Month: January 2017

It’s nice to use a fresh towel every day, isn’t it? But seriously, how often should you wash your bath towel — the thing that makes us clean and dry but gets dirty itself? Bright Side wants to share a valuable piece of information with you: the main reason why you need to wash your bath towels more often than you may think. Research shows that the towels we use every day to dry our skin after a shower spread all kinds of germs and bacteria, providing the ideal conditions for them: moisture, a warm temperature, oxygen, and neutral pH. The surface of our body hosts…

About 5.5 billion people -up to 76% of the world’s population -are `over fat’, warn researchers. They said that the new pandemic had overtaken the planet and argued for a change in global health efforts against chronic and metabolic diseases. The researchers, including those from Auckland University of Technology, have put forth a specific notion of overfat, a condition of having sufficient excess body fat to impair health. They argued that how, in addition to those who were overweight and obese, others falling into the overfat category included normal weight people. “The overfat pandemic has…

Study tracking 6.6 million people estimates one in 10 cases of Alzheimer’s among those living by busy roads could be linked to air and noise pollution People living near a busy road have an increased risk of dementia, according to research that adds to concerns about the impact of air pollution on human health. Roughly one in 10 cases of Alzheimer’s in urban areas could be associated with living amid heavy traffic, the study estimated – although the research stopped short of showing that exposure to exhaust fumes causes neurodegeneration….