HEALTH & WELLBEING

Post pregnancy weight gain is a curse that inflicts all women around the globe. Kim Kardashian is well-known for her curvaceous body, but Kim Kardashian's pregnancy with baby North West inevitably took a toll on her celebrated body.

On a Sunday afternoon swim, a 6-year-old boy was bugging me in a sweet sort of way. He rode up and down the handrail on the stairs in the shallow end of the pool where I was trying to sit in peace. He was laughing and talking, but I couldn't understand a word through the giggles.

A new worldwide study revealed that more people were either dying or getting sick due to mental disorders and substance abuse than from AIDS, diabetes and tuberculosis. Australian and American researchers have discovered that disorders relating to depression have the largest percentage of 40 per cent of global death.

HIV researchers are working round-the-clock searching for an effective treatment and cure against HIV infection. However, some people are just too stubborn and continue risky behaviour even with the global threat of the virus. Know the five lethal associated diseases with AIDS and their treatments currently being researched by medical experts.

In Kyrgyzstan, four people were hospitalised and another 160 quarantined after fears of an outbreak of bubonic plague in the country. This was after the Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Health, Wednesday, stated a 15-year-old boy due to bubonic plague last week.

Tuberculosis is one of the diseases most highly associated to people affected by poverty or HIV/AIDS. Despite medical advancement, TB remains difficult to treat and eradicate in global scale. Here is a look into the connections between HIV and Tuberculosis -- diseases claiming millions of lives worldwide.

Angelina Jolie shocked the world earlier this year by revealing how she underwent preventive double mastectomy or removal of both of her breasts in a bid to avoid the ovarian cancer.

Kate Middleton apparently started regaining her pre-baby body. Just One month after giving birth to Prince George on 22 July, Kate Middleton was photographed donning casual clothing flaunting her flat belly as she went out for grocery shopping at a local market on Anglesey Islandon on 26 August.

A 14-year-old boy in Bihar, India, looked like he’s living inside the body of a 110-year-old. He has a rare disease known as progeria which makes the boy age eight times faster than the normal aging process. Ali Hussein has five other siblings with the same disease, and he watched them die because of progeria.

Beneath the protection provided by antiretroviral drugs, the virus which causes AIDS remains incurable and drug therapy haven't reached all victims of HIV. There are several frightening truths about HIV/AIDS that modern science watches closely before everything is too late.

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More young people in New Zealand have died due to poisoning from butane and other chemicals with hydrocarbons. A new study on chemical poisoning causing unintentional deaths has found that "huffing" or inhaling butane butane gas and other chemicals having the same substances is the main cause of death among the youth between ages 15 to 24.

Schizophrenia, one of the most serious mental disorder ranks among the top ten causes of disease-related burden in the age group of 15-44 globally.Symptoms related to schizophrenia are generally classified into positive (delusions, hallucinations and formal thought disorder) and negative (amotivation, anhedonia, emotional blunting and poor insight).

Metabolism describes the complex processes that regulate how we convert food into energy. As known to us energy output increases during exercise, exercise also speeds up the metabolic rate at which we burn off calories for up to 24 hours after activity. Exercise increases the amount of muscle mass in the body, and the more muscle mass you have the more calories you use up.

A relaxation drink is a non-alcoholic beverage containing calming ingredients which may be found in nature. It is a functional beverage which is similar to calming tea but unlike calming tea, it may contain more than one active ingredient. Relaxation drinks are also served chilled and may be carbonated.

Why do patients gain a significant amount of weight when on insulin therapy? Several proposed theories include decreased glycosuria due to improved glycemic control, the anabolic effects of insulin itself, decreased metabolic rate, aggressive treatment of hypoglycemia, and defensive eating to prevent hypoglycemia or deal with the fear of hypoglycemia.

Parents in South Africa could face life in prison if convicted of murdering their baby girl, who died just days after being given what reports say were routine vaccinations.

Staying fit and healthy is not easy. Even when good habits are practiced, such as eating right and exercising, fitness goals can seem forever unattainable. Sometimes, unhealthy habits picked up over the years can be the reason,and it is not easy to get out of a bad habit.

According to reflexologists, the health and condition of the body can be read from the hands and feet. By massaging certain reflex points on these extremities, therapists believe that it is possible to improve the health of every organ and body system and, therefore, to encourage the body to work more efficiently. Like the Eastern therapies of acupressure, acupuncture and shiatsu, reflexology works on the theory that health depends on the flow of energy within the body. In the eastern therapies...

Keep in mind, variety is the spice of life, so enjoy rock climbing, Rollerblading, cycling, hiking, jogging, or skiing with friends, which are excellent ways to stay socially active and keep the body fit.

The 4-inch fork that was lodged into the urethra of a 70-year-old Australian finally had been removed. It took a team of three doctors 12 hours to retrieve the utensil. Fortunately for the senior, he suffered no long-term damage and was send home after the procedure.

Brazil, the world's fourth largest agricultural producer, has sought the help of Australian firm, AgBiTech Pty Ltd, a biological insect control solution firm to address the crop devastation brought by the corn earworms (Helicoverpa armigera).

Clinical dietitian Dr Anna Boltong conducted a research which studied the effects of chemotherapy to patients’ taste function and food enjoyment.

New antiretroviral drug has been found to cut risk of drug addicts from contracting HIV by nearly 50 per cent according to a new study. The tenofovir pills taken by drug-injecting addicts were less likely to become infected of HIV by half than those who did not.

There would likely be no fresh porn output from the adult film industry in the U.S. after the Free Speech Coalition called for a moratorium on production, following lab tests that confirmed X-rated actress Cameron Bay is positive for HIV.

A man of few words but big on action. That’s what Kristen Stewart’s ex, Robert Pattinson, has shown in a 16-second video of him at a Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles on Aug 16. Read on and see what he said.

Since ancient times human beings have looked for superior medicines. Superior medicines come right out of the earth itself, miraculously. They bring the very regenerative essences, energies and emotions of nature directly into the body. Their qualities are organized in such a way that they restore balance quickly and effectively. They confer the virtues of nature directly and safely.

Californians may soon have the freedom to grow, buy, sell, transport, and, of course, use all varieties of marijuana and cannabis hemp products in their state, thanks to the committed efforts of a vast network of grassroots activists that are right now seeking to re-legalize the natural plant species on the upcoming 2014 ballot.

Baby Rahul, a 3-month-old baby in India, who burst into flames, is undergoing treatment to have suffered from a suspected case of spontaneous human combustion or SHC according to expert Indian doctors.