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Going to sleep without removing your contact lenses can cause serious eye infections that may ultimately result in blindness, scientists warn. Six reports published in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine showed

The nutrient protein is an extremely important part of our diet. Proteins are made up of amino acids and they exist throughout the body, in muscles, bones, skin and hair. They are

A healthy lifestyle is vastly underrated in the present times. The power of having a healthy lifestyle is such that it can take you a long way in terms of treating a

In the past decades, heart diseases used to affect only a certain age but, now a large population of the world deals with chronic heart diseases at a very young age. Preventing

High levels of lutein are found in dark green vegetables, and researchers have compared different ways of preparing fresh spinach in order to maximise the levels of lutein in finished food. Researchers

To a large extent our well-being depends on what bacterial guests in our digestive tract consume as researchers have found that beneficial gut microbes can produce from dietary fibre a fatty acid

Blood pressure is the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the arteries. Each time your heart beats, it pumps out blood into the arteries. The blood pressure is highest

Today’s lifestyle has several unhealthy facets such as lack of physical activity, poor sleep habits and consumption of unhealthy foods, including fast, processed and junk food. Hectic work schedules have increased stress

After a strenuous workout it is quite normal that one may suffer muscle cramps. Muscle cramps can be very painful. They can last from a few seconds to even longer, say about

While many people rely on chicken noodle soup to soothe a cold, very few know about the other ways the broth brings relief, a dietician says. A hearty bowl of chicken noodle