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Macular degeneration is a painless, degenerative eye disease that results in blurred vision, distorted view of straight objects and difficulty in performing daily activities like reading and driving.

You probably hear it a lot, casually thrown around in your gym, the fact that, 'Weight loss is all about revving up the metabolism'. Your body's physical shape is very closely connected to its rate of metabolism, which simply refers to all of the body's physical and chemical processes that use energy.

Non-vegetarians might be aggressive and swashbuckling Lotharios, but going green is the trick for a great time in the sack.

Sir Paul McCartney endorses it passionately. So does Pamela Anderson. Closer home, Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Shahid Kapur, Tabu, Milind Soman, Mahima Choudhary and Mandira Bedi are avid followers. As the World Vegetarian Week (May 19 to 25) was celebrated, we find out what makes going green a great option.

W hether you enjoy summer in shorts-and-sunglasses or can't wait for it to end, don't let heat-related illness make it worse. Heat stroke is the most serious heat-related condition and can cause permanent disability or death if not treated immediately. It occurs when the body is unable to control a steep rise in its temperature.

When advertising professional Nayantara Mehra joined a gym to lose some weight, the dietician there handed her a diet plan that Mehra looked at and gagged. No, she wasn't against increasing her intake of fruits and vegetables and soups and all the healthy stuff that we all intend to eat but somehow never get down to doing. The diet plan had ample options for her meals.

Sir Paul McCartney endorses it passionately, as does Pamela Anderson. Closer home, Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Milind Soman, Mahima Choudhary and Mandira Bedi are avid followers. Move over chicken tikka, welcome shahi paneer.

A stranger and his family helped Preeti Unhale live at 25 by donating his heart. Today, she counsels the families of donors at the crucial moments when they have to make one of the most important decisions of their lives.

Pravin Singh, 25, became the 27th person to undergo a successful heart transplant at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). He underwent the surgery on April 3.

'We have found a donor for you and can transplant a healthy heart into your body today. Can you come for surgery immediately?' Pravin Singh got this phone call on April 3 as he was stepping out of AIIMS after a routine check-up.

Everyone wishes they could look young forever - you might yourself have often wished for a 'magic pill' that could halt disease, wrinkles, and all the other normal processes of ageing. In recent times, anti-ageing or antioxidant therapy, that claims to be able to do this, has become extremely popular.

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.