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Forced to Be Fat
In Mauritania, young girls are brutally force-fed a diet of up to 16,000 calories a day—more than four times that of a male bodybuilder—to prepare them for marriage.
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Your Life in Hormones
Features What the hell is going on with your hormones—and how can you harness them for happiness, health, fertility, brainpower, and energy?
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Get Jessica Alba's $200/Session Workout for $15
Celebrity trainer Ramona Braganza shares the simple, 40-minute at-home workout that got Alba and Halle Berry into fab post-baby shape.
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Ooh, ooh that smell…Can't you smell that smell?
Little known fact: when U.S. soldiers were shipped off to Vietnam in the 1960's, the Vietcong could actually smell them thanks to their American diets. New arrivals were often put on new diets based on local cuisine simply to rid their bodies o...
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ORTHOREXIA NERVOSA
In case you've never heard of it, it's definitely something to take notice of. As an athlete, I have plenty of friends who fall within this category. Wikipedia states the following: Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa is a term coined by St...
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Exact Change Please.
How much change can we handle? Historically most people do not like change-except in their pocket. Insert obvious David Bowie song lyric reference.
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The Breast Cancer Club
When a woman receives that dreaded diagnosis, what happens if she doesn't fit with the pink-ribbon gang? Cris Beam tells it like it is.
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They Told me I was Pregnant, But it was Ovarian Cancer
You're bloated. You need to pee all the time. It could be pregnancy—or it could be ovarian cancer, the so-called silent killer. But new research shows you can spot this cancer early. These two survivors reveal how pushing for a diagnosis can save your life.
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Burden of Truth
I wasn't surprised to learn from a geneticist that my breasts were potential time bombs. Buy why was I, like so many other women, so reluctant to silence the ticking?
