NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chefs acknowledge cooking on television is an effective way to promote their restaurants and cookbooks but some of them do not savor the frenzy and demands of reality competition shows.In the United States, cooking competition shows are part ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - More than two hours a day spent watching television or playing computer games could put a child at greater risk for psychological problems regardless of their activity levels, according to a British study.Researchers from the University of ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British punk rocker Billy Idol is writing his memoir and promises not to hold back on the details about drugs, booze and women.Idol said he personally would be writing his memoir "Dancing with Myself," named after his 1980s ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Neurotic people aren't only making their own lives harder but they also cost society billions of dollars in health care spending and lost productivity every year, according to Dutch research.Researchers from the VU University Medical Center ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Overweight youngsters may face discrimination at school and in relationships but a U.S. study has found they can also receive harsher treatment at home -- from their own parents.Studies have shown parents are less likely to help ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mix the dramas leading up to a wedding with extreme plastic surgery and what do you get? A bridal reality TV show in which the final surprise is saved for at the altar.Cable network E! has announced a ...

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Heard the one about the pair of ducks who moved into a New Jersey home? Or the doe that stopped a woman in the woods as her fawn was stuck in a fence?Author Jo Coudert, who built her ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Labrador that ate a beehive containing pesticides and thousands of dead bees won an award on Monday that recognized the most unusual pet health insurance claim in the United States.Ellie, who fully recovered from her encounter with ...

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - Robin Cook, credited as the inventor of the medical thriller, was a doctor who never set out to be a writer but he just wanted to find a way to explain medical issues to people in an entertaining, understandable ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Pregnant women need no longer give up their morning cup of coffee.A research review by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists had found that moderate caffeine consumption probably won't increase the risk of a miscarriage ...