It is a beautifully designed site, with attractive slideshow at the top. First part is devoted to its raison d’etre: Why this website? Then come:
HomePrevent 31 diseases
Prevent Diabetes
Prevent High BP
Prevent Heart Diseases
Prevent Cancer
Prevent Strokes
On the right sidebar, you have:
Power of Life : Appetizing Fruits
Vigour of Life : Healthy Vegetables
Pride of Life : No Tobacco
Magic of Life : Being Active
Beautiful slideshows highlight each topic with a set of attractive color photos.
This website is maintained by the Public Health Foundation of India in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
Healthy-India.org has been adjudged Winner of the PC World Web Awards 2008, for excellence in overall performance in the healthcare category. It has set the benchmark for all health sites.
It furnishes a lot of useful healthcare information, impressive health and disease statistics and answers many healthcare questions.
For example, a few excerpts from its “Why this Website?”:
“In India, chronic diseases were the reason for 53% of all the deaths in 2005. Of these 29% were due to cardiovascular diseases; Cardiovascular diseases includes heart attacks, coronary artery disease and strokes.
It is estimated that, by 2020, cardiovascular disease will be the largest cause of disability and death.
India already has the largest number of people with diabetes in the world! India is the diabetes capital of the world. The occurrence of diabetes in urban Indians is 2nd highest in the world; approximately 12% of the adults develop diabetes!. Not only this, Indians succumb to diabetes and heart attacks 5-10 years earlier than their western counterparts.
This means that most Indians succumb to heart attacks, strokes and diabetes in their most productive years, when they are 40-50 years, when they are rising in their jobs, when they are peaking in their careers, when much of the family responsibility is on them, rather than their western counterparts who develop it at retirement, at 60-65 years.
All this is due to the fact that Indians consume less of fresh fruits and vegetables, consume more tobacco, consume more unhealthy diets and are more sedentary than their western counterparts.
In 2003 alone, in India, there were approx. 30 million people suffering from chronic heart disease.
The major risk factors causing heart attacks, diabetes and strokes are: high blood pressure, high concentration of cholesterol in the blood, overweight/ obesity and greater use of tobacco.
Unhealthy diets and physical inactivity are thus amongst the leading causes of major diseases.
One third of all cancers too can be prevented by embracing a healthy diet, decreasing saturated fats in the diet, increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and increasing physical activity levels.
Tobacco kills more people than accidents and AIDS put together. In India, tobacco contributes to 56.4% and 44.9% of cancers in men and women, respectively.
India has the largest number of oral cancer cases in the world!
More than one third of the population with risk factors like diabetes and high blood pressure are not even aware of it!
Through this website we target the major causes of majority of the diseases in India and scientifically prevent them.
Additionally, the section on hygiene will help prevent many of the communicable disease/infectious diseases that plague the everyday lives of people today.”
We strongly recommend this website for those who want to maintain perfect health.
Our hearty congratulations to the Public Health Foundation of India and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
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