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Everything under the sun has been linked to obesity. Now the sun itself, or the lack of it, is being blamed for people being fatty.
A team of scientists at Aberdeen University has found that Scotland’s dismal weather makes it more difficult for people to shed those extra pounds. Their research suggests that overweight people tend [...]
Eating chocolate can almost halve a woman’s risk of developing pre-eclampsia, a condition which increases blood pressure and reduces the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to the baby and often leads to a premature birth.
Pregnant women who nibble at a chocolate at least three times a week could halve their risk of the potentially deadly [...]
Eating less may help in living a long and healthy life, indicates a Canadian study.
Russ Hepple, a physiologist, along with other researchers at the University of Calgary examined the effects of calorie restricted diets on rats and found that elderly rats on such diet had the muscle mass and function of a 20-year-old rat, reported [...]
A morning cup of coffee may help prevent diabetes, a new report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, U.S. Tuesday claimed, adding caffeine apparently has little to do with the effect.
Researchers compared the coffee consumption habits of 28,812 women enrolled in the Iowa Women’s Health Study in U.S. and found that the women who [...]
The gastric microbe, Helicobacter pylori, that’s the cause of most stomach ulcers also takes it out on the heart, Italian investigators report.
They found that people with rapid beating of the upper chamber of the heart, atrial fibrillation, are nearly 20 times more likely to be infected with Helicobacter than are healthy “controls,” according to [...]
Results of a new German study indicate that passive smoking can increase the risk of contracting type 2 diabetes.
The survey was carried out by the German Diabetes Centre and the Helmholtz Centre and looked at 1,351 people. Until now scientific studies had only shown a link between active smoking and diabetes.
Between 1999 and [...]
Simple arm exercises could help beat peripheral vascular disease – a blood circulation problem that causes severe leg pain, says a study.
John Saxton and other researchers from Sheffield Hallam University’s centre for sport and exercise science studied more than 100 patients aged between 50 and 85 with peripheral vascular disease (PVD).
The scientists found that the [...]
Regular consumption of orange and grapefruit juice could build stronger bones at least in mice, says a study.
Farzad Deyhim and other researchers at Texas A&M University’s vegetable and fruit improvement centre studied 36 male rats in the laboratory for two months.
They gave half of these rats orange and grapefruit juice regularly and found that it [...]
Smoking hookah is increasingly becoming popular among the youth but its use is more harmful than cigarette, a medical expert warned.
“Many young people seem to believe that hookahs and other water pipes are safer than cigarettes, but its use is more detrimental to a person’s health than smoking cigarettes,” said Purushottam Lal, chairman and chief [...]
Forget rigorous workout schedules, finding humour in real life situations could be just enough to keep you hale and hearty.
A new study has revealed that laughter can do as much good for your body as going for a run.
The findings showed that volunteers who watched 20 minutes of comedies and stand-up routines experienced a [...]
