After spending an awful two days at Neurology department of the very famous Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India with my college mate who is also my good friend, roommate and colleague at work, who developed a recent state of absent mindedness, headache, confusion and was in a state of altered consciousness on top of viral fever - which now when diagnosed has turned out to be #-Link-Snipped-#, which is Meningitis caused by a virus, I'm totally concerned about various food habits that we practice these days. My friend is an avid smoker and often eats food from small 'thattukadas' aka Dhabas (small road side shops) in order to save precious money. In this era of new diseases growing rapidly each day, how much can we imply this famous quote by the Father of Medicine in our daily lives???

"Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food"- Hippocrates

As busy engineers, how pre-cautious are we be about our health???

P.S.: A psychology student once told me, "We've a job because there are lots of engineers like yourself in India who experience a lot of tension and strain."