November 17, 2010
Feminism fucked up. Ladies, it’s all over the news. Quit your jobs to live happier, healthier lives. Women with career stress have an 88% chance of heart attack and a 40% increase in cardiovascular disease, the BBC reported. As there is no study on the heart health of homemakers, we can assume that their lives are ...
Tags: career,
Dutch,
feminism,
flex time,
happiness,
health,
housewife,
job,
part time,
recession,
stay-at-home,
The Netherlands,
women,
work life balance
November 4, 2010
Yes, boobie season is over as Breast Cancer Awareness month draws to a close, but do not fret — there is an manly appendage to take it’s place. The moustache. That’s right — it’s Movember. Time to bring awareness to men’s health, and facial hair. Many historical figures wouldn’t be remembered if it weren’t for ...
September 30, 2010
Yuck! Who would be addicted to semen? Apparently, your vagina. Women who have regular unprotected sex can become depressed when they go through dry-spells, according to a study of 300 women by New York State University. However, they are less likely to be depressed, or commit suicide, than the women who regularly use condoms. The ...
Tags: abstinence,
bareback,
condoms,
depression,
health,
promiscuity,
research,
semen,
sex,
sperm,
study,
suicide,
unprotected sex
September 13, 2010
She just lost 40lbs. without dieting or exercising! How did she do it? Breast-feeding, the latest weight-loss sensation to hit the nation! This new ad campaign from the New York Department of Health is wrong on so many levels. In a statement, the department says that it wants to increase breast-feeding awareness among working-class women: ...
Tags: babies,
beauty,
breast feeding,
family time,
flex time,
formula,
health,
health benefits,
lose weight,
maternity leave,
new mothers
September 1, 2010
People tend to believe the things they hope for the most, and the things they are the most afraid of, which is why many of us are convinced that we will die at an early age from cancer, diabetes or heart failure. Yet the media is full of good news for us hypochondriacs (also known ...
Tags: BMI,
Body Mass Index,
death,
diagnosis,
disease,
google search,
health,
heart failure,
heavy drinking,
hypochondria,
illness,
life expectancy,
moderate drinking,
non-drinkers,
obese,
online,
overweight,
premature death,
sickness,
underweight,
women's health
August 27, 2010
Magazines like to give helpful advice about how to improve your life. They offer suggestions about your career, your health and your sex life. This advertisement hoped to capitalise on it all, but failed miserably.
February 10, 2010
Doctors have discovered what artists have always known… it is possible to die from a broken heart. The symptoms seems to mimic a heart attack, but there is no evidence of coronary disease. Read on for some Valentine’s inspired science.
January 30, 2010
You’re lying there unconscious. Without your consent a guy slides something inside of you to get a better look. Rape? Nope. Merely a teaching exercise for medical students to learn about pelvic exams. In Canada is it common practice for surgery patients to be subjected to pelvic exams while they are still unconscious from surgery ...
November 9, 2009
Women provide most of the world’s healthcare, but their medical needs are constantly being ignored by their societies, according to a new report from the World Health Organization. Teenagers and grandmothers are most at risk.
October 27, 2009
Beating up people for being fat is not ok, but India Knight says it is their own fault for piling on the pounds. The Times columnist, also the author of a diet book, writes in her article that if the “fatties” don’t like the harassment they should go on a diet. They are the problem, ...
Tags: discrimination,
fat,
fat acceptance,
feminism,
gay,
health,
homosexual,
human rights,
India Knight,
violence,
weight