Thin women have a harder time conceiving than overweight women, according to a new study. A healthy woman has a one in two chance of having a baby, and an overweight woman has only slightly lower chances. Underweight women, however, only have a one in three chance. Being too skinny is bad for you. Why ...
No one will sleep with me if I’m fat. I’m sure that’s correct, because I’ve rarely seen a fat person engaged in an act of passion on a dating website advertisement. Or anywhere. Ah, but it isn’t true. According to expert advice, confidence counts for much more than perfection. In a clear reminder that men ...
Doctors are discussing whether fat women deserve to have babies. Specifically, they are deciding whether obese patients should have access to fertility treatments. “Get off your 50 pounds or so and exercise and then see where your fertility is at,” said Beverly Hanck, executive director of the Infertility Awareness Association of Canada. Obese women, even if ...
Get out of bed, lazy head! A new study has found that people who are more keen on jumping out of bed early in the morning are more likely to thrive in the workplace, get the kids off to school more efficiently and accomplish morning chores much easier than those who can’t fight off the ...
Thought the doctor’s surgery was somewhere you could be yourself and seek help, free from judgment? Think again. A Yale University study reveals health care professionals, including doctors, nurses and dieticians, routinely stereotype their heavy patients. Not only do they stereotype by assuming unrelated health concerns are due to people’s weight, they also make judgments ...
It’s Friday night, and you’re getting dressed up to go out. You pick out the right outfit, style your hair and apply makeup. “Damn, I look good,” you decide, and you’re ready to go. But who exactly are you trying to look good for? Is it for potential men, or is it for your female ...
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. ...
Being underweight is an advantage for women who want to climb the corporate ladder. Women who weight 25 lbs. less than the average make $15,572 a year more than women of normal weight, according to a new study. A woman that is 25 lbs. heavier than the norm makes $13,847 less than an average-weight female. ...
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 ...
Fat people have one more thing to worry about. “Being obese poses sexual problems” the headline reads, not mentioning they mean females only. What medical issues should women worry about — tissue damage? strokes? heart attacks? Nope, the problem is simply that they are not attractive enough to be worthy of sex. In France over ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
