Health Tips in English

Eating too much is typically considered as one of the prime reasons for obesity but when people eat what they consider to be healthy food, they eat more than the recommended serving size because they associate “healthy” with less filling, say researchers, including one of Indian-origin. The findings suggest that the recent increase of healthy food labels may be ironically …

Fish oil may burn fat faster than those fat-burning pills leading to an efficient weight loss in overweight or obese people in their 30s and 40s, Kyoto University researchers report. Fish oil activates receptors in the digestive tract, fires the sympathetic nervous system and induces storage cells to metabolise fat. Fat tissues do not all store fat. So called “white” …

Training your kids to chew food slowly can be an inexpensive and easy way to help them stay in shape, suggests new research. Waiting 30 seconds in between bites of food allows children to realise when they are full and avoid overeating – preventing excessive weight gain, the study said. “To lose weight, you need to stop eating. But it …

Heart disease and stroke were the number one and number two killers worldwide in 2013, reveals a new report. While 31 percent of all deaths were from cardiovascular disease, with 80 percent occurring in low and middle income countries as of 2013, stroke accounted for 11.8 percent of all deaths, according to American Heart Association’s 2016 Heart Disease and Stroke …

Children love sweets, but have you ever wondered why some kids want more sugary food? It could be because they need more sugar to get that same sweet taste, suggests new research. “Some children are twenty times better at detecting sugar than others,” said study author Danielle Reed from Monell Chemical Senses Centre, a non-profit independent scientific institute in the …

Coconut milk has been proved to be the next best to breast milk and the Coconut Development Board (CDB) is set to promote it as a health drink and one to be used for cooking. According to studies, dairy milk contains lactose, a type of sugar that is difficult for many people to digest, while coconut milk does not contain …

If you think that no other age group is more vulnerable to loneliness than the elderly, go check your backyard. The mammoth rise of the internet and emergence of various social media platforms have left many young Indians – some as young as 14 – socially isolated, lonely and, eventually, in the grip of chronic depression that can take their …

If you are suffering from ailments related to the heart, make it a point to get up and move every half an hour as researchers have found that patients with heart disease who sit a lot have worse health even if they exercise. “Limiting the amount of time we spend sitting may be as important as the amount we exercise,” …

Do you want to better remember new names and faces? Go, hit the sack. According to researchers, people are better at remembering faces and names if they get eight-hour sound sleep after seeing those faces and names for the first time. Many different kinds of memories are improved with sleep. While a couple of studies have looked at how naps …

Staying up late and not getting six hours of sleep puts one at high risk of becoming a Type-II diabetic, a disease once believed to be caused primarily by being overweight, prominent diabetes experts say. The doctors said that diabetes is just one among a number of other major health complications that includes high blood sugar, high cholesterol, extra fat …