Month: June 2020

It's not only possible but more healthy. It is true that good food is cheaper because processed foods can be very expensive. Natural and fresh foods are also more nutritious. They also have no food additives which are added not for eating, but for longer shelf-life; replace lost colours and flavours; and other needs of the food industry. You can get more vitamins, minerals, and proteins at low...

Researchers from University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Germany say it might cause problems for groups that are already at risk from blood pressure issues, like smokers or the elderly. Cerebral blood flow, the blood supply to the brain, was found to drop by an average of 7.5 percent in the men wearing a necktie, with no drop reported in the control group. The difference is likely to...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported in 2017 that as much as 80% of antibiotic use is on farm animals. More antibiotics are used on animals than on humans. Antibiotics is used on animal farms as a growth promoter, to prevent disease outbreak and lastly to treat sick animals/ Misuse of antibiotics in farm animals is said to be a greater cause of bacterial resistance than misuse of the...

EACH year about 700,000 people around the world die due to drug-resistant infections. These infections kill because the infections cannot be cured. The actual figure could be much higher because there is no global system to monitor deaths due to drug-resistant infections. And there has been trouble tracking those deaths in places where they are monitored, like in the US, where tens of thousands...

IN a paper published in the journal Sleep, British researcher James Horne reports that even one sleepless night can affect our most creative kind of thinking, known as divergent thinking, which involves spontaneity, flexibility and originality. This type of thinking is used in creative pursuits such as writing or painting, and is required to respond in innovative ways in an emergency. Horne says...