Beware of the expanding midriff in your middle age, advises 
Tanushree Kar

If wrinkles and creaky joints were not bad enough, once you cross your 45th birthday, weight begins to accumulate around your waistline. No one is spared - even ectomorphs, the naturally skinny people who have spent their entire life eating what they like without gaining any weight, develop a spare tyre around their...

Go slow on using antibiotics for minor ailments, says Tanushree Kar. It might just help save your life some day when fighting a far more severe infection

When the first life-saving antibiotic, penicillin, was introduced in the early 1940s amidst all the gloom of the Second World War, doctors all over Europe rejoiced believing that the battle to control infection would be won just as...

Mushrooming malls that dot the metros and other smaller cities, have shelves displaying all types of cookware. But often, tempting discounts make people buy cookware that is not always safe and sometimes even hazardous to health. To understand the benefits and risks of cookware materials, let us study them one at a time. Aluminium is light-weight, conducts heat well and is fairly inexpensive....