Ashwin Sanghi - 13 Steps to Bloody Good Health

13 STEPS TO BLOODY GOOD HEALTH

ASHWIN SANGHI

Ashwin Sanghi ranks among Indias highest-selling authors of English fiction. He has written several bestsellers ( The Rozabal Line, Chanakyas Chant, The Krishna Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers of the Kalachakra ) and two New York Times bestselling crime thrillers ( Private India, Private Delhi ) together with James Patterson. Sanghi has also penned or edited four previous titles in the 13 Steps series ( 13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Wealth, 13 Steps to Bloody Good Marks and 13 Steps to Bloody Good Parenting ). He was included by Forbes India in their Celebrity 100 and is a winner of the Crossword Popular Choice award. He was educated at Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai, and St Xaviers College, Mumbai. He holds a M asters degree in business management from Yale University. Ashwin Sanghi lives in Mumbai with his wife, Anushika, and his son, Raghuvir.

You can connect with Sanghi via the following channels:

Website www.sanghi.in

Facebook www.facebook.com/ashwinsanghi

Twitter @ashwinsanghi

YouTube www.youtube.com/user/ashwinsanghi

Instagram instagram.com/ashwin.sanghi

LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinsanghi

DR MUKESH BATRA

Dr Mukesh Batra, a homeopath of international repute, is the founder-chairman of Dr Batras Group, the worlds first and largest homeopathy corporate. In a career spanning four decades, Dr Batra has treated over a million patients, including eminent political leaders, presidents and prime ministers, prominent film personalities and industrialists. He has been honoured with several fellowships and over fifty national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, one of Indias highest civilian honours by the President of India. Dr Batra is the first Asian homeopath to be awarded honorary fellowships by both the British and American professional homeopathic associations. A film based on his work is course material for post-graduate students of homeopathy worldwide. He has published several research papers in national and international professional and scientific journals. Dr Batra has popularised homeopathy through his writings in newspapers, magazines and books. His book, Every Mans Guide to Homeopathy , was a national bestseller and has been published in multiple languages in three editions. His other book, Healing with Homeopathy , is already in its third edition. He also extends homeopathic care to animal welfare shelters, orphanages and old age homes. His own personal interests include photography and singing, and have been turned into exhibitions and concerts that raise funds for charitable causes.

You can connect with Batra via the following channels:

Website www.drbatras.com

Facebook www.facebook.com/DrBatrasHealthcare/

YouTube www.youtube.com/user/Drbatrasgroup

First published by Westland Publications Private Limited in 2018

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CONTENTS

When I had just finished writing 13 Steps to Bloody Good Wealth along with Sunil Dalal, I received an email that said Ashwin, please remember that health is more important than wealth. That email was from Dr Mukesh Batra. It resulted in a phone conversation that same day and an interesting lunch a week later.

Over a khichdi meal, I told Dr Batra that readers would laugh at me if I wrote a book about health because one simply needs to look at me to realise that everything about me is the exact oppositemy weight, my drinking, my cigar smoking... the list is endless. I am probably one of the unhealthiest people on the planet!

Dr Batra smiled and reminded me of a line from Tolstoy: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. He looked at me and said, Why dont you look at this book as a journey? Along the way, you may pick up a few tips that may make you healthier. I reluctantly agreed to go along, but my overall views were still rather fixed. I almost believed in the maxim that living healthy was merely the slowest possible rate at which you could die.

And then the book outline emerged and each chapter began taking shape. And before I knew what was happening, I found myself attempting to implement some of the suggestions. In the eighteen months that we worked on this book, I lost some weight, began sleeping better and was able to cut out foolish medications that I had been consuming out of mere habit. My bad habits remained but I was now more aware of them. In fact, I found myself regularly reminded of Leon Eldreds words: If Id known I was going to live so long, Id have taken better care of myself.

The unfortunate truth is that inside every older person is a younger person wondering what in the world went wrong. And lifes tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. There are so many things that I could have done and so many things I should have done to be healthier. And thats precisely the reason why this book was neededto compensate for the error of my ways.

Thats also the reason why this book had to be written by Dr Batra. As you know, most books in the 13 Steps series are driven by the vertical domain knowledge of my co-authors and the expertise of Dr Batra shines through in this book. I couldnt really imagine any better partner to write this book with. He is absolutely brilliant.

There is an old Chinese proverb that says, It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. Dr Batra disproves that proverb with this book which focuses on simple things that even utterly unhealthy folks like me can implement.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mumbai, 2018

In over forty-four years of my medical practice, I have realised that the key to a happy and healthy life is often simple. The secret foods for good health are in our kitchens while we keep searching for them on the Internet.

We spend money on health fads, which are often unnecessary and sometimes even dangerous. I therefore thought if I could pen down the thirteen most important things for good health that often get overlooked, it could motivate people to live happier and healthier lives.

Having known that Ashwin was writing the Steps series, I felt that good health was missing from his life and writings. If by writing this book, he could pick up a few health tips, we would have a healthier ace writer around for a longer time. As Ashley Montagu said, The idea is to die young as late as possible!

Ashwin is not only a great writer, but also a fabulous story-teller and his writing and communication skills could be used to convey strong messages of good health in simple and easy-to-implement ways. Ashwin often jokes that he writes fiction, makes up stories, and thus everything he writes could be considered a lie. I thought that I could get him to narrate some truths in an enjoyable way.

It is often the simplest things that we overlook in our pursuit of wealth and happiness. However, without good health there is no wealth or happiness. People who do not prioritise their health, inevitably end up having to prioritise their sickness. I hope that through this book, readers will pick up small, easy-to-do common sense tips to achieve good health and live happier and healthier lives.