Dieting is nothing new and our society has been struggling with body issues for at least 150 years, probably longer. What are some of the diet trends from the last 150 years? – William Banting’s low-carb diet of 1863. – A bar of soap from 1903 that claimed to “reduce flesh” for $1 a bar. ...
Pregnant women in the UK are not getting good advice on weight gain, a poll has found. Women often wonder how big is too big for their baby bump and many are concerned about their size after the baby is born. A poll of over 6,000 women found: –63% of women did not discuss weight ...
Lady Gaga has been scrutinized by the public in every aspect of her life. The lastest gossip news is that she was hospitalized six times last year for problems caused by “extreme dieting”. A new book has come out claiming she was “physically and mentally ill”. She would apparently binge on junk food then not ...
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued guidelines for pregnant women about exercise and diet before, during, and after pregnancy. With all the conflicting advice women are given about childbearing I hope this provides some clarity, but I don’t expect much to change. The guidelines state that women should not “eat for two” ...
Dear Madame X, My wife is pregnant and I’m terrified, not of the baby but of how she’ll look afterwards. She’s a beautiful woman and that is one of the reasons I married her. Since getting pregnant she has literally ballooned — her thighs are enormous and are rubbing together when she walks. It’s a ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
