Sugar-sweetened beverage tax could curb obesity and diabetes in India
Washington – A sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) tax can help reduce the rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes rates in India, a new study has suggested. Sanjay Basu and colleagues, from Stanford University, USA, estimated that a 20 per cent SSB tax across India could avert 11.2 million cases of... read more »
‘E-cigarettes’ perceived benefits may lead to higher experiment...
Washington – Researchers have suggested that the belief that e-cigarettes pose less health risk could lead to increased experimentation among young adults. Investigators from the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota surveyed 1379 participants from the... read more »
5 tips for men to understand women better
1) communication should not be a problem, as for the women there is nothing as appealing as a man, who listens to them. If a man wants to tell them something they wouldn’t mind knowing it but face-to-face is always preferable and if that is not possible men can contact them via texts, the... read more »
Know what stories do to your brain?
New York – Good stories can put you in someone else’s shoes, figuratively. Now is the time to see what a good novel may do to your brain. Researchers at Emory University in Georgia, US, have detected what may be biological traces related to actual changes in the brain that linger, at least... read more »
