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According to a study, consuming dietary nitrate, the active molecule in beetroot juice increases muscle force while exercising significantly. While it is well known that dietary nitrate improves exercise, both endurance and high-intensity exercise, researchers still have a lot to learn about why this happens and how our bodies convert the dietary nitrate we consume into nitric oxide that our ...

There seems to be a link between two serious medical disorders. Globally, millions of individuals suffer from multiple sclerosis (MS), a condition that attacks the body’s central nervous system, while hundreds of millions of people suffer from depression, a mood illness with crippling symptoms. Nearly three times as many MS patients experience depression as people without the disease. Before a ...

Transitioning to a new environment, as many college freshmen do, can increase feelings of loneliness, and according to the National College Health Assessment, feelings of loneliness in college students have increased dramatically in the last decade. According to a 2021 survey, 44 per cent of US college students described their weight as higher than normal, i.e. overweight or obese. Despite ...

New research indicates that simple laser treatments to the skin may help to prevent the development of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which are collectively known as keratinocyte carcinoma and are the most common types of cancer diagnosed in the United States. The work was conducted by a team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member ...

According to a research, the number and quantity of meals were more important predictors of weight gain or reduction than the interval between meals. The findings of the study were published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. According to the senior study author Wendy L. Bennett, M.D., M.P.H., an ...

According to new research led by psychologists at the University of Bath in the UK, adults with high levels of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than adults with high levels of autistic traits. This study is the first to show that ADHD is more predictive of poor mental health outcomes in adults ...

The findings of recent research suggest that six minutes of high-intensity exercise could extend the lifespan of a healthy brain and delay the onset of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. New research published in The Journal of Physiology shows that a short but intense bout of cycling increases the production of a specialised protein that is ...

The Pandemic got us thinking about how anything may happen at any moment, anywhere, without our knowledge. The same is true for modern art. Indian and Western artists today speak a common language that produces high-quality work, as Picasso once stated, “Art cleanses the dust of our innermost souls.” Artists from various nations including France, America, Africa and India shall ...

The return of Gucci to the menswear catwalk calendar, robust sales of Italian fashion and a farewell to the pandemic-imposed trend of virtual shows — it’s all systems go for men’s fashion week in Milan which opened Friday. Promising spectacle and optimism after a year in which sales of Italian fashion showed the strongest growth of the last 20 years, ...

Obesity is an emerging public health problem of epidemic proportions worldwide. As to WHO, globally, obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 and as per 2016 data 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese. Unhealthy dietary habits are a major modifiable factor, leading to obesity. India too is battling this full-blown crisis of malnutrition which has worsened over the years in ...