Sometimes, lead on the glasses is more than 1,000 times higher than the safe limit. Love to decorate your glassware with art? Beware, the paint used can contain potentially toxic levels of lead and cadmium, increasing health risks, a study has shown. The findings showed that in enameled drinking glasses, flakes of paint often come …

Obese people who follow a low-fat weight-loss plan could tack extra years onto their life, a new review of medical evidence suggests. Such diets appear to help decrease overall risk of early death by 18 percent in people with obesity, amounting to six fewer deaths for every 1,000 people, researchers concluded. “Weight loss by cutting …

Losing weight through a balanced diet and exercise or diet alone can help keep your knees healthy in the long run, reveals a recent study. As The Deccan Chronicle reports, lead author Alexandra Gersing from the University of California, San Francisco, said that once cartilage is lost in osteoarthritis, the disease cannot be reversed. Since cartilage loss …

A chemical found in fish oil boosts the daily survival of cells critical to vision protecting against age-related vision loss. According to findings of a new study published in ‘Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology,’ a component of fish oil prevents retinal cells from dying. The omega-3 fatty acid DHA, abundant in oily fish, and its derivatives …

The occasional manic Monday is a fact of modern life. But if you’re under chronic stress—suffering a daily assault of stress hormones from a demanding job or a personal life in turmoil—symptoms may be subtler, says Stevan E. Hobfoll, PhD, chair of the department of behavioral sciences at Rush University Medical Center. If you experience …