Want better focus and health? Add more fish to diet

Saltwater fish like hilsa, koral, and rupchanda offer heart, brain, and eye health benefits due to omega-3s. Nutritionists recommend lighter cooking methods and mindful portions to maximise seafood’s value while minimising health risks.
16 October 2025, 11:36 AM Life & Living

Can being too nice weaken your body’s defences?

Chronic people-pleasing triggers persistent stress, causing immune system dysregulation and inflammation. This may increase autoimmune disease risk over time. Prioritising self-care and reducing chronic stress supports immune health and reduces long-term biological harm.
23 October 2025, 10:49 AM Life & Living

A delight in its own

I believe khichuri to be the best food in the whole wide world. If possible, I would eat khichuri all day, every day, all throughout the year. In fact, rather than being considered food, it should be considered an experience.
11 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse - What Parents Can Do?

The most common misconceptions about child sex abuse is that it is only perpetrated by strangers and that it is gender specific to girls. Some think that children from poor families are vulnerable to abuse and children who are healthy
11 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Uber Premier Easy ride for a busy life

In the article published in Star Lifestyle on November 28, 2017 -- Uber Premier: Easy ride for a busy life -- a link to Uber was mistakenly dropped.
4 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Of Plenty and Pitha

We regret to inform our readers that in an article styled 'Of Plenty and Pitha' printed on Star Lifestyle on November 14, 2017, the name of Muntasir Mamun, professor of the Department of English and Humanities at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh,
27 November 2017, 18:00 PM

How we see it

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong condition with no cure. This makes early detection imperative so that intervention and support can be put in place to help the individual as soon as possible.
27 November 2017, 18:00 PM

BLESSINGS ONLY!

When it comes to her own wedding, bottled-up romance untangle in a mix of nostalgic recollections, an obsession for a near-perfect wedding, and the apprehensions of an unpredictable future, which she probably sets aside for the time being in bids to live the present.
20 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Creative Enlightened Society

It's definitely fate's approval -- a blessing. The Creative Enlightened Society is a remarkable health and advancement club in the peripheries of Bangladesh dedicated to adolescent girls.
13 November 2017, 18:00 PM

HORRORSCOPE

Know your Latin well before doing incantations. If you make it to Halloween night without getting murdered, you still risk falling in love with some deranged monster or serial killer. Think twice before walking under a ladder lest the person on top falls on you. Your lucky costume this week is Batman.
30 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Boo!

All the world is stage and all the men and women are mere players…
30 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Cultures, not costumes

Its Halloween! October truly is the best month of the year to play dress-up and have fun. However, as we become more aware of social justice, it is important to know where to draw the line between simply wearing a costume, and appropriating a culture.
30 October 2017, 18:00 PM

GOING BANANAS

The humble banana — widely available and the superfood of choice of all health-conscious people. Have it for breakfast and get an instant energy kickstart for the day!
23 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Making best of the Internet

When weekends sometimes tend to get too long you start to wonder how you could spend this leisure productively, when all you have at hand is — The World Wide Web. Logging on Facebook or Instagram is always an option, and you can only visit these sites so many times in a day, so what else is out there then?
16 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Body Image

We live in a society where advertising companies tell us that what we currently have either isn't good enough, or just shouldn't exist in the first place.
16 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Let's talk about autism

Firstly however, we need to tackle a few terms and do some 'jargon busting.' The field of autism is an ever growing one, and as such I will start by going through how most researchers in the field look at autism now, and run through some terminology which I will continue to use in this series.
16 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Corrigendum

On Tuesday, October 3, 2017, Volume 17, Issue 16, Star Lifestyle ran a feature titled, “Finally! A Pilates Studio”.
9 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Fall makeup tricks 101

Autumn is here and it is time to switch those summer colours for the bolder matte hues. Autumn is all about celebrating earthy colours with a pop of bold berry shades.
25 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Love guru hacks: the who, not how

Welcome to the science of love. While I am no scientist, I am certainly an expert. In fact, in the past three months, I have fallen in love a total of 12 times. With different people. And yes, there is a science behind it.
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM

The science of relationships

The right partner mirrors back how you feel about yourself. While finding the right match is never easy and there is no precise formula to finding the proverbial 'soul mate,' LS comes to the rescue.
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Pedal your mind

It is every reader's dream to hurl a few books inside their backpack and go enjoy a vacation to the mountains or the beach. While, this may not always be feasible, the modern world has introduced this new concept of stay.
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM

... of understanding and reflections

Lamia Tarannum grew up in the '90s in a socially conservative family of Dhaka. Although she was privileged enough to attend an English medium school, it was made clear to her, even at a very young age, that she should get married early.
11 September 2017, 18:00 PM