Nearly every night on the news, there’s some new study about what makes us fat. Obesity is an epidemic and nobody is immune. So what do you do? You get a gym membership, start running, try the new diet Pippa’s on, or you apply to be on The Biggest Loser. You start doing whatever it ...
Whether it’s because they want to start decorating their baby’s room, pick out names, or they just hate surprises, some couples want to know the sex of their baby as early as possible. If you fall under any of these categories, a simple blood test can do the trick. Blood tests that are done around ...
She may be the most important woman in your life, the person who puts your needs above her own, but it turns out that she’s only one selfless woman in a planet jam-packed with altruistic ladies. Female chimpanzees, our furry, banana-loving ancestors, are considerate and even self-sacrificing, according to scientists from the Yerkes National Primate ...
Getting too close with your boyfriend’s friends will cause him erectile dysfunction, according to a new study from Cornell University and the University of Chicago. Even though they looked a survey from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project of 3,005 people aged 57 to 85, where erectile dysfunction is more common, researchers found ...
A new study finds that girls are following in the footsteps of their big sisters and getting pregnant at a young age. Is it contagious? The study of more than 42,000 Norwegian girls found that if sisters are of a similar age or come from a poorer background, they are more likely to follow suit. ...
If you’re looking for advice about your unplanned pregnancy and you walk into a pregnancy counseling center run by a faith-based organization, you’re probably not expecting objective suggestions. But you’re also probably not expecting them to lie to you. Sadly, a survey of 10 British centres operated by Christian and anti-abortion organizations found that most ...
Plastic surgery has always been a little controversial. It started out as a way to actually help people and has become a way to cheat your genes to fit Hollywood’s standards. We have always been asking the same questions: is it okay to make a profit off of someone’s insecurities? Is it okay to tell ...
There is a fifty-fifty chance he’ll dump you if you gain weight, according to a new study on relationships. The poll asked 70,000 individuals across the US about their feelings on certain personal changes in relationships. A shocking 48 percent of men would leave their girl if she gained weight, while only 20 percent of women ...
Ex-gay “therapy” has been in many headlines recently, especially after the discovery of Macus Bachmann’s clinics and the more recent news of high suicide rates for gay teens in Michele Bachmann’s district. Now there is new proof that “gay therapy” does not work, and it has come from a surprising source. Pat Robertson’s Regency University ...
New research proves the breastfeeding power of the hand over a breast pump. When a newborn is having difficulty properly feeding from his or her mommy there are two options for the new little family: produce the milk by hand or use a pump to get the milk from the nipple. Both ways work, but ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
