A joint study from the University of Colorado (CU) and the Harvard University have found that people residing at higher altitudes have a lower risk of heart ailment particularly ischemic heart disease and have the opportunity to live longer than others.
Lifestyle
Life Expectancy In The UK Is On The Rise
Despite concern that health problems arising from obesity would affect life expectancy in high-income countries, such as the UK, there is no evidence of this to date.
Scientists Has Established Link Of Mother’s Poor Diet & Diabetes
Scientists have already suspected that a poor diet during pregnancy of a mother can result in health problems such as diabetes for her offspring later in life.
Swedes Replace Traditional Swedish Surnames With Uniquely Savvy Names
Under Swedish old laws, only those with surnames ending in ‘son’ like Andersson, or having a bad or embarrassing connotations could change their names. But a law enacted in 1982 allows almost anyone to do so, for almost any reason.
Halal Food Had Carved A Major Niche in France
France is among the largest population of Muslims in Europe, and with the country’s ensuing discussion in terms of integrating them in the mainstream of French society, it could have a primary impact on the food culture as well.
Is Brain In Relaxing Mood Solves Word Puzzle Easily?
For almost a century scientists have used puzzles to study what they call insight thinking, the leaps of understanding that seem to come out from nowhere without additional work of analysis.
Various Forms Of Relaxation To Alleviate Your Stress
There is a mutual relationship between stress and pressure in this modern times, and they are directly proportional to each other.
Poor Water Policies Resulted Unused Water Goes Down The Drain
According to the report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), agriculture is by far the biggest user of water, accounting for more than seventy percent of total water consumption worldwide and more than 90 percent of water consumption in poor developing countries.
Is Colorectal Cancer Occurrence Attributed To One’s Lifestyle?
Among the different types of cancers, colorectal cancer ranks sixth overall, fifth among males and seventh among females as the leading cause of death among Filipino men and women, according to the Department of Health (DOH). Some 2,657 deaths were reported in 2005 due to colorectal cancer.
Clothing Designers Adopt Nil Waste In Garment Patterns
Apparel industry professionals say that about 15 to 20 percent of the fabric use to produce clothing winds up in the American landfills because it’s cheaper to dump the scraps than to recycle them.