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Moderately overweight elderly people may live longer than those of normal weight, an Australian study suggests.
But being very overweight or being underweight shortened lives. The report, which was published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, said dieting may not be beneficial in this age group.
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A new study has revealed that the way a woman negotiates condom use influences how she is perceived by others.
Dr. Michelle Broaddus, from the Medical College of Wisconsin in the US, and colleagues examined the effects of the proposer’s gender and their condom negotiation strategy on how they are perceived by others.
number of view: 16When one is drunk, one doesn’t realise the extent one can go to. A new study has shown that alcohol increases the likelihood of violence among couples – both to and by the female partner.
According to researchers from University of Texas School of Public Health in Dallas, while the chances of severe male-on-female violence tripled, severe female-on-male violence also more than doubled when the woman drank.
number of view: 14Adolescents who went to bed early were less likely to suffer from depression or contemplate suicide, a new study has found.
It shows that adolescents with parental-set bedtimes of midnight or later were 24 percent more likely to suffer from depression and 20 percent more likely to have suicidal thoughts than those with parental-set bedtimes set for 10 p.m. or earlier.
number of view: 12There is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, UK psychologists have said.
The study, reported in the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were “internet addicts”, and many of these were depressed.
number of view: 9Haven’t our elders been telling us that it should always be ‘we’ and never ‘I’, especially when we are in love? Well, now the fact is backed by research which says, spouses who use “we-ness” language are better able to resolve conflicts than those who don’t.
number of view: 8Women appear to have crushed the age old myth under their wheels after they were officially named as
men.
Men were four times more likely to be the driver in a fatal accident than women, according to latest crash statistics from Australia’s Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA). Figures showed that while there was a 2.3 percent rise in crashes with men controlling vehicles, women,
number of view: 10Smoke exposure during pregnancy damages a baby’s blood pressure control, which may explain why such babies’ risk of cot death is higher, say experts.
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Pre-teens slitting throats, raping, kidnapping…juvenile crime gets grimmer…
Frighteningly, innocence ends not only in tears, but all too often, also in blood. The nation was shocked when last year three school boys of a primary school in Kharhar, Haryana, molested a 4-year-old girl from the same school. Aged between 10 and 12, the boys allegedly took the unsuspecting girl to a secluded place and touched her private parts. She was rescued when she raised an alarm.
number of view: 15It looks like big bums are the in thing in Australia at the moment, with flat bottomed women buying up
their backsides.
Jenny Tew, who designs and sells the garments from her lingerie shop in Cabramatta, said the padded undies are doing a brisk sale.
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