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Cities with parks that are more accessible, spacious and adequately funded rank higher on the list, according to Mullenbach. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Here's how parks can promote health, wellness in city dwellers

Study found small improvements to city's ParkScore, an evaluation of city's park system, could lead to more physical...

10 Nov 2018 12:40 PM GMT

Fascia can actually be classified into four types, each with different properties, functions, and characteristics. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Here's all you need to know about fascia ailments

Fascia is a sheet of fibrous tissue that envelops the body beneath the skin, which also encloses muscles and groups of...

10 Nov 2018 11:40 AM GMT

Heart is the most vital organ as it supplies blood to all the other organs of the body. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Study links heart disease with Alzheimer's in some patients

The new study showed that Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease do share common genetics in some individuals.

10 Nov 2018 10:50 AM GMT

Different communities have their own ways of celebrating festivals by preparing their own special sweets.

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Here's how you can celebrate festivities, the healthy way

Celebrating a festival in India has its charm and is often accompanied with lots of delicacies.

10 Nov 2018 7:22 AM GMT

$Though soy milk and almond milk have become commonplace terms, milks standard of identity says it is obtained by the \complete milking of one or more healthy cows.\ (Photo: Pixabay)$ Life

Soy-based formula milk may increase risk of menstrual pain

Study found women fed soy formula as babies were 40 pc more likely to have used hormonal contraception to alleviate...

10 Nov 2018 5:42 AM GMT

They also help to explain why irregularities in eating and sleeping schedules due to shift work or other factors may make people more likely to gain weight. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Regulate eating, sleeping time to boost metabolism, study finds

Researchers found when at rest, people burn 10 pc more calories in the late afternoon and early evening than in the...

10 Nov 2018 5:03 AM GMT

Twitter has deleted millions of suspicious accounts after it and other social media services were used in misinformation campaigns attempting influence voters in the 2016 US presidential race and other elections.

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Social media use may up depression, loneliness: Study

Study of Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram use showed a causal link between the time spent on the platforms and decreased...

10 Nov 2018 4:30 AM GMT

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Regulate eating, sleeping time to boost metabolism

Good eating and sleeping habits is very important to overall health.

9 Nov 2018 12:19 PM GMT

She also hopes to make a stab-proof moisturiser (Photo: AFP)

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A doctor is creating make-up which can protect people from acid...

Dr Ahmed's product is liquid proof and can resist temperatures up to 400 degrees.

9 Nov 2018 11:46 AM GMT

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US to restrict e-cigarette flavours to fight teenage vaping 'epidemic'

The ban means only tobacco, mint and menthol flavors can be sold.

9 Nov 2018 11:13 AM GMT

13 financial institutions in the country went bankrupt in 1995 explaining why the spike in suicides started that year (Photo: AFP)

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Majority of middle-aged men in Japan commit suicide before leaving for...

Researchers hope that this makes telephone consultation services expand to morning hours rather than functioning just in...

9 Nov 2018 10:01 AM GMT

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Here's why women should be screened for breast cancer

Improvements in treatments demonstrate the vital role that screening also has to play.

9 Nov 2018 8:19 AM GMT