Model-turned-actress Malaika Arora Khan is often complimented on her perfect figure. She plans to share her fitness mantra with her fans and has decided to come up with a DVD soon.
Nine out of 10 American adults consume too much salt and the leading culprit is not potato chips or popcorn but slices of bread and dinner rolls, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
If you're planning on getting a tattoo, make sure it's from a professional and not a friend because ink work by amateurs may carry a risk of Hepatitis C, according to a new report.
Respiratory tract infections, including pneumonia, are the biggest killers of children under five years old. But standard antibiotic therapy, given to children with zinc, improved their chances of surviving the infection and was more pronounced in case of HIV-infected children.
Those with a weakness for sweets can now include chocolates, cookies and cake in a 600 calorie breakfast menu with some proteins and carbs to shed weight in a pleasurable way and also stay slim.
Most of you must have experienced a slight numbness in your hands, fingers or toes at some point in life.
Consulting a nutritionist, training mess workers and revamping mess menus are all part of measures in an overall health and hygiene initiative the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) is planning.
Exercise brings down body weight because it draws on fat reserves that muscle can burn as fuel. But the heart also plays a similar role. Sheila Collins and colleagues at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute detail how hormones released by the heart stimulate fat cell metabolism.
Smoking may be a risk factor for dementia among the elderly that erodes their problem-solving capacity and self-control and makes them see things which are not there. Severine Sabia, University College London and colleagues based their findings on the Whitehall II cohort study, involving British Civil Service employees.
Girls born to mothers over 39 years and women who were taller and thinner than the average girl prior to puberty faced higher chances of developing breast cancer. These findings were based on an analysis of a sample of 3,574 women aged between 45 and 68 years.
Scientists have, for the very first time, recorded live yet detailed images of the nerve cells in the brain of a mouse. Stefan Hell's team at the Max Planck Institute in Gottingen, Germany, used STED microscopy to explore the most intricate cerebral structures to unravel how it functions.
The key to shedding pounds is cutting down on calories, not carbohydrates or proteins, especially among the overweight with type 2 diabetes, a study reveals. The two groups of moderately overweight people with diabetes were...
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Medications that would be used to treat an STD or HIV become hard for a woman to tolerate because an ageing body metabolizes medications differently, a university statement said.
Smoking is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for dementia in the elderly and the number of dementia cases worldwide, estimated at 36 million in 2010, is on the rise and is projected to double every 20 years, the researchers wrote in their study background.