WELLNESS

New Delhi:Despite all the wonderful foods out there, there are none which can boost IQ or make one smarter. However there are several foods which can energize and help you concentrate.

Sugar but glucose is your brain's preferred fuel source, which your body processes from the sugars and carbs you eat. This is why it is essential to eat a healthy breakfast on the day of an exam.

Studies have found that eating breakfast improves short-term memory and attention. Students who eat it tend to perform better than those who don’t. However, researchers also found that high-calorie breakfasts appear to hinder concentration.

New Delhi: India has been ranked 12th-worst among 52 low-middle income countries based on the number of children dying within the first month of their birth, which is 25.4 per 1,000 live births.

Pakistan is the worst with 45.6 newborn deaths per 1,000 live births, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) which has, for the first time, come out with rankings based on their newborn mortality rate (the number of deaths per 1,000 live births).

Japan, with an NMR of 0.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, has been ranked the world's safest country in which to be born followed by Iceland (1) and Singapore (1.1). The US's NMR stands at 3.7, only slightly better than lower-middle income countries like Sri Lanka and Ukraine, and is ranked 15 among high-income countries.

New Deli: High blood pressure or Hypertension is fast emerging to be one of the biggest health concerns globally. Hypertension was one of the biggest killers of 2016, and is known to be linked with countless problems like diabetes, stroke, heart disease and kidney failure. High blood pressure is a condition where the force of the blood against the artery walls is too high.

This blood pushing against the walls of your blood vessels increases the workload of heart, the stress of which may also result in a stroke. According to a latest study, climbing stairs may help control hypertension.

New Delhi: Scientists have discovered that smoking e-cigarettes, a process known as “vaping”, could potentially lead to higher risk of bacterial infections in the respiratory tract leading to infections such as pneumonia.

Last month the British scientists published a comprehensive report examining the health effects of e-cigarettes. They found that although e-cigarettes exposed users to lower levels of toxic substances than conventional cigarettes, vaping may have its own unique set of harmful effects.

What are E-cigarettes?

Vaporizers, vape pens, hookah pens, electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) & e-pipes & other ENDS are battery operated smoking devices that create an aerosol by heating a mix of liquid nicotine, propylene glycol, water, glycerine & flavor, which when inhaled gives a feel of smoking a real cigarette.

New Delhi: A biomedical company based in Israel has claimed that, for the first time, a patient has been able to heal their own fractured shinbone after being injected with a bone graft, made from his own cells, and grown outside his body in a laboratory.

The company, Bonus BioGroup, said that the patient had severely damaged his shinbone in a traffic accident. He initially underwent two operations which attempted to mend it using metal rods, but he was left with a gap that no conventional form of surgery could effectively fix.

However scientists at Bonus took fat tissue from the patient and cultured it in a laboratory. They then used these cells to generate the missing bone cells, thereby creating an “injectable bone graft made of tiny bone particles, ready to be implanted in the patient's body.”