Health

Dietary advice on egg consumption varies from year to year. Eggs were once hailed as an excellent source of essential ingredients. “One egg a day kept the doctor away.” Practically overnig...

According to Dr Sarkar, even asymptomatic patients must stay alert for at least a fortnight after they are declared Covid-19 negative. They need to continue with all suggested hygienic practices. Thos...

The most common reaction to knee pain is to shun exercise! But physical inactivity when in pain leads to further deconditioning, deterioration in cardiovascular fitness, progressive loss of muscular s...

Q. I hit my toe on the door. The CT scan showed a small hairline crack. The surgeon just taped  the toe with the adjacent one. This is called “buddy taping” and usually is all that i...

Thanks to still-developing immune systems, habitually licking the floor and not respecting complex and ever-changing government guidelines, children are bound to pick up a bug or cold between now and ...

Although the pandemic has kept everyone indoors, fitness pro Ranadeep Moitra took his knowledge and skills online with Audi Kolkata presents Qore & More. The premises of Endorphins in Ballygunge l...

It is what it is, was how Rashid responded to my attempt to empathise with his current predicaments. The magnitude of adversities which the 21-year-old was facing was despairing. I had known Rashid fr...

Yoga is the perfect solution for many problems, though not for weight loss, feel many. But Vinyasa yoga, which combines flowing posture with breath work, is considered the best type of yoga for weight...

Our previous discussion was on how in an earlier age women, who had smaller breast sizes, used a sheath-like fabric to cover themselves. Today let’s look at the reasons behind the increasing bre...

Keeping an eye on the health of one’s eyes has always been a concern, especially since gadgets and increased screen time became an inseparable part of our lives. And with the Covid-19 crisis, th...