Health aNd Fitness Guide

India is expected to bear 60 per cent of the burden of heart disease by 2010. Indian and Canadian researchers studied around 21,000 heart attack patients across 89 hospitals in India. → Continue reading »

Snoring could be linked to heart disease and stroke. People who snore loudly have a 34 per cent increased possibility of suffering a heart attack and 67 per cent increased chance of having a stroke compared to those who do not snore, according to scientists at Semmelweis University in Budapest. But the increased risk was → Continue reading »

Husbands create seven extra hours of housework per week for women. Wives save their men an hour of chores each week, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. The study, based on time diaries kept by participants and questionnaires, found that on average household chores for women dropped about 35 per cent, from 26 → Continue reading »

If you don’t lift weights, you’re missing out on one of the most powerful ways to look and feel younger. A study found that women who strength-train three times a week have more of a type of growth hormone that counteracts age-related muscle loss and protects bone density. Producing growth hormone gets harder with age, → Continue reading »

Even if you don’t watch what you eat, your body will. That’s the message from a new study, which suggests that diets “imprint” themselves on the metabolic system, attuning people to the food they prefer to chow down. Researchers found that the bodies of chocolate fans reacted differently when they ate the candy, compared to → Continue reading »