Health & Food

Sydney, Feb 24: Suffering from lower back pain? If you care for your life, you may just want to take it more seriously. Back pain – approximately affecting 700 million people worldwide – is the leading cause of disability globally and may increase your risk of dying early by 13%, researchers warn. The findings showed that compared to those without spinal pain (back and neck), a person with spinal...

Smoking contributes to more than 480,000 deaths annually; 278,544 men and 201,773 deaths among women, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States. Smoking is not a mere bad habit but a social hazard. The habit of smoking is not just harmful for the smoker itself but passive smoke is known to be equally harmful for a non-smoker as well. Smoking is the...

London, Feb 22: Cat ownership during pregnancy or childhood may not pose a direct risk for psychotic symptoms, according to a new study that casts doubt over suggestions that people who grow up with felines are at higher risk of mental illness. Recent research has suggested that cat ownership might contribute to some mental disorders, because cats are the primary host of the common parasite...

Feb 22: Listeria, a common food-borne bacterium, may pose a greater risk of miscarriage in the early stages of pregnancy than previously thought, says a study. “For many years, listeria has been associated with adverse outcomes in pregnancy, but particularly at the end of pregnancy,” said one of the researchers Ted Golos, Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US. “What wasn’t known...

New Delhi, Feb 20: We often tend to overeat without knowing it. Eating more than what our body needs is the root cause of several chronic health problems which can be avoided albeit with a little care. Sonia Narang, nutrition expert of Oriflame India, here shares nine ways that can best help you to avoid overeating. * Eat slowly Chew every bite of your food properly. This is to slow us down when...

New Delhi, Feb 20: Good news for all those lazy-headed not-really-a-cleanliness-freak out there! Scientists have found out that the obsession with hygiene could even be turning some beneficial bacteria found in the human gut into "endangered species". Providing clean water to everyone on the planet has been a major health goal for decades, but scientists have warned that while it reduces the...

Washington, Feb 18: Now you can save your kid from surgery, as a study shows that antibiotics may be an effective treatment for acute non-complicated appendicitis in children, instead of surgery. Appendicitis is a serious medical condition in which the appendix becomes inflamed and causes severe pain. The appeared in the journal of Pediatrics The condition, which causes the appendix -- a small...

Feb 17: A healthy diet is the king. It can save you from various ailments and slow down signs of ageing. The times we live in, there are all sorts of processed food products available in the market which are delicious no doubt but come loaded with chemicals and unwanted calories that adversely affect our health. It is therefore essential to choose right and eat mindfully. How you eat doesn't only...

Toronto, Feb 16: People living in regions that see heavy snowfall, like India’s Himalayan region, better be careful as you are at an increased risk of a heart attack after a heavy snowstorm, a new study suggests. The risk was found to be particularly higher for men and researchers believe that shovelling is the main mechanism linking snowfall with heart attack, or myocardial infarction (MI). “Men...

Miami, Feb 15: People who are genetically predisposed to storing belly fat, or having an apple-shaped body type, could face a higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease, researchers said Tuesday. The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests a person’s genetic makeup may cause health problems down the road. “People vary in their distribution of body fat -- some...