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World’s First Twins to Climb Mt.Everest: Tashi and Nungshi Malik On Food, Fitness and Dreams

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When Tashi and Nunshi Malik walk into a room, they can easily be mistaken for models. Just a few minutes chatting with these gorgeous twins makes you realise that they are just girls next door. Bubbly, vivacious and passionate, they could be just any other 24 year olds. Except that they are not. At an age when people are still figuring themselves and their career paths out, these two girls have already reached the pinnacle of success. Literally. They hold the Guinness record for being the first female twins to…

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Why Kids Are Most Likely to Develop Food Allergies

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You may have ignored the symtoms as flu or common cold but a child we frequently sneezes or coughs a lot, often develops rash or hives and gets stomach stomach ache may be allergic to certain foods. If left untreated, allergies can lead to a potentially lethal anaphylactic shock – a life threatening allergic reaction. According to a new study, the good news is that many children outgrow their allergies, presumably as the immune system learns to tolerate foods initially mistaken as “foreign”. The research was conducted at the La…

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Chocolate is Brain Food. Who Knew?

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In the mid 1970s, psychologist Merrill Elias began tracking the cognitive abilities of more than a thousand people in the state of New York. The goal was fairly specific: to observe the relationship between people’s blood pressure and brain performance. And for decades he did just that, eventually expanding the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS) to observe other cardiovascular risk factors, including diabetes, obesity, and smoking. There was never an inkling that his research would lead to any sort of discovery about chocolate. And yet, 40 years later, it seems to…

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