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Why Are We Medicating Women’s Feelings?


WOMEN are moody. By evolutionary design, we are hard-wired to be sensitive to our environments, empathic to our children’s needs and intuitive of our partners’ intentions. This is basic to our survival and that of our offspring. Some research suggests … Continue reading

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Celebrating The Medical Abuse Of Women?


Angelina Jolie announced yesterday that she had both of her breasts surgically removed even though she had no breast cancer. She carries the BRCA1 gene, and she has been tricked into believing that genetic code is some sort of absolute blueprint to … Continue reading

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Hunger Is The World’s Number 1 Health Risk


A calorie is a calorie is the truism that has been the foundation of nutritional wisdom and our beliefs about obesity since the 1960s. We get fat because we take in more calories than we expend; we get lean if … Continue reading

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Beauty is Boring


How dare they! Give us what we want that is. Phelps and his 16 Olympic medals should have been the toast of the Olympics, but it wasn’t. Phelps was knocked off his podium by his less accomplished teammate Ryan Lochte who … Continue reading

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