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    World Mental Health Day is important because it provides us a forum to communicate with the public and to our patients concerning the nature of mental illness. World Mental Health day is important for several reasons. First of all, globally we now know that mental disorders account for approximately 25% of the disability that affects humanity. Secondly and related, what we also are observing globally is a shift towards the so-called brain economy.That is an economy that’s largely influenced by brain capital.What we also know is that we have good treatments for many mental disorders. And the challenge globally is to have the access and availability to these treatments. And Global Mental Health day I think allows us to provide advocacy and to provide accurate information around good treatments that are available.So, they can not only feel better themselves, but also in fact contribute to the larger society. I think World Mental Health Day is extremely important because the m...

    today I'm going to be tackling something a little bit different. Today I'm going to talk about how to get your kids to eat vegetables. Now, this can be a topic that sometimes we joke about or we don't take very seriously,but honestly, setting your kids up to eat vegetables at a young age makes it more likely that they'll continue to eat vegetables throughout their lives. Vegetables are very, very important for our health, as we all know but honestly, it can help them keep diseases away. and help them to maintain a healthy body weight for the rest of their lives. It's really important that kids get in the habit of eating vegetables with lunch and dinner every single day. They know it's not something they can skip if they don't feel like it.It's absolutely necessary and the more they eat it the more their taste buds will get used to it, and the more that they will like them. But if your kids are older, then don't worry.It...