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Intermittent fasting helpful in managing chronic diseases: Study
According to the study eating daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting that limits your food intake to a certain number of hours each day.
Women are more burnt out and considering quitting in US: McKinsey
In the last five years, women’s representation has increased at all levels, the report found. Women hold nearly 50% of all entry level jobs and around a quarter of C-suite roles, each up a few percentage points from 2016.
“Our concerns are the impact of pandemic burnout on women long-term, and what companies need to do in response,” said Rachel Thomas, co-founder and chief executive officer of Lean In.
Poorly circulated room air raises potential exposure to COVID contaminants
Using CO2 as a tracer to track small respiratory aerosols that travel by air currents in a room, the Berkeley Lab team found that when overhead vents (or diffusers) are supplying heated air, it created thermally stratified conditions that block the flow of clean air down to the “breathing zone” in the middle height of the room.
As a result, even when people are sitting more than 6 feet from each other, some occupants may be exposed to respiratory aerosols from others at a rate 5 to 6 times higher than if the same room were well mixed.
‘Flipping’ by startups poses security threat, says SJM
Ashwani Mahajan, National Co-Convener of SJM – a wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, says unicorns with over USD 1 billion valuation ‘flipping’ means avoiding Indian regulatory oversight and loss of revenue to the country.
”India has been proud of its startups creating immense value and adding to the GDP of the country. But our happiness remains short-lived when we find that they have not remained Indian any more. Most of these high ticket startups have flipped away and are no longer Indian companies in essence,” he told PTI.
Flipping means a transaction where an Indian company incorporates a firm in a foreign jurisdiction, which is then made the holding company of the subsidiary in India. The most favourable foreign jurisdictions for Indian companies are Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Honda to use Google’s Android Automotive OS in its cars from 2022
In addition, Google also collaborating with the likes of Ford, General Motors and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance to incorporate Android Automotive into their vehicles.
COVID-19 virus evolving to get better at becoming airborne, study shows
“The take-home messages from this paper are that the coronavirus can be in your exhaled breath, is getting better at being in your exhaled breath, and using a mask reduces the chance of you breathing it on others,” Jennifer German, a co-author of the study said.
“This means that a layered approach to control measures — including improved ventilation, increased filtration, UV air sanitation, and tight-fitting masks, in addition to vaccination — is critical to protect people in public-facing jobs and indoor spaces,” German added.
COVID smell loss can have profound effects on your life, from weight change to intimacy barriers
For others, things were more fluid. Anosmia could mutate into parosmia. Food that was fine one day could become disgusting the next. This “chaos narrative” – as sociologists call it – meant that smell loss was very difficult to live with, let alone manage. A condition over which there was no control. The effect on appetite was also unpredictable. As might be expected, people had trouble eating – particularly when normal smells were distorted. Some were struggling, reporting malnutrition and severe weight loss.
McKinsey survey finds over two-thirds of customers willing to switch to digital-only bank
Low-cost digital-only banks and robo-advisors could pose a fierce challenge to incumbent banks, McKinsey said.
65% of users still re-use passwords across accounts: Report
“Strong cybersecurity habits are more important than ever this year, given the sheer volume of time individuals have spent online in the last 18 months and the corresponding spike in cyber-attacks,” the company said in a statement.
Most data breaches — a staggering 85 per cent — involved a human element through phishing or human error, according to the 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report and the need for password security remains critical as attacks rise.
Delhi Police to prepare list of 100 ‘bad drivers’, recommend them to attend road safety classes, counselling
“A list of 100 bad drivers will be prepared by the police, who often put other lives at risk by jumping the red light or indulging in rash driving and overspeeding. Letters will be sent at their homes in which we will recommend them to visit classes and counselling sessions on road safety. Classes in physical and video conference mode are available for all,” Chander told ANI.