Sarah Thomas

Everyone's searching for the best weigh- loss plans. While exercise can be a strenuous option, people look towards diets as a means to shed some pounds. There are several diet plans that one could follow, but the best diets that have given visible results and are well appreciated by celebrities, dieticians and fitness trainers are very few. Paleo Diet, TLC diet, Ketogenic Diet, Mediterranean diet and TLC diet work best.

Angelina Jolie has always been open about her drug addiction in her earlier days. She even admitted to trying alcohol, suicide and drugs in an attempt to overcome her existential emptiness. She even said that she had tried cutting herself with knives and blades and was obsessed with death.She was addicted to cocaine and heroin. There aremany ways to get over addiction

The Paleo diet has several benefits apart from weight loss. It lowers cholesterol, reduces hormone surges and controls diabetes. The benefits of this diet are not new to the world; celebrities and the common masses have taken to the diet and seen benefits. Lately, singer Chad Vaccarino of the duo A Great Big World has taken to Paleo diet to treat his multiple sclerosis. It is a progressive disease involving damage to the covering of the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Chad was diagnose...

Miley Cyrus has a fit and toned body, that she owes to her Pilates exercises. Pilates exercises combine strengthening and relaxation. It makes a huge difference in one's health and is extremely rejuvenating. Miley spent a year doing Pilates along with her trainer, and is now a big fan of the work out.

Google's map of the moon called Google moon has spotted an alien like figure on the surface of the moon, the figure seems to be erect with its shadow on the moon. It is however, not clear if the figure captured is a spaceship found or a secret moon base occupied by humans. The images show a triangular wedge-shaped 'craft' with a row of seven light dots along the edge and has created a lot of debates and controversies. People are baffled by the pictures and it has created several controv...

A new study published in Clinical Psychological Science revealed women who are anorexic feel proud about their weight loss and this positive emotion further drives the disorder. For the study 118 women's emotional states were observed. They belonged to the age groups ranging from 18 to 58 and were being treated for anorexia nervosa. Selby, said that the women who were analysed felt emotionally positive and were proud of being able to maintain and exceed their weight-loss goals.

Research shows a higher sexual activity results in more a higher happiness level of a person. According to a research by the University of Colarado, people state they are happier when they have more sex. Lead researcher Tim examined the data collected from 15,386 people on their sexual frequency and happiness levels and concluded.

A new research found that cancer patients continue to smoke even after cancer treatment. It was seen that this behaviour was more common among those who went through treatments for lung cancer and bladder cancer. The study published in the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, revealed that 9.3 percent of US cancer survivors continued to smoke, nine years after their cancer diagnosis.

A study conducted by the Dartmouth College researchers in the United States revealed that aggressive video games in which there was a lot of violence triggered anti social behaviour in teenagers. It also increased the risk of committing criminal acts and leads to addictive and dangerous habits in the gamer such as drinking and smoking, the study stated.

The Fault in Our Stars actor, Ansel Elgort accepted the ice bucket challenge for fund raising. Elgort took part in the viral ice bucket challenge, by taping himself shirtless and pouring the ice bucket water on his head. The video uploaded on YouTube immediately caught everyone's attention. Former neonatal pediatrician Dr Stephen Wealthall fears that if the social media game for fund raising goes on, it may take someone else's life. He is urging people to stop it. "The throwing of cold ...

The boxed remains of a 6500 year old human skeleton were accidently found in the basement of the well known Penn Museum in Philadelphia. It was left unattended for 85 years in the basement. A project, Ur of the Chaldees: A Virtual Vision of Woolley's Excavations was undertaken to digitalize the museum when this astounding discovery came to light.

Though fate determines who you meet in life, research states you can determine who gets to stay. Making a person like you and stay with you, is totally in your hands and there are psychological researches that show small behavioural changes and little gestures by you could influence a person to like you. There are six research backed ways to gain a special place in somebody's heart. Mirroring: When you copy another person's behaviour it is called mirroring. It is seen that when you copy an...

News outlets in Columbia state that the Hips Don't Lie Singer is allegedly pregnant with her second child. Shakira and Gerard Pique are already parents to 1-year-old son Milan. The news reports also said that the singer was three months pregnant; apparently, this news was leaked by a friend during the Football World Cup. The friend also supposedly said that they are expecting a girl child.

After a year of the Twilight couple's heart-breaking split, Robert Pattinson opens up about the break up. The couple broke up due to Kristen Stewart's infidelity, from 2012 to 2013 they were on an "on and off" relationship; finally separating in May 2013. In an interview with Esquire magazine, he spoke of his break up with Kristen. It is not surprising that a lot of men and women are unable to move on, and there are scientific reasons to explain the reasons for this inability to ...

Kate Middleton's 30-year-old elder sister Pippa Middleton has donated her signed, bespoke bike to fund the life-saving research on heart diseases. She is the ambassador of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and this money would be given away as charity for the foundation. She recently completed a cycling challenge by covering 500 miles across America on the bike which is now on auction.

The love hormone is known to perform many functions, aiding sexual arousal, preparing a woman's body for childbirth and stimulating milk production for breastfeeding. But a recent research by Stanford University revealed that oxytocin also has a great effect on children's social skills, determining how they deal with their peers.

Experts have claimed that astronomers could find evidence of alien life in the next 20 years. In the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, US planetary scientist Dr Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said, "We can say with certainty that, for the first time in human history, we are finally on the verge of being able to search for signs of life beyond our Solar System around the nearest hundreds of stars."

The death toll in the recent outbreak of Ebola has risen to 700. It spreads silently and rapidly. The fear of this deadly virus spreading to Australia has put the country on red alert.All border entry points to Australia are on surveillance and high alert for people who could be showing symptoms of Ebola.

NASA's Curiosity Rover approaches its first close up of the layered mountain in the middle of Mars's Gale Crater a part of Mount Sharp.The mission that was launched a year ago is nearing its second anniversary of the landing on Mars. Curiosity found important evidence of ancient lakes and river environments. In its second year it has been driving towards the lower slopes of Mount Sharp as a long term science destination, an area 2 miles southwest of its current location. But the outcro...

Playing video games for an hour or less made children and teenagers better adjusted, found a study conducted by Oxford University. Youngsters who played the video games were associated with being better adjusted than those who never played or those who indulged in the game for three or more hours. No positive or negative eiffects were found in children who played the game for one to three hours in a day.

Many teenagers are more active in the evenings compared to the mornings, a new study on high school students revealed that there was a strong link between teenagers who were active in the evening and insomnia-related mental health, obsessive-compulsive disorders, separation anxiety, social phobia and depression. Pasquale Alvaro , Adelaide University School of Psychology PhD student conducted a survey on more than 300 Australian high school students aged 12-18. The survey was done to get an under...

Ice creams are a world favourite, the different lip smacking flavours are irresistible. Spanish physicists have added a little more magic into ice creams as they have developed a new ice cream that magically changes colour after every lick. This new form of ice cream is called Xamaleon.

Erotic romance novel, Fifty Shades of Grey set the record as the fastest-selling book of all time and is also the bestselling book in Britain. The erotic novel has been read by almost every one, young and old. While the book is making news for being adapted into a film, everyone eager to see how the film would turn out, Lila Rose, anti abortion activist released her latest series of videos from Planned Parenthood clinics in Colorado, Oregon and Indiana, giving an all new perspective to what the ...

Jessica Alba has an enviable bikini body that everybody loves; she herself said that she loves her firm stomach. Celebrity fitness regimes have always intrigued people, how they manage to stay fit and beautiful despite all odds. While different celebrities have different secrets to their fitness, Jessica owes her bikini body to a combination of CrossFit and low-carb diet.

Soy or soya is a bean of the soy plant, it is used in salads, soups, tofu, soy milk and a lot of dairy and meat substitutes. A study published in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) revealed that soy can help feminine hearts provided it is consumed at the right time. They found that lifelong soy consumption caused the least atherosclerosis while women who switched to soy-less diet after menopause lead to just as much atherosclerosis as a lifelong of no soya diet...

A recent study by researchers at UC Santa Cruz published in the journal Nature explained how the moon got its shape. The researchers examined the early effects of the earthly tidal forces on the satellite. According to the lead author Ian Garrick-Bethell, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, the study provided insights into the early history of the moon, the evolution of its orbit, and its current orientation in the sky.

The research that is going to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) found that the age at which a woman begins to diet is directly proportional to the age at which she would experience negative health outcomes. This means if a woman starts dieting at a very young age, there is more probability of her experiencing negative health consequences earlier in life.

It is seen that brain tumours are more common in men and more harmful than similar tumours in females. A research published in the The Journal of Clinical Investigation, sought to look into the reasons for this and found that there was one particular protein called Retinoblastoma Protein (RB) that is less in male brain cells when compared to female brain cells. RB reduces the risk of cancer and extremely essential.

Love is not decided in heaven; strangely studies have shown that there are psychological reasons for a person to be attracted to another. There are six research backed reasons that explain why someone is more likely to fall in love.