Afternoon Links: Are Yo...
• Yoga ”rockstars”: physically amazing human beings…or big jerks? ( YogaDork ) • Speaking of yoga rockstars…yoga is getting its first reality show called–get this–Rock Your Yoga ( Well&Good ) • So, that TIME magazine article that everyone’s all up in arms about? Yeah, it’s not what you think ( The Stir ) • Poverty: the perfect, horrible, obesity-causing storm ( HuffPost Healthy Living ) • Olympic swimmer Dara Torres...
Second Federal Court Te...
In the continuing saga of Texas v. Planned Parenthood , a second federal court has told Gov. Rick Perry et al. that they can’t play political football with women’s health care access , at least for the time being. A quick summary of relevant events: Perry and other GOP lawmakers in Texas have been trying to defund the state’s Planned Parenthood clinics because, along with basic women’s health care, the organization also provides abortions. To this aim, the...Adam Yauch (Beastie Boy...
Beastie Boys rapper and founding member Adam Yauch , also known as “ MCA ,” died of cancer today, and we’re genuinely sad. Yauch was only 47 years old, and discovered a tumor on his left salivary gland just three years ago that delayed the band’s work at the time. In 2009. Yauch announced that he had cancerous growths in his parotid gland and a lymph node, and was optimistic about his treatment and survival prospects, although it put a halt to the release of...
Screw Lemon—Let’s C...
I was reading an article on ‘ eco-friendly laundry tips’ this morning (yep) when I came across this gem: To quickly freshen clothes in between washings, spray them with a 50/50 mixture of water and vodka. Vodka? I’ve heard of a lot of green-cleaning alternatives in my time, but vodka is a new one. Which got me wondering … what other types of household chores could use a little Popoff or Absolut? Turns out, quite a few. A quick search for “cleaning with...Women Who Lost Over 100...
Today show nutrition expert, Joy Bauer , has come out with a new book, The Joy Fit Club: Cookbook, Diet Plan & Inspiration , where she profiles 30 formerly obese people who have each lost over 100 pounds and transformed their lives. In the book, these “biggest losers” share some of their best and most clever tricks that they used to shed so many pounds–and we gotta say, some of them are quite ingenious. Here are a few that may help you, too: Trick #1: Pull out a...
Pregorexia: Thanks To H...
Thanks to celebrities, the media and even some ill-informed doctors (who diss people like Jessica Simpson for gaining too much weight), there’s a new eating disorder on the rise called “pregorexia”–this time it’s pregnant women who are starving themselves. Termed “pregorexia”, this eating disorder is described as an extreme preoccupation with dieting and exercising while pregnant to avoid gaining the 25 to 35 pounds of weight doctors usually...
Asexuality On The Rise;...
Even though we can’t turn on the TV or flip through a magazine or drive down the highway without being bombarded by sex, believe it or not, not everyone is doing it. And not everyone wants to be doing it. The asexual movement is growing, and whether it’s because people are rejecting our society’s obsession with sexuality or because they are truly just not that into it, “tens of thousands” of men and women are perfectly fine living a life without sex....
Doctor Disses Jessica S...
Jessica Simpson sure has taken a lot of heat about her weight lately–the weight she has gained because she is pregnant, people. But not everyone understands that–even one doctor who says that we women just use pregnancy as an excuse to let ourselves go and gain all sorts of weight. Dr. Francine Shapiro , author of Getting Past Your Past , insensitively–and ignorantly– told Fox News that we’re all a bunch of fatties who can’t control ourselves...
The BMI Is Inaccurate...
You know that BMI (body mass index) calculation that said you were overweight? It was wrong. But, before you rejoice, you should know that there’s a good chance it should have said you were obese instead. Published yesterday in the Public Library of Science’s PLoS One journal, a new study suggests that the BMI formula may be underestimating obesity nearly 40% of the time. That could move a lot of Americans into a dangerous category–one that they were already in, but...