Women tend to use moderate self-referral terms for intoxication, while men used heavy terms, according to research.
New findings confirm that men’s drinking is generally described in terms indicative of excessive consumption while women tend to couch drinking in more moderate terms.
These labels of intoxication may impact perceptions and subsequent behaviors, but also inform tailored measures for prevention and intervention.
Spending too much time with mobile phones can harm your health, a new research has revealed.
The study conducted by Kent State University found that students, who spent lot of time on their phone- up to 14 hours each day- were less fit than those spending about 1 and a half hour a day, New York Daily News reported.
The report also said that people, who spent more time on their mobile devices, were more likely to engage in other sedentary forms of entertainment, like playing video games or watching films.
For people with diabetes, the increased risk of cardiovascular disease is an unfortunate reality, which includes atherosclerosis, a condition where the walls of the artery thicken due to accumulating fatty deposits, which can lead to heart attack and stroke.
Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have discovered that when excessive PKC beta is found in the endothelium, the thin layer of cells that line blood vessels, atherosclerosis is exacerbated.
When makeup is removed in an incorrect manner, it leads to irritation on the face and chances of premature ageing and uneven complexion rise. So use face wipes to remove makeup, but do it the right without causing any damage to the skin.
“Using a face wipe is a great way to make sure you cleanse and tone, removing makeup at the same time to ensure your pores aren`t blocked,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted facialist Teresa Tarmey as saying.
People, who have excessive abdominal fat are more likely to acquire heart disease and cancer than individuals having similar body mass index (BMI) but carrying their fat in other places, a study has revealed.
Death and disease risk associated with excess body weight can vary among individuals with similar BMI. Ectopic fat, or fat located where it is not supposed to be, in this case being visible in the abdominal area, could be the cause of this difference in risk.
Researchers at the University of Southampton have completed a project that will enable surgeons to fit joint replacements with longer and optimised lifespan.
The MXL project uses computational modelling to define the mechanics of an artificial joint – a complex interaction of individual anatomy, prosthesis design, sizing and placement – to ensure successful surgery and longer lifespan of the prosthetic joints.
A new study has found that 4-year-olds with shorter than average sleep times have increased rates of “externalizing” behaviour problems.
“Preschool children with shorter night time sleep duration had higher odds of parent-reported overactivity, anger, aggression, impulsivity, tantrums, and annoying behaviours,” according to the new research by Dr. Rebecca J. Scharf of University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and colleagues.
They recommend that parents and health care providers discuss steps to improve sleep habits for preschool-age children with behaviour problems.
Despite public health campaigns, smoking remains the leading avoidable cause of death worldwide, killing almost six million people a year, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, the World Health Organization has said.
If current trends hold, the number of deaths blamed on tobacco use will rise to eight million a year in 2030, the WHO said yesterday in a briefing unveiled at a conference in Panama.
About 80 percent of tobacco-related deaths forecast for 2030 are expected in low- and middle-income countries, the report added.
Researchers have found that the emerging recreational drug that has been sold as “bath salts” could be more addictive than methamphetamine, one of the most addictive substances to date.
“We observed that rats will press a lever more often to get a single infusion of MPDV than they will for meth, across a fairly wide dose range,” The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) Associate Professor Michael A. Taffe, who was the principal investigator of the study, said.
Children under the age of five with behavioural issues are likelier to start drinking by the age of 15, according to a new study.
Most risk and protective factors for alcohol use have roots in early childhood.
In other words, an individual enters adolescence with personality characteristics and life experiences that have accumulated during the first decade of life.
Anti-tobacco awareness campaigns, advertising bans and laws prohibiting smoking in public places have proven effective by keeping hundreds of millions of people away from the habit, a UN report has said.
According to the report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013, the number of people covered by bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship increased by almost 400 million since 2003, bringing the total number of people covered to 2.3 billion or one in every three person.
A new study has confirmed the relationship between preference for highly sweet tastes and alcohol use disorders.
The study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has found that recent drinking is related to the orbitofrontal-region brain response to an intensely sweet stimulus, a brain response that may serve as an important phenotype, or observable characteristic, of alcoholism risk.
Even low level exposure to traffic fumes is enough to raise the risk of lung cancer, a large European study has revealed.
The new research, that analysed pooled information from 17 studies in nine European countries, has found that people`s chances of having the disease rose with greater exposure to small sooty particles which are generated by diesel exhausts which are known to lodge in the lungs, the Daily Telegraph reported.
A school teacher from New Zealand is embarking on a 40-week nutrition and exercise programme where he will not diet but will address the underlying causes behind his poor lifestyle.
According to physical education lecturer Jeremy Hapeta, Palmerston North Boys` High School teacher Justin Doolan`s anti-diet approach is aiming to improve physiological health measures, like blood pressure and fitness, and psychological aspects rather than simply to lose weight, Stuff.co.nz reported.
Stressing on the need for population stablisation, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Thursday the focus of the government was on creating awareness about the need for small families.
“As per 2011 census, India’s total population was 1.21 billion. As per population projection, India’s population would be 1.40 billion by 2026,” Azad said in his address at the ‘National Dialogue for Population Stabilisation for Better Tomorrow’ organised here on World Population Day.
New findings into why obese cigarette smokers experience a high risk of heart disease suggest that cigarette smoke affects the activity of hundreds of key genes that both protect the heart and lungs and expose them to damage.
The research suggests that the effects may be especially profound in obese nonsmokers who inhale “sidesteam smoke” from cigarettes smoldering nearby.
Diana J. Bigelow and colleagues point out that active smoking doubles the risk of heart disease, while second-hand smoke exposure increases this risk by about one-third.
Women who gave birth to multiple children after IVF therapy were at higher risk for breast cancer compared to women who had one child or didn’t give birth after the procedure, a new study has found.
Even low level exposure to traffic fumes is enough to raise the risk of lung cancer, a large European study has revealed.
The new research, that analysed pooled information from 17 studies in nine European countries, has found that people’s chances of having the disease rose with greater exposure to small sooty particles which are generated by diesel exhausts which are known to lodge in the lungs, the Daily Telegraph reported.
A study conducted by an Indian researcher suggests that implementing smoke-free laws and increased tobacco taxes in India would yield substantial and rapid health benefits by averting future cardiovascular disease (CVD) deaths.
The results of this study, conducted by Sanjay Basu and colleagues of Stanford University, USA, suggest that specific tobacco control strategies would be more effective than others for the reduction of CVD deaths over the next decade in India and possibly in other low- and middle-income countries.
Rising incomes of modern Mexicans and their consumption vices have helped them surpass the US to become the world`s fattest nation.
About 70 percent of adults in Mexico are obese and a 33 percent of them are very much so, the Global Post reported.
Childhood obesity tripled in a decade and about a third of teens are fat as well.
According to experts, four out of five of heavy kids will remain like that for their entire lives.
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The medicinal power of the humble neem, widely used in India as an insecticide and germicide, is now being channelised by a group of Kolkata scientists to wage a war against cancer.
The team of researchers at the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) here has shown (in its two successive papers) how a purified protein from neem leaves inhibits growth of tumour cells in mice.
Scientists have found that an overactive signalling pathway is a common cause in cases of pilocytic astrocytoma, the most frequent type of brain cancer in children.
Scientists coordinated by the German Cancer Research Center (as part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium, ICGC) in 96 gemone analyses of pilocytic astrocytomas found defects in genes involved in a particular pathway.
They believe that drugs can be used to help affected children by blocking components of the signalling cascade.
A new study suggests that working shift patterns is associated with an increased risk of menstrual disruption and subfertility in women.
The study, by Dr Linden Stocker from the University of Southampton, UK, is a meta-analysis of all studies on the subject published between 1969 and January 2013.
It compares the impact of non-standard working schedules (including night-shift work and mixed-shifts) with that in women not working shifts.
The end-points were early reproductive outcome parameters, including menstrual dysregulation, female fertility and miscarriage rates.
Air pollution is taking its toll on people with failing hearts by killing millions of people globally each year, a big international study conducted by an Indian-origin author has revealed.
This happens when the heart muscle becomes weak and less good at its job of pumping blood around the body.
The research looked at 35 studies with data for thousands of patients in 12 countries, including the UK, the US and China.
Women are better at coping with stress than men due to the protective effect of female hormone estrogen, a new study has claimed.
Researchers from the University at Buffalo in US found that the enzyme aromatase, which produces estradiol, an estrogen hormone, in the brain, is responsible for female stress resilience.
“We have examined the molecular mechanism underlying gender-specific effects of stress,” said senior author Zhen Yan, a professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in the university.