Womens Corner

Most women like to be pampered almost everyday, but Valentine’s Day is one day when they expect “special gifts” from their lovers, reveals a study. So, men get creative.

Daily deals site Groupon India’s Valentine’s Day survey shows that women hope for an exciting experience they can tell all their friends about. The research, which polled over 2,000 adults across India, reveals what women want to feel on Feb 14.

They have let out a collective cheer for special gifts (54 percent), a romantic dinner date (26 percent) or simply having a romantic night at home (22 percent).

Long-term smoking could cause thinning of a vital brain part in which critical cognitive functions such as memory, language and perception take place, a new study has warned.

Smoking appears to accelerate the thinning of the brain’s cortex, the outer layer of the brain. A thinner brain cortex is associated with adult cognitive decline.

“Smokers should be informed that cigarettes could hasten the thinning of the brain’s cortex, which could lead to cognitive deterioration,” said the study’s lead author Sherif Karama, assistant professor of psychiatry at the McGill University in Canada.

A new survey has revealed that 57 per cent of women have admitted that they regularly edit their own social media pictures to enhance their appearance.

According to the survey conducted by website beautyheaven.com.au, women used apps like Photowonder and Perfect365, filters and Photoshop to slim down their thighs, flatten their tummies and perfect their skin, Stuff.co.nz reported.

Most of the women surveyed take at least three photos to get the perfect shot, while more than 10 per cent of take more than 10 photos before they are satisfied.

No need to skip a meal or head to a gym as easy ways to lose a few pounds — not anymore. Replacing just one between-meal confectionery snack with a handful of berries can do the trick as well.

Research shows that when people swapped a confectionery treat for a berry snack with the same energy content, considerably fewer calories were consumed at their next main meal.

This suggested that a simple change in habit alone could reduce a person’s calorie intake by nearly 1,000 calories a week, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Children exposed to tobacco smoke from their parents while in the womb are predisposed to developing diabetes as adults, warns a new study.

“Our findings are consistent with the idea that gestational environmental chemical exposures can contribute to the development of health and disease,” said lead author Michele La Merrill, an assistant professor of environmental toxicology at University of California, Davis.

Can office be the place for finding love? If one goes by a survey, many workers are attracted to people who work in similar jobs as them.

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, online jobs site CareerBuilder.in’s annual survey on office romance found that 36 percent of Indian workers have dated someone who worked for the same company, and 37 percent said they went on to marry the person.

The national survey was conducted online in January 2015 and included a representative sample of 1,000 full-time workers across industries and company sizes.

An Australian lady named Vali Creus, has become the only woman in the world who has given birth to twins even after getting ovarian tissue transplanted into abdomen.

Creus was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was 19-year-old, and at that time her one ovary was removed and the other was frozen and defrosted many years later, News.com.au reported.

Doctors then grafted the stored ovarian tissue into her abdomen, and it took her almost three years to get pregnant, but she never lost the hope of having children.

Babies get microbes from mother’s milk that makes them “more ready” to digest solid food later in life, says a new study.

Babies who miss out on breast feed are more likely to develop stomach aches and colic.

The team found that a baby’s diet during the first few months has a tremendous impact on the composition, diversity and stability of the gut microbiome.

Settling for “Mr Right Now” is a better evolutionary strategy than waiting for “Mr Right”, scientists say.

Michigan State University researchers studied the evolution of risk aversion and found that it is in our nature – traced back to the earliest humans – to take the safe bet when stakes are high, such as whether or not we will mate.

“Primitive humans were likely forced to bet on whether or not they could find a better mate,” said Chris Adami, MSU professor of microbiology and molecular genetics and co-author of the paper.

A new study has linked deficiency in a gene that controls autophagy, a process that recycles cell waste, with the triple-negative breast cancer.

UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists found based on analysis of two large breast cancer databases, reduced activity of an autophagy gene, beclin 1, was related to both a higher incidence of triple-negative breast cancer and a poorer prognosis for breast cancer patients.

Researchers have suggested that day care can both harm and help single mother’s child’s learning development.

Dr. Daniel Henderson, the J. Weldon and Delores Cole Faculty Fellow at Culverhouse, and his team examined and analyzed the results of previous research on the benefits and harms of child care for children of single moms.

Henderson found in his research that if a single mother has a higher level of education, then day care can be harmful to a child’s cognitive development, while children of single mothers with less education actually benefit from being in day care.

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New York, Feb 7 (IANS) Settling for “Mr. Okay” is a better evolutionary strategy than waiting for “Mr. Perfect”, a study says.

“An individual might hold out to find the perfect mate but run the risk of coming up empty and leaving no progeny,” explained co-author Chris Adami, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Michigan State University.

“Settling early for the sure bet gives you an evolutionary advantage, if living in a small group,” he emphasised.

A woman, who was born with no reproductive organs, has given birth to beautiful twin girls, Avery and Darcey, after undergoing a revolutionary hormone therapy to help her grow a womb.

The 28-year-old Hayley Haynes was told at the age of 19 that she could never have children, because she suffered from a rare medical condition, known as androgen insensitivity syndrome, which meant she was genetically a man, the Daily Express reported.

Haynes said that when they told her she had no womb, she was so confused and felt sick as her biggest fear was never having children.

A new study has revealed that breastfeeding better prepares a baby’s stomach for the transition to solid food, hence better equipping them for potentially an early life with fewer stomach woes.

Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine and UNC College of Arts and Sciences found that a baby’s diet during the first few months of life has a profound influence on the composition, diversity and stability of the gut microbiome and these factors, in turn, influence the baby’s ability to transition from milk to solid foods and may have long-term health effects.

Measuring activity of a brain region which is crucial for detecting and responding to threats, it is possible to tell four years in advance if someone would become depressed or anxious in response to stressful life events, says a study.

While some people can cope with stressful situations such as divorce, loss of a loved one or financial trouble well, others go on to develop anxiety or depression later.

A clue to this difference could be found in an almond-shaped structure deep within our brains, the amygdala, the findings showed.

Lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death in females in developed countries and the change reflects the tobacco epidemic in women, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Cancer Society and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
Lung cancer has been the top cancer killer for men for decades in developed countries. It is also the leading cancer killer in men in developing countries, where breast cancer still kills more women than lung cancer, Xinhua news agency cited the report as stating.

The trend of celebrities sharing their skinny selfies can be “toxic” for young impressionable women, it has been revealed.

Rehab expert Dr Alex Yellowlees claimed that anorexia sufferers are copying the stars like Chloe Madeley and Lucy Mecklenburgh who recently posed pictures of themselves looking thin, by taking selfie snaps to chart their weight loss, the Daily Star reported.

Yellowlees warning comes as France seeks to clamp down on pro-anorexia websites and ban models that are too slight.

A China-based elderly woman has woken up from a two-week coma, after suffering a stroke, speaking perfect English, but not a word of her native language.

Ninety-four-year-old Liu Jieyu formerly worked as an English teacher, but her family insists that she had not spoken the language for more than 30 years, the Daily Star reported.

As Delhi inches closer to the assembly polls, the three main parties in the fray – the AAP, the Congress and the BJP – have laid out elaborate action plans, promising a slew of development measures for the national capital.

The Congress: Released in two parts, the Congress manifesto is a comprehensive vision that speaks about —

– Regularising unauthorised colonies that could not attain legal status during the first round of regularisation by the previous Congress government.

– Increasing pension amount to Rs.2,000 per month for all, including widows and handicapped.

Last year’s red carpet events saw Hollywood stars sporting rainbow hued hair colours like slime green and shades of purple. But this year, celebrities seem to be taking a much more subtle approach.

“I noticed that hair colour is a lot more conservative this year,” eonline.com quoted celebrity colourist Jennifer J as saying.

“Now though, it is not pastel pink or blue that we are used to seeing. It is natural pastel colours.

Mother’s lifestyle and diet even before conception can affect the chance of her kids becoming obese later in life, a study has confirmed.

“Our findings suggest that interventions to prevent obesity need to start earlier, even before conception, and that having a healthy body weight and not smoking at this time could be key,” said lead researcher Sian Robinson from University of Southampton in Britain.

Tweeting publicly about sexism could improve a woman’s wellbeing as it has the potential to let them express themselves in ways they feel can make a difference, a new study suggests.

The study examined whether using Twitter to respond to sexism could be done in a public way without any negative effects to their wellbeing.

“We know women can be badly affected by experiences of sexism and that responding publicly can be stressful and risky,” said Dr Mindi Foster from the Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

A new Vatican report has found that undergoing plastic surgery is not at all worth, as it claims that it is a “burqa made of flesh”.

The document, ‘Women’s Cultures: Equality and Differences’ explained that cosmetic surgeries are aggressive towards the feminine identity and could also lead to eating disorders and depression, the Independent reported.

The document writers mentioned that any non-medico-therapeutic plastic surgeries are completely manipulative, as it amputates human expressions from the face, and physically reduces a woman’s ability to empathize with others.

The world’s oldest set of sisters have proved they are still young at heart as they celebrate reaching the landmark combined age of 386.

Together with twin sisters Dorothy Thompson and Ellen George, both 96, and “baby of the family” Sylvia Sturgess, who turns 92 in April, hope to make it into the record books, the Daily Express reported.

The foursome siblings turned 386 when the eldest among them, Lillian Brown, recently had her 103rd birthday.

Your make-up products can put you at risk of early menopause.

Chemicals in lipstick, face cream and nail varnish can speed up the process by four years, according to a study.

The study examined the effects of 111 chemicals on 31,575 women.

As many as 15 different chemicals were identified as harmful by a team of researchers at Washington University in St Louis and among them were phthalates, which are used to soften plastics.