DHAKA: Exercise can be as good a medicine as pills for people with conditions such as heart disease, a study has found.The work in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) looked at hundreds of trials involving nearly 340,000 patients to assess the merits of exercise and drugs in preventing

DHAKA: Have a salmon fish dinner. Snack on a handful of nuts. Pour a dash of olive oil in your salad.And bite into that sinister chocolate. Now you can do all this guilt-free! All these foods help in fighting bad cholesterol. According to the American Heart Association, `You can reduce

DHAKA: How to lose weight with yoga is on everyone`s mind as 2013 begins with a powerpacked list of health resolutions across the board. But is yoga really that effective for weight loss?Do all forms of yoga help and promote weight loss? With a number of yoga variations out there, which

DHAKA: One needs a healthy heart to live life to the fullest. However, due to various lifestyle changes and sedentary jobs, we are more likely than ever to develop various problems like heart attacks and other related complications.Prevention is one of the best ways to keep heart disease

DHAKA: You`ve been missing your routine at the gym very often thanks to your busy schedule (or plain laziness) and suddenly you realize that in one week you have to attend a wedding.You want to wear your favourite saree or figure-hugging dress but are worried about your flabby stomach

DHAKA: The World Heart Day-2013 was marked in the country like elsewhere across the globe Sunday in a befitting manner.The National Heart Foundation (NHF) in Dhaka arranged a colorful rally with the theme ‘take the road to a healthy heart’.According to NHF a sum of 1.73 crore people

DHAKA: One needs a healthy heart to live life to the fullest. However, due to various lifestyle changes and sedentary jobs, we are more likely than ever to develop various problems like heart attacks and other related complications.Prevention is one of the best ways to keep heart disease

DHAKA: A popular restaurant owner is raising money to realise his vision of a better life for people in the country he spent his childhood in.Abdul Salique owns the Spice of Life restaurant, in Wellowgate, Grimsby.However, he spent the first nine years of his life in Bangladesh –

DHAKA: Most tobacco users want to quit. Approximately seven out of 10 smokers want to stop but may have to try an average of six to nine times before they succeed.Tobacco is a tough addiction to beat. But whether you’re a cigarette smoker, cigar smoker or tobacco chewer, quitting

DHAKA: Death rates following hip replacement surgery fell by half in England and Wales between 2003 and 2011, a study in The Lancet has found.Although death within 90 days of surgery is rare, mortality decreased from 0.56% to 0.29% in an analysis of more than 400,000 patients.The

DHAKA: Omega-3 fatty acids may not help keep the aging brain sharp, at least in older women, new research suggests.The study, published on September 25 in the journal Neurology, found that there were no differences in the cognitive skills of older women who had high blood levels of the

DHAKA: Nothing makes a tight-fitting dress or a pair of denims sexier than a perfect butt. Here are moves and exercises that will help you sculpt your buttKick-backs:Get on your hands and knees and place a light dumbbell behind your right knee. Keep your back and neck flat such that they

DHAKA: Back-to-school is nearly synonymous with flu season, which means sunburned noses are about to give way to runny noses rubbed raw from one too many tissues.Fortunately, the 2013-14 flu shot is already available, and this year it`s better than ever, covering four strains of the virus

DHAKA: A dose of sugar given as a gel rubbed into the inside of the cheek is a cheap and effective way to protect premature babies against brain damage, say experts.Dangerously low blood sugar affects about one in 10 babies born too early. Untreated, it can cause permanent

DHAKA: Going on a health kick reverses ageing at the cellular level, researchers say.The University of California team says it has found the first evidence a strict regime of exercise, diet and meditation can have such an effect.But experts say although the study in Lancet Oncology is

DHAKA: Diabetes isn`t known as a silent killer just for kicks. The growing number of people falling prey to this metabolic disease has raised quite an alarm worldwide.Being overweight, leading a sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise and consumption of high calorie, sugary and fatty foods

DHAKA: Bacterial infections can imperil the fragile patients at hospital’s intensive care units. And a new study reveals an unlikely spreader: the health care workers who treat them. The standard sterile hospital garb typically thought to prevent infections isn’t helping.Physical

DHAKA: Roche`s new breast cancer drug Kadcyla was approved in Japan on Friday and recommended for approval in Europe, building on February`s United States green light for the product.Kadcyla is designed for patients with late-stage disease whose cancer cells contain increased amounts of a

DHAKA: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but what people do not know about this meal is that if they skip this meal, it could have an adverse effect on their weight.Akansha Jhalani, Registered Dietitian and health blogger at Beyond The Weighing Scale, helps you decode the

DHAKA: Moving in time to a steady beat is closely linked to better language skills, a study suggests.People who performed better on rhythmic tests also showed enhanced neural responses to speech sounds.The researchers suggest that practising music could improve other skills, particularly