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‘Manual on Healthy Lifestyle Choices’ Releasd

...als, educators, consumer and food industry groups, academics and the public to develop the new guide. The health minister sums it up properly, “The new food guide incorporates the best and the most current information that nutritional science has to offer.” <B...

Girls Encounter More Stress Than Boys

...er, or romantic partner) or achievement (involving academics or athletic performance). Hankin's team also looked at the boys' and girls' depressive symptoms and their self-reported use of alcohol. The researchers found that girls had reacted more strongly to those pressures, accounting in part for their high...

Busting the Exam Blues

...s, free them from doubts and to instill love for academics in them. History is replete with the track record of many distinguished lives with a poor academic status. There are records of several more with good academic tracks, but who go through life without tasting 'success'. It would do well for the ...

Organic Crops Contain Higher Levels of Nutrients: Study

...e led by the University of Newcastle and involving academics from across Europe. Source-IANS...

Yoga to Be Scientifically Tested as Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain

...ain. A team of yoga teachers, practitioners and academics will be carrying out a 12-week course of yoga, to scientifically determine whether or not it can help alleviate back pain. As a part of the course, the team will assess moves from the two most popular types of yoga - Iyengar yoga and hatha yoga. ...

New Respiratory Virus in Children Linked to Cancer Discovered

...ually causes cancer,' Prof Sloots said. The two academics will follow the progress of the children identified with polyomavirus, to see if they have created antibodies to fight it and if they have any developed long-term respiratory tract disease. Their research has been published in this month's peer re...

BMA Calls for Action to Halt Slide in Medical Academic Recruitment

...to reverse the continuing decline in the number of academics working in UK medical schools, the BMA said Friday...ers in 2005/06 and a 16% increase in the number of academics aged over 46 since 2004. Commenting on the new figures, Professor Michael Rees, chairman of the BM...

Witchcraft in Focus at Arctic Rendez-vous

...d the world are still being persecuted, a subject academics will delve into at a witchcraft conference in Norway's far north this week. Some 60 international experts will gather in the tiny Arctic town of Vardoe, home to the worst of the Norwegian witch trials in the 17th century, on Thursday for three days...

Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

...es per woman. And that has raised the hackles of academics like Otago University emeritus professor Dr Jim Flynn and a world-ranked expert on intelligence. He has solemnly warned that unless the authorities acted in time to prevent the less desirable births, the country ran the risk of dumbing-down its fut...

Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children

... wanted to observe how these games might influence academics and social relationships. They gathered data from a sample of children aged 10 to 19 who tracked their activities on a random weekday and a random weekend day. Of the 1,491 who participated, 534 or about 36 percent played video games. Eighty per...

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