A new study suggests that women who ate a diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables as young adults were much less likely to have plaque build-up in their arteries 20 years later, compared with those who consumed lower amounts of these foods.
This new finding reinforces the importance of developing healthy eating habits early in life.
A woman from New York City was reunited with the ‘man of her dreams’, who she met while travelling on a flight, through Twitter and American Airlines .
Erica Domesek took to the social networking site when she realised that she had met her “future husband” after she got off from the flight, Metro.co.uk reported.
But the twist in her love story was that she did not have his full name or any contact details.
Domesek asked the airlines if they wanted to play match maker after telling her what the man looked like and her flight number.
Brazilian women went topless on social media and blogs to start a crusade called “I don’t deserve to be raped”, which countered a study that found that 65.1 percent of locals believed that women who dressed provocatively deserved to be attacked and raped.
Brazilian journalist Nana Queiroz created a Facebook event and hashtag to confront the outrage and women were encouraged to share photos of themselves topless while covering their breasts with a sign #IDon’tDeserveToBeRaped, the Huffington Post reported.
Pakistani artist Fizza Saleem’s paintings hint at the constant struggle between the mind and heart to “let go off the troubled past”, while Ayesha Durrani’s miniatures draw on the struggle of women in a patriarchal society. These are among expressions that have found a narrative in an exhibition here.
Five Pakistani women artists along with four contemporary Indians have come together for the six-day exhibition, organised by Empowerment, an NGO that advocates using art and culture as tools for social change.
A new website lets women ” borrow” garment from a total stranger’s closet online.
StyleLend.com lets women rent dresses from one-tenth of the retail price from a stylish woman nearby, ABC News reported.
The lending period is one week and the website, which only available in San Francisco currently, offers high end designer dresses for 15 dollars to 350 dollars. (ANI)
A woman underwent a path breaking surgery, part of her skull was replaced with a plastic cranium that was made using a 3D printer, in Utrecht, Holland, three months ago.
According to doctors, brain covering bone is usually about 1.5 cm thick but the 22-year-old woman’s was 5cm and caused pressure and sight loss.
Neurologist Dr Ben Verweij said implants used to be made by hand in the operating theatre using a sort of cement which was far from ideal, the Mirror reported.
A 17th century book, which claimed that women have an infinite multitude of defects, is going under the hammer for an estimated 300 pounds at Duke’s Auctioneers of Dorchester.
The book, titled The Art How To Known Men, likened males to a lion, with large mouths, thick hair and hard and ‘musculous flesh’ and claimed that women have a fair appearance which hide traits like weakness, jealousy, distrust and ungratefulness, Metro.co.uk reported.
Fashion forecasters have predicted that the `shimmer` make-up trend set at Milan Fashion Week will make waves on Indian runways as well.
Celebrity make-up artist and Lakme expert Daniel Bauer said that shimmer embodies mystery and allure and the metallic bold hues in dual tones give the ultimate shine and finish, making it a creative delight for any make-up artist.
Actress Sonakshi Sinha, who was the showstopper at Manish Malhotra’s show, said that if you have great skin, highlight your best features with shimmer.
A new study has revealed that some women fake orgasms during sex in order to increase their own arousal.
According to the researchers of Temple University and Kenyon College, women were more likely to fake orgasms to turn themselves on, rather than to end sex, the Independent reported.
The study also revealed that the most common reason for faking an orgasm was altruism and women said that they did not want to hurt their sexual partner’s feelings.
esearchers have linked antidepressant medications taken by pregnant women with increased rates of preterm birth.
Lead author Krista Huybrechts, MS PhD, from the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said preterm birth is a major clinical problem throughout the world and rates have been increasing over the past two decades. At the same time, rates of antidepressant use during pregnancy have increased approximately four-fold.
India’s e-commerce industry is booming owing to women shoppers and mobile users.
The e-commerce industry has seen a lot of action-packed period over past few months, as several hundreds of millions dollars have been invested in startups such as Flipkart, Myntra and Snapdeal.
The world’s biggest retailers including Amazon, Walmart and eBay are scrambling to have their piece of the action.
Two of the biggest players are close to crossing the magical one billion dollars in gross merchandise value anyway.
Fashion designer Malini Ramani, best known for creating resort wear, chose to go the Indian way for her autumn-winter collection, which she presented at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week here Thursday.
With a stylish title – Glamourette, her collection consisted of saris in abundance, though there were thigh-high slit, figure-hugging dresses too.
What added to the Indian look was the use of big and bold bindis on forehead of all the models. The winged eye make-up further reminded the audience of yesteryear Bollywood actresses like Asha Parekh and Helen.
A total of 15 women from different walks of life, including actress Usha Jadhav and former police officer Kiran Bedi were honoured as beauty brand L’Oreal Paris and women’s magazine Femina Thursday came together to celebrate Indian women achievers.
The third edition of the L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014 also brought together three brand ambassadors of L’Oreal – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor and Katrina Kaif – under one roof for this unique award function.
A new study has revealed that autism begins during pregnancy.
The Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Allen Institute for Brain Science, who analyzed 25 genes in post-mortem brain tissue of kids with and without autism, found that there were focal patches of disrupted development of these cortical layers in the majority of children with autism.
Fashion forecasters have predicted that the `shimmer` make-up trend set at Milan Fashion Week will make waves on Indian runways as well.
Celebrity make-up artist and Lakme expert Daniel Bauer said that shimmer embodies mystery and allure and the metallic bold hues in dual tones give the ultimate shine and finish, making it a creative delight for any make-up artist.
Actress Sonakshi Sinha, who was the showstopper at Manish Malhotra’s show, said that if you have great skin, highlight your best features with shimmer.
A 17th century book, which claimed that women have an infinite multitude of defects, is going under the hammer for an estimated 300 pounds at Duke’s Auctioneers of Dorchester.
The book, titled The Art How To Known Men, likened males to a lion, with large mouths, thick hair and hard and ‘musculous flesh’ and claimed that women have a fair appearance which hide traits like weakness, jealousy, distrust and ungratefulness, Metro.co.uk reported.
Call it the mother of apps! A new smart phone app is here that helps expectant mothers listen to the heartbeat of their unborn child – and record their feelings too.
Not only this, they can also keep track of their baby’s progress in the womb.
Named Bellabeat, the app has a foetal heart-rate monitor that let mothers tune in to their baby’s heartbeat, record the sounds and play it back too.
It also tracks heartbeats per minute, times when the baby kicks and weight of the growing foetus.
Quitting smoking may not be enough to improve your lung function if your cooking fuel is not clean and ventilation in the kitchen is not proper, research says.
“Substituting biogas for biomass fuel for cooking and improving kitchen ventilation could lead to a reduction of the global burden of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that makes breathing difficult), especially in non-industrialised nations,” said the study led by Pixin Ran from the Guanzhou Medical University, China.
The collection presented at the Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014 season by Manish Malhotra has set the tone of makeup for this summer.
The colour palette is very summery – very breezy, nothing that makes you look made up, the ace designer said.
Meanwhile, Rod Anker, Creative Director of Monsoon Salon and Spa, which is partnering with a whole host of designers at the Fashion Week, said that the ground rule is a clean look – a nude face with a hint of bronze – and pastel colours on either the eyes or the lips.
In a shocking revelation, a study has found that women in India who have more education than their husbands, earn more or who are the sole earners experience frequent and severe intimate partner violence (IPV) than women who are not employed or less educated than their spouse.
Abigail Weitzman, a graduate student at New York University, looked at data from the female-only module of India’s National Family Health Survey (NFHS) collected between 2005 and 2006.
Researchers have shown that treatment with peach extract inhibit breast cancer metastasis in mice.
Texas A and M AgriLife Research Research scientists say that the mixture of phenolic compounds present in the peach extract are responsible for the inhibition of metastasis.
A new research has revealed that the average British mother works almost 88 hours per week, including 27 hours’ paid employment.
The research suggests that they only take 3.5 days off from family chores every year, the Mirror reported.
The research, by Parragon, questioned 2,000 mums in roles as cook, cleaner, handyman, personal assistant, childcare giver and taxi driver and found their annual earnings would be 31,216 pounds.
The sum includes a weekly wage of 111 pounds in childcare, 164 pounds in cleaning and 28 pounds as a taxi driver. (ANI)
Different women organisations Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission, seeking action against Bengali actor and Trinamool Congress candidate Dev for his comments on rape.
“It is essential for the EC to intervene and issue notice to the person concerned. It is also essential to issue a public warning to all political parties and candidates to desist from making sexist and misogynist statements and that any such statement will constitute a violation of the code of conduct,” read the memorandum they submitted to the poll panel.
Highlighting issues like menstrual hygiene management, women’s dignity and poor defecation facilities, a national convention here Tuesday raised concern on the sanitation crisis in India which has reached an alarming stage.
About 400 delegates from various parts of India, along with women and people from marginalised communities, attended this convention on the Right to Sanitation where they discussed and put forward the fears they face in day-to-day life.
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College and Houston Methodist have found that a gene previously unassociated with breast cancer plays a pivotal role in the growth and progression of the triple negative form of the disease.
Their research suggests that targeting the gene may be a new approach to treating the disease.
About 42,000 new cases of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) are diagnosed in the United States each year, about 20 percent of all breast cancer diagnoses. Patients typically relapse within one to three years of being treated.