Lifestyle

Those suffering from anorexia can take heart! Unplanned pregnancy and even induced abortion seem to be possible even for patients with anorexia nervosa as a new study suggests. The study, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, seems to clear some confusion regarding anorexia and pregnancy. Anorexic patients suffer from irregular menstrual periods. Some of these women do not menstruate at all. These women often suppose that they can not become pregnant because of their period problems. Cynthia M. Bulik, the lead author of the study, dismissed this conception. She said th...

World's Largest Glass of Wine The wine festival in Beirut has again brought Lebanon into focus, this time for a positive reason. The country has beat Portugal to achieve a new record. In 1998, Portugal came into the news for making the world’s biggest wine glass. It was 1.51 meters (59.44 inches) high and 1.46 (57.48 inches) wide. 12 years on, Lebanon has smashed that record by creating a giant glass of wine that stands 2.4 meters (94.48 inches) high and 1.65 meters (65 inches) wide. The Guinness Book of World Records adjudicator Liz Smith officially confirmed this as she posed before the glass with its engineers. The largest ...

Healthy Lifestyle How many times have we made New Year resolutions but never followed through? We regret and wait for that time of the year again.  But our health will not wait for the next New Year to come along.  It’s time to celebrate good health NOW! Researchers are hard at work trying to perfect techniques such as gene therapy and stem cell therapy which may one day be used to turn the biological clock backwards and let us humans live for hundreds of years. But while we wait for such breakthroughs to happen, we are going in the opposite direction - turning the clock forward. What is the use of living for a thousand years, if i...

Hometown Vacation That sounds silly to you, doesn’t it? Here you are, tired and desperately in need of a vacation and I pass hilarious comments. For a majority of us, a vacation generally means getting out of our town to exotic places and unwinding, even if it involves enduring a long travel.  A chance to get away and immerse yourself in a culture that is different from your own is a great learning experience that you cannot get in your own hometown. I’m not saying that is a bad thing. But there may be reasons you cannot get away for whatever reason. It may be easy to save for a trip if you can afford to, but sometimes it...

Better Love Life Have you reached that stage in your life where you feel like you have failed at love too many times to give your new relationship a try or even try to improve the situation with the current one that you have? Well here are few tips to help you through the rough patch and maintain a romance that will last you a lifetime. 1. Make Special Dates: Somehow most people who have been in a relationship for a long time forget the importance of a special date set aside in the week for romance. There is definitely something exciting and special in dressing up for a date, going to a fancy restaurant spending some alone time toge...

Most Expensive Cheese When it comes to delicious cheese, everyone has a weak spot for this prized possession of the earth. Cheese can literally make the world a much happier place. Talk to any chef or take a look inside any Italian restaurant or good recipe and you will find a generous doze of really good cheese. Cheese can be used to bring about a taste that the entire world can surely go crazy for. Whether it comes to delicious cheese filled jalapeno topping pizza or cheesy white sauce dripping pasta or the best cheesecake from New York, there can be no other alternative to having an extremely amazingly well prepared dish with ch...

If you’ve ever been advised to travel light, that is definitely one piece of advice that Madonna never received. She actually landed on Heathrow Airport, London of 29th March, only a few days back, and the porter actually had to carry twenty five pieces of her luggage. She had just flown in from New York and the porters needed to drag along two trolleys topped with her luggage and they sure looked tired! Looks like Madonna did mean it when she sang “Material girl” so many years ago. There were definitely lots and lots of luggage that was being carried across; but one piece of luggage that is almost always present wherever she trav...

Travel Lessons Here is a list of some of the lessons you can pick up when you are traveling which can all be applied in your daily life as well. 1. Nothing as Precious as Real Human Bonds: One thing that is undeniable to anybody travelling is the great number of people one actually gets to meet. New faces, perhaps new cultures, new languages is what each of those encounters with someone new brings but at the heart of it lies the true human spirit. Everyone has a story to share and when you are traveling you might actually find the time to sit down with that stranger and share a coffee and a few laughs and figure out how similar lives ar...