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What Twenty Years of Kitchen Smoke Does to the Lungs of Indian Cooks, Halwais and Dhaba Workers

The Air Inside a Professional Kitchen Is Not AirA halwais working a tandoor at full heat is inhaling combustion gases, particulate matter, and vaporised fat simultaneously. A dhaba cook frying on a tawa over a wood or LPG flame produces a mix of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,…

Times Life · Sep 13

8 Serious Health Risks Delivery Riders Face Daily on Indian Roads That No One Screens For

Musculoskeletal damage from continuous vibrationEvery hour on a two-wheeler transmits road vibration directly through the spine. A 2019 study published in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics found that professional two-wheeler riders exposed to whole-body vibration for more than four hours daily showed significantly higher rates of lumbar disc degeneration…

Times Life · Sep 12

The 8 Medical Screening Tests Indians Should Get at 30 for Better Preventive Health

Fasting Blood Sugar and HbA1cIndia has over 101 million people living with diabetes, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research's ICMR-INDIAB study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The majority were undiagnosed for years before their first test. A fasting blood sugar test tells you where you stand…

Times Life · Sep 8

What Yoga Actually Does to Your Nervous System: Vagal Tone, Cortisol, and Stress Response

The Vagal Nerve Is the Real TargetEvery time you hold a long exhale in pranayama, you are directly stimulating the vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve in the body, running from the brainstem through the heart, lungs, and gut. The vagus nerve is the primary highway of the parasympathetic nervous…

Times Life · Jul 19

The 5-Minute Daily Skincare Routine Every Indian Man Needs for Cleaner, Healthier Skin

Start with your skin type, not someone else's shelfThe average Indian man's skincare routine is a borrowed one. Either it came from a foreign brand's marketing campaign built for a drier, colder climate, or it's nothing at all, just water and whatever soap is in the bathroom. Neither works for…

Times Life · Jul 11

Childhood Obesity in India Is Climbing: What Parents Can Do About Diet, Screen Time, and Sugar

The numbers Indian parents are not seeingA 2023 analysis published in The Lancet tracked childhood obesity rates across South Asia and found that India now has over 12.5 million children with obesity, the second-highest count globally after China. The rate has more than tripled since the early 2000s. This is…

Times Life · Jul 11

Why Losing Weight Does Not Always Fix PCOS: What Hormones, Insulin, and Inflammation Actually Do

The Weight Loss Prescription Has a GapThe standard advice given to women with PCOS goes like this: lose 5 to 10 percent of your body weight and your symptoms will improve. That figure comes from real research. A 2007 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Legro…

Times Life · Jul 6

6 Daily Indian Foods That Worsen PCOS Symptoms Through Insulin Spikes and Inflammation

White Rice, Every Single DayA 2023 study published in Nutrients found that women with PCOS who consumed high-glycaemic diets had significantly elevated fasting insulin levels compared to those on low-GI diets. White rice, the foundation of lunch and dinner across South India, Bengal, and Odisha, has a glycaemic index above…

Times Life · Jul 6

8 PCOS Symptoms That Go Beyond Periods: Acne, Weight Gain, Hormonal Shifts and More

Excess facial and body hair (hirsutism)Androgens are the driver here. In women with PCOS, elevated androgens, testosterone chief among them, stimulate hair follicles in places that typically respond to male-pattern hormonal signalling: the chin, upper lip, chest, and lower abdomen. A 2023 study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology…

Times Life · Jul 5

Why Indian Men Under 45 Are Dying of Heart Attacks, And What Is Quietly Killing Them

The Numbers Are Not a CoincidenceA 2023 study published in the Indian Heart Journal found that nearly 50 percent of heart attack patients admitted to Indian hospitals were under the age of 55, and a significant proportion were under 45. The Global Burden of Disease report has consistently placed India…

Times Life · Jul 5