June 16, 2011
It’s no secret that young girls feel the pressure to be thin every day. They receive mixed messages about accepting who they are and changing who they are to conform to an unattainable ideal. The heavy burden is weighing down on them and keeping them up at night, according to a revealing new study. Researchers ...
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June 14, 2011
Waking up in the morning feeling refreshed and rejuvenated may be more important than we thought — especially for women. Their relationships depend on sufficient sleep. Women who experience insomnia before bed are at risk of developing problems in their marriages, according to new study results. Researchers tested the sleeping patterns of 35 couples over ...
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May 8, 2011
Women are sleeping less, but need it more — making sex and other high energy activities near impossible at night and even during the day. It seems like men are always ready to go when it comes to sex. We try to keep up, but wind up not being “in the mood” or just too ...
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October 5, 2010
People often blame feminism for the changing relations between men and women, but with the republishing of a Victorian house management book it is clear that not much has changed in the last 150 years. Enquire Within Upon Everything was first published in 1856 and contained information on everything from etiquette to laundry tips to ...
August 25, 2010
Teens and texting — I hope there is something beyond alliteration tying the two things together in the media. SMS has replaced rock ‘n roll as the number one corrupter of children.
February 9, 2010
Feminist power houses Arianna Huffington, Cindi Leive and Naomi Wolfe have decided that sleep is a feminist issue. If this is the next great battle for women I think feminists should just call it a night.
September 9, 2009
The BBC reported today on a study examining how sharing a bed affects people’s health and state that bed sharing is “bad for your health”. Perhaps I am biased, having grown up in a bed-sharing culture, or perhaps the BBC did not report on the important points of the research, but I cannot see why ...