Health aNd Fitness Guide

There could be more harmful bacteria on a computer keyboards than on toilet seats. British microbiologists James Francis took swabs from 33 keyboards and compared them with those from a toilet seat and toilet handle. The keyboards tested positive for a host of germs and bugs that could cause serious health problems like stomach flu → Continue reading »

If you are obese as a child, you will probably be obese as an adult. The number of fat cells in one’s body is set in adolescence and remain unchanged through adulthood, says a study in journal Nature. → Continue reading »

The part of the brain associated with reward and addiction is more activated in males than in females when both genders play a game whose object is to acquire more territory. Researchers at Stanford made 22 undergraduates, half of them men and half women, play a video game that dealt with territoriality. The game involved → Continue reading »

* Ill-fitting shoes don’t cause bunions, that painful swelling on the first joint of the big toe. High heels and toe-squishing footwear might contribute to the condition, but these abdominal bony growths form because of a laxity in the joint at the base of the big toe. * A stress fracture in the foot is often → Continue reading »

Breast cancer, like any other cancer, secretes certain proteins for its survival. This protein can be detected in saliva or blood. Scientists from the University of Texas have identified certain proteins unique in patients with breast cancer. A study of the saliva of 30 women — 10 with no cancer, 10 with benign breast disease, → Continue reading »