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It’s Clear – We All Need to Take Salt Off the Table

April 10, 2016 Srijita-, All, Clear, Its, Need, Off, Salt, Table:, Take, The, to, We

Image credit: Istock After all this time, why don’t we know for sure whether eating too much [FILL IN THE BLANK] is bad for us? You can fill in that blank with saturated fat, with meat, with cholesterol, and the answer’s the same, because the kind of research that would definitively answer that question is impossible to do. We can’t hold large groups of people captive, feeding them a specific kind of diet until they die from it – or don’t. The studies in which people are held captive are…

Parents Should Stop Using Smartphones at the Dinner Table: Study

March 14, 2016 Srijitaat, Dinner, Parents, Should, Smartphones, Stop, Study, Table:, The, Using

Are you a tech buff who is unable to keep off your phone even at the dinner table? In that case, your kids may not be happy with you at all, say researchers. A study which delves into the dynamics of technology and families reveals that the children of those parents who sporadically text even while driving or those who indulge in over-sharing on social media are not too impressed with their parents’ habits. The researchers noted that there have been similar hurdles in the past, as families grew accustomed…