Did You Know**Dr Rekha

A recent study found that those who regularly ate breakfast were four times less likely to be obese than people who skipped breakfast.Those who skipped breakfast tend to overeat at lunch and dinner

Tooth whiteners have a somewhat temporary effect. Thinking of sprucing up your smile with at-home tooth-whitening products? Your pearly whites may indeed get pearlier with those products, at last in short run.

A newborn baby has very basic vision. It can only see contrasting features and can't really distinguish objects with any clarity. Research, has shown, however, that babies demonstrate distinct visual preference for human faces and eye contact, only after a few days. In fact, some researchers say it's essential for newborn babies to see human faces for proper development of vision.

A recent study has found out that children whose parents are alcoholic could get addicted to drinks too and may face emotional, behavioural and mental problems, says a study. Previous studies had revealed that 70 percent children of alcoholics develop compulsive behaviour about either alcohol drugs, food, sex, work or gambling, while a half nded up marrying alcoholics.

The life span of a head louse is roughly one month when living on the scalp of a person. However, it can only survive for approximately twenty hors after being separated from its human host.

One study found that length of sleep time was a better predictor of mortality than smoking, cardiac disease or hypertension. Those who slept 6 hours or less had a 70% higher mortality rate than those who slept 7 or 8 hours.

There are no more than five distinctive tastes: Salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and umani (Japanese for savoury or meaty). The 10,000 different scents which humans usually recognize as “tastes’ are often actually just ‘flavour’ that many people confuse with taste. A person, who has lost the ability to smell, often loses taste for food because of the loss of flavour.

Human typically breathe between 12-20 times per minute. Babies breathe as much as 40 times per minute. Adults normally breathe about 500-700 ml of air at a time.

Colour blindness is an inherited disorder and affects men more commonly than women since the capacity for colour vision is located on the X chromosome. The most common type is red-green colour blindness.