Bariatric Obesity Surgery Has Its Own Pros and Cons

Obesity has become a cause of concern for the entire world and now its solution has also got many eyes raised from researchers. Bariatric surgery for the obesity is thought to be the best method to treat fatness, but the bone of contention is that it might be give harmful effects during the surgery.

Hazards of smoking and eating junk food showcased at PGI

For over 300 students from various schools of the city, it was a brush with reality after they got an opportunity to see how a liver becomes ‘fatty’ due to consumption of junk food.

They vowed not to eat unhealthy food after they saw a fatty liver on display at the Zakir Hall placed alongside a normal healthy liver as a part of the fourth annual workshop organised by the Department of Anatomy, PGIMER.

Want to Lose Weight? Eat the Same Food Every Day

Eating the same foods, day after day, may make you so uninterested in your meals that you start eating less, a new study suggests.

Women who ate macaroni and cheese every day for a week were taking in 100 fewer calories each day than normal by the week's end, the study showed.

The study "provides a very interesting new piece to the obesity puzzle by suggesting that meal monotony may actually lead to reduced calorie consumption," said Shelley McGuire, an associate professor of nutrition at Washington State University and a spokesperson for the American Society for Nutrition. "The trick will be balancing this concept with the importance of variety to good nutrition."

Trying to shed those extra kilos? Begin eating same food over and over again

WASHINGTON: Struggling to shed those extra kilos? Eat the same food every day, scientists say. Researchers at the University of Buffalo in the US found that eating the same food over and over again in successive meals can make people so uninterested in the meals that they start eating less.

The study "provides a very interesting new piece to the obesity puzzle by suggesting that meal monotony may actually lead to reduced calorie consumption," said Shelley McGuire, a spokesperson for the American Society for Nutrition. "The trick will be balancing this concept with the importance of variety to good nutrition," McGuire was quoted as saying by LiveScience.

Two gynaecologists, three nurses booked

PUNE: The Sangvi police on Thursday booked two gynaecologists and three nurses for medical negligence in connection with an incident happened at Aundh civil hospital in November 2010.

Bhagwan Wakode of servants' quarters at Aundh chest hospital had lodged a complaint with the police after his 22-year-old daughter had given birth to a stillborn baby at Aundh civil hospital on November 30, 2010.

Mums devote 70 hours a week to the chores (and should earn £37,000 for it)

It is a job description that would deter even the toughest applicant: more than 70 hours a week with no holidays and no payment. 

But that is the amount of work modern mothers put into raising their families, a survey has found.

Researchers have calculated that hard-working mothers would receive a salary of £37,000 if they were paid the going rate for their domestic duties.

Hard work: The study found the biggest drain on mothers' time was cooking and cleaning, which took up one hour, nine minutes each day

Mothers in Britain Spend 70 Hours a Week in Performing Household Jobs: Study

A research revealed that women, who were also mothers, spend 70 hours every week in performing household jobs. A study conducted by researchers calculated the time spent by 3,000 women in performing household duties like cleaning, cooking, helping children in their studies and also performing bedtime services.

Speedy Brain Tumor Surgeries At AIIMS

In good news for patients with multiple brain tumors, AIIMS has obtained a novel high-tech technology, which eliminates repeated treatment in such cases.

As a result, physicians at India's premier health centre are now handling brain tumor more rapidly and efficiently than ever before.

Fire in KMC, two women dead

Two women died of asphyxiation in a fire at the Intensive Care Unit of the government Kilpauk Medical Centre early Saturday morning.

The victims, Krishnabai (72) and Tamizharasi (44) hail from Chennai. According to hospital authorities the fire was caused by a faulty air conditioner in the ICU.

Back to work

Rudranil Ghosh is counting the days to leave his bedroom in Tollygunge’s Shantinagar and walk into Mainak Bhaumik’s Bedroom on Jhowtala Road.

Home-bound for about a month following a head injury, Rudranil has been sorely missing the lights-camera-action routine. He starts shooting on August 1. “I have fully recovered. While at home, I wrote a few scripts and that’s what kept me busy. Now I am looking forward toBedroom where I play an actor called Dev; he’s a very confident guy,” says Rudranil, who shot for a detergent ad in between. “It was just four days’ work and good money, so I thought of taking it up.”

Five fashionable things from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Bagwati

When man and child are going “ha! ha!” over Bagwati, the woman, whether into Prada or Promod, is going “ooh” and “aah” over Bagwati. The beauty is a none other than an ostrich Hermes Kelly (the iconic bag by Hermes named after Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco) dressed up with a hat and sunnies, styled by Imran aka Farhan Akhtar. Going by the number of people whose display pictures feature Bagwati, this one sure has bagged fans aplenty.

Emma to study

The British actress, who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series, told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper that she will remain enrolled at Brown though she’ll study at Oxford University in the fall. The 21-year-old Watson left Brown earlier this year, saying she wanted to devote her time to the final Harry Potter film and other acting opportunities.

The final chapter in the series premiered last week, setting box office records. It took in an estimated $168.6 million in the US from Friday to Sunday. That beats the previous best opening weekend of $158.4 million for 2008’s Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight.

Buddies: then & now

Dil chahta hai completes 10 years tomorrow even as it hands over the buddy baton to Zindagi na Milegi dobara. t2 rewinds to farhan’s classic debut and also celebrates zoya’s sparkling new film. can you add to these moments/lines? tell t2@abp.in

DCH: 5 BEST SCENES Just when it seems impossible for anything to come between Sameer, Akash and Sid, Sid’s “pyaar” for the middle-aged Tara fuels a fight. Sid slaps Akash and the two part ways. For months. [The Akhtars have become pros at changing the mood within a scene and suddenly creating deep conflict among buddies. DilChahta Hai started this, it carried on in Rock On!!, and has now reached Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Proof of the DCH boys having become men in ZNMD? Despite Arjun slapping Imran, their buddy trip does not come to an end.] Dil Chahta Hai

AllBank net up 20%

J.P. Dua in Calcutta on Friday. Picture by Kishor Roy Chowdhury

Calcutta, July 22: Allahabad Bank has reported a 20.45 per cent rise in net profit for the first quarter ended June 30, 2011 at Rs 418.13 crore against Rs 347.14 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal.

Operating profit surged to Rs 889.62 crore from Rs 704.58 crore in the first quarter of the previous fiscal, a growth of 26.26 per cent.

Axis Bank in fine form

Beating estimates

Mumbai, July 22: Axis Bank today beat market expectations and reported a 27 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 942.35 crore, but the Union Bank of India disappointed with a 22.77 per cent fall in profits — underscoring a stark divergence in the performance between the private and state-owned banks.

Axis Bank, the country’s third-largest private bank, saw profits leap from the year-ago level of Rs 741.88 crore on the back of a surge in fee income even as the bank’s provisions also dropped during the period. Analysts had expected the bank to post a profit of around Rs 900 crore.

Bharti rings in prepaid tariff hike

New Delhi, July 22: Bharti Airtel today hiked voice and SMS tariffs by 20 per cent for prepaid users across several circles — an early signal of mobile players increasing tariffs to improve their bottomlines.

Users of Airtel’s Advantage plan will have to pay 60 paise (earlier 50 paise) per minute for local and STD mobile-to-mobile calls within the Airtel network. For mobile to landline calls, the revised tariff is 90 paise (50 paise earlier) for local and STD calls.

Users of Airtel’s Freedom plan will have to shell out 1.2 paise per second on local and long-distance calls instead of 1 paise per second earlier.

Shot in arm for FDI in retail

New Delhi, July 22: A Committee of Secretaries today recommended 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail with riders.

The recommendations of the committee, headed by cabinet secretary Ajit Kumar Seth, will be sent to the cabinet.

“We will seek the clearance of the cabinet before the sector is opened up,” R.P. Singh, secretary in the department of industrial policy and promotion, said. However, no timeline has been set for the cabinet approval.

Sources say the committee has set $100-million as investment floor; at least 50 per cent of this amount has to be in back-end infrastructure such as cold storage, soil testing labs and seed farming.

Reliance-BP deal cleared

New Delhi, July 22: The cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) today cleared the $7.2-billion deal that BP Plc struck with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) in February under which Europe’s second-largest energy giant will acquire a 30 per cent participating interest in 21 oil blocks that Mukesh Ambani’s flagship operates in India. The original deal was for 23 blocks, but the government decided to clear the stake sale in only 21 blocks. BP’s investment will swell to $20 billion — making it the biggest foreign direct investment in the country — if we take into account a contingent payment of $1.8 billion that is linked to the discovery of more commercially exploitable hydrocarbon resources and a $11-billion additional investment in a joint venture between BP and RIL to source and market gas in India. The joint venture also aspires to create infrastructure to receive, transport and market the gas.

Another resignation, this time its Andrew

Andrew: ‘Shamed’

London, July 22: Another day, another resignation – this time it’s of Prince Andrew who, according to one paper today, has been “shamed into quitting as trade envoy.”

To be fair to the Duke of York, the Queen’s second son, there were no complaints about his mission to Calcutta in March last year as in his capacity as a “special representative for British trade and investment”, which is the post he is giving up.

As a royal, Andrew did probably open many doors, especially in countries such as Saudi Arabia and former Soviet bloc states, perhaps even America, during his decade as a roving ambassador for British trade.

J.Lo, Marc Anthony split shocked fans, pundits

Los Angeles, July 22: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s decision to split just days ago shocked fans and music pundits alike. With similar backgrounds and levels of success, theirs seemed like a Hollywood marriage that would last. But reports edging their way out in the aftermath have indicated that the Lopez-Anthony union was not as blissful as it may have seemed — and that the success that the singer-actress has seen recently may have played a role in the separation. Did J.Lo’s marriage fall victim to a variant of the “Oscar curse”?

7 killed as blast, shooting shatter Norway calm

(Top) Rescue personnel help the wounded after the bomb blast in Oslo’s government headquarters on Friday. (below) An aerial view of Utoya Island, northwest of Oslo, where a man dressed as a police officer opened fire on a youth camp on Friday. (AP)

Oslo, July 22 (Agencies): Terrorism ravaged long-peaceful Norway today when a bomb ripped open buildings, including the Prime Minister’s office, and a man dressed as a police officer opened fire on a nearby island youth camp.

At least seven people were killed and 15 injured in the bomb blast, the nation’s worst attack since World War II.

Police inspector Bjoern Erik Sem-Jacobsen said a suspect in the shooting had been arrested. He said the gunman, who was dressed as a police officer, pulled out a gun and started firing into the crowd of youths.

56 approached by bookies, says Steve

Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh has revealed 56 cricketers reported illegal approaches by bookmakers to the International Cricket Council last year, after only five players came forward in 2009.

Waugh played his last Test for Australia in 2004 and now plays a pivotal role in attempting to eliminate illegal betting issues from cricket.

The ICC have an anti-corruption and security unit, the body to which players can report suspicious approaches.

Williams hits back at Woods

Tiger Woods has always demanded loyalty from employees and associates as a prerequisite for continued employment or association. His caddie, Steve Williams, was always the embodiment of the loyal employee, going to whatever lengths he deemed necessary to protect Woods on the golf course and off it. And after Woods publicly announced the firing of Williams, his longtime friend and confidant, on his website, using the usual corporate niceties to put some positive spin on it, he might be wondering what happened to the nondisparagement clause in Williams’ contract.

England will win this series: Ian Botham

Botham

Calcutta: Ian Botham feels despite India being the world’s No. 1 Test side, England would go on to win the ongoing series as they have more young and vibrant players in their ranks as compared to the visitors.

“I think England will win this series because in my opinion they are already the best team in the world and this summer will simply confirm it. They are the coming force in world cricket and unlike India, who have a lot of players in their twilight years, this is a young, vibrant England with more power to add,” Botham wrote in his column for the Daily Mirror.

Haider pleads for mercy

Lahore: Zulqarnain Haider created a flutter by defying the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) with his runaway act last year but the wicketkeeper broke down in tears and pleaded for mercy in the recent disciplinary hearing to escape with a light fine.

The PCB’s disciplinary committee, at last, imposed a fine of half a million rupees on Zulqarnain.