The woman became embroiled in a scuffle with the animal after it tried to steal her backpack.When she put up a fight, the beast took her bag along with her shoes, socks and trousers.
The tourist, who would only be named as Odile, was taking pictures of the orangutan, named Delima, in a park in Malaysia’s Semenggoh Wildlife Centre on the island of Borneo.
Three homesick crocodiles in Australia have shocked experts by returning hundreds of kilometres back to their homes after being relocated.
The discovery was made after tracking devices were attached to the reptiles.
A Russian woman has given birth to a baby weighing 7.75kg (17.5lbs), more than twice the average newborn weight.
The “little” girl, Nadia, was delivered by Caesarean section at a hospital in the Altai region of Siberia, joining eight sisters and three brothers.
When you’re too busy to cook, there’s nothing like the convenience of a frozen meal.They’re fast, simple to prepare and portable – easy to pack for the office or carry into the living room and eat while watching television.
And you can’t beat a frozen meal if you’re controlling calories. Heating up a one-serving entrée prevents you from going back for seconds.
But not all frozen meals are friendly to your arteries. Some serve up a hefty dose of artery-clogging saturated fat, and most are overflowing with sodium. You need to read nutrition labels to know what you’re getting in your meal – and what you’re missing.
In the 1980s and ’90s, Americans tried to control their weight by watching their cholesterol by cutting dietary fat and substituting carbohydrates. They paid little mind to total calories and physical activity. And guess what happened to their waistlines — and their children’s?
Obese pregnant women may have an increased risk of losing their baby relatively late in pregnancy, and black women appear particularly at risk, a large study suggests.
Researchers found that obese women were 40 percent more likely than normal-weight and overweight women to have their pregnancy end in stillbirth — defined as fetal death in the 20th week of pregnancy or later.
Local councils look set to save millions of pounds if a non-stick chewing gum proves a hit with consumers.
Scientists say the gum they have created is easily removed from roads, pavements, hair and clothes.
The secret to longevity is more than the absence of disease. A long and robust life also rises out of a state of physical, mental, and social well-being. You can achieve this with a simple recipe of involving a few healthy habits that you can add to over time. Which is, after all, what we’re all after.
Ordinary food colouring and a common preservative found in everything from fruit drinks to jam have been conclusively linked to hyperactivity in children for the first time, according to British researchers.
Their findings, published today in The Lancet medical journal, could have profound implications for the regulation of additives and the diets of children who exhibit frenetic behaviour, researchers said.
“Skinny” gene – way to prevent obesity and diabetes?
05 Sep
Posted by Inna Korshunova as Amusing news, Health
A gene that keeps mice and fruit flies lean might offer a way to prevent obesity and diabetes in people, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
The gene, discovered more than 50 years ago in fruit flies, makes mice fat when tweaked one way and thin when manipulated another way, the researchers reported.
That suggests it would work this way in humans, because mice and people are both mammals, the team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center reported.
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