Watching TV for long hours shortens life expectancy

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Sydney, Aug 16: People sitting in front of TV for hours on end could shorten their life expectancy by almost five years, says an Australian study published Tuesday by the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Researchers from the University of Queensland have estimated that for every hour adults More

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15 minutes' exercise extends life by 3 years

London, Aug 16: People who spare even 15 minutes daily for exercise could extend their lifespan by three years.While initial exercise cut death rates by 14 percent, additional 15 minutes of activity further reduced the rate by four percent.This trend continued until a person raised exercising More

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‘Addiction may be from brain disorder’

Washington, Aug 16: Addiction is more than mere substance abuse and could hold signs of a diseased brain, according to the a new definition furnished by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).This new definition highlights addiction as a chronic brain disorder, not a problem involving More

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Level of tiffs between spouses remains same over years

Washington, Aug 16: Tiffs with your spouse stay at the same levels -- for your entire marriage. That may be good news for the 16 percent couples who get by more harmoniously or the 60 percent who have only moderate levels of conflict, according to a study.  But it's not such happy More

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Rejection spawns ill health, anti-social feelings

Washington, Aug 16: Acceptance is fundamental to the well-being and worth of an individual. But its evil twin -- rejection -- spawns ill health and anti-social feelings, which can have damaging consequences."If you turn on the television set and watch any reality TV programme, most of them are More

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Online addiction turning youth as lonely as elderly

London, Aug 16: Youngsters are turning 'skin hungry' as networking online leaves them feeling as lonely as the elderly, a study has found. Having an average of 243 Facebook friends, teenagers are spending so much time on the internet that they have little time to move out with friends, Daily More

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Women gossip for one-third of waking life

London, Aug 16: While it may be a Herculean task for anyone to calculate how much his wife or girl friend talks in a day, a study has found an average woman spends five hours a day gossiping. Whether they are at home or at work, females natter for around 298 minutes daily, which is the equivalent More

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Chinese herb mix may shorten flu fever

New York, Aug 16: In mild cases of H1N1 influenza, a traditional Chinese herb mixture may relieve a fever about as well as the antiviral drug Tamiflu, researchers reported Monday.The herb product, called maxingshigan-yinqiaosan, is not widely available on store shelves in western countries.
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Deadly bugs lurk in raw vegetables

Washington, Aug 16: Germs like E. coli and Salmonella lurk in raw vegetables, where it might not be possible to remove them even with repeated washing, say US scientists.These contaminated items could be a potent source of infection, according to the new study by Purdue University.An E. coli More

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Lead poisoning in developing world alarming

Washington, Aug 16: Children living near battery manufacturing units in the developing world had 13 times more lead traces in their blood than US children, says a new study reported in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. It comes in the wake of reports of mass lead poisoning More

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Stress drives appetite and obesity

Toronto, Aug 16: Scientists have figured out why stress triggers appetite, which could be instrumental in causing obesity. Normally, the brain produces neurotransmitters (chemicals facilitating intercellular communication) called endocannabinoids that send signals to control appetite.
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Cancer discovery offers hope of tackling spread

London, Aug 16: Scientists have discovered how cancerous cells can "elbow" their way out of tumours, offering clues for new drugs to prevent cancers spreading. They say they have identified a protein called JAK which helps cancerous cells generate the force needed to move. Writing More

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Teachers told to use Twitter, Facebook in Kuwait

Kuwait City, Aug 16: Teachers in Kuwait schools are being encouraged by the government to use latest technology, including social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, to communicate better with students. The education ministry has proposed the use of technology in communicating More

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Police charge 16-yr-old boy with murder

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London, Aug 16: A teenage boy has been charged with murdering a pensioner, one of the five people killed during England's worst riots in decades, as intelligence agency MI5 joined the hunt for rioters to help decode encrypted messages on BlackBerry used by looters to coordinate their actions.& More

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US declares Haqqani network commander a terrorist

Washington, Aug 16: The Obama administration designated a key insurgent commander in southeastern Afghanistan as a terrorist Tuesday, freezing any assets he has in the United States and barring Americans from doing business with him. The State Department said Mullah Sangeen Zadran is the shadow More

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Gunfire in Syrian coastal city; 35 dead in 4 days

Beirut, Aug 16: Heavy machine-gun fire erupted across the besieged Syrian city of Latakia today as the death toll rose to 35 from a military assault now in its fourth day, residents and activists said. President Bashar Assad has dramatically escalated the crackdown on a 5-month-old uprising More

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Israeli air strikes on Gaza, I killed

Gaza, Aug 16: Israel has carried out a series of air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after militants in the Hamas-run territory fired a rocket into southern Israel. One Palestinian was killed and at least five others were wounded, Palestinian health officials said. Some of the pre-dawn strikes targeted More

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China to build USD 1.8 bln water projects in Tibet

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Beijing, Aug 16: China today announced plans to build projects worth USD 1.8 billion in Tibet, which presumably included a hydropower project on Brahmaputra river originating from there. China will spend more than 11.6 billion yuan (USD 1.8 billion) on the construction of Tibet's irrigation More

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