Lifestyle diseases hitting young urban people
Life Desk :Lifestyle diseases like diabetes and high cholesterol are now hitting more young men in metropolitan cities of India, says a new survey released...
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Peer pressure is weaker for teens to quit smoking
Life Desk :Adolescents tend to be more powerful in influencing their friends to start smoking than in helping them to quit, a new study has...
World Cup allegiance of Japanese in Brazil
Life Desk :Brazil’s sizeable Japanese population is torn between supporting the nation of their birth or their adopted country though for some, such as Daniel...
Bask in the goodness of sun for longer life
Life Desk :Exposing your skin to the sun may help you live long as people with lower blood levels of vitamin D are twice as...
Erratic working hours leave adverse effect on parent-child relationship
Life Desk :A new North Carolina State University study has found that parents, who work at odd hours, have troubled relationships with their children. Also,...
Picking artwork for home, an art
Life Desk :So you have just moved into a new house and after painting the walls and placing all your furniture, you notice that something...
Writer reprises cross-country bicycle trip
Life Desk :“Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America” (Scribner), by Bruce WeberA cross-country bicycle trip, like an end...
Check out tips for perfect hair color
Life Desk :While trying to choose the perfect hair color, there are certain mind numbing questions which confuse us.And there is absolutely no simple way...
Economic factors affect breast cancer treatment plan
Life Desk :Women with interruptions in health insurance coverage or with low income levels had a significantly increased likelihood of failing to get breast cancer...
Understanding America’s ‘virgin births’
Life Desk :One in every 200 young American women says she became pregnant while still a virgin.That is the eye-popping figure reported on Tuesday by...
How brain responses to shape and colour
Life Desk :Researchers have found an insight into how brain responses to faces and objects with responses to colours.The study, by Bevil Conway, Wellesley Associate...
Good cholesterol stops inflammation
Life Desk :An important switch by which high-density lipoprotein (HDL) commonly known as good cholesterol controls the inflammatory response has been discovered by scientists. The...