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Are You Pinocchio’s Parents?

It seems that if you, as parents, have lied to your children when they were growing up, you have no business chastising them for their lack of moral fibre once they are adults. Says a study from the Nanyang Technological University,…

Sleep Duration Affects Heart Attack Risk

Skimping on sleep, or getting too much of it, can boost your risk of heart attack, says a new study by the University of Colorado at Boulder. In the research, published in the ‘Journal of the American College of Cardiology’, scientists…

Soft Drinks, Hard Truths

A large European study coordinated by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has found that compared with those who drink less than one glass of sugar-sweetened or artificially-sweetened soft drinks per…

Are You A Fitness Addict?

A study from the University of Southern Denmark has examined what happens when people who exercise regularly start to obsess about working out and allow their training to take control over their lives. The researchers found that out of the…

Badly-behaved Or Just Bad?

A new study from Columbia University says that the way we perceive others people’s bad behaviour - as innate or potentially changeable - impacts our willingness to cut them some slack. So, how willing we are to forgive or overlook their…