication, the figures, the sentences about treatment and the scriptural quotations should be checked by experts.

This summary was written by AI and may contain mistakes; the article itself is authoritative.

This is an English translation of the original Hindi. Translation may have changed the meaning a little; the Hindi original is the authoritative version.

Important notice for the reader

This book is written for the purposes of health awareness, of the way we live, of public health, and of a conversation with the Jain view of life. It is not a substitute for anyone’s diagnosis, treatment, medication, dietary therapy or medical decision. A reader should take the advice of a qualified doctor or other suitable health professional according to their own state of health, age, medication and medical history.

A particular caution: women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, children, the elderly, people with diabetes or other long-term illness, people with eating disorders, and those taking regular medication should not take up fasting, restriction of food, supplements, exercise or any other change in the way they live without medical advice.

In an emergency, with serious physical symptoms, with thoughts of suicide or self-harm, or in any other mental health crisis, seek immediate local emergency or medical help rather than treating yourself on the basis of this book.

An effort has been made in this book to match the references to Jain texts against original or reliable editions as far as possible. Where the literal scriptural source of a statement is not certain, it has not been presented as a direct quotation.

It is not proper to read the likenesses presented here between modern science and Jain thought as scientific evidence, or religious and philosophical ideas as scientific conclusions. As new evidence appears in health science, some figures and guidelines may change.

Sources: a selected and verifiable list

  1. Anjana RM, Unnikrishnan R, Deepa M, et al.; ICMR-INDIAB Collaborative Study Group. Metabolic non-communicable disease health report of India: the ICMR-INDIAB national cross-sectional study (ICMR-INDIAB-17). The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 2023;11(7):474–489. DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00119-5.

  2. NITI Aayog. Health System for a New India: Building Blocks – Potential Pathways to Reform. Government of India, 2019.

  3. Blanchard J, Washington R, Becker M, et al. Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India: A White Paper. NITI Aayog, 2020. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14093323.

  4. International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), 2019–21.

  5. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India; NIMHANS. National Mental Health Survey of India, 2015–16.

  6. International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), Wave 1 and subsequent published reports.

  7. WHO. Latest available technical reports and guidelines on diabetes, hypertension, obesity, mental health, communicable diseases and environmental health; use the current edition at final publication.

  8. ICMR–National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR). National Cancer Registry Programme: latest available cancer registry reports and statistics.

  9. Tattvārtha Sūtra, Chapter 5, Sūtra 21: “परस्परोपग्रहो जीवानाम्”. Final publication should identify the exact Sanskrit edition and translation used.

  10. Ācārāṅga Sūtra and other primary Jain canonical texts. Final publication should identify the exact edition/translation for every direct quotation.

  11. Nobel Prize. Yoshinori Ohsumi – discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2016.

  12. American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology and other major cardiology guideline bodies: use the current cardiovascular-prevention guideline edition at final publication.

An editorial note

Before publication it would be right to have a final expert fact-check of every chapter’s figures, of the sentences about medicines and treatment, and of the scriptural quotations. Review by a physician or public-health specialist for the medical chapters, and by a relevant scholar for the Jain canonical references, would strengthen the book’s reliability further.

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