Archive for September, 2011

People who are health conscious obviously choose a diet soda. But now a new research has found that this tendency of the people to choose a diet soda lands them in to trouble by increasing their waist lines. According to the research conducted by University of Texas, people who drink soda for nearly a decade […]

Smoking of Tobacco has taken away hundreds of millions of lives in the previous century. And it will still continue to do the same as the consumption and the number of people using tobacco are increasing every year, says WHO, which presented startling report on global tobacco epidemic, 2011. Eight million deaths every year by […]

Premature death and TV viewing, are they really related to each other? This might be the question in everyone’s mind after looking the title. If the same question is posed to the researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), they will definitely say ‘yes’. They have conducted a study on the regular TV viewers […]

Belly fat which is also called as abdominal obesity is a major problem to many people. Particularly for those, whose job involves sitting all the time, due to the lack of physical activity fat will get easily accumulated around their tummies. The researchers from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found an interesting solution for […]

The children of today’s generation are more exposed to televisions, mobiles and Internet. Children are affected badly by various features of these electronic devices. Among them, commercial advertisements are one of the badly influencing factors. Though not all ads are harmful, few ads do create negative effects on children, especially on their health. Recently, a […]