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Heart failure could also be linked to thinning of bones (osteoporosis), an offshoot of old age.

“Our study demonstrates for the first time that heart failure and thinning of bones go hand in hand,” said Sumit Majumdar, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, who led the study.

“Understanding the mechanism between heart failure and osteoporosis might lead to new treatments for both conditions,” added Majumdar, the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reports.

“Part of screening for osteoporosis should involve looking at chest X-rays of patients with heart failure,” he said, according to a university statement.

“Heart failure patients get a lot of X-rays and they often incidentally show many fractures of the spine that would automatically provide an indication of severe osteoporosis and need for treatment.”

Researchers conducted a population cohort study comprising 45,509 adults undergoing bone mineral density testing for the first time and followed them for up to 10 years. Of them, 1,841 had recent onset of heart failure.

After adjusting for traditional osteoporosis risk factors, researchers found that heart failure was associated with a 30 percent increase in major fractures.

Split Toe Shoes, is the most sought out shoe as per search engines thanks to some Hollywood saints.

Thanks to few Hollywood stars like Scarlett Johansson, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Hudson, the shoe has got a name for itself with such huge following.

Hollywood stars wore the Split Toe shoes in the red carpet for the grand Globe awards 2012 which paved the way for the frenzy fan following.

The shoe can be rated between $32.99-$49.99.

In reality, the people who use the shoes are the athletes. Rest assured, the shoes are in the press for all the silly reasons. On a Specific term, i will rate it,a fashion blunder!

I leave you with some of the pics of the shoes

Cancer cells, which kill nearly 12,000 people in the US alone every year and affect more than half a million worldwide, could be eradicated with grape seed extract, reveals a study.

The extract creates conditions unfavourable for the cancers’ growth by damaging both their cells’ DNA and stops the pathways that allow repair.

“It’s a rather dramatic effect,” said Rajesh Agarwal, study investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Centre and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

“Cancer cells are fast-growing cells. Not only that, but they are necessarily fast growing. When conditions exist in which they can’t grow, they die,” said Agarwal, according to a university statement.

“I think the whole point is that cancer cells have a lot of defective pathways and they are very vulnerable if you target those pathways. The same is not true of healthy cells,” added Agarwal.

For all those who love to work late! To get the exact word, People who love their job so much that they work for 11 to 12 hours a day, you have a very high risk of getting depression, as per recent study.

A study of civil servants in England found that working excessive hours was linked with more cases of major depressive episodes. The 2,123 men and women observed in the study, published this week in the online journal PLoS One, were followed for an average 5.8 years and assessed for depression.

Working 11 or more hours a day was associated with a 2.3- to 2.5-fold increased risk of having a major depressive episode compared with those who worked a standard seven- to eight-hour day.

Often, people stay out late to finish a deadline or to make a name for themselves in front of their boss, but in the end though its their mental pleasure which they sacrificed for gaining some cents.

You can find the detailed report on the research Here

What do you think on the study? Do you think you are affected by working late? Share your views with us.

Its not always necessary to work hard to be a productive one. People who are top in the business follow 7 things that made them the man for the job.

The article below describe 7 things to make you one of a productive guy.

1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. Writing “launch company website” at the top of your to-do list is a sure way to make sure you never get it done. Break down the work into smaller and smaller chunks until you have specific tasks that can be accomplished in a few hours or less: Sketch a wireframe, outline an introduction for the homepage video, etc. That’s how you set goals and actually succeed in crossing them off your list.

2. Stop multi-tasking. No, seriously—stop. Switching from task to task quickly does not work. In fact, changing tasks more than 10 times in a day makes you dumber than being stoned. When you’re stoned, your IQ drops by five points. When you multitask, it drops by an average of 10 points, 15 for men, five for women (yes, men are three times as bad at multitasking than women).

3. Be militant about eliminating distractions. Lock your door, put a sign up, turn off your phone, texts, email, and instant messaging. In fact, if you know you may sneak a peek at your email, set it to offline mode, or even turn off your Internet connection. Go to a quiet area and focus on completing one task.

4. Schedule your email. Pick two or three times during the day when you’re going to use your email. Checking your email constantly throughout the day creates a ton of noise and kills your productivity.

5. Use the phone. Email isn’t meant for conversations. Don’t reply more than twice to an email. Pick up the phone instead.

6. Work on your own agenda. Don’t let something else set your day. Most people go right to their emails and start freaking out. You will end up at inbox-zero, but accomplish nothing. After you wake up, drink water so you rehydrate, eat a good breakfast to replenish your glucose, and then set prioritized goals for the rest of your day.

7. Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals. Your brain uses up more glucose than any other bodily activity. Typically you will have spent most of it after 60-90 minutes. (That’s why you feel so burned out after super long meetings.) So take a break: Get up, go for a walk, have a snack, do something completely different to recharge. And yes, that means you need an extra hour for breaks, not including lunch, so if you’re required to get eight hours of work done each day, plan to be there for 9.5-10 hours.

Indian Health department has shown serious concern over the continual availability of adulterated or diluted Milk all over the country.

The study, conducted this month by the food safety and standards authority of India, found milk was adulterated with skimmed milk powder and glucose, or more shockingly hydrogen peroxide, urea and detergent.

Hydrogen peroxide is used in bleach, while urea is commonly used in fertilizer.

“Consumption of milk with detergent may cause health hazards and indicates lack of hygiene and sanitation in the milk handling,” the regulator said in a report.

“Addition of water not only reduces the nutritional value of milk but contaminated water may also pose health risks.”

Almost 70 percent of the 1,791 samples taken nationwide were contaminated or watered down, according to the report.

Che, this is sick. Milk, is a basic essential of human life next to water. Its the only food for infants. Adulteration of such a pure gift from God, is a crime worthy to be punished.

The Culprit behind the scenes will surely earn millions but the death that occurs from it will definitely leave the blood stain all over them as a evidence of Murder!

Marriage rates are dipping down faster than the World economy. A recent research from pewcenter on the drop in marriages shows how sick the society have become.

Barely half of all adults in the United States—a record low—are currently married, and the median age at first marriage has never been higher for brides (26.5 years) and grooms (28.7), according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census data.

In 1960, 72% of all adults ages 18 and older were married; today just 51% are. If current trends continue, the share of adults who are currently married will drop to below half within a few years.OMG!!!!

The Pew Research analysis also finds that the number of new marriages in the U.S. declined by 5% between 2009 and 2010, a sharp one-year drop that may or may not be related to the sour economy.

In the United States, the declines have occurred among all age groups, but are most dramatic among young adults. Today, just 20% of adults ages 18 to 29 are married, compared with 59% in 1960. Over the course of the past 50 years, the median age at first marriage has risen by about six years for both men and women.

You can read the entire research on why the marriage rates have declined by Clicking Here

I reckon, the society today have demolished the mental attitude of youths. A married life is the base for Healthier living. People, today, just want to stay single thinking they can go out have fun and no partner can stop them. In reality, this attitude will not do any good to any.