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Motorola Moto X3 With Fingerprint Scanner Purportedly Spotted in the Wild

April 11, 2016 SrijitaFingerprint, In, Moto, Motorola, Purportedly, Scanner, Spotted, The, Wild, With, X3

Lenovo’s upcoming Moto X-series smartphone, believed to launch as Moto X3, is claimed to have been spotted in a new image. The new leaked image is said to have been taken when the unannounced handset was being used by a commuter. Originally shared by hellomotoHK, the leaked image may have “possibly” given us first glimpse of the next-generation Moto X smartphone. The new leaked image shows the front panel of an alleged Moto X3 featuring a fingerprint scanner right below the display. Currently, it’s not clear whether the fingerprint scanner…

Monitor Your Blood Pressure Right From the Kitchen

April 10, 2016 SrijitaBlood, From, Kitchen, Monitor, Pressure?, Right?, The, Your

Don’t let high blood pressure scare you. It is not exactly a disease, but only a warning sign that the food you have been eating and the lifestyle you have been leading have clogged your blood vessels and your heart is having to exert extra pressure to keep blood moving through it. Just as the bad lifestyle caused it, the good one can cure it. Medicines are only an aid. The main job has to be done by your food. So please go into your kitchen for treatment. Certain ingredients…

Chinese Eating Twice the Amount of Salt Recommended: Study

April 10, 2016 SrijitaAmount, Chinese, Eating, of, Recommended:, Salt, Study, The, Twice

Salt intake has been on the decline in China since 2000, but it currently is still nearly twice the amount recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) , a new study said. The study, published in the US journal JAMA, was based on total diet surveys in 2000 and 2009-2011 in 12 of China’s 31 mainland provinces, covering at least 46 percent of the Chinese population. The researchers found the average dietary salt consumption of Chinese residents declined by 22.2 percent, from 11.8 grams per day in 2000 to 9.2…

The Secret to Having Better Memory: A Good Night’s Sleep

April 10, 2016 Srijitaa, Better, Good, Having, Memory:, Night's, Secret, Sleep, The, to

A good night’s sleep not only keeps your energy levels up but also keeps your brain alert. It’s puts you in the right mind to focus, learn new things and remember information. A new study published in the journal Cell Reports supports the same. A team of scientists have proved that getting proper sleep helps boost your memory as the brain activity while sleeping sorts through several experiences we encounter every day and retains only important information in memory pockets. Their findings showed that patterns of brain activity that occur…

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…

Eating in Front of the TV? Here’s Why You Should Pay Attention to Your Food

April 9, 2016 SrijitaAttention, Eating, Food., Front, Here's, In, of, Pay, Should, The, to, TV?, Why, You, Your

Chefs, restaurateurs, and people I dine with are sometimes surprised by how I remember dishes that I had eaten years ago. As a food writer, you are expected to remember tastes. But why this food memory should go back that far is something even I don’t understand fully. One big reason, however, could be that those of us in the business of decoding foodand flavours are perhaps more tuned to eat mindfully. Of course, you do not need to be a food writer to appreciate the benefits of mindful eating.…