New York, April 4 Are you obese and enjoy your puff too? You may end up eating more sugary food items – adding more kilos to body fat. Cigarette smoking among obese women interferes with the ability to taste fats and sweets, research shows. Despite craving high-fat and sugary foods, these women were less likely […]
Music lovers paid a small fortune to a rock singer Ted Nugent NOT to sing at their local festival the other day. Officials booked the screaming rocker but Texas residents paid $16,200 for him to shut up and stay away. Perhaps if everyone in the world chips in, we can get Mr. Nugent to spend […]
Los Angeles, April 4 Italian fashion icons Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana aren’t convinced by singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham’s designs and think she’s in the same league as high street brands such as H&M and Zara. Dolce and Gabbana are close friends of the former Spice Girl, but admit they don’t rank her in the same […]
Chicago, April 3 Take morning sunlight not just to spruce up your vitamin D levels but manage weight too, research reveals. People who had most of their daily exposure to even moderately bright light in the morning had a significantly lower body mass index (BMI) than those who had most of their light exposure later […]
New York, April 3 (IANS) Men who are less sensitive to the negative effects of alcohol drink more heavily and are more likely to become problem drinkers later in life and part of a brain plays a crucial role in deciding this. A team of neuroscientists from University of Utah have find that a particular brain […]
New York, April 2 (IANS) Beware! Your average daily salt intake as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US may actually be low – leading to harmful health outcomes. A study finds evidence that the average daily sodium intake of most Americans is actually associated with better health outcomes than […]
Los Angeles, March 28 (IANS) Singer Miley Cyrus’s meeting with seven-year-old Miley Hodge, a patient of bone cancer, didn’t go as smoothly as it was planned to be, sources have said. Hodge suffers Stage IV Osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, and doctors told her family in December 2013 that she has just four to […]
New York, March 27 (IANS) Why do so many people get a heart attack or stroke at 6.30 a.m.? Researchers will now make you understand why. The levels of a protein in people’s blood that slows the breakdown of clots peaks exactly at 6.30 a.m., the researchers from Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Oregon Health […]
New York, March 27 (IANS) Certain compounds in peaches can inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells and their ability to spread, a promising research shows. These compounds could be a novel addition to therapies that reduce the risk of metastasis – the primary killer in breast and many other cancers, say researchers from Washington State […]
Washington, March 27 (IANS) In a ray of hope for people at the risk of retinal blindness, identifying ways to leverage our immune system to clean out abnormal blood vessels in the retina may lead to treatments that could prevent or delay blindness or even restore sight. Scientists have discovered that the body’s innate immune system […]