Sleep and Health: Why Six Hours Is Not Enough
Chronic short sleep raises the risk of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and depression. It is the health behaviour most consistently sacrificed and least often discussed.
Read articleHealth Library
Lifestyle & Nutrition
3 articles on lifestyle & nutrition, written and reviewed by the General Medicine team at SIMS. Written for patients and families in Anantapur, in plain language.
3 articles in Lifestyle & Nutrition
Lifestyle & Nutrition
Lifestyle & NutritionEating Well on a South Indian Plate
You do not need to abandon rice, sambar and curd to eat healthily. Changing proportions, grains and cooking methods achieves far more than importing a foreign diet.
Read articleLifestyle & NutritionExercise When You Have Never Exercised Before
The recommendation is 150 minutes a week, but the useful advice is different: start far below what you think you should do, and make it impossible to skip.
Read articleConditions & Symptoms A–Z
Prefer to look up a condition instead?
Our A–Z gives the symptoms, red flags, tests and treatment for the conditions we see most often at SIMS, and links each one to the department that treats it.
Have a lifestyle & nutrition concern of your own?
Reading is a good start, but a consultation is what turns a symptom into a diagnosis. Tell us what is troubling you and the appointment desk will route you to the right specialist.