Volunteering can count as a workout, too
The night before the Nike Women’s Half Marathon, I laid out critical supplies for the next day: moisture-wicking clothes, sneakers and a couple of granola bars to scarf down on my way out the door. When I woke up, I was ready to race — over to a volunteer aid station at the tip of Hains... read more »
Japanese grilling: First, you must master the binchotan, which means master...
The first thing you learn to respect with Japanese-style grilling is the binchotan, a charcoal that produces virtually no flames and no smoke but generates the kind of hellish heat imagined in the pages of Milton or Dante. Jennifer Nguyen, executive chef at Zentan in the Donovan House Hotel,... read more »
Now, a nano-chip that can help detect cancer at an early stage
New Delhi: Here is some good news as researchers have developed a nano-chip that can detect low concentrations of protein cancer markers in blood at an early stage. Developed by an international team of researchers, led by the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Castelldefelsis Spainusing, the... read more »
Smoking Hookah Linked to Cancer Risk
Medical researchers discovered that young adults who regularly smoked hookah water pipes in bars are at risk of developing cancer and other kinds of illnesses. Based on the study, elevated levels of cotinine, nicotine, tobacco-based cancer-causing agents and volatile organic compounds (VOC) were... read more »
