The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $830 million funding obesity studies in fiscal year 2011. Between 2008 and 2011, NIH spent over $3.3 billion on obesity research. Spending on obesity research also overshadows many other areas of research funded by NIH, including research on Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and breast cancer, which received $448 million, $437 million and $715 million in 2011, respectively. “Obesity is a very is a very significant cause of current illness in our country...

They may star in a TV show about their native county in The Only Way Is Essex, but their second home is just as important to them. Reality TV star Frankie Essex loves Marbella, in Spain, so much that she has returned their for yet another quick break. It is the second time this month that the 24-year-old has been in the popular holiday area after partying there just three weeks ago. The blonde was in the hot-spot, which her cast mates refer to as Marbs, for business as well as pleasure. The...

झारखंड के पूर्वी सिंहभूम जिले के एक व्यक्ति पर आरोप है कि उसने कथित रूप से अपने 9 महीने के बेटे को बेच दिया। उसने अपने बेटे को इसलिए बेच दिया, क्योंकि वह शराब पीना चाहता था और शराब पीने के लिए उसके पास पैसे नहीं थे। संजय महतो नाम के इस व्यक्ति ने स्वीकार किया कि उसने पिछले माह अपने बेटे को एक होटल के मालिक के हाथों बेच दिया। राजधानी रांची से सिंहभूम करीब 120 किलोमीटर दूर है। उसने कहा कि जब उसकी पत्नी कमला ने उसका विरोध किया तो वह उसे और उसके दो बच्चों को भी घर से बाहर निकाल दिया। मीडिया में...

An Indian-born teenager has won a research award for solving a mathematical problem first posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago that has baffled mathematicians ever since. The solution devised by Shouryya Ray, 16, makes it possible to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance. Shouryya, who lives in Dresden, eastern Germany, came up with the solutions to this and a second mathematical riddle while working on a school project. He is being...

दम घुटने लगा और आंख के सामने अंधेरा छा गया। छत पर चार काले-काले यमदूत आए और उसका हाथ पकड़ कर ले जाने लगे। तभी कहीं से आवाज आई इसे छोड़ दो, इसके अभी चार दिन बाकी हैं। और यमदूत यह कहते हुए चले गए कि-जा चार दिन और जी ले। यह कहना है पुरानी मोहनपुरी निवासी एक वृद्ध का जिसकी सौ बसंत देखने के बाद मौत हुई, लेकिन वह फिर जिंदा हो गया। सांस की तकलीफ के चलते यहां के मकान नंबर 129 निवासी रामस्वरूप [100] को पांच दिन पूर्व परिजनों ने हीरालाल नर्सिग होम में भर्ती कराया। रामस्वरूप के पुत्र चमन लाल ने बताया कि...

"God has given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance." -- Hamlet, Act III, scene 1 As sentient beings we yearn to be loved unconditionally, and we were raised in a highly competitive society that taught us tools to gain love conditionally -- mostly through doing and accomplishing certain tasks, achieving certain goals, and/or appearing and speaking in particular ways. Ever since we were...

When I was 26 years old, two of my best friends became pregnant within a month of each other. Upon word of their news, I promptly burst into tears -- and was surprised to find that they weren't the happy kind. Instead of feeling excited for my friends, I somehow felt devastated by their pregnancies. The emotions that rose up for me were a complicated mixture of jealousy, abandonment and insecurity. It wasn't just that I hadn't forseen this era of my life beginning yet, but rather the intense reaction...

Bleary-eyed customers who stumble into their local Starbucks every morning did so literally Wednesday. That's because hundreds of the coffee chain's stores were closed. The forced decaffeination of America's morning commuters was due to overnight maintenance work at stores across the country that wasn't finished on time for the morning rush, Maggie Jantzen, a spokeswoman for Starbucks, told NBC station WCMH of Columbus, Ohio. Jantzen said she didn't know how many stores were affected, but she...

I know, you’re thinking that to romance a man you just need to show up naked, but I think you might be wrong. So often we hear that the man should be the romantic one, and maybe 50 years ago this would have been so but this is 2008, and men like to be spoiled too. Think back to when you first met. The first dates, wining an dining, making an effort to look your best, breakfast in bed, long weekends having frantic sex. Dont you wish it was the same? Well I bet your partner also does. Instead of waiting...

One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp, police said. The bloodshed began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building. Witnesses said a woman saw the two men fighting and flagged down a police officer who was in the area. The officer, who has not been identified,...