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Male and female brains aren’t equal when it comes to fat
Researchers have found that male and female brains respond in remarkably different ways to high-fat meals. Those differences in the brain lead to greater inflammation and increased health risks in males that indulge on fatty foods in comparison to females, a new study in mice shows. The findings reported in the Cell Press journal Cell […]
5 Career Lessons From A Pioneer Female Astronaut
I never dreamed of being an astronaut. None of my girlfriends growing up in the 60s did either. Maybe its because when we thought of astronauts, we associated the word with white men and Tang. But the truth is women are astronauts and have been since 1978, when NASA selected its first six female astronauts. […]
Extreme Weight Loss Techniques: Almost Half Of Female Dieters Use Laxatives To Lose Weight
Ah the perfect female body: so often dangled in front of regular women like a leggy, supermodel-shaped, uber-airbrushed, completely-and-utterly-unattainable carrot. And while we’d hope that we’d have all got wise to the endless advertising, fashion magazines and sample sizes (there’s no way my plentiful derrire will ever look like Cara Delevingne’s and I’m fine with […]
A Community-based, Members Only, All Female Health Site
Two twenty-something Ivy League grads were fed up with ill-advised health tips from friends and fruitless Google searches, so they decided to build a digital home for the kind of trustworthy medical advice they couldn’t find. Meghan Muntean and Stacey Borden are co-founders of ChickRx[1], a health information site specifically tailored to chicks. This […]
Tips For Female Boomers Nearing Retirement
Female boomers broke the mold when it came to working outside the house and establishing successful careers. The first boomer to file for Social Security last year was a woman, and according to a survey by the Urban Institute, between 1975 and 2007, the number of working women ages 25 to 54 increased to 76% […]