Washington, May 31 (ANI): A new workout routine called ‘prancercise’ has taken the Internet by storm.
The creator of the workout, Johanna Rohrback, described the routine as “a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse’s gait and is ideally induced by elation.”
Various videos uploaded on YouTube show Rohrback working out at different speeds – including the Prancercise walk, trot and gallop.
Washington, May 31 (ANI): Although procedures like angioplasty, stenting and bypass surgery may save lives, they also cause excessive inflammation and scarring that ultimately can lead to permanent disability and even death.
Now, a new research has found that naturally derived compounds from polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3s) may reduce the inflammation associated with these procedures to help arteries more fully and completely heal.
Highlighting the ill-effects of smoking on children and pregnant women, experts Friday said that counselling about the risks of smoking in pregnancy would help limit the use of tobacco among women.
“Smoking has a negative impact on maternal health,” Health Secretary Keshav Desaraju said.
To counsel pregnant women on smoking during pregnancy and its impact on the unborn’s health, the government has a national consultation session to limit the use of tobacco use among women and children, he said.
Although procedures like angioplasty, stenting and bypass surgery may save lives, they also cause excessive inflammation and scarring that ultimately can lead to permanent disability and even death.
Now, a new research has found that naturally derived compounds from polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3s) may reduce the inflammation associated with these procedures to help arteries more fully and completely heal.
Scientists have shown that healthy lifestyle choices like not smoking, exercising and healthy eating could lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, says a study.
To examine the impact of these lifestyle choices on memory throughout adult life, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers and the Gallup organisation collaborated on a nationwide poll of more than 18,500 individuals between the ages of 18 and 99.
Washington, May 30 (ANI): Even four minutes of vigorous activity three times per week is enough to be fit and healthy, new research has shown, dispelling the commonly held belief that getting in shape and maintaining it requires hours of training.
Regular training improves maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), which is a well-established measure of physical fitness. However, just how much exercise, and how intense that exercise should be to deliver the biggest benefit remains unclear.
Children with disabilities are three to four times more likely to be victims of violence at home or outside, according to an Unicef report.
The Unicef State of the World’s Children report 2013 released here Thursday says that prevalence estimates of violence against children with disabilities was 26.7 percent across the world.
A total of 20.4 percent children with disabilities have faced physical violence while 13.7 percent have encountered sexual violence.
A new research reveals that probiotics found in natural yogurt could help boost a person’s mood because they affect brain function.
Previous studies have shown that beneficial bacteria affected the brains of rats but no research has confirmed that the same occurred in human brains.
The study found that those who ate probiotic yoghurt twice daily for a month showed altered brain function, both in resting brain activity and in response to an ’emotional attention task’, which was designed to monitor how the brain responded to certain emotions, reports dailymail.co.uk.
Scientists have identified a sub-group of cells that contribute to prostate cancer recurrence, opening up potential new targets to treat the disease.
Researchers led by Monash University in Australia found that some prostate cancer cells survive androgen withdrawal treatment. Previously unidentified, these cells are potential targets for future treatments.
As they are present early in disease development, there is the possibility of therapy before the cancer reaches the aggressive, incurable stage, researchers said.
A group of most commonly used drugs known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can increase long-term users` heart-attack risk by more than a third, a study has shown.
In the study, the researchers analysed 639 random drug trials and assembled information on more than 350,000 patients, and found that for every 1,000 arthritis sufferers, the rate of people who suffered a “major vascular event” like heart attack, stroke or death increased from 8 per 1,000 to 11 per 1,000 with long-term, high-dose use of common NSAIDs, the Independent reported.
A healthy Nordic diet lowers cholesterol levels, which thereby cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease, a new study has found.
There was also decreased inflammation associated with pre- diabetes.
“The subjects who ate a Nordic diet had lower levels of harmful LDL cholesterol and higher levels of `good` HDL cholesterol. The amount of harmful fat particles in the blood also declined,” Lieselotte Cloetens, a biomedical nutrition researcher at Lund University, said.
In a new study, researchers have observed that a novel disease in songbirds has rapidly evolved to become more harmful to its host on at least two separate occasions in just two decades.
The research provides a real-life model to help understand how diseases that threaten humans can be expected to change in virulence as they emerge.
Women may evolve out of the menopause and bear children into their fifties and beyond, an Indian-origin genetics expert has claimed.
Dr Aarathi Prasad speaking at the Hay Festival in UK, said that since there were no longer any benefits associated with the menopause, it was now “not normal for nature”.
According to the expert, menopause dated from a time when generations of women were competing over scarce resources and it was not ideal for them all to be bearing children at the same time.
Scientists have for the first time built a detailed molecular model of the complex structure of the inner protein shell of HIV, paving way for potential new treatments for the deadly virus.
A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine described the 4-million-atom structure of the HIV’s capsid, or protein shell.
The findings, published in the journal Nature, could lead to new ways of fending off an often-changing virus that has been very hard to conquer.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Wednesday called on nations to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship to help reduce the number of tobacco users and keep young people from becoming addicted.
As the May 31 World No Tobacco Day approaches, Douglas Bettcher, director of the WHO`s Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Department, said most tobacco users start their deadly drug dependence before the age of 20.
In type 1 diabetes patients, their immune system attacks the very insulin-producing cells it was designed to protect.
Now, a University of Missouri scientist has discovered that this attack causes more damage than scientists realized.
The revelation is leading to a potential cure that combines adult stem cells with a promising new drug.
Habib Zaghouani, PhD, J. Lavenia Edwards Chair in Pediatrics, leads the research with his team at the MU School of Medicine.
Researchers have described for the first time the 4-million-atom structure of the HIV’s capsid, or protein shell.
The findings could lead to new ways of fending off an often-changing virus that has been very hard to conquer.
Scientists have long struggled to decipher how the HIV capsid shell is chemically put together, said senior author Peijun Zhang, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Do you know that lemon juice can ve used to whiten nail tips and baking soda helps in cleaning teeth? You can also massage your face with ice cubes to reduce wrinkles.
These and more beauty secrets have been dug up by lifestyle website Femalefirst.co.uk which shares some of them as follows:
1- Put sliced cucumber on eyes to freshen them up. Cucumber therapy helps reduce stress also.
2- Drink at least two litres of water everyday. It helps in digestion.
3- Apply toothpaste on burnt spots and insect bites. It reduces the pain and swelling.
4- Shave legs with hair conditioner
Children of parents who live to a ripe old age are more likely to live longer, and are less prone to cancer and other common diseases associated with ageing, according to a new study.
Experts at the University of Exeter Medical School, led an international collaboration which discovered that people who had a long-lived mother or father were 24 percent less likely to get cancer.
The scientists compared the children of long-lived parents to children whose parents survived to average ages for their generation.
Scientists have revealed a mechanism responsible for the creation of giant synapses in the brain that allow us to efficiently process auditory information
Humans and most mammals can determine the spatial origin of sounds with remarkable acuity. We use this ability all the time-crossing the street; locating an invisible ringing cell phone in a cluttered bedroom.
The rise of diseases linked to modern lifestyle has also led to the search for new ways of handling these challenges.
Japan has taken the lead by launching a device for women to measure their body temperature, which tells a lot about their health, body rhythm and gynecological illness.
In Japan, a survey among 50 female workers in the age group of 20 and 30 revealed that just 10 per cent measure their body temperature regularly.
To reverse this trend, two enterprises – Toshiba and Rakuten – have developed a smart phone based application service with easy connected thermometer.
Scientists have designed a novel, small molecule that could open up new avenues in the treatment of prostate cancer.
In a study published online May 28 in the journal Nature Communications, Jung-Mo Ahn, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Texas in Dallas, and his colleagues at the university`s Southwestern Medical Centre described the rational design of the molecule.
Their laboratory tests showed the molecule`s effectiveness at blocking the cancer-promoting function of proteins called androgen receptors.
UCLA researchers have found that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans.
In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state and in response to an emotion-recognition task.
The study was conducted by scientists with UCLA`s Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress and the Ahmanson–Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Wednesday called on nations to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship to help reduce the number of tobacco users and keep young people from becoming addicted.
As the May 31 World No Tobacco Day approaches, Douglas Bettcher, director of the WHO’s Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Department, said most tobacco users start their deadly drug dependence before the age of 20.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a new virus, similar to the dreaded Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, and has termed it as a `threat to the entire world`.
The SARS-like virus termed as MERS has killed 24 people so far, with more than half of 44 people diagnosed with the disease, the New York Daily News reports.