Running might not be the ideal form of exercise, especially if you want to lose weight. Says Greg Brookes, a London-based personal trainer: "Lots of people start running to lose weight and it doesn't always work - and this is why."
"Fat is one of our body's favourite sources of energy," says Brookes. "The more you run, the more your body prepares itself for your next run. You will actually start to hold on to more fat," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

Highly-caffeinated energy drinks pose serious health risk to children, according to an editorial. It argues that the growing availability of energy drinks is a potential danger to the health of young people who are vulnerable to the effects of caffeine. “It is time for the federal minister of health to be awakened and alerted to concerns about energy drinks sold to children,” the Globe and Mail quoted the editorial, written by Noni MacDonald, section editor of population and public health at CMAJ, Matthew Stanbrook, CMAJ’s deputy editor, scientific and Paul Hébert, editor-in-chief of the journal, as stating.

"There’s nothing much to photograph you know," jokes Dr Vanit Nalwa, when asked if she could be photographed in the chamber where she conducts her hypnotherapy sessions. “No candles or swinging pendulums!” Dr Nalwa, well-known Delhi-based hypnotherapist and neuropsychologist, isn’t far off the mark. For many people, the word hypnosis conjures images that have more to do with magic than medicine.

Being a little less carnivorous may help you stay slim, according to a European study. Researchers from Imperial College London found that avid meat eaters gained more weight over 5 years than those who ate less meat but the same amount of calories. When the researchers looked at different types of meat, they found the strongest association with weight gain was poultry, followed by processed meats and red meat.

A study has revealed that Botox can make people feel happy because it stops them frowning when they are unhappy. The anti-wrinkle drug sends back the signal to the brain reducing the intensity of the feeling. Scientists at University of Wisconsin in the US tested 40 volunteers who had small doses of Botox into their forehead. They were then asked to read out a series of written statements ranging from ones that were "angry" to "sad" to "happy" both before and after their treatment.

Thinking about going on a crash diet to lose a few extra kilos before you slip into that form-fitting outfit? Well, do not fall into the trap of believing that crash diets are miracle diets that produce an immediate — and permanent — windfall in weight loss. With the body not being supplied with enough calories, it slows down its metabolism and gets tuned to needing very few calories for its functioning. The decreased metabolism may be maintained for months, even after you resume a normal diet, making it more likely that you’ll put back all the weight that was lost, in addition to some additional kilos.