Being sleep-deprived several nights in a row can make the body go haywire. Harvard Medical School Instructor in Medicine Lawrence Epstein, M.D. sugests eliminating the thieves of sleep.
Older adults who have low levels of Vitamin D could be at greater risk of mental decline and various types of dementia including Alzheimer's disease, based on a new study. The vitamin, which is found in foods such as milk, egg yolks, and fish seems to enter all of the body's cells and prevent the development of Alzheimer's markers in the brain, including tangles (proteins) and plaques (bacteria).
Wang Yabin and her dance studio Yabin & Her Friends will perform “The Moon Opera” in Beijing and Shanghai in October. It is based from Bi Feiyu’s novel of the same title about a stage actress of a Peking Opera.
Increasingly more children throughout the United States are becoming drunk after ingesting liquid hand sanitizer at school and home, due to the germ-killing products' alcohol content. A new report shows that poison control centers throughout the U.S. have seen an almost 400 percent spike in phone calls related to kids swallowing hand sanitizer, causing intoxication symptoms such as slurred speech and an inability to walk.
Inner Mongolia’s 8-hectare Dashengkui Cultural Creativity Industrial Park in Hohhot’s Yuquan District opens to public and features museums, shops, dining places and a theater. It is one of the three sections of the 43-hectare Dazhao Cultural Industry Cluster, with the other two being a commercial area and a sightseeing area.
ReedPOP is set to bring the renowned New York Comic Con to Beijing next year. This comes after its Shanghai edition was succesfully held in May.
One of the famous Chinese paintings, "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" by Zhang Zeduan, is being exhibited in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The artwork is drawing large crowds, forcing visitors to wait in line for six hours before seeing the painting.
Valeria Lukyanova, whose claim to fame is her Barbie doll-like features, is embarking on her first world tour dubbed Space Barbie Tour.
Consuming a Mediterranean diet with a small amount of natural extra-virgin olive oil can reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer, based on a new study. Such a diet includes a large quantity of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and nuts; and a small amount of cheese, fish, lean meat, and wine.
Various cultural practices and traditions are on display in the 5th International Festival for Intangible Cultural Heritages. The 10-day festival, which opened on Friday, Sept. 11, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, aims to reacquaint the Chinese populace with China’s diverse cultural heritage.
Tibetan craftsmen specializing in woodblock-print sutras are struggling to keep up production, despite government support via training and building additional workshops, with customers having to wait for years, according to the Shanghai Daily newspaper.
In Washington D.C. the growing and possession of marijuana plants are now legal, but selling it in the U.S. capital is still illegal. The first legal cannabis harvest has produced an estimated 45 kilograms of pot with a street value of half a million dollars, creating a gray market in which production is greater than amateur gardeners' personal demand for weed smoking via joints, bowls, and bongs.
The pure form of a chemical compound found in red wine and dark chocolate can slow down Alzheimer's progression, based on a new study's findings. It was the biggest nationwide clinical trial to examine the long-term effects of high-dose resveratrol in patients having mild to moderate cases of the cognitive disease that is a type of dementia.
The City of Los Angeles will add electric cars to its municipal fleet in order to help deal with its pollution and traffic problems. That includes adding battery-powered and plug-in hybrids to its green initiative. To increase the city's use of sustainable energy, the police, fire, water, and power departments will use the eco-friendly vehicles, while L.A. will also test Tesla Model S and BMW i vehicles.
A new Harvard study shows that students with less than 20 minutes to consume their school lunches eat much less entrees, vegetables, and milk than those with longer midday meal periods. Pupils who must gobble their food are less likely to choose fruits and more likely to waste food by throwing away leftovers on their cafeteria trays.
