Novo Nordisk partners with American Cooking Stars
Princeton (USA) – Novo Nordisk, the world leader in diabetes care, is teaming up with American cooking stars Paula Deen and her sons, Bobby and Jamie Deen, to launch Diabetes in a New Light™,a national initiative More...
Sixth taste discovered: Fat
New research reveals that there exist six basic tastes which a human tongue can detect; in contrast to the earlier believed presence of five. The recent addition to earlier sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savory More...
Obese to beautiful: A desire for few more years of life!
Jill Knapp, weighed 237 pounds before she finally, began her fight against obesity. The journey from being just another overweight to ending up among the top six contestants of the sixteen amazing women at Mrs. More...
Health benefits of soaked almonds
Almonds are most nutritious nuts, being a rich source of protein, fiber, vitamin E, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, calcium, magnesium and zinc. They have several health and beauty benefits; if only – consumed More...
Rolling over left-over food: New Age science?
Column by Prof. Narendra Nayak - Madesnana or rolling over left-over food on banana leaves – has been a practice amongst some of the communities inKarnataka,India. While several sources claim that this has been More...
Nodding syndrome affects Northern Uganda
Inhabitants of the Tuma – Ngur village in Akwang sub- County and Kitgum district in Northern Uganda are fighting against a strange disease – that is now being addressed as the Nodding disease. This disease was More...
Better medication for newborns and infants with diabetes
Diabetes: a life-long undesirable gift of high blood sugar levels; could affect individuals of any age, including infants and children. It is usually caused by dearth of insulin (a hormone produced by pancreas for More...
Junk food marketing: affects Childhood Obesity?
Canadian scientists Monique Kent, Lise Dubois and Alissa Wanless conducted a study involving many hundreds of children exposed to different food and beverage advertising policy environments. The nutritional quality More...
Nature, Science and the Outside World: A candid perspective
“Nature” and “Science” are regarded as the best scientific journals across the globe. They bring to the public domain- information on the elite research happening worldwide. Encompassing various themes like: More...
Don’t wash your hands off washing your hands: A note on Global Hand-washing Day
Washing hands off tricky situations, might not yield definitive solutions to problems in life; but washing hands regularly (literally, without any other ulterior meanings) with appropriate cleansing and sanitizing More...