Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Cradling the phone between the neck and shoulder is certainly not good for the neck. But for one French psychiatrist, it was bad for his brain too. After the psychiatrist, 43, talked that way over the phone for an hour, he lost vision in his left eye and had difficulty …
suicidal behaviour can accompany many emotional disturbances, including depression, schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses. In fact, more than 90 per cent of all suicides are related to emotional or psychiatric illnesses. Suicidal behaviour occurs as a response to a situation that the person views as overwhelming such as social isolation, …
you have to lose something to gain something. This phrase is well-suited especially for the sleepless nights exchanged for parties, shopping, family visits and extra hours of work to make up for off-days. In fact, sleep deprivation has become almost normal among residents in urban areas, with people getting used …
green vegetables are good for the health. How many times did our parents tell us this? But in days to come, the fresh leafy green vegetables may lose their place on the table, if we believe the latest findings. Recent studies have showed that at many places in India, vegetables …
all those lazy bones who till now found walking or an early morning jog a difficult proposition, now have something to get them going. A recent study by Arthur F Kramer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, usa, showed that aerobic fitness can improve executive control functions of the …
for the first time, scientists have found convincing evidence that the blood-brain barrier, the nearly impenetrable membrane preventing entry of toxins into the brain, can be successfully invaded by the metal mercury. In a study conducted at Canada's Maurice La Montagne Institute and the University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden, …
it has been noted that some patients with strokes or brain damage have severe difficulty with language and exact calculations, while their ability to estimate remains intact. Now, a team of French and us researchers has obtained first-hand evidence to prove that two very different modes of brain activity underlie …
stressful events are inherent to human existence. The death of a loved one, breaking up of an important relationship, losing a job, financial problems and loss of health or independence. All people undergoing such events are at a high risk of developing depression. While such events make life difficult, people …
the disease first goes unnoticed, affecting people in the autumn of their lives. Initially, people forget where the keys were left, forget a name or two and, eventually, they lose their direction
cholesterol is much misunderstood as a compound. True, much of the wrong sort of fat-like substance can get deposited and inhibit blood flow. Yet, it forms the raw material for making hormones and acts as a carrier for fats. And a recent study has associated low cholesterol levels with severe …
do you believe that money cannot buy happiness? Or that contentment cannot be equated to the acquisition of a new car or a flat closer to the sea? And do your friends laugh at your fantastical notions? Scientists have reached some conclusions that you can wave in the face of …
every year the noise level increases by one decibel (db ) in Mumbai. According to a preliminary study, the city is becoming increasingly noisy and this year, the average noise levels have touched 78 db while the recommended day-time norm for residential areas is 55 db . Studies have shown …
four days of extreme stress, as experienced by war refugees, is all that it may take to significantly impair memory. Some us psychologists have reached this conclusion. Moreover, they have traced the phenomenon down to a single hormone. Psychologists have known for long that prolonged stress can cause amnesia or …
while some scientists would dismiss such claims, studies show emissions of microwaves from cellular telephones have a variety of strange effects on living tissue that cannot be reconciled with conventional radiation biology. One of the weirdest effects comes from the now famous "memory loss' study, published in the International Journal …
MEMORY FOR CHILDREN: Clinical trials on the efficacy of Memory Plus capsule have shown that it is effective on children suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHA). The trials were conducted by the Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow (CDRI). Raj Kumar, managing director of Velvette International Pharma Ltd, the manufacturers …
it has been immortalised in public memory by the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo . Yet only those who suffer from it know the feeling. Anything from the sound of the buzz on the telephone to music or cheering at a sporting event can give vertigo to some people. Vertigo is …
The scientists of the Central Drug Research Institute of India (CDRI), Lucknow, conducted clinical tests on Memory Plus, a drug which owes its origin to the traditional herb
CANCER VACCINE: Researchers at the Kanazawa University and Kyoritsu College of Pharmacy in Japan claim to have developed a cancer vaccine that boosts the body's capacity to build anti-cancer immune responses. According to the researchers, when laboratory mice were injected with this vaccine, transplanted cancer cells failed to multiply. If …
