(Duke-NUS Medical School) – The impact of loneliness in old age on life and health expectancy has been categorically quantified for the first time in a new study by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore), Nihon University (Tokyo, Japan) and their collaborators, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
While exercising may be the ‘easy’ part, staying on top of your nutrition may pose more of a challenge when it comes to fat loss.
Are the “Conjuring” movies the most intriguing franchise of this century?
My interest in food has never been about the pleasures of eating, rather, it’s about many of the things associated with food – origin, history, politics, economics, identity, community, culture, communication, engagement, techniques etc.
I grew up envious of girls who had periods that lasted three days or less.
Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a series, “Sweet Drink: A Preliminary Exploration of the Social History of Nonalcoholic Carbonated Beverages in Guyana (1870–2020),” based on Professor Vibert Cambridge’s research.
Guyanese consume about 1.4 litres per person a day of carbonated soft drinks, or ‘sweet drinks,’ which enabled the local industry to contribute US$668 million to the Guyanese economy between 2008 and 2018, according to United States-based Guyanese Dr Vibert Cambridge.
Dr Terrence Isaacs is currently completing his residency in the United Kingdom to become a consultant in medical psycho-therapy.
Although he may not have known it at the time, when Bonaventure Fredericks was hired as the office assistant for the Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) Regional Democratic Council (RDC) office in 1981, he was getting a practical education that would eventually land him in the seat of the Regional Chairman some 34 years later.
Article 13 of the Guyana Constitution was invoked by Minister Gail Teixeira during last week in response to the call of US Congressmen Albio SIres and Hank Johnson for more political inclusion in Guyana and for the country’s wealth to benefit all of its citizens.
The previous column explored the question of money ‘printing’ and inflation.
Introduction As a social scientist, I have observed, in recent years the unprecedented rise at a global existential level of some of the scariest social phenomena I have ever encountered.
Let me give my memories of one weekend at Cambridge University when I met two of the most remarkable men of the age, one after another.
Looking back on the story of the emergence of my Tradewinds band in Caribbean music, it is interesting that I did not have any burning desire to be a professional musician when I migrated from Guyana to Toronto, Canada, in the early 1950s.
Plants in homes and offices are familiar sights. There is a wide variety to choose from and while some people opt for the known, tried and true plants, others want some-thing more exotic; Preya’s Creations is happy to provide them.
The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son Her son was first made known to her as a sense of unease, a need to cry for little reasons and a metallic tide rising in her mouth each morning.
I attended my second Bocas Lit Fest back in April and was once again introduced to many Caribbean writers whose work I am excited about.
Poland. December 31. 1999. Four hours before midnight, and a 22-year-old man (Sebastian) takes a TV presenter and a security guard hostage.
“Sometimes I wonder how a mother could do that to her own child.
I’m currently preparing for a competition in El Salvador next month and hence I am on the homestretch of intense training and a strict diet regimen.
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