Nutrition Secrets and Narrative Medicine are they connected? I am an ENT surgeon and I also provide telehealth consultation. Both with my online and offline consultation, I always face questions about what to eat, when to eat, and how to cook the food. That’s the reason I started writing the nutrition secrets series.

When I wrote my book Nutrition Diet Myths and Life (Nutrition Secrets Book 4, it’s free for the next few days), I thought there were so many people sharing information about nutrition, the book will be lost. Luckily it wasn’t. But what was more interesting is, I felt good sharing about research-backed nutrition facts. Not propaganda, not bias, but truths about the food you eat.

Having your own blog gives you the freedom to share awareness about topics you feel deeply. You don’t have to worry about sponsors, backers, and niceties. You are your own boss and you decide what goes up on your blog as long as its legal, ethical, you will be okay.

In a Lockdown world where food is what people are worried about, the basics of life are the food we eat.  From the time I was a medical student, I realized nutrition and food are topics with a lot of noise. Everyone has an opinion and rightly so.

But if you have a medical issue, you can’t listen to your neighbor and random strangers giving you health information. You need to be aware and choose wisely.

A lot of claims, from many vested interests. But if you read the writing on the wall, the food advice mothers gave, eating fresh and healthy ,ghar ka khana is spot on.

 Nowadays we are eating at home and we seem to have come back to realize we are eating healthier. Using less and creating more. Eating with an eye to rations is making us more aware. Because good nutrition is about being aware of every morsel, you put in your mouth.

When doctors talk to a patient about how she lives, what she eats and how she eats it, that is part of narrative medicine. Knowing about what a person chooses to eat, says a lot about him or her. Not in a judgemental way, but it helps in creating healthy lifestyle tweaks for a better life.

Narrative medicine is a topic I  have always been interested in. As a young medical student one is taught to take a history of the patients’ disease. With the New Coronavirus pandemic, everyone knows about the phrase travel history. 

Narrative medicine is an interesting story that patients tell doctors about how it all started. With the challenging doctor-patient ratio, the art and science of narrative medicine are often lost. But now we are asking more questions and it’s a good start. I just hope people will behave more responsibly and share their medical. travel and contact history properly to avoid a crisis.

I like talking to my patients. Because it’s just easier to help them when I know them, about their particular problem from their perspective. That is how I get ideas to write my books. They are about topics my patients ask me about.

Have you ever talked to your doctor about what you eat ? tell me in the comments below.

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