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Healthy Weight Gain

Q. I need to gain weight (at least 5 kgs) in a month’s time. Please advise me how to go about it.
A. In order to gain weight, you simply need to take in more calories than you burn. The «www.nutritiondata.com» will give you an estimate of how many calories your require every day. For […]

Study: Gastric bypass reduces death risk in the morbidly obese

Severely obese people who have weight-loss surgery are less likely to die from heart disease, diabetes and cancer seven to 10 years following the procedure than similarly heavy people who don’t have the operation, according to two studies in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine examined […]

Vital Signs | Exercise: Exercise: ParkinsonЙs Patients Benefit From Tango

When the band strikes up a tango, people with «health.nytimes.com» may want to head for the dance floor.
That is the lesson from a new study reporting that when ParkinsonЙs patients took tango classes, their balance improved.
Problems with walking and balance are common among people with the disease, and often lead to falls. Among […]

Is it Getting Too Warm for Penguins?

By Bryan Walsh
King penguins are supposed to be a wildlife success story. The flightless Antarctic bird the second-biggest penguin after its movie-star Emperor cousin was hunted into near-extinction by sailors in the 19th century, who used their fat as cooking oil. When the slaughter ended penguin fat no longer being the […]

Well: Shhh…My Child Is Sleeping (in My Bed, Um, With Me)

A few years ago, my daughter told me about a dream involving a giant bag of Doritos. The crinkles in the package had formed a sort of ladder, and she had climbed them to reach the giant chips inside. It was such a good dream, Mom, she told me.
The Doritos dream is just one […]