Health & Fitness
Mobile app to kick smoking habit
January 15, 2015
Mobile app to kick smoking habit
A mobile application has been recently launched by non-governmenal organization Hyah Bela Tadkheen (Life without Smoking) to raise public awareness…
Study: ‘Small screens’ prevent kids from sleeping
January 5, 2015
Study: ‘Small screens’ prevent kids from sleeping
Children who have access to tablets or smartphones in their bedrooms get less sleep than children who do not have…
Fruits and vegetables linked to stroke prevention
January 4, 2015
Fruits and vegetables linked to stroke prevention
Eating more fruits and vegetables may reduce stroke risk by almost a third, according to a fresh look at recent…
Recess timing may not affect kids’ fruit and vegetable intake
January 4, 2015
Recess timing may not affect kids’ fruit and vegetable intake
In efforts to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, it seems to make no difference if play time…
Study: Not all obese people prone to poor health
January 3, 2015
Study: Not all obese people prone to poor health
S scientists encouraged 20 obese people to eat extra fast food for several months, and found that about a quarter…
Twitter sees limited blackout
December 29, 2014
Twitter sees limited blackout
Twitter experienced a partial outage, the nature of which was not immediately clear, the company said."Something is technically wrong," the…
Christmas Eve mass at a Catholic church in Beijing
December 25, 2014
Christmas Eve mass at a Catholic church in Beijing
A Chinese city has banned schools from holding Christmas events, state media reported on Thursday, highlighting official suspicions about the…
UK centres named in cancer-fighting DNA project
December 22, 2014
UK centres named in cancer-fighting DNA project
The government on Monday named 11 NHS centres that will lead a project to map 100,000 DNA code sequences in…
Sedentary lifestyle linked to depression
December 22, 2014
Sedentary lifestyle linked to depression
A new analysis of previous studies ties too much sitting at the computer or lying around watching TV to a…
New calorie-counting app for weight lose stimulation
December 22, 2014
New calorie-counting app for weight lose stimulation
MyFitnessPal is one of the most positively reviewed apps in the Apple and Android app stores, they write in the…