Shruti Ghosh, who works in the marketing department of an MNC, for instance, said that skipping meals constantly led recently to a bad bout of acidity. "Our schedule is such that you can't help but miss your breakfast or lunch; and instead keep drinking tea or coffee," she said.
"Some of my colleagues carry medicines for acidity and headache with them always. Only when I went to the doctor recently with a particularly bad bout of acidity did I realise that I was bordering on developing ulcers. I have now reformed my habits," the 25-year-old said.
Samaddar said that there is definitely an increased level of awareness, seen by the increased attendance in her health workshops. "Also, the questions that they ask - like how can you exercise at work? - indicate that they are aware. In my clinic too I have seen a greater number of people who are there with the aim to practise caution, rather than come after they have been detected with some illness".
