October 29, 2011

Want a happy married life? Bathe together

Wanting to make your married life rocking? Well, then how about taking a shower together? Yes, you read it right. Gone are the days when men were shown in movies asking for the towel or bar soaps and then trying to pull their ladies inside the bathroom, all efforts in vain though. Couples seems to have come out of the closet now and entered the bathroom, for a good shower. Couples tell us how taking a shower together can actually help you not only have a good sex but also build intimacy between each other. "We actually have days fixed for a...

Worried about increasing weight? Start drinking tea

Want to shed those extra pounds but still eat your favourite junk foods? Well, drinking tea could be the solution. Researchers at Kobe University, Japan found that regular consumption of tea also suppressed damaging changes in the blood linked to fatty foods that can lead to type 2 diabetes, reports the Daily Mail. In the study some mice were given a high fat diet and others a normal diet. Each of these two groups were then split into smaller groups and given water, black tea or green tea for 14 weeks. Both types of tea suppressed body weight...

Good news: Red meat may be good for you

Previous studies have linked red meat to an increased risk of having a heart attack or cancer, but a new report has demolished the ''myths and misconceptions'' surrounding the Sunday roast. The report says that most people eat healthy amounts, which are not linked to greater risk of disease. Modern farming methods have cut fat levels, which can be even lower than chicken, while red meat provides high levels of vital nutrients, including iron. A review by the British Nutrition Foundation says that a vegetarian having a Cheddar cheese salad...

Interesting things you didn’t know about Steve Jobs

For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately claimed him on Wednesday, at the age of 56. While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination...

October 24, 2011

Steve Jobs was a very mean person: Biographer

WASHINGTON: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs could be mean, abrasive and cuttingly dismissive of co-workers in his quest for perfectionism, according to his biographer. "He's not warm and fuzzy," Walter Isaacson, the author of "Steve Jobs," which hits bookstores on Monday, said in an interview with the CBS show " 60 Minutes." "He was very petulant," Isaacson said of Jobs, who died on October 5 at the age of 56. "He was very brittle. He could be very,...

Top tips for healthy life: Get married, drink wine, live longer

If you want to live longer, keep your stress to a minimum, get married and have a glass of wine every night, new research says. Researchers found that people who self-reported that they had good health tended to live longer. Moderate drinkers also lived longer than non-drinkers. "Being a teetotaller and a smoker were risk factors for mortality," said Carolyn Aldwin, professor of human development and family sciences at Oregon State University, who led the study. Men who experience moderate or high levels of stress over a number of years have...

Hey man, smile now: your city has more women today

Women constitute a larger proportion of the population of Indian towns and cities today than has ever been recorded in Indian history. This startling fact is despite the child sex ratio (the number of girls for every 1,000 boys in the 0-6 age group) having fallen alarmingly in recent decades. Data from the 2011 census reveals that the population of urban women grew at a brisk 34% in the decade spanning 2001 to 2011. In the same period, their rural population grew by just over 12%. As a result, the sex ratio for urban areas jumped from 900 women...

October 23, 2011

ICICI Bank recalls credit and debit cards after cloning scare

Chennai: ICICI Bank is recalling hundreds of credit and debit cards after being warned by the Chennai city police that customers' data have been stolen. Officials from other banks - private and national - said they were also initiating similar steps. On October 5, the city police had busted a card-cloning racket. Initially, they received complaints from 64 card users and the number has been increasing ever since. "Apparently data of several people have been stolen and misused. We advise card users to change their PIN immediately ," said central...

Some girly tantrums men are clueless about

Men maybe complicated but when it comes to their women, they often take things at face value. He plays it safe by reading the obvious, often leaving his woman flustered and frustrated. By feigning sleep she might want him to make the first move in bed, but he conveniently chooses to toss sides and fall into deep slumber. Of course, some men do suspect there is more below the surface, but they had rather not explore that complex tangle of emotions that make up a woman's mental landscape. Here are five girly tantrums, men prefer to overlook and...

October 22, 2011

Bigg Boss 5: Who is Pooja Misrra?

If you've been watching Bigg Boss 5, you obviously know her only too well. One of the housemates of the Bigg Boss house, Pooja Misrra appears to be a spoilt, arrogant brat, constantly picking fights and rolling her eyes. She was so uncooperative in the house that she narrowly escaped being evicted in the first week itself, and Nihita Biswas was asked to leave. For those wondering if it's all an act for the show, here's news. A source closely associated...

Want to burn calories? Make love thrice a week

Trainers have been suggesting that their clients and visitors to the gym have sex thrice a week. Sex has been known to burn calories but how many and depending on what factors. Here's an insight into it. Some may call it synchronized gymnastics and others choose to call it "making love", but it all just eventually boils down to a three letter word s-e-x. The age old practice we so proudly flaunt as our own since the advent of the Khajuraho Temples to the ultimate guide to sex called The Kamasutra, we have always been known to be the pioneers...