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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.