Public Health

Inactive Children Influenced By Their Parents

The more TV parents watch, the more their children watch and are less active as a result, say the authors of a new study in BMC Public Health.  The study found that higher parental TV viewing was associated with an increased risk of high levels of TV viewi ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2010 - 3:12pm

What's The Solution To The Obesity Epidemic? Researchers Debate

What is the best way to address the obesity epidemic? Several experts debated the subject in the most recent issue of the British Medical Journal.  Researchers from the Children's Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney in Australia  argue t ...

Article - News Staff - May 25 2010 - 6:54pm

Trapa bispinosa flour has uses in regulating menstrual cycle.

My mother used to keep fasts on holy 11th day of the moon calender called Ekadashi. We waited as c hildren that she will make her special meal for fasting day. It consisted of Kutu ka atta a sort of coarse grain with low calorific value. Besides this she w ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 16 2010 - 1:43pm

Natural Foods- Less Preservatives Increase Bacterial Impact In Food

With an increasing trend toward what marketing groups call 'natural' food, some companies have reduced preservatives.  A common preservative, acetic acid, is used to stop bacterial growth in dressings, sauces, cheese and pickles, but new research ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2010 - 9:29am

Monkeys and Mice: A Literature Review the Anti-Vaccine Folks Should Embrace But Won't

Aschner and Ceccatelli (2010) review the relevant data for thimerosal as a cause of autism. They conclude there is "no reliable data indicating that administration of vaccines containing thimerosal is a primary cause of autism. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jun 28 2010 - 11:17am

Who wins the world cup

The nation who passes the ball to the fellow players wins the world cup? Its team work and working together. Come together to win. Its friendship and brother hood that will win in the world and so is the case with world cup. Now can you tell who is the win ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 2 2010 - 3:46pm

Who wins the world cup logical answer is

One who works as a team and that one has seen in the footwork of Germany. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 4 2010 - 4:42am

If you pass your ball to others to hit the goal you are the winner

If you pass your ball to others to score a goal you win the match. That one has seen yesterday and that one will see today and in next week also. I have already told who the winner will be. Now you also guess. ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 6 2010 - 10:35pm

What Could Climate Change Mean For Malaria?

There are many predictions suggesting that climate change could create new permissive habitats for disease transmitting arthropod vectors. As a result of climate change, and associated global warming, permissive environments which provide conditions for en ...

Article - Onome Akpogheneta - Jul 8 2010 - 3:14pm

Ethnobotany Role In Relation To Medicinal Plants In India

Ethnobotany is usually defined as anthropological approach to botany. There are several methods of ethnobotanical research and those relevant to medicinal plants are archaeological search in literature, herbaria and the field studies. “Man, ever desirous o ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 13 2010 - 9:54am