Lack of sleep ‘can make you fat’

Sugar, carbs, fat — it’s hardly news that these’re big contributors to unwanted weight. Now, add a fourth — lack of sleep, reports PTI from New York.

According to a recent study carried out by researchers in the US, people who get less sleep at night are more likely to choose food the next day that will put on extra pounds. In fact, the researchers at the University of Pennsylvania came to the conclusion after recording the sleep hours and food intake of 50 undergraduates over a period of four days.

Woman survives 19 hr in sea

A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said.

Lillian Ruth Simpson, of Juneau, Alaska, told the Maui News that she also wrapped her bathing suit top around her head to keep warm after sunset.

A fishing charter boat spotted her in the water Friday morning, dehydrated and sunburned. She was treated at a hospital and released.

‘Performance pill causes blindness’

Suffering from low libido or erectile dysfunction? Just give a second thought before you pop an anti-impotence drug to enhance your performance — the pill can cause permanent vision loss, reports PTI from New York.
Researchers carried out in the US said.