A workout always helps
To ensure that your hard work at the gym doesn’t go by the wayside on the road, there are a few simple steps that you can take to keep your waistline and calorie intake in check while travelling.
Include workouts in your travel itinerary
You can do a lot of shoulder [...]
Time to be a Soup-o-holic!
Feeling low or bored, and don’t want to binge again? It’s time for your serving of soup for the soul! Move over that never-ending book series. Steaming fresh soups do a lot to keep you healthy and spirited. Whether it’s thick, rich and creamy or clear and light, these all [...]
Eating right doesn’t mean ditching the foods you love. Just eat them smartly.
Following these simple eating habits will sure make you feel a whole lot better.
Take your vitamins every morning
Study by study, evidence is mounting that a standard multi-vitamin fills enough of the gaps in your diet to make a real difference . [...]
WASHINGTON: Researchers have revealed that an unexplored mechanism can help explain how forms of oxidative stress, such as exposure to cigarette smoke, damage cells in the lungs.
Toxins in cigarette smoke, they show, open unpaired hemichannels-small portholes in the cell surface-that can, with very little provocation, turn into major breaches in the cell’s integrity, leading to [...]
Scientists use music — or rather the silence in symphonies — to analyse brain functioning. Paromita Kar reports
Imagine listening to a string of violins. You are not in a concert hall, but a tool in the hands of scientists in a laboratory where your brain is being carefully scanned. And the experiment actually tells you [...]
In healthy people who have been exposed to tuberculosis, a single oral dose of vitamin D enhances their immunity against this bacterial infection.
“Vitamin D was used to treat tuberculosis in the pre-antibiotic era,” Dr Adrian R Martineau, of Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, said. Studies that have evaluated the effects of vitamin [...]
Yoga provides relief from many of the stresses associated with working in an office.
Working at a desk can be more stressful for your body than you may think. Spending long periods in a chair can cause your circulation to slow down and that often results in muscle tension. And if you have the added [...]
Death is the end of life, when all brain activity ceases permanently. We all expect to die. But in Nature, the old die before the young, parents before their children. A disruption of this normal sequence results in distress, depression and an inability to cope.
SAD victims who simply drop dead in the middle of action [...]
WASHINGTON: Chimpanzees scampering on a treadmill have provided support for the notion that ancient human ancestors began walking on two legs because it used less energy than quadrupedal knuckle-walking, scientists said.
Writing on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers said people walking on a treadmill used just a quarter of [...]
Leaves of three, let them be.†No doubt you’ve heard this warning about poison ivy, a weedy plant that each year causes more than 350,000 reported cases of human contact dermatitis, and probably many thousands more unreported cases.
Anecdotes from doctor’s offices indicate that this year is shaping up as a particularly nasty one for poison [...]
LONDON: People with a large numbers of moles on their skin may age slowly, a study suggests.
Scientists from King’s College, London, compared key ageing DNA with the number of moles a person had in a study of 1,800 twins.
A mole is a spot on the skin that is usually round or oval in shape and [...]
Healthful Staples
Forget your former throw-whatever-looks-good-into-the-cart approach and bring this list next time you head to the supermarket. Stocking your pantry with these heart healthy choices will set you up for cholesterol-success.
For the cupboard
Canned beans, such as black, white, pinto, garbanzo, and kidney.*
Dried fruits, such as figs, raisins, prunes, apricots, and dates.
Whole wheat flour for [...]
Why Do Some People Choose to Co-sleep?
Co-sleeping supporters believe :— and there are some studies to support their beliefs — that co-sleeping:
1.Encourages breastfeeding by making nighttime breastfeeding more convenient .
2.Makes it easier for a nursing mother to get her sleep cycle in sync with her baby’s .
3.Helps babies fall asleep more easily, especially during their [...]
Some Questions and Answers on Rotavirus Vaccine:
Why is it important to vaccinate against rotavirus? Isn’t the disease benign?
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children. The disease may cause severe dehydrating diarrhea with vomiting and fever. Almost all children are infected by age 5 years. [...]
Joints are constantly used during a lifetime of activity. Worn out cells are efficiently replaced. If the rate of repair falls below the rate of damage, painful degenerative osteoarthritis sets in. This generally occurs earlier in overweight individuals, smokers and those with complicating medical illnesses such as diabetes.
Around 75 per cent of the population over [...]
Up to 90 percent of high blood pressure cases are thought to be caused by lifestyle habits that constrict blood vessels.
When your blood vessels are constricted tightly, your heart must work much harder to keep your blood flowing, hence the higher blood pressure.
Increasing a compound in your blood known as nitric monoxide can help to [...]
A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya
(Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees.
The transcript of the chat is given below. May be useful for most of us
Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart?
Ans:
1. Diet - Less of carbohydrate, more of protein, less oil
2. [...]
Smoking was once considered macho, high-class and sophisticated. James Bond, Fidel Castro and socialites smoked publicly and elegantly. Now smoking has sunk way down in the etiquette scale and is socially unacceptable. Smoking in public places such as offices, trains and movie theatres is banned in many countries including India. Cigarette packets carry the warning: [...]
Hopes of finding a cure for several devastating brain disorders soar as scientists find ways to reverse key symptoms.
Sangita Jain’s life revolves around reading and research. Not for any academic pursuit, but to provide informed care to her two sons, aged 11 and 9, affected by Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) — the leading inherited cause [...]
We know that “breast is best,†but what is the bottom line for nursing mothers? What length of time provides maximum health benefits for infants? The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that breastfeeding continue for at least twelve months. But not all women are able or willing to reach the twelve-month goal. According to [...]
