EIGHT CUPS OF TEA A DAY CAN BOOST LONGEVITY

Drinking eight cups of tea daily might sound a bit too much for some people, but health experts say the intake can help fight heart disease, improve brain power and also boost longevity.

Independent dietician Dr Carrie Ruxton''s research on caffeine at King''s College, London, saw her review 47 published studies to reach the conclusion that caffeinated drinks such as tea, coffee and cocoa have positive effects on mental function, increasing alertness, feelings of well-being and short-term memory.

Previous studies have already linked the drink's healthy antioxidant properties and high flavonoid content to preventing heart disease and cutting the risk of some cancers.

Dr Ruxton has supported earlier reports by claiming that an optimal intake of 400mg of caffeine a day leads to "key benefits in terms of mental function and heart health."

She assessed three studies, accounting for almost 90,000 patients, to find that drinking four cups of tea or coffee a day reduced chances of cardiovascular disease.

She referred to another study of 26,500 middle-aged smokers, which hinted that men who ingested more than two cups of tea a day pulled down the probability of getting a stroke by 20 per cent.

Dr Ruxton insisted that she aimed to "debunk" false beliefs surrounding caffeine.

Moreover, she asserted that people who avoid drinking tea might be doing more harm than good.

"People who cut out caffeinated drinks may miss out on the potential health benefits of the compounds they contain," the 'Daily Express' quoted her as saying.

She further suggested that there was "no need" for parents to stop children from drinking tea and coffee. In fact, she claimed it was better than juice in some regards.

Also, Dr Catherine Hood, of the Tea Advisory Panel, agreed to Dr Ruxton's claims.

She said: "Caffeinated drinks have been unfairly demonized. Black tea, in particular, contains polyphenols, which are natural plant antioxidants. These have beneficial effects on many biochemical processes in the body because they protect cells against harmful free radicals."

"Flavonoids are thought to be especially useful, with a number of studies reporting a link between them and lower risk of heart attack," she further added.

UNTREATED RAINWATER IS HEALTHY

Drinking untreated rainwater is safe for your health, according to an Australian study.
Researchers from Melbourne's Monash University looked at 300 homes that used rainwater collected in water tanks as their primary drinking source in what they described as a "world first" study that comes amid growing criticism of bottled water.

All of the homes were given a bench top filter and told it would remove any potential gastroenteritis causing organisms from their water, but half of the devices did not contain filters.

Families recorded their health over a year and the researchers found that the rate of gastro cases recorded by these two groups were very similar and also matched the broader community who drank treated tap water.

US SURGEON SPEAKS OUT – ALLAYS FEARS OVER SWINE FLU

An eminent US neurosurgeon has lambasted World Health Organization for scaring people by terming swine flu a "pandemic". "A group of scientists and vaccine manufacturers were doing all they could to fuel the fear and they were quietly making deals with WHO to be among the companies selected to manufacture the pandemic vaccine for the world.
Being anointed by WHO would guarantee tens of billions of dollars of profit," said Dr Russelle Blaylock, neurosurgeon, researcher and educationist.
According to Dr Blaylock, swine flu was not as dangerous as common flu. Quoting from studies conducted by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the respected New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Blaylock has pointed out that H1N1 virus is neither dangerous nor contagious.
"The H1N1 virus is no more pathogenic than the ordinary seasonal flu. It is no way matched the pathogenicity of the 1917-1918 H1N1 viruses. It also did not infect other tissues or brain," writes Dr Blaylock in an e-mail message to his peers and colleagues.

He said an unpublished study by the US Department of Health's CDC has found that swine flu has very low communicability. "A study in New York State proves that only 6.9 per cent of the population had contracted the virus from others." This is far below the 50 per cent predicted by the President's Council of Advisors on science and Technology. In fact, the death rate due to H1N1 was much below the usual seasonal flu death rate, especially in New Zealand.

Dr Blaylock has blamed the media, doctors and Parma companies for blowing out of proportion the deaths attributed to swine flu. "Surveys and studies have proved that all deaths attributed to swine flu were caused by underlying health problems before the infection. He said it was those who were affected with obesity and asthma who lost their lives.

"The US studies have proved that vaccinating pregnant women resulted in babies with more health problems," said Dr Blaylock.
The rRT-PCR test for diagnosing swine flu was devised by the pharma company that holds the rights for selling the much publicized drug Tamiflu and Relenza all over the world. Neither the test nor the drugs have had the mandatory human studies before being let loose on the gullible public!

HARRY POTTER’S INVISIBILITY CLOAK MAY SOON BE A REALITY

The dream of every Harry Potter fan of owning an "invisibility cloak" seems to be soon coming true, with British scientists developing such a garment which will render the wearer invisible to the human eye.

A team at Imperial College hopes to create a cloak from a new material that can manipulate light. Normally, when light hits an object, it bounces off the surface and into the eye, making the object visible.

According to the scientists, the invisibility cloak made from "meta-material" would work by "grabbing hold" of light waves and making them flow smoothly around an object; in the same way that water in a river flows round a stick.

Putting the cloak on will allow the wearer to move around unseen, the Daily Mail reported. In fact, the scientists say the meta-material could have a range of other applications, including creating super-sensitive microscopes and airport security sensors that can spot tiny amounts of chemicals.

However, they admit the Harry Potter cloak is likely to generate the most interest. Sir John Pendry, who is leading the project, which is being funded by the Leverhulme Trust and will be carried out with the University of Southampton, said: "We've shown that an optical invisibility cloak is theoretically possible - the big challenge now is to build it."

SCIENTISTS DEVISE DIFFICULT SECURITY QUESTIONS TO STRENGTHEN ONLINE SECURITY

Rutgers computer scientists are testing a new tactic that could strengthen online security by making it harder to crack security questions.

“We call them activity-based personal questions,” said Danfeng Yao, assistant professor of computer science in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.

“Sites could ask you, ‘When was the last time you sent an e-mail?’ Or, ‘What did you do yesterday at noon?’” she added.

Yao and her students have been testing how resistant these activity questions are to “attack,” – computer security lingo for when an intruder answers them correctly and gains accesses to personal information such as e-mails or to do online shopping or banking.

Early studies suggest that questions about recent activities are easy for legitimate users to answer, but harder for potential intruders to find or guess, according to Yao.

“We want the question to be dynamic,” she said. “The questions you get today will be different from the ones you would get tomorrow,” she added.

Yao said she gave four students in her lab a list of questions related to network activities, physical activities and opinion questions, and then told them to “attack” each other.

“We found that questions related to time are more robust than others. Many guessed the answer to the question, ‘Who was the last person you sent e-mail to?’ But fewer were able to guess, ‘What time did you send your last e-mail?’” she said.

Yao explained that it should not be difficult for an online service provider to formulate these kinds of security questions by looking at its users’ e-mail, calendar activities or previous transactions.

Computers would have to use natural language processing tools to synthesize understandable questions and analyze the answers for accuracy.

Yao is proposing further studies to determine the practicality of the new approach and the best way to implement it.

KIDS WITH “TOUGH LOVE” UPBRINGING “DOES WELL IN LIFE”

Children who are raised with "tough love" by their parents are likely to do well in life, a new report has found.

The report, by think tank Demos, suggested that experiencing a combination of warmth and discipline means youngsters are more likely to develop skills such as application, self-regulation and empathy than those with laissez-faire, authoritarian or disengaged parents.

These characteristics boost children’s life chances, social mobility and opportunity and were profoundly shaped in pre-school years, according to the report.

The Building Character report, which analyzed data from more than 9,000 households in the UK from the Millennium Cohort Study, showed that kids with "tough love" parents were twice as likely to develop good character capabilities by the age of five as children with "disengaged" parents.

The report also looked at factors such as family structure and income, reports the Daily Star.

It found that kids from the richest backgrounds were more than twice as likely to develop crucial characteristics as the poorest.

Children with married parents were twice as likely to show the traits as children from lone parent or step-parented families, the study found.

The researchers of the study said that when parental style and confidence were factored in, the difference in child character development between richer and poorer families disappeared; indicating parenting was the most important influence.

‘CELL PHONE WASTE, THE NEXT BIG THREAT TO ENVIRONMENT’'

Sporting a new mobile phone may be fashionable in these well-connected times, but the discarded old handsets could poison the environment, as a whopping 8,000 tonnes of cell phone waste is estimated to burden the earth by 2012.

As per a whitepaper by global consultancy Deloitte, there is a growing need to better manage the rising cell phone waste, as it is posing a threat to the environment.

Replacement sales predict that more cell phones would be retired every year with rapid changes in technology and product designs discouraging mobile repairs and increasing demand for new mobiles and disposal of old ones.

"With the absence of a proper recycle and reuse program, about 8,000 tonnes of toxic cell phone components are estimated to be dumped in landfills by 2012. The resulting contamination will have far reaching consequences for the environment and all living beings," said Parag Saigaonkar, Deloitte consulting India regional managing director.

The problem begins when retired handsets end up in landfill sites or if they are dumped illegally, leading to toxic substances seeping into the groundwater, making disposal of old cells a problem for the world, the report revealed.

"As India is one of the fastest growing markets in the world in terms of mobile phone subscribers, India need to be more aware of the threat, which these gadgets pose to the environment and strict government guidelines should be created to deal with it," Mr Saigaonkar added.

The Deloitte report stated that mobile phone waste globally is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about nine per cent between 2008 and 2012, with more than 80 per cent of the cell phone waste being hazardous.

The main contributors to cell phone waste are those who upgrade and replace their handsets regularly.

About 65 per cent of subscribers in Asia, Europe and the Americas replace their cell phones at least once in two years. This means every 2 years, about 100 million cell phones reach landfills if they are not recycled or reused, it added.

Elaborating on the ways to minimize the growing cell phone waste, the report stated that recycling and refurbishing of used cell phones is necessary.

Refurbishing extends the lifetime of used phones and recycling reduces the need for the raw materials used to make new products. The inclusion of recycling or refurbishing would change the traditional view of the cell phone life cycle.

"In this new life cycle model, every stakeholder will have to play a role in reducing the environmental footprint of cell phones," it added.


WEIGHT-LOSS NOODLES TO HIT SHELVES IN 2010

Here's some good news for figure conscious people, weight-loss noodles will soon hit the shelves.

Researchers from the University Sains Malaysia (USM) have innovated a dry yellow noodle that allows consumers to sustain a feeling of fullness for longer and lose weight.

"The noodle was the first such product in Malaysia to be tested clinically for its Glycaemic Index prior to commercialization," Chief researcher Assoc Prof Azhar Mat Easa said.

This noodles release sugar slower than regular ones and is more suitable for those who are sensitive to the sugar content in food and those with a weight problem.

"The product was specially formulated and prepared to encourage the formation of cross-linked proteins that can trap starch, and is fortified with additional starch that blocks digestion," he said.

He said the product's ability to block digestion allowed the noodles to remain in the digestive system and keep dieters feeling full for longer.

"If the noodles are consumed in the morning, a person will feel full until night, and consumers can now enjoy yellow noodles without worrying about excessive increase in their sugar blood levels."

The product is expected to hit the markets in February, he said, adding the taste is similar to that of regular noodles and can be cooked in any way.

CLIMATE CHANGE ‘A BIGGEST THREAT TO CHILDREN’ NEXT YEAR


A quarter of a million kids might lose their lives next year due to adverse effects of climate change, warns a charity.

Save the Children insists that figure could rise to more than 400,000 by 2030.

Its report 'Feeling the Heat' claims that climate change is the biggest global health threat to children in the 21st century.

Experts believe that almost 175 million children per year are likely to suffer the consequences of natural disasters like cyclones, droughts and floods by 2030.

They further say that more than 900 million children in the next generation will be affected by water shortages and 160 million more children will be at risk of catching malaria - one of the biggest killers of children under five - as it spreads to new parts of the world.

Ultravox star Midge Ure, a Save the Children ambassador, recently returned to Ethiopia 25 years after the 1984 famine, and created Band Aid with Bob Geldof.

"Climate change is no longer a distant, futuristic scenario, but an immediate threat," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

"We've all heard about the East African food crisis but I've been in Ethiopia seeing firsthand the impact it's having on children's lives.

"I've seen how vulnerable children are to the effects of climate change," he added.


SLEEP COMES BETTER AFTER RETIREMENT

People are likely to sleep better after they retire, a new study has found.

The findings suggest that this general improvement in sleep is likely to result from the removal of work-related demands and stress rather than from actual health benefits of retirement.

Results show that the odds of having disturbed sleep in the seven years after retirement were 26 per cent lower than in the seven years before retiring.

Sleep disturbance prevalence rates among 14,714 participants fell from 24.2 per cent in the last year before retirement to 17.8 per cent in the first year after retiring.

The greatest reduction in sleep disturbances was reported by participants with depression or mental fatigue prior to retirement.

The post-retirement improvement in sleep also was more pronounced in men, management-level workers, employees who reported high psychological job demands, and people who occasionally or consistently worked night shifts, the website Eurekalert reported.

Lead author Jussi Vahtera, professor in the department of public health at the University of Turku in Finland, noted that the participants enjoyed employment benefits rarely seen, including guaranteed job stability, a statutory retirement age between 55 and 60 years, and a company-paid pension that was 80 per cent of their salary.

"We believe these findings are largely applicable in situations where financial incentives not to retire are relatively weak," said Vahtera.

"In countries and positions where there is no proper pension level to guarantee financial security beyond working age, however, retirement may be followed by severe stress disturbing sleep even more than before retirement."

The study involved employees from the French national gas and Electricity Company, who retired between 1990 and 2006 at a mean age of 55 years.

The study includes data from 11,581 male and 3,133 female workers who reported sleep disturbances at least once before and once after the year of retirement. Around 35 percent of participants had worked night shifts, and 17 per cent reported having depression.

Participants completed questionnaires concerning health, lifestyle, individual, familial, social and occupational factors.

The authors conclude that in the present time when people are expected to live many years beyond the traditional age of retirement, consideration should be given to the restructuring of working life to enable older workers to remain economically active without compromising their future health.

The results were published in the November issue of the journal 'Sleep.'

HINDI,KOREAN & HEBREW SCRIPTS GET WEB DOMAIN NOD
The non-profit body that oversees Internet addresses has approved the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that could make the Web dramatically more inclusive.

The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN voted on Friday to allow such scripts in so-called domain names at a meeting in South Korea's capital.

The decision was widely expected and follows years of debate and testing. It clears the way for governments or their designees to submit requests for specific names, likely beginning November.

Internet users could start seeing them in use early next year, particularly in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts in which demand has been among the highest, ICANN officials say.


MYSTERY “DREAM” MAN BECOMES INTERNET HIT!

A website asking people to give information on a mysterious man that thousands of people across the globe claim to have seen in dreams has become an instant hit.

The site, thisman.org, says that a woman first drew the face of the mystery man during a session with her psychiatrist three years ago, after he repeatedly appeared in her dreams, reports the Sun.

The site also claims that the woman confessed to have never seen or met the man.

When another patient saw the sketch on the psychiatrist's desk, he also claimed to have dreamt of the man.

When the doctor sent the picture to his colleagues, some of their patients too recognized the man.

And now the picture that was posted on the Internet just two weeks ago has become a phenomenon - the traffic on thisman.org has suddenly skyrocketed.

Although, thousands of people around the world claimed to have seen the face in their dreams, critics have dubbed it as a complete hoax.

YOGA DOGS
The year 2010 will see your beloved pooches teaching you yoga, thanks to a new Yoga Dogs Calendar. Texan couple Dan and Alejandra Borris has come up with the 2010 calendar, which features dogs in various yoga positions.

INTERNET TO GET NON-ENGLISH ADDRESSES SOON

The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names — or addresses — that can be written in languages other than English, an official said on Monday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the non-profit group that oversees domain names — is holding a meeting this week in Seoul. Domain names are the monikers behind every website, e-mail address and Twitter post, such as ".com" and other suffixes.

One of the key issues to be taken up by ICANN's board at this week's gathering is whether to allow for the first time entire internet addresses to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters.

That could potentially open up the web to more people around the world as addresses could be in characters as diverse as Arabic, Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hindi and Cyrillic — in which Russian is written.

"This is the biggest change technically to the internet since it was invented 40 years ago," Mr Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the ICANN board, told reporters, calling it a "fantastically complicated technical feature."

He said he expects the board to grant approval on Friday, the conference's final day.

The internet's roots are traced to experiments at a US university in 1969 but it wasn't until the early 1990s that its use began expanding beyond academia and research institutions to the public.

A KIWI FRUIT A DAY CAN KEEP DOCTOR AT BAY

Kiwi fruit has been labeled as the best source of vitamin C, which can have wonderful health benefits, according to an expert.

Professor Robin Fraser, of Otago University’s Christchurch School of Medicine, has said that the furry fruit could be the key to living longer as it appears to be the perfect food for preventing all sorts of liver problems, as well as keeping white blood cells health.

Fraser, who has seen many unhealthy livers in his time as a pathologist, is a convert to the benefits of the fruit.

"It just seems as though it works. I’m so convinced that I eat kiwifruit every morning for my breakfast," Stuff.co.nz quoted him as saying.

Fraser compared the liver to a sieve that when working properly effectively filtered the carrier of cholesterol.

But, he said, those holes could be closed because of excess drinking, an overly fatty diet, smoking, illicit drug use and stress, which could lead to atherosclerosis— a major killer through heart failure, strokes, gangrenous feet and aortic aneurism.

But he pointed out that a daily dose of kiwifruit, along with a healthier lifestyle, appeared to be able to reopen those holes in the liver which, in his opinion was an exciting development.

He said kiwifruit was the most efficient way of getting the recommended dose of vitamin C, the active ingredient that appeared to fix the liver.

Dr Margreet Vissers, the dean of research at Otago University in Christchurch, said that vitamin C was also needed by white blood cells to kill bacteria and ensured they did not kill off everything else in the process.

Fraser presented his findings at the annual scientific meeting of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in Christchurch.

EAT BROCCOLI, GREENS, NUTS TO FIGHT HEART DISEASE

Cheeseburgers and fries might look tempting, but eating some broccoli or leafy greens first could help people battle obesity and heart disease, says a new study.
Eating more plant-based foods, which are rich in substances called phytochemicals, seems to prevent oxidative stress in the body, a process associated with obesity and the onset of heart disease, according to the study.
To get enough of these protective chemicals, researchers suggest eating plant-based foods such as leafy greens, vegetables, fruits, nuts and legumes at the start of a meal. Oxidative stress occurs when the body produces too many damaging free radicals and lacks enough anti-oxidants or phytochemicals to counteract them.
Because of excess fat tissue and certain enzymes that are more active in overweight people, being obese can actually trigger the production of more free radicals, too. Using a phytochemical index, which compares calories consumed from plant-based foods with the overall number of daily calories, could remind people to get enough phyto-chemicals during meals and snacks, said Heather K. Vincent, University of Florida (UF), who led the study.
"We need to find a way to encourage people to pull back on fat and eat more foods rich in micronutrients and trace minerals from fruits, vegetables, whole grains and soy," said Vincent.
"Fill your plate with colourful, low-calorie, varied-texture foods derived from plants first. By slowly eating phytochemical-rich foods such as salads with olive oil or fresh-cut fruits before the actual meal, you are likely to reduce the overall portion size, fat content and energy intake."
"In this way, you're ensuring that you get the variety of protective, disease-fighting phytochemicals you need and controlling caloric intake," added Vincent. These findings were published online in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics.

AVERAGE TEMPERATURES NOT INCREASED FOR LAST 11 YEARS: RESEARCH

Amid stepped up efforts to curb global warming, a recent research has revealed that average temperatures have not increased for over a decade.

Average temperatures have not increased for over a decade and the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998, according to a research published by the Royal Society.

For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures and our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise, it said.

Climate change skeptics argue that there are natural cycles, over which we have no control, that dictate how warm the planet is. But what is the evidence for this?

During the last few decades of the 20th Century, our planet did warm quickly but a the research has ruled out solar influences on increase in temperature, a BBC report said.

"Warming in the last 20 to 40 years can't have been caused by solar activity," said Dr Piers Forster from Leeds University, a leading contributor to this year's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The scientists' main approach was simple: to look at solar output and cosmic ray intensity over the last 30-40 years, and compare those trends with the graph for global average surface temperature.

TODAY, OCTOBER 24…..INTERNATIONAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION

Citizens in our city wage war on CO2
In our city The Students' Sea Turtle Conservation Network will make a giant sand sculpture of a sea turtle at Beach from 3.30pm. Students from Anna University will conduct rock concerts, street plays and dance shows at Beach. The Chennai Mallakhamb Association will create a Mallakhamb pyramid at Enchanting Elves, at 11.30 am International Day of Climate Action, which is observed on October 24, will witness people from all over the city doing their bit for the planet in out-of-the box, innovative and amusing ways

With environmental awareness becoming a buzzword today, young Chennaiites are ensuring that they aren't left behind in doing their bit for the city and the planet. On the occasion of International Day of Climate Action, which is being observed on October 24, the citizens are not limiting themselves to the usual rallies and lectures but opting for interactive events like a Mallakhamb pyramid, a rock show, street plays and more.
Joining the international 350.org initiative, their aim is to help reduce the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere -- from the alarming 390 ppm (parts per million) as of now to the acceptable 350 ppm i. e.the safe limit.
A human chain will also be formed in the shape of 350 around the sculpture.


GLOBAL SUNSHADE TO COOL THE EARTH

MODIFIED CLOUDS TO CAST SUNLIGHT BACK INTO SPACE

Amid growing concern over global warming, scientists have come up with a unique scheme to cool the earth with the help of a geoengineering method that would increase cloud reflectivity over the ocean.
Under the scheme, the scientists would increase cloud reflectivity over the ocean by spraying them with an ultra-fine saltwater mist from ships, a report published in journal Scientific American said.
"The clouds, containing more particles, would cast enough sunlight back into space to at least partially offset the warming effects of all that CO2 from burning fossil fuels," the researchers said.
They added, "After all, clouds already reflect more of the sun's radiation back into space than the amount trapped by human emissions of carbon dioxide. So why not make them even more effective".
Stephen Salter, an emeritus professor of engineering design at the University of Edinburgh, who is leading the research, said "marine cloud brightening could be done by populating the world's oceans with up to 1,500 ships of a somewhat exotic design--sometimes known as albedo yachts".
"Furthermore, each vessel would be remote-controlled, wind-powered, and capable of generating (via turbines dragged through the water) the electricity required to create a mist of seawater and loft it 1,000 metres high into the atmosphere," he added.
Geoengineering schemes fall into two categories, corresponding to the two knobs you might imagine twiddling to adjust the earth's temperature.
One knob controls how much sunlight--or solar energy, to be more precise--reaches the planet's surface; the other controls how much heat escapes back into space, which depends on how much CO2 is in the atmosphere.

Schemes for removing CO2 from the atmosphere, say,by fertilizing the oceans with iron, would strike closer to the root of the problem.
But they would inevitably take decades to have much of an effect.

ROMANIAN MUSCLE BOY, 5, WOOS GUINNESS JUDGES WITH HAND STUNT!

At five years of age, Romanian bodybuilding lad Giuliano Stroe has landed himself in record books after leaving Guinness judges stunned with his incredible stunts.
The muscle boy lives with his family in Italy where he has been training since the age of two. Earlier this year he managed to get into the Guinness Book of Records after performing a jaw-dropping handstand stunt on an Italian TV show.
In fact, the strong lad preformed the fastest ever 10m-handwalk with a weight ball between his legs in front of an astonished audience. And Giuliano has now become an Internet hit after millions of Internet users watched a clip of him performing the stunt on YouTube.
"He has been going to the gym with me ever since he was born. I always took him with me when I went training," The Sun quoted Giuliano''s dad Iulian Stroe, 33, as saying. But he added there is no danger of the youngster harming himself, saying: "I have been training hard all my life myself. He is never allowed to practice on his own, he is only a child and if he gets tired we go and play."
Giuliano, the oldest of four children, says his stardom has not gone to his head and he still enjoys normal kids stuff like painting, watching cartoons and playing in the park when he is not weightlifting. However, he likes getting filmed and when people applaud it makes him happy.

FOUR-YEAR-OLD MILES BROWN APPEARED ON ‘ELLEN’ TO SHOW OFF HIS HIP-HOP DANCING SKILLS

Clad in two white gloves and a black hat, the young boy talked to host Ellen DeGeneres before he danced for the audience.
The boy was unresponsive when Ellen told him "it's nice to meet you," but went on to explain the kind of dancing he does. Watch


CUP OF COFFEE A DAY KEEPS LIVER TROUBLE AWAY

Researchers in the United States have found another good reason to go to the local espresso bar: several cups of coffee a day could halt the progression of liver disease, a study showed.
Sufferers of chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver disease who drank three or more cups of coffee per day slashed their risk of the disease progressing by 53 percent compared to patients who drank no coffee, the study led by Neal Freedman of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) showed.
"We observed an inverse association between coffee intake and liver disease progression," meaning patients who drank three or more cups of java were less likely to see their liver disease worsen than nondrinkers, wrote the authors of the study, which will be published in the November issue of Hepatology.

WINDOWS 7 LAUNCHED
Microsoft Corp launched Windows 7 on Thursday in its most important release for more than a decade, aiming to win back customers after the disappointing Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market.
The world's largest software company, which powers more than 90 per cent of personal computers, has received good reviews for the new operating system, which it hopes will grab back the impetus in new technology from rivals Apple Inc and Google Inc.

ONCE–A-DAY SHOT HELPS BEAT OBESITY

Scientists have created a revolutionary once-a-day jab that can fight obesity.
Liraglutide not only controls the symptoms of diabetes but also leads to significant weight loss. Earlier this year, the super drug was given the go-ahead by European regulators. And now, latest tests have shown it to be significantly more effective than fat pills.
In study trials, the jab has shown promise in helping people lose weight by increasing the “full” feeling after eating and by slowing the speed, at which their stomach empties, reports The Daily Express.
What’s more, it lowers blood pressure, a major factor in the development of heart disease. In the study by Professor Arne Astrup, of the University of Copenhagen, published in The Lancet, high doses of liraglutide were found to lead to greater weight loss than the prescription-only drug or listat.

The authors said: “The results indicate the potential benefit of liraglutide, in conjunction with an energy-deficit diet, in the treatment of obesity.”

Obesity expert Professor Steve Bloom, of Imperial College London, said: “At last science is providing treatments that work in obesity. As we all are dying earlier from our excessive fat, this is a breakthrough.”