A young American riding a motorcycle and speaking good Mandarin has traveled across the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and found an exciting experience in the region, where most people hardly understand him, the China Daily reported.
The video features a rat carrying a slice of pizza down a stairs of a New York City's (NYC) subway platform. During the clip the videographer whispers "live your best life" to the rodent.
Apples account for 29 percent of fruit that American children and teens consume every day, easily making them more popular than oranges, bananas, berries, peaches, and fruit salad. Kids and teenagers eat about two-thirds of that figure in the form of whole apples, and one-third is drunk as pure apple juice.
Tweets, blogs and other commentaries have been flooding almost all social media sites over the weekend about abortion. It all started when Amelia Bonow shared her recent experience about abortion on Facebook.
Erin Solari captured a tender moment being shared by her grandparents at a hospice wherein her 92-year-old grandfather, Howard, sang beautifully to her 93-year-old grandma, Laura.
Sometimes all that parents need to hear is what's inside their child's heart. An adorable six-year-old girl is melting the hearts of millions of people with her request to her divorced parents to get along.
The Seattle Aquarium has taught a baby sea otter with asthma to use her own inhaler after acquiring the lung condition due to smoke from a recent wildfires in the area. Mishka was transferred from the wild to the aquarium in January, and could be the first asthmatic otter in recorded history, although the respiratory problem sometimes appears in cats and horses.
A big debate has been brewing between pro-vaping supporters of electronic cigarettes as a healthier substitute for tobacco products, and e-cigarette opponents who claim that they are as addicting and cancer-causing as ordinary smokes. However, two anti-vaping academics argue that the big tobacco lobby is behind the scenes promoting the benefits of the smoking devices.
Doctors have known for a long time that systolic blood pressure (SBP) under 120 is normal, and reduces the risk of kidney conditions, stroke, heart disease, and death. Thus, they would only treat patients if the figure rose over 140. However, a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) study's findings have shown that patients in the pre-hypertension range of 120 to 140 should also be treated.
Fast food giant McDonald's has announced that it will start exclusively using eggs from cage-free hens in the United States and Canada over the next decade. The move is one of several by CEO Steve Easterbrook to transform the inventor of the Egg McMuffin, Big Mac, and Happy Meal into a "modern" burger company, as it struggles to compete with restaurant chains including Burger King, Subway, and Chipotle.
The Mediterranean diet is considered very healthy due to its olive oil, fruits and vegetables, and fish, resulting in low risks of heart attacks. A new study theorizes that the Arctic's high-fat omega-3 Inuit diet that includes seafood such as seals or whales triggered gene mutations, causing low rates of diabetes and heart disease.
A journey through Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, jointly held by the Yushu government and the Chinese club Jeep Rangers, will commence during this year's National Day holiday week, beginning Oct 1. There are around 300 Jeep owners who have signed up for the event.
Photographer Dang Xiaoshi has released a series of photos depicting a model wearing a hanfu at Wat Rong Khun in Thailand. The designer of the temple has expressed dissatisfaction with one photo in particular.
A heart with the names of a man and a woman has been etched into a 300-year-old ceremonial copper vessel at the Palace Museum in Beijing, prompting the anger of netizens over another case of vandalism at the hands of Chinese tourists.
About one-third of the United States' children and teens eat fast food such as burgers, fries, or pizza, on any given day, based on a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In fact, the consumption rates of fatty, salty, and sugary foods at restaurant chains including McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut have not changed during the past 15 years greatly due to radio, TV, and Internet ads.
