Health and Lifestyle

New Delhi, May 9: India’s food safety regulator Monday proposed a tax on all packaged foods with high fat, sugar and salt content. The regulator also proposed strict labelling norms for such products and a bar on advertising them on children’s television channels. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), however, did not specify the quantum of tax that it wants imposed. FSSAI

Washington, May 9: Parents, take note! Cotton buds may do more harm than good, say scientists who found that using them can cause severe injuries to children. Researchers found that over a 21-year period from 1990 through 2010, about 263,000 children younger than 18 years of age were treated in hospital emergency departments for cotton tip applicator related ear injuries - that is about 12,500

Washington, May 8: Scientists, including those of Indian origin, have discovered a new material with highest- ever conductivity in its class, which could lead to smaller, faster and more powerful electronic devices. What makes this nano-scale thin film material so unique is that it has a high conductivity, which helps electronics conduct more electricity and become more powerful, said researchers

May 6: Many parents of children with debilitating gastrointestinal disorders may be frustrated by the lack of good treatment options and tempted to try herbal remedies at home, but a new study suggests they should proceed with caution. Researchers examined data from 14 previously published studies with a total of 1,927 children suffering from problems like diarrhea, dehydration, colic

May 5: In another recent health scare, Johnson & Johnson (J&J), an American multinational known for manufacturing pharmaceutical and consumer goods especially for babies, has been accused of using carcinogenic ingredients in its talcum powder. The world's largest health care company has been ordered by the St. Louis jury to pay over 110 million US dollars to a women in Virginia who claims to have

London, May 4: For those, who cannot undergo fitness training, 'exercise pill' may work as magic for them! A study says, the prospect of an 'exercise pill' can be life-changing for people, who don't work out because of obesity or serious physical disabilities. Hopes for such a pill emerged from scientists who found that an experimental drug allowed mice to run on a treadmill for 270 minutes before

May 3: People with large memory capacities tend to get bored faster as they perceive they have experienced things more times because they remember those experiences in more detail and feel more satiated by them, researchers said. "People with larger working memory capacities actually encode information more deeply," said lead author Noelle Nelson, Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas in

May 3: The more weight obese and overweight individuals lose, the better it could be for their knee joints, new research suggests. Being overweight or obese can place extra pressure on joints and cartilage, causing them to wear away. In addition, people with more body fat may have higher blood levels of substances that cause inflammation in the joints, raising the risk for osteoarthritis. “For

Apr 28: Drinking more than three cups of coffee a day may reduce prostate cancer risk by more than 50 per cent, show results of a study on 7,000 Italian men. The findings were then validated in laboratory studies which suggested that the coffee substance caffeine might have some protective effect against cancer. “The observations on cancer cells allow us to say that the beneficial effect observed

New Delhi, Apr 27: An increasing number of children in India are visiting "inappropriate" websites, compared to countries like the US and the UK, a trend that is clearly giving parents sleepless nights. However, a mere 36 per cent Indian parents said they used software to monitor their children's activity on these devices, according to a report by McAfee. More than half of the Indian parents