Brain circuitry can trick your body into losing weight, says a study.
Scientists from Sydney and New South Wales Universities, identified the brain circuitry that can trick the body into losing weight.
Shu Lin, Yanchuan Shi and Herbert Herzog, professor and his team have been studying the complex processes behind energy balance using various mouse models, the journal Cell Metabolism reports.
An omega-3 fatty acid counteracts the effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), afflicting 75 percent of the obese, says a new study.
The American Liver Foundation estimates that about 25 percent of the US population and 75 percent of the obese have NAFLD. This early-stage health condition can sometimes progress to more serious, even fatal diseases, including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH.
According to new research from the University of Leeds Natural, chemicals found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer`s disease pathway.
In early-stage laboratory experiments, the researchers identified the process that allows harmful clumps of protein to latch on to brain cells, causing them to die. They were able to interrupt this pathway using the purified extracts of EGCG from green tea and resveratrol from red wine.
The findings offer potential new targets for developing drugs to treat Alzheimer`s disease.
At least three people died and several others were injured after a portion of an under-construction Mumbai Metro bridge collapsed in Andheri East on Wednesday night.
The incident took place at around 11 pm near the international airport.
A case of negligence has also been registered against the construction company Larsen and Tubro.
According to reports, eight fire tenders and four ambulances immediately reached the spot and rescue operations were in full swing.
An American teenager has signed a legal agreement, under which she would be paid 200 dollars by her father if she deleted her Facebook account. The teenager, Rachel Baier, will be paid 50 dollars in April, and another 150 dollars in June, by her father Paul Baier, who is the vice president of Boston energy company Groom Energy Solutions, reports News.com.au. According to Paul Baier, Rachel, who came up with the idea of the agreement, found Facebook distracting and a waste of her time, and added that she also wanted to earn money.
Filing a regular audit on the state of your relationship could be the key to a happy marriage, as couples who analysed their disputes from a neutral perspective are reported to be less distressed, psychologists have claimed.
While some couples keep their relationship fresh with candlelit dinners or by taking up new hobbies, filling out a “relationship appraisal” could achieve even more impressive results, the Telegraph reported.
Computer experts from Germany have warned people to be more careful while surfing the internet as malicious programs called “drive-by downloads” can be downloaded unintentionally when users visit “manipulated websites”.
Currently the biggest threat was the so-called “drive-by downloads”, according to the German Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media or Bitkom.
“Cyber criminals are operating in increasingly sophisticated ways,” said Bitkom president Dieter Kempf.
Government is planning to bring a fresh Bill to replace the ordinance on crime against women issued on Sunday, within the first few days of the Budget session of Parliament beginning February 21.
“We are working on priority. The Bill will be introduced within first few days of the Budget session,” a top Home Ministry official said.
The screening of spy-thriller ‘Vishwaroopam’ will finally take place in Tamil Nadu today, after a tumultuous two weeks of court cases and stay orders.
Fans of actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan can be seen dancing outside the theatres in Chennai to celebrate the release of the movie on Friday. They also garlanded the cutouts of the actor.
People started gathering outside cinema halls in Chennai in large numbers to watch the first show of Vishwaroopam.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi will visit Nagaland today to campaign for the state assembly election to be held on February 23.
According to reports, Gandhi will address two public meetings at Mokokchung and Dimapur districts respectively.
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will also address public rallies in Kohima, Mon and Tuensang districts tentatively on February 9 and 14.
Meanwhile, a total of 193 candidates filed their nominations on Wednesday for the Nagaland assembly elections.
US President Barack Obama has reversed course and agreed to provide congressional intelligence committees access to classified information providing the legal rationale for drone strikes against American citizens linked with terrorist groups abroad, two officials familiar with the matter have said.
According to one official, Obama made the decision on Wednesday to provide members of Congress with the Office of Legal Counsel”s advice following the leak earlier in the week of a Justice Department white paper on the use of drones.
A minority legislator of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party has called for a check of Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s mental status for implying that only non-Muslims are terrorists.
Saleem Khurshid Khokhar, a Christian, moved an adjournment motion against Malik in the Sindh Assembly yesterday, The Express Tribune reported on its website.
He referred to Malik’s recent remarks in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament that terrorists had been asked to lay down their arms or declare themselves “non-Muslims”.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed a complete ban on the transfer and development of land around shrines of minority communities in the wake of allegations about the illegal sale of a gurdwara’s property by a state-run body.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, which was hearing a case regarding the illegal sale of the gurdwara’s land by the Evacuee Trust Property Board, ruled there would be a complete ban on transfer of such land as well as development of roads or any development work.
Scores of Egyptians and Syrians have protested outside the Iranian Embassy in the capital city over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s historic visit to the country to participate in the summit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation(OIC).
The protesters held demonstrations outside the embassy yesterday over the Iranian President’s visit to the country, the first since the Iranian revolution in 1979.
Embattled Internet firm Yahoo has a deal to have Google serve up advertising on some of its websites.
Yahoo said in a statement it recently signed a nonexclusive agreement that will have Google displaying ads on unspecified Yahoo Web properties ‘and certain co-branded sites’ using Google”s ad programs for both traditional computers and mobile devices.
Those programs serve up ads that are related to the content on a particular site, Fox News reports.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared that his country is a nuclear power and should be treated as such.
During an interview with an Egyptian newspaper on the eve of his visit to Cairo, he also stressed that his regime has no plans to use that capability for an attack on Israel.
Ahmadinejad told the newspaper Al-Ahram, according to the Israeli website Haaretz, that Iran is ‘already an industrial and nuclear country, a country that has conquered space.’
At least three labourers were killed and six injured when a slab from an under construction bridge adjacent to the airport fell while being hoisted by a crane, officials said here Thursday.
The incident occurred around 11.45 p.m. Wednesday when a 30-metre slab from the Sahar Elevated Access Road near Mumbai Airport crashed to the ground, city disaster control officials said. The crane hoisting it also collapsed, trapping the workers underneath.
The injured have been admitted to the nearby Holy Spirit and Seven Hills hospitals for treatment.
A man arrested for attempting to rape a girl and shoving an iron rod into her mouth has been remanded to 14-day of judicial custody by a Delhi court.
Anil Kumar, arrested for attempting to rape and murder a class XI girl after trespassing into her house in South Delhi, was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Amitabh Rawat who sent him to judicial custody till February 19.
“…on the request of the police, the accused (Anil) is remanded to 14 days of judicial custody. He be produced on February 19,” the court said.
Viewing with concern incidents of acid attacks, the Supreme Court today directed the Centre to convene in six weeks a meeting of Chief Secretaries of all states and Union Territories to address the menace and discuss framing of a law for treatment and compensation to victims.
Not satisfied with the steps taken by the Centre to regulate sale of acid and to curb its use for attacking women, a bench headed by Justice R M Lodha directed the Union Home Secretary to meet all the Chief Secretaries to formulate a policy to address the menace of the acid attacks.
US drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere have been facing increasing scrutiny and questions from human rights groups.
“That’s I think established in a number of cases. So having said that, the issues here are important and the President recognises that. That’s why he has authorised various senior administration officials to discuss publicly these issues the way that they have, and why I believe that process will continue,” said the White House Press Secretary.
Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor has enthralled everyone with her gorgeous looks both on and off screen, be it in Indian attire or western, but she says her actor-husband Saif Ali Khan likes to see her in a sari.
“I think a woman looks best in sari. Saif always tells me to wear sari. I think the problem is we always try to ape the west.
—PTI
Another youth has been arrested in connection with the online abuses and threats to the all-girl rock band of Kashmir, which forced them to quit singing.
Irshad Ahmad Chara, resident of S D Colony, Batamaloo, was arrested late last night by the police, who was raiding different places to apprehend him.
Tariq Khan, was apprehended from Bijbehara, a town in South Kashmir, and Rameez Shah was also arrested from Ganderbal in central Kashmir last night, police sources said.
Ignoring protests outside, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today used a college platform to project himself nationally saying his focus was on development politics and not that of vote-bank, which he said has “ruined” the nation.
As protesters opposed to his visit clashed with police outside the Shri Ram College of Commerce here, he sought to commend the Gujarat model of governance to the rest of the country.
US President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel next month will be made without any preconditions, the American ambassador to Israel said Wednesday.
White House officials said Tuesday that Obama will visit Israel in his first trip abroad during his second term.
Obama did not make an official visit to Israel during his first term as president, Xinhua reported.
In an interviews to local news outlets, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said Obama’s visit will not necessitate any prior conditions.
Indian women`s cricket team arrived here today for their World Cup play-off match against traditional rivals Pakistan at Barabati Stadium at Cuttack on Thursday.
The team members, including captain Mithali Raj, were given ceremonial welcome at the airport before being escorted to the hotel.
“The Indian players will not undertake net practice today. They will go to Cuttack for the match early in the morning tomorrow,” an Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) functionary said.