World Obesity Day: A lazy person’s guide to shedding extra kilos while being a couch potatoHere's how you can beat obesity from your humble sofa.
04 Mar, 2022, 02.22 PM IST
Listen up, couch potatoes: It's time for you to chip inBelgian potato farmers’ call to eat more spuds to resolve glut is doable.
28 Apr, 2020, 08.08 AM IST
More time to chill with exercise pillPollution, climate change, Netflix and other factors put off lazy lumps from even stirring outdoors.
17 Jan, 2020, 08.10 AM IST
No couch potatoes: Personal trainers to help children focus on fitnessParents want their children to build stamina and have an appetite for sports early in life.
28 Dec, 2017, 12.15 PM IST
Is your 9-to-5 job turning you into a couch potato? Follow this routine at workDrop the 'no-time-to-exercise' excuse now and get moving as you work.
12 Dec, 2017, 07.53 PM IST
When breathing is injurious to healthPollution has achieved what even the most compelling of sedentary electronic games could not do: turned many urban dwellers into cowering c...
05 Nov, 2016, 12.46 AM IST
Easy shouldn’t also mean lazyIf we hadn’t had to work, push, fight, deceive, our way out of diverse situations, we would not have been able to eventually invent the int...
01 Apr, 2016, 06.44 AM IST
Can you really lose weight by just sitting around binge-watching TV?It must be remembered, however, that just because overweight mice responded to the compound positively does not mean humans will have exact...
03 Aug, 2015, 07.30 AM IST
Cloak and dagger thrillers keep the mind alert, finds new researchScientists now say that watching a convoluted, nailbiting crime serial can do to the brain what a one-hour session at the gym does for the ...
31 Jan, 2015, 10.34 AM IST
Xbox One wearable monitors couch potatoes’ heart ratesMicrosoft is said to be working on a fitness wearable that would work alongside its Xbox One games console.
11 Dec, 2014, 11.45 AM IST
Too many choices between apples and popcorn, effort and slothThe mental distance between the two options needs to be correctly ascertained as well: is an apple a big-enough shift from popcorn to merit...
22 Mar, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Amazon’s proposal to use drones for express delivery poses challenges'Octocopters’ will be used apparently to swoop down and deliver merchandise to doorsteps within minutes of the payment being made online.
04 Dec, 2013, 04.13 AM IST
- Stuff & Trance
Scripps Institute scientists have already tested a substance that turned obese mice into little murine athletes.
26 Jul, 2013, 05.12 AM IST
- Now, change TV channels with the blink of an eye!
Engineers have developed a TV which can monitor your eyes and change the channel if you give it the nod.
31 Aug, 2012, 07.03 PM IST
- Taxing fat in cultures that see it as prosperity
Imposing a 'fat tax' on the very things the rest of the world loves about it requires a degree of control and far-sightedness.
04 Oct, 2011, 07.33 AM IST
- IPTV: Being a couch potato is also being net savvy
Watching TV will never be the same for the Indian consumer. With CAS (conditional access system) already a part of the TV-viewing experienc...
06 Feb, 2007, 04.40 AM IST
- Rich feast for couch potatoes
You could call them the holy trinity in the technology realm. CAS (conditional access system), DTH (direct to home) and now the latest, IPT...
16 Jan, 2007, 02.55 AM IST