A health guide
Jaswant Singh Puri
Dr. Ajit Singh Puri
Dr. Ajit Singh Puri’s
book “Speaking of
How to Prevent
Common Diseases”
is a comprehensive
health guide for the
prevention of numerous serious
ailments and combat fatal diseases.
Puri is a well read and known
personality who showed his
devotion and deep involvement to
write this remarkable book in
simple, spontaneous and well-knit
language so that even a common
reader is well acquainted with the
on-set of symptoms, prevention
and fight common diseases by
developing healthy life style to lead
a disease-free life.
Puri is MBBS, MD (Clinical
Medicine) from the Government
Medical College, Amritsar and
Patiala. He attempted to write up a
book that contains many common
and serious diseases like allergy,
cardiology, diabetes and many
other disorders. He made an
earnest attempt to create
realization among the masses so as
to widen their horizon about
diseases. This book on varied hues
of topics is an encyclopedia-inminiature so that people at large
find it easy to read and seek the
true and authentic information in a
result-oriented manner to get rid of
diseases.
He has done his specializations in
cardiology, applied neurology in the
United Kingdom. He has been to
various countries like the UK the
USA, Switzerland, Canada, Holland,
Austria, West Germany, Belgium,
Italy, France, Luxemburg, Sri Lanka,
Nepal a number of times for imbibing the spirit of mass
awareness and awakening so as to
acquaint the masses in the areas of
his specialisations.
He had the honour to participate in the seminars of the General
Medical Council, London, the
Jephcott Lecture and Reception of
the Royal Society of Medicine in
London; the Autumn Scientific
meeting of the North of England
Neurological Association. He has
also the distinction to work as a
visiting member of the faculty of the
Newcastle General Hospital in U.K.
He has visited various foreign
universities, hospitals – the George
Washington University Hospital
(USA), University of New Castle
Upon Tyne, the Charring Cross
Hospital London, the University of
Sheffield (UK) and has conversed
face to face with well-known
medical specialists and had
interactive sessions on various
essential topics of diverse nature.
He also visited the University of
Colombo (Sri Lanka), The Toronto General Hospital (Canada) in search
of his quest for knowledge and
spread it to all to heal the sick.
Puri’s book unfolds the causes,
symptoms, precautions and
preventions right from the fatal
cancer to coronary diseases,
diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol,
uric acid, diseases of the nervous
system, tuberculosis, allergy and
bronchial asthama, diseases of the
abdomen, kidneys, endocrine
diseases like thyroid, leprosy, AIDS
and other sexually transmitted
diseases an many old age ailments.
Moreover, Puri has taken pains
to explain the ill effects of smoking
and tobacco chewing, alcoholism,
obesity related diseases, sudden cardiac collapse. He has also
apprised the people with various
clinical tests for the detection of
various common diseases, urgent
and necessary steps for first aid to
prevent and control some common
serious onset of ailments.
Dr. Ajit S. Puri with former President
of India Giani Zail Singh
Above all, he has added special
subject on essential dietary
measures for the prevention of
common serious diseases. Even an
appendix on exercise has also been
added that plays a significant role in
maintaining sound health,
improving bone density and
preventing osteoporosis,
controlling blood sugar levels and
so on.
The book has been appreciated by the World Health Organisation
(WHO) Dr. B.P. Kean, Director,
External Co-operation and
Partnerships, WHO Geneva,
Switzerland conveyed the
comments which are worth
meaningful.
Dr. Puri inaugurated the World
Diabetes Day, 2014 campaign
marking a three year focus on
healthy living and diabetes.
He presented his book to
the then President of India,
Dr. Giani Zail Singh, and Vice
President, Krishan Kant. He
also presented his book to
Vice-President Mohammad
Hamid Ansari.
