Health & Food

Meditation has a limited role in making you a better person, scientists said today, contradicting the popular belief that meditation can change how we behave towards others and make us more compassionate. Scientists, including those at Coventry University in the UK, reviewed more than 20 studies that investigated the effect of various types of meditation, such as mindfulness and loving-kindness...

Toronto, Feb 2: Pregnant women at the age of 40 and above are at an increased risk of delivering preterm babies, a study warns. Maternal age at pregnancy has been increasing worldwide and so has the risk for preterm birth. However, the association between maternal age and preterm birth remains a topic of ongoing research. For the study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers from CHU...

New York, Jan 28: Your grandmother's insistence that you receive more bug bites because you are 'sweeter' may not be that far-fetched as a study claims that mosquitoes can rapidly learn and remember the smells of hosts. Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the US said dopamine is a key mediator of this process. Mosquitoes use this information and incorporate it...

Washington, Jan 28: Consuming leafy greens, vegetables, nuts, berries and wine may substantially slow down the cognitive decline in stroke survivors, reveals a recent study. The findings are significant because stroke survivors are twice as likely to develop dementia compared to the general population. The diet, known as the MIND, is a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to...

Los Angeles, Jan 27: People eating a high- cholesterol diet are at an increased risk of developing colon cancer, a study warns. Scientists discovered that boosting mice's cholesterol levels spurred intestinal stem cells to divide more quickly, enabling tumours to form 100 times faster. The study, published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, has identified a molecular pathway that could serve as a new...

Paris, Jan 25: Just one cigarette a day carries nearly half the risk for heart attack and stroke as smoking a full pack of 20, according to a large-scale study published Thursday. "If someone smokes one cigarette instead of 20 per day, intuitively we'd think that the risk drops to 1/20, or five percent," said lead author Allan Hackshaw, a professor at University College London, whose paper...

Washington, Jan 24: Scientists have developed a low-cost chip that will allow your smartphone to rapidly detect harmful bacteria in water or a food sample. Once commercially available, it should be useful to cooks using fresh fruits and vegetables, for example, and aid workers in the field responding to natural disasters, researchers said. Scientists from University of Massachusetts Amherst in the...

Hyderabad, Jan 24: A medicine allegedly meant to increase height, claimed the life of a teenager in Vanaparthi district of Telangana. The district medical officer Srinivasulu has said that the 17 year intermediate student of Government Junior college died undergoing treatment at the Mahbubnagar government hospital on Tuesday. The victim, identified as Khaza Nazeer Ahmad lost his father four-years...

London, Jan 24: Turns out, four out of five obese school children are likely to be overweight for life, resulting in losing 10-20 years of their lives. According to a report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), child health is suffering at the hands of disjointed approach. It also called to put an end on advertising of unhealthy foods on television. As stated, one of the...

People in India often shy about talking about their bowel movement. For instance, an issue as serious as constipation is never talked about openly, they are mostly embarrassed or make jokes about it. Constipation is a common digestive issue in which people suffer with infrequent bowel movement or face tremendous difficulty in passing stool. According to a latest survey, nearly 22 per cent of...