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Mehr Malhotra, mother of two and going on third, is a model by profession who is not at all worried about losing her svelte figure. She knows that a good diet, long walks and some professional advice will ensure that she gets back into shape right after the delivery. She should know, she's done it not once but twice before.

A friend recently informed me his popularity shoots up in tandem with the rising temperature. Each summer, his hot-weathered friends preferred his largish swimming pool more than his company. Since I hadn't used his pool ever, I said I was relieved he didn't consider me a part of this deciduous gang of friends.

Everywhere you go, you run into people wheezing, sniffing, coughing or gasping, which makes you wonder whether anyone is really safe from asthma.

A PERSON suffering from acidity and indigestion cannot be denied assured sum by an insurance company on the ground that he or she did not disclose it at the time of taking the policy, the national consumer court has ruled. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission held that dyspepsia, a painful problem of indigestion, can't be termed a disease.

Most of Alpana and Steve Fredrick Bhatty's stories begin with a gym. They met in one; fell in love, on the job (she was his teacher); and now manage the sleek Faces studio on the Panchsheel Enclave main road.

SCHOOLCHILDREN AND college going students in nearby Haldwani town are badly exposed to a number of lethal waterborne diseases this summer due to the highly contaminated water they are forced to drink everyday in their schools and colleges, officials said.

A 2004 STUDY had estimated 60 per cent Indians would be at risk of heart diseases by 2010. On Friday, medical journal The Lancet took it a step further saying it would hit them younger and harder.

Everyone knows that drinking too much alcohol can ruin the liver, but few people realise that it is viral infection more than alcohol that causes end-stage liver failure among Indians.

One out of every 10 babies born in India needs to spend at least a few days in a Neonatal Unit to recover from infection. While survival is always the main concern, proper monitoring of the baby thereafter is always a low priority.

Do you skip meals because you're too busy with work? Does a vacation from work give you a headache? Do you fear losing your mobile phone? Are you obsessed with exercising? Well, if any one (or more) of these explains your newfound behaviour, chances are that you've fallen prey to any of these new lifestyle diseases - Stressorexia, Leisure Sickness Syndrome, Nomophobia and Athletica Nervosa.

Have you ever thought of water as anything other than a glass full required to quench your thirst? Water is something that we take for granted. How many of us really understand how essential it is to perform body functions or what happens to our body if it doesn't receive pure water everyday.

Urban women face a greater risk of developing breast cancer and one out of 8-10 women in Delhi and the NCR likely to get the disease in their lifetime. Also younger women in India are likely to be more prone to the disease than their counterparts in the west.

The Vasundhara Raje government in Rajasthan on Monday became the first state in the country to create a separate cadre of doctors and paramedical staff to serve exclusively in rural areas.

The young are coming to yoga centres with the aim to lose flab. But the elderly are not far behind, they want their youth back as well. They feel fit and their ailments, many of which arise from lifestyle problems and neglect at home, are getting resolved. Yoga boosts their self-esteem they say.

DRINKING LOTS of water doesn't really do wonders to your body, as is the popular belief, according to two American kidney experts. In a study, they have dismissed as myths the beliefs that drinking lot of water clears body toxins better, improves skin tone and helps reducing weight.

A top Australian neurosurgeon of Indian origin says cell phones use is a greater threat to human health than smoking, which kills 5.4 million people each year. Dr Vini Khurana, a neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital, told UK's Independent newspaper that there is growing evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.

Everyone envied champion snorer Girdhari Yadav (45) his deep slumber.At his wife's insistence, Yadav, however, went to the sleep laboratory in Delhi's Indraprastha Apollo Hospital. The businessman, who - at 92 kg - is 30 kg overweight, is worried now. He's been diagnosed with a sleep disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, which can shorten his life.

Hyderabad: Their father was the village sarpanch and as far as they could remember they always had food to eat and money to buy an occasional dress during festivals.

Wearing sunscreen does not automatically protect you. At least that is what the American advocacy group, Environmental Working Group just discovered. The EWG studied the ingredients in sunscreens and found that 84% of the 588 branded sunscreen products they studied contain oxybenzone.