Nira Arora's Health Tip

Sore Throat?

Got a sore throat? Dr.Oz suggests taking Ibuprofen before all the different cough drops and sprays. Ibuprofen is more likely to get to the root of problem, whereas drops are sprays are more surface level. Interesting!…

Prostate Cancer

According to AskMen.com Study says: Eating a handful of cashews with an orange can help prevent Prostate Cancer.…

Eat Your Food Upside Down

Looking to lose some weight or to keep the weight in control over the holidays?
According to Devin Alexander, chef and host of FitTV’s Healthy Decadence and author of The Biggest Loser Quick & Easy Cookbook.
“Season and butter the bottom of foods, so pretty much eat your food upside down. For example, butter the bottom of toast, and season the bottom of potato wedges, eat pizza upside down.
This sounds weird, but it really …

WiFi Is Bad For Men

A new study by Nascentis Medicina Reproductiva Argentina reveals that Wi-Fi may make men infertile. Researchers placed semen samples from 29 healthy men under a laptop and watched as they were nuked by the WiFi radiation. Samples that were stored away from the hot laptops showed no DNA damage. Lead researcher Conrado Avendano says, “Our data suggest that the use of a laptop computer wirelessly connected to the internet and positioned near the male reproductive …

Sleep Gene

Researchers find gene that influences our sleep needs

German scientists say they have discovered a gene that may explain why some people can get by with less sleep than others.

Researchers called chronobiologists, from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, say that a gene called ABCC9 appears to affect the length of time we need to sleep. The same gene has previously been linked to heart disease and diabetes.

They discovered that people who had two …