We’ve all had a moment in the heat of passion when our heart rate is raised and our faces flush for a reason other than pleasure or passion. We’re talking about pure embarassment. Whether it’s that first awkward encounter with a new lover, not feeling good in a post-baby body…
Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disorder and a common cause of hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid gland. A person suffering from Graves’ disease has a thyroid that produces too many hormones. These hormones affect different bodily functions and parts of the body, so Graves’ disease symptoms are diverse. Graves’ disease…
How smart is Popeye? Smarter than you think. Popeye attributes his amazing strength to eating spinach, but he is also protecting himself against osteoporosis, heart disease, colon cancer and arthritis. The Journal of Nutrition recently published a report that spinach fights prostate cancer while The Nurses Health Study reveals women…
Are you and your partner worried about money in these uncertain times? During any economic crisis, couples have to face tough financial decisions. This can lead to an increase in stress and aggravate problems that already exist in your marriage. As you look back to when you first met, what…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
Low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets are some of the decade’s most popular diet plans, and many people successfully lose weight on these restrictive diets. If you want to lose weight but still eat “real” food, then following a low-fat or low-carb diet can help you shed those excess pounds. Key Principles…
If you’ve been slathering on the self tanner all summer – or getting plenty of the real thing, which we don’t advise – don’t rush to the tanning bed when it’s time to fall back. Having a super dark tan in the winter when there’s not a lot of sun…
Let’s face it: Getting busy is lots of fun for most people, but many people make mistakes and take risks that they may not have considered before taking their partners to bed. Here, we’ll reveal five of the most dangerous sex mistakes you might be making without even knowing it….
Does it look like you’re embarrassed when you’re not? Like you’ve spent a day at the beach in the dead of winter? People affected by rosacea – a condition causing facial redness – or who simply have dry, sensitive skin may struggle with ruddy complexions, especially when exposed to certain…
Diet & Fitness / Healthy Eating
Can you handle the tooth about soda? You’re about to find out. Americans drink more than 50 gallons of soda per person each year, according to the American Dental Association. That’s a lot of soda. The question is — are these sodas, particularly diet sodas, rotting your teeth? Recent studies…
Let’s face it: having sex under the sheets, with the lights turned off, in your bedroom every night is totally boring. You’ve done it a million times. (Well maybe not a million exactly…) Sure some of those times were pretty amazing, but it’s really just not an exciting environment anymore….