Interactive and persuasive text messages received on your phone can motivate you to kick the butt, says a new study which found that more than 11 percent of smokers who used a text-messaging programme to help them quit did so.
Physical activity after breast cancer diagnosis has been linked with prolonged survival and improved quality of life, but most participants in a large breast cancer study did not meet national physical activity guidelines after they were diagnosed. Moreover, African-American women were less likely to meet the guidelines than white women.
Fasting encourages body to replace old and damaged cells - especially if the immune system has been damaged by aging or cancer treatment, researchers said.
"If a man is hungry, he prefers a slightly larger breast size in women. He also prefers slightly larger women in general," said psychologist Viren Swami from University of Westminster in Britain.
Plants give us life, but how do they have sex has long been a mystery. Now, biologists from the University of Leicester have undressed the genetic hierarchy in plant sperm cell formation.
