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Heavy Lunch And Light Dinner Is The Secret To Slim Body

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Researchers have found that having a heavy lunch and a light dinner may be the key to slim body. According to research, the body's ability to make use of the sugar in food fluctuates throughout the day, in tune with the body's own clock. And if this is disturbed then it is easy to put on weight. The US researchers studied mice but they believe that people can benefit from timing their meals to be in tune their body clock. Professor ...

Eco-friendly Syringe That Can Never Be Reused Developed

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A doctor in Kerala has developed a medical syringe that can never be reused. The cheap, effective and eco-friendly syringe or the needle become disabled quickly after injection. "The Peanut Safe Syringe becomes absolutely redundant after its first use. Scavengers will never be able to collect, repack and sell it in the market," said Baby Manoj, a radiologist from Kozhikode, who invented the syringe. The syringe can be used for injection as well as blood ...

Antipsychotic Drug Dispensing Doubles On Entry to Care Homes

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The dispensing of antipsychotic drugs to older people in Northern Ireland increases on entry to care homes, a study by Queen's University Belfast has found. According to the study, due to be published in the iJournal of the American Geriatrics Society/i, psychotropic drug dispensing in older people more than doubled from 8.2 per cent before entry to care homes to 18.6 per cent after entering care. The study was carried out by researchers from Queen's ...

Medication Cost, Stigma Pushing Asthma Sufferers To Risk Health

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A new research published in BMJ has said that high cost of medication, stigmatization and poor acceptance of their condition are leading young adults to take a dangerous approach to managing their asthma. In the UK 5.4 million people are currently receiving treatment for asthma: 1.1 million children (one in 11) and 4.3 million adults (one in 12). There were 1,131 deaths from asthma in the UK in 2009. Most asthma deaths are preventable. Despite the availability ...

Skipping Can Help You Keep Hunger Pangs At Bay

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A new study has found that skipping is the best way to curb your appetite and get slim than other forms such as cycling. Research shows that resorting to the playground pastime is one of the best ways of banishing hunger pangs and reducing calorie intake, the Daily Mail reported. Volunteers who took part in a study to see which form of exercise had the most powerful effect on appetite were much less likely to snack if they skipped for a few minutes than ...

Natural, Nontoxic Product Could Increase Life Expectancy in Prostate Cancer Patients

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Researchers have found that genistein-combined polysaccharide, or GCP, a natural, nontoxic product which is commercially available in health stores, could help increase the life expectancy of certain prostate cancer patients. The research that was conducted in prostate cancer cells and in mice focused on GCP, a proprietary extract cultured from soybeans and shiitake mushrooms and marketed by Amino-Up of Sapporo, Japan. Men with prostate cancer that has ...

Head and Neck Cancer Molecular Tumor Subtypes Highlighted in UNC-Led Study

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Except an association with the human papillomavirus, no validated molecular profile of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) has been established despite the fact that it is the seventh most common form of cancer in the United States. By analyzing data from DNA microarrays, a UNC-led team has completed a study that confirms the presence of four molecular classes of the disease and extends previous results by suggesting that there may be an underlying connection ...

World Cup and Olympics Fans to be Housed in Rio Sex Motels

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Rio authorities have invested millions of dollars to convert raunchy motels to accommodate tourists expected in the city for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 summer Olympics. Shalimar, located in the upscale beach district of Leblon, is one of 60 such "sex" motels undergoing a facelift. Already 30 of its 62 rooms have been remodeled and given a minimalist look. Out with the red carpets, the mirrors, the heart-shaped water bed and the chains ...

France Says Drug-Tainted Horsemeat Likely in Food Chain

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France has said that horsemeat containing a drug potentially harmful to humans has likely entered the food chain. A spokesman for the French agriculture ministry told AFP that several horse carcasses containing the drug Phenylbutazone have probably ended up being eaten by consumers. Phenylbutazone is an anti-inflammatory treatment for horses which is potentially harmful to humans and by law is supposed to be kept off of plates. Britain alerted ...

Azim Premji Donates (Dollar) 2.3 Billion to Charity

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Azim Premji, the Wipro chairman, revealed on Saturday that he has given (Dollar) 2.3 billion to an education charity he controls. This could be the biggest charitable donation in the country's recent history. It is his second major recent donation after giving almost (Dollar) 2 billion to the charity in 2010, and came shortly after he joined the Giving Pledge club set up by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffet. In Saturday's donation, ...

Cutting-Edge Technology for Cancer Detection in Gurgaon Hospital

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A cutting-edge imaging technology for early cancer detection was introduced at a private hospital in Gurgaon on Friday. The technology works on a combination of m-Dixon and diffusion weighted imaging with background suppression (DWIBS). While m-Dixon is an established Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technique for liver imaging that provides four sets of images: water-only, fat-only, and phase images (IP and OP), diffusion weighted imaging with background is used for ...

Myotonia Symptoms in Mice With Myotonic Dystrophy Eliminated by Drug Delivery Strategy

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Researchers have been focusing on ways to minimize some of the disabling symptoms of myotonic dystrophy since a long time. New research might have found a way to do so. By targeting the specific mutation that causes the hereditary neuromuscular disease myotonic dystrophy, it is possible to neutralize the mutant RNA toxicity and minimize or even eliminate the disabling symptoms of the disease. New classes of drugs called antisense oligonucleotides are ...

Study Finds Early Human Burials Varied Widely but Most Were Simple

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The earliest human burial practices in Eurasia varied widely, a new study from the University of Colorado Denver has revealed. "We don't know why some of these burials were so ornate, but what's striking is that they postdate the arrival of modern humans in Europe by almost 10,000 years," said Julien Riel-Salvatore, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology at CU Denver and lead author of the study. "When they appear around 30,000 years ago some are lavish but ...

Working Memory is Better in Bilingual Kids Than in Monolingual Peers

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A new study has found that bilingual children develop a better working memory than monolingual children. The working memory, which holds, processes and updates information over short periods of time, plays a major role in the execution of a wide range of activities, such as mental calculation (since we have to remember numbers and operate with them) or reading comprehension (given that it requires associating the successive concepts in a text). The objective ...

Tulisa Takes to Twitter to Praise Snake Venom Serum

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A wrinkle-killing remedy based on snake venom has been praised on Twitter by N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos. The 24-year-old singer tweeted her love for Skin Chemist's Wrinkle Killer Snake Serum, a 135-pound potion that includes syn-ake - a neuro-peptide that mimics the effect of the Asian temple viper's venom, the Daily Mail reported. Syn-ake, which has also been called 'Botox in a bottle,' temporarily freezes wrinkles - preventing them from getting ...

President Says Government is Deeply Concerned About Sexual Violence Against Women

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The government is deeply concerned about sexual violence against women, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday. Addressing a joint session of Parliament at the start of the Budget Session, Mukherjee said: "My government is also deeply concerned about incidents of sexual offences against women. After considering the recommendations of the Justice J.S. Verma Committee, the Government has promulgated an ordinance, amending the criminal law to provide for stringent ...

Divorce Rate Spirals in Syria Due to Prolonged Crisis

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A new media survey has found that divorce rate has gone up by 45 percent and marriage rate has dropped over 40 percent in Syria. This has occurred very recently since the outbreak of protests against the government. Due to constant conflict between the rebels and the government forces, divorced Syrians are set to outnumber married ones soon, the survey indicated. Syrians live in a country plagued by violence and burdened by spiralling inflation and ...

WBHRC Asks Bengal Government for Ways to Ban Online 'Rape-Games'

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A report has been sought from the state government by the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) on ways to block the internet "rape-games." These video games made by a Japanese firm challenge a player to rape women. "The commission has expressed serious concerns over the matter as there are reports that children, particularly adolescents, are getting addicted to the rape-games. "We have asked the home secretary to submit a report in four weeks ...

Be Cautious of Haircare Products Even If Hair Problems Continue to Haunt You

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Hair care issues seem to be troubling everyone these days given the fact that new products are hitting the market on an almost daily basis. Thanks to lifestyle changes, hair problems are becoming increasingly common in both women and men, doctors say, warning against being misled by random products bought over the counter. "Hair problems are becoming common these days and we have noticed an increase of 10-12 percent in patients coming with such problems ...

Junk Food Cravings Not Triggered by Diet Drinks

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Researchers have claimed that sugar-free fizzy drinks are not behind cravings for junk food. Previously, a number of studies had claimed that artificial sweeteners in diet drinks wreaked havoc with hormones and made people feel hungry and crave sweet and fatty foods. It was believed that artificial sweeteners, due to their intense sweetness, disrupted hunger hormones and encouraged people to eat sweet food. The study from the University ...

Working from Home More Stressful Than Working from Office

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A new study has revealed that working from home can be harder than a day at the office. As the government pushes for a rise in teleworkers, the survey has revealed that the biggest challenges of toiling remotely, from places like the home study or cafes. According to the poll children and family demanding attention were the top obstacle to working from home for 57 percent of Australians, the Herald Sun reported. Nearly half rated difficulty ...

History of Altered Photo Images Brought Out in US Exhibition

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The idea of photo manipulation will not seem such a bad one in this era of Photoshop software and Instagram filters. This is because we've been living with altered images since photography was invented in the 19th century. "Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop" at the National Gallery of Art brings together some 200 works to document the fascinating history of airbrushing, double exposures and all kinds of darkroom wizardry. Digital ...

Timeline for the World's Oldest Pornography? 4000 Years

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Previously found artifacts indicate that most prehistoric erotic art is abstract, disembodied and does not explicitly depict sex-crazed ancients. But one little-known, mysterious archaeological site does. The Kangjiashimenji Petroglyphs are bas-relief carvings in a massive red-basalt outcropping in the remote Xinjiang region of northwest China. The artwork includes the earliest-and some of the most graphic-depictions of copulation in the world, the ...

What Users of Wearable Computer 'Project Glass' Will See Revealed by Google

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For the first since since rumors started floating around, Google has revealed what users will see through its 'Project Glass' wearable computer. The glasses allow wearers to see sat-nav directions, take pictures and reply to emails, but until today Google has refused to show how they actually work. But now the firm explained for the first time what looking through its high-tech glasses feels like, the Daily Mail reports. "Want to see how ...

Scientists Claim Taste for Alcohol Originated 10 Million Years Ago

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Scientists have revealed that the ability to metabolize ethanol might have originated in the common ancestor of chimpanzees, gorillas and humans roughly 10 million years ago. They add that this might have occurred when this ancestor became more terrestrial and started eating fruits fermenting on the ground. Chemist Steven Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., reached that conclusion by "resurrecting" the alcohol-metabolizing ...

Singer Rihanna to Introduce New Make-Up Line

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Media reports have confirmed that Rihanna has teamed up with luxury cosmetics brand MAC to release four collections in an year under the name RiRi (Hearts) MAC. The singer has also recently unveiled her first fashion line. "When you think of make-up, the brand that pops into your mind, for something legit, is MAC. Whatever colour you want, it's like 'Let's go to MAC'," contactmusic.com quoted Rihanna as saying. "I have been using MAC on tour for such ...