Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease. Oxidative stress plays a major part in the pathogenesis of diabetes. Supplementation with antioxidants and the medicinal plants which possess antioxidants activity have been reported their hypoglycemic activity. The antioxidants are used to treat and reduce the complication of diabetes mellitus. The diet supplementations of antioxidants vitamins are beneficial in the treatment of diabetes. This review article was summarizing the role of antioxidants in diabetes mellitus.

Background: Antibiotic resistance had become the greatest threat to modern medicine due to misuse and abuses of antibiotics, when resistance develops against the antibiotics by the microorganism, there will be a need for use of newer, higher efficacy, and more expensive antibiotics. Therefore, Every Health Care Professional student should be Knowledgeable about antibiotics and be aware of antibiotic resistance to prevent harmful effects of antibiotics. Objective: To assess the knowledge and awareness of antibiotics among healthcare professional students, to educate knowledge about antibiotics, and create awareness of antibiotic resistance among healthcare professional students. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Chennai, on June28th, 2021.Permission was obtained from IRB; a well-organized questionnaire was executed with 20 items using Google Forms. Pre- structured questions were pre-validated by Experts. Google form contains the details such as socio-demographic, knowledge, and awareness-based questions. The Completed data were collected and entered into an excel sheet and the results were analyzed with the proper statistical method. Results: According to the statistical analysis of data received, only61.34% of healthcare professional students are aware of antibiotics and only 66.26% of healthcare professional students have adequate knowledge about antibiotics. Conclusion: This study highly suggests that awareness camps, seminars, conferences, and lectures, etc., need to be organized for health care professional students to enable them to gain knowledge and awareness about antibiotics. Our study concludes that every Health Care Professional student should be Knowledgeable about antibiotics and be aware of antibiotic resistance to prevent harmful effects of antibiotics.

Objectives: The present study aimed to assess the awareness of the harmful effects associated with junk food consumption. The frequent consumption of Junk food causes our bodies to store more fat and sugar, which has detrimental impacts on our health. Assessing the awareness of side effects associated with junk food can help to improve the health status and alert people about the harmful effects of junk food. Methods: A questionnaire-based study was conducted among adolescents and the questionnaire was administered to 100 people to assess their knowledge about awareness of harmful effects associated with junk foods. The completed questionnaire was collected and statistically analyzed. Results: The result of the present study showed that among 100 people, 54% opted for junk food twice a day because of taste as the predominant factor which was responded to by 70%, the awareness of nutritional labels and chemicals present in the junk food was responded to by 53%, and 43%, respectively. The awareness of illness due to junk food consumption was responded to by 81%. Conclusion: The present study showed that most people were aware of the negative effects of junk food, but half refused to change their eating habits. Frequent consumption of junk foods causes many health problems. Further educational programs are required to provide information on nutrition education and junk food. This will help people to reduce their junk food intake.