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    Work-Related Stress Associated With Increased Cardiovascular Risk For Women

    Women with high job strain are 67% more likely to experience a heart attack and 38% more likely to have a cardiovascular event than their counterparts in low strain jobs, according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The researchers, led by Dr. Michelle A. Albert of...
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    Afternoon Links: Why More Women Are Picking IUDs

    • Long-acting birth control, like IUDs, are getting more popular (HuffPost Women) • How to combat common summer run sideliners (FitSugar) • This summer's massive drought could increase food prices--here's what you need to know (The Stir) • Flip-flops aren't just bad for your feet...they're...
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    Risk Of Diabetes In Women May Be Increased By Chemicals In Personal Care Products

    A study lead by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) shows an association between increased concentrations of phthalates in the body and an increased risk of diabetes in women. Phthalates are endocrine disrupting chemicals that are commonly found in personal care products such as...
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    The Affordable Care Act Should Decrease The Amount Of Women Who Are Uninsured

    Twenty percent of U.S. women (18.7 million) ages 19-64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent (12.8 million) in 2000, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report on women's health care. An additional 16.7 million women were underinsured in 2010, compared with 10.3 million in 2003. The report...
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    Alcohol Boosts Bone Health In Women Over 50, Says Irresponsibly-Reported Study

    The award for worst health reporting of the week goes to...numerous news outlets that reported on the benefits of booze for bone health today. A study released this morning, which suggests that regular alcohol consumption could lower risk of osteoporosis in women over 50—the problem is, the...
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    Why Women Should Have To Pay For Sperm Donation

    If you aren't willing or able to get knocked up the old-fashioned way, getting pregnant can be seriously expensive. As someone who struggles with infertility, I am acutely aware of that fact. Here in the US, the average adoption costs between $25,000 and $35,000. A single round of in vitro...
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    Is anyone else worried about the current trend in women's tastes?

    The number one book just now is about sado masochism and a woman being beaten up by a troubled nutcase and all the women are just lapping it up. And the radio is constantly playing this song and raving about it - "I've fallen for a monster, he's scaring me to death, he's big and he's bad....."...
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    Women Get Naked To Raise Awareness: Human Trafficking Edition

    It was just a couple days ago that we talked about military wives stripping down to support a cause. I was so frustrated by their blatant use of sex to raise attention because I feel like their battle shouldn't need it. They shouldn't have to get naked for people to be aware of PTSD in the...
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    Women Get Naked To Raise Awareness: PTSD In The Military Edition

    Here at Blisstree, we've talked a whole lot about a certain organization's use of naked women to stir controversy and thereby raise awareness for a cause. To be fair, they've given us a lot to talk about. Now, another organization is taking a page out of PETA's playbook and using naked women to...
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    Is Yoga The New Golf For Women In Business?

    Earlier this week Wendi Deng Murdoch, wife of Rupert and posessor of a mean right hook, was reported to have done a private yoga session with media guru Arianna Huffington and author Kathy Freston. Huffington and Deng recently co-hosted the book party for Ms. Freston’s diet book, The Lean. That...
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    50 Is The New Body Hate Prime: Study Says 13% Of Older Women Suffer Eating Disorders

    A new study confirms that 50 is the new 20, at least in terms of eating disorder rates: Researchers found that 13% of women over 50 have eating disorders–some for the first time in their lives–challenging the notion that eating disorders primarily effect young women and teens...along with the...
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    How long would a women spend in a north Carolina jail for poss of marijuana, poss...

    ...of cocaine, and a FTA? Before you read this. She has the warrant and will be turning herself in tokorrow. She only had a few marijuana seeds. No weed. She had chopped up Medicie pills for her headache because she take it like a bc and it tested positive for cocaine. My friend has a charge...
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    Special K Uses “Plus Size” Women In Ads, Spreads Mixed Body Image Message

    Special K is beginning to use "plus size" women*in new cereal advertisements.*I put quotations around "plus size" because I'm not at all convinced that these women qualify-- "regular size" is more probably more apt. Like so much media that tries to be "body positive," the new Special K campaign...
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    Nevirapine Based Treatment For HIV Is Effective In African Women

    In African women, an anti-AIDS treatment regimen that includes the drug nevirapine is as effective as a treatment regimen with the more expensive drugs, lopinavir/ritonavir, according to a study by a team of international researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine. This finding is...
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    How long would a women spend in a north Carolina jail for poss of marijuana,...

    ...poss of cocaine, and a FTA? My friend has a charge for possession of cocaine and marijuana from last June (2011). When she went to her court date, her car broke down and they couldn't make the court case. So most likely she might have an FTA(Failure to appear) charge as well. She was also...
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    On eHarmony, do women prefer to answer the standard multiple choice

    questions or go straight to email? On eHarmony you can either send matches stock questions with multiple choice answers or you can go straight to email. Ladies - which type of contact do you prefer from guys when they first make contact with you? Thanks
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    Shocker: Planned Parenthood Says Romney Is Wrong For Women, Officially Backing Obama

    Planned Parenthood announced their official endorsement of President Obama in the 2012 election today, simultaneously launching a $1.4 million ad campaign to spread the message in swing states that Mitt Romney is "out of touch and wrong for women." The television ads are airing in Palm Beach...
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    Women Still Woefully Misguided About The Health “Benefits” Of Tanning

    We all know that excessive tanning can turn you into a Human Wallet like Tanning Mom, and that it increases your risk of skin cancer, and that some tanning beds even contain traces of poop, but apparently, neither leathery skin, nor feces, nor cancer can keep us away from indoor tanning. In...
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    Daily Fail: Women Have “Best Sex Of Their Lives” At 28

    Is sex really all downhill from your late 20s? Our favorite website*is reporting that women reach their "sexual peak" at 28 years old, men at age 33. More »Post from: Blisstree
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    Thanks xoJane For Posting Real Women In Bikinis, But Did You Have To Call Them Fat?

    Self-professed "fat girl" and style blogger, Gabi Gregg, posted a gallery of 31 "hot sexy fat girls in skimpy swimwear" on XOJane yesterday. In it, she touts the fact that these women can rock the "fatkini". It was intended to help larger women feel empowered and sexy in their bathing suits this...
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