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Women need to LOL for a long life

October 16, 2016 Srijitaa, for, Life, LOL, long, Need, to, Women

Laughter can keep death from your door, especially if you are a woman. Results from a 15-year study in Norway published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine in April showed that women who can see the lighter side of things live longer even when they are beset with illness, particularly heart disease and infections. In men, laughter appears to boost immunity only against infection. Researchers in Norway studied the correlation between sense of humour and mortality among 53,556 women and men in their country using a questionnaire, and examined death from…

World Obesity Day 2016: Obesity May Hamper Your Social Life

October 13, 2016 Srijita2016:, Day, Hamper, Life, May, Obesity, Social, World, Your

Obesity is a major health challenge worldwide. Apart from known health hazards such as heart disease and diabetes, it can also prevent sexual intimacy and may ruin yoursocial life, experts say. India is home to the third-highest number of obese and overweight people, according to recent reports. Obesity is categorised on the basis of BMI, which is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height and is universally expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in metres. Obesity is often…

Knowing your life expectancy may be possible now

October 4, 2016 Srijitabe, expectancy, Knowing, Life, May, Now, possible, Your

Knowing your life expectancy may be possible now (Getty Images) We encounter many such cases where people have died very young, even after leading a healthy lifestyle. A new international study suggests that the answer lies in our DNA. UCLA geneticist Steve Horvath led a team of 65 scientists in seven countries to record age-related changes to human DNA, calculate biological age and estimate a person’s lifespan. A higher biological age, regardless of chronological age, consistently predicted an earlier death. “Our research reveals valuable clues into what causes human aging,…

Smiling Spouse Your Ticket To Healthier, Longer Life

September 27, 2016 SrijitaHealthier, Life, Longer?, Smiling, spouse, Ticket, to, Your

Having a happy, smiling partner can keep you healthy and fit as you enter middle age and move towards the golden years, say researchers, adding that simply having a happy partner may enhance health as much as striving to be happy oneself. “This finding significantly broadens assumptions about the relationship between happiness and health, suggesting a unique social link,” said William Chopik, assistant Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University. In the study of 1,981 middle-age couples, researchers found that people with happy spouses were much more likely to report…

Air pollution claiming a life every 23 seconds in India

September 19, 2016 Srijita23, a, Air, claiming, Every, In, India, Life, Pollution, seconds

Future of air we breathe is nightmarish. Present stats from WHO report states 1.4 million people in India die pre-maturely due to air pollution, which accounts to one life is given up every 23 seconds. Come 2030 and fuels we use today would have made air so toxic with pollutants that it would be close to impossible to live and move without oxygen kit as a permanent burden and part of lifestyle. Renewable energy catering to humungous needs in the near future seems far sighted and for now cleaner fuels…

Air pollution claiming a life every 23 seconds in India

September 18, 2016 Srijita23, a, Air, claiming, Every, In, India, Life, Pollution, seconds