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Women need proper Zzzs while men can get away with napping

July 13, 2016 Srijitaaway, Can, Get, Men, napping, Need, proper, While, With, Women, Zzzs

Does too little sleep leave you feeling groggy and not your male partner? Turns out, you’re not alone in this particular battle of the sexes. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute analysed the sleep patterns of 160 adults to consider how sleep affects intellectual capacity and found that getting a good night’s sleep boosts women’s brain power, while men benefit from shorter naps, the Independent reported. The researchers monitored the cohort’s sleep patterns, as well as performing intelligence tests on them to assess their reasoning and problem solving skills, Mail…

How to get a flat tummy?

July 13, 2016 Srijitaa, Flat, Get, How, to, Tummy

Do you feel bloated all the time? Do you buy clothes to camouflage your bulging tummy? And do you fear that your flat tummy days are way behind you? Well, let’s accept it; a lot of us obsess over flat tummy, the biggest reason being that it is the most notorious part to shed weight. And it is also the part which unabashedly displays any amount of weight gain. What if we told you that you could have a flat tummy in the next 7 days if you follow the…

How to get a flat stomach?

July 13, 2016 Srijitaa, Flat, Get, How, stomach, to

If you have been fighting flab since years because you hate going to the gym, then your life just got simpler. Well, dreaming of getting a flat tummy at home without hitting the gym just got easier because we have come up with a list of five exercises which can be very well done at home to achieve that envious flat tummy! Here are the five exercises that you can do at the comfort of your home to get a flat tummy. Crunches/Sit ups Perhaps the easiest of them all…

Thumb-sucking and nail-biting kids have less allergies

July 13, 2016 SrijitaAllergies, and, Have, Kids, Less, nail-biting, Thumb-sucking

NEW DELHI: Children who suck thumbs or keep biting their nails get scolded a lot for these bad habits. But new research has found that there is a positive side to these habits. Such children are less likely to develop common allergies to house dust mites, grass, cats, dogs, horses or airborne fungi. Children who have both habits are even less likely to have these allergies. The research, published in the journal of Pediatrics today, was completed by researchers of New Zealand’s Dunedin School of Medicine, assisted by professor Malcolm…

Diabetes control poor in 20% of patients: Survey

July 13, 2016 Srijita20, Control, Diabetes, In, of, Patients:, Poor, Survey

Less than 20% of diabetes patients in India are able to maintain a desired blood sugar profile, cholesterol and blood pressure, despite availability of medicines for all three disorders, findings of a comprehensive scientific study evaluating diabetes management shows. Highlighting the need for improvement in care delivery at clinical level, the study pegs India’s diabetes population at 70 million -the second highest worldwide after China. Globally, 415 million people are suffering from diabetes, of which 75% are living in low and middle income countries The trials, led by researchers from…

Family history important factor for prostate cancer: Study

July 13, 2016 SrijitaCancer, factor, Family, for, History', important, Prostate, Study

Research in Sweden published on Monday found family history an important factor in men developing various types of prostate cancer. “Men with brothers who have had prostate cancer run twice as high a risk of being diagnosed themselves in comparison to the general population,” the study by Umea University and Lund University said. “It’s well known that men with prostate cancer in the family have a higher risk of the disease,” said Par Stattin, researcher at the Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences and principal investigator of Prostate Cancer data…