The early stages of coronary artery disease in young smokers can be reversed quickly if they choose to put out their cigarettes for good, according to a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging study in the December Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Let the countdown to your winter shape up begin! As the New Year approaches, many Americans resolve to get in shape and lose weight.
Almost everyone has a computer and almost everyone would say they want to lose some weight. Put the two together and you have a unique way to get fit. Tonight, Healthwatch 3s Dr. Tom Hopkins kicks off a three part series that's an experiment in weight loss.
A great deal of research connects nutrition with cancer risk. Overweight people are at higher risk of developing post-menopausal breast cancer, endometrial cancer, colon cancer, kidney cancer and a certain type of esophageal cancer. Now preliminary findings from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest that eating less protein may help protect against certain ...
Teenage girls who weigh themselves frequently are more likely to binge eat and participate in unhealthy weight control behaviors in the future, according to new research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
Teenagers who take a daily multivitamin supplement have a healthier diet and lifestyle than those who don't take vitamins, reports a study in the December Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
Why food companies are looking at healthier options? Last month ITC Foods launched Sachins Fit Kit, a new brand of energy bars, cookies and health biscuits, for which cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will extend his brand ambassadors role to developing a range of healthy foods.
Let the countdown to your winter shape up begin! As the New Year approaches, many Americans resolve to get in shape and lose weight. To help dieters maintain their New Year's diet resolutions, Kraft is bringing the beach to those in need of a winter warm-up!
Experts have long viewed the faces sometimes sketched by ancient potters on "Lapita" pottery as human in appearance. Now scientists have pieced together evidence of several kinds leading to a radically different understanding of the religious life of people in the South Pacific 3,000 years ago. Most of these mysterious faces may represent sea turtles. Furthermore, these ceramic portraits may be ...
South Korean researchers have designed and built an inexpensive optical lens that collects light from a large area and produces a virtually distortion-free wide-angle image. Standing in contrast to commonly known "fisheye" lenses, which produce significant amounts of visual distortion, low-distortion wide-angle lenses can potentially improve image-based applications such as security-camera ...
