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Mini Facelift: Major Upgrade or Minor Makeover?
Read More: Mini Facelift: Major Upgrade or Minor Makeover?I spend a regrettably large amount of time on social media โ Instagram, particularly โ which means that, whether I like it or not, images of celebrities are flooding my eyeballs throughout the day and night. Most of these celebrities are women under 45 and most seem to be aging backward. The comment section is…
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Is the BMI BS?
Read More: Is the BMI BS?Are we saying goodbye to BMI? Body mass index (BMI) โ the measure of body fat based on height and weight โ has been around for decades. For years, your BMI has been used to determine whether youโre in a โhealthyโ weight range based on guidelines set by the World Health Organization. Since it was…
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Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Body Image and Sex
Read More: Good Sex with Emily Jamea: Body Image and SexEmily Jamea, Ph.D., is a sex therapist, author and podcast host. You can find her here each month to share her latest thoughts about sex. Thereโs a comedy skit online featuring Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Patricia Arquette joking about how Hollywood determines the age when a woman is no longer, ahem, sexually…
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Birth control, Body image, healthy aging, Menopause, Orgasm, Perimenopause, Sex, Sex & relationships, Sexual health
9 Ways Menopause Can Give Your Sex Drive a Boost
Read More: 9 Ways Menopause Can Give Your Sex Drive a BoostItโs time to make Naked Fridays a reality. A lot of people think menopause means less sex, and less enjoyable sex, but the opposite can be true. Hitting menopause can be like hitting the jackpot for sex and intimacy. Here are nine reasons why the end of your periods can be the beginning of a…
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Meet the Badass Women Supporting Other Women in Their Health Journeys
Read More: Meet the Badass Women Supporting Other Women in Their Health JourneysApril Wilson is no stranger to making her own mark. โMy journey started at a young age in the Army, where women are typically overlooked and outnumbered, but I established myself as an independent badass with life experience,โ she explained. Still, she couldnโt predict where her own health journey and self-taught design and production of…
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My journey with fillers began when I was 18. By my 20s, my face was permanently scarred from cosmetic procedures.
Read More: My journey with fillers began when I was 18. By my 20s, my face was permanently scarred from cosmetic procedures.As told to Erica Rimlinger I grew up in the UK, and for most of my teenage years, I couldnโt smile in photos. I was convinced I looked hideous. I covered my mouth when I laughed and turned my face when I felt someone looking too close. When I was 18 years old, I was…
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What Is Body Dysmorphia (BDD)?
Read More: What Is Body Dysmorphia (BDD)?Itโs a sad fact of modern life that few women look in the mirror and like what they see. But itโs not surprising, given that we are constantly bombarded with images of idealized beauty. Those images are airbrushed and manipulated and donโt begin to represent what real women look like, but many of us still…
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Staring at an Image of Yourself on Zoom Has Serious Consequences for Mental Health โ Especially for Women
Read More: Staring at an Image of Yourself on Zoom Has Serious Consequences for Mental Health โ Especially for WomenBy Roxanne Felig, University of South Florida and Jamie Goldenberg, University of South Florida In the past few years, people across the world have spent more time on video chat programs like Zoom and FaceTime than ever before. These applications mimic in-person encounters by allowing users to see the people they are communicating with. But…
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Why Iโm Speaking Up About Toxic Beauty Standards
Read More: Why Iโm Speaking Up About Toxic Beauty StandardsI recently started re-reading some of my old journals. I like to do this from time to time because I usually find myself seeing my past in a new light that teaches me something, especially as I get older. Each night, Iโd read several entries; some were a mere recounting of the dayโs events while…
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What Is Vaginal Rejuvenation?
Read More: What Is Vaginal Rejuvenation?Jada Pinkett Smith. Kim Kardashian. Brandi Glanville. The list of celebrities who have spoken publicly โ and enthusiastically โ about their experiences with vaginal rejuvenation is long, and many women are following their lead. Driven by a massive increase in demand, the global vaginal rejuvenation market is expected to double in value in the next…
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Birth control, Body image, healthy aging, Menopause, Orgasm, Perimenopause, Sex, Sex & relationships, Sexual health
Whatโs Hot About Menopause? Sex!
Read More: Whatโs Hot About Menopause? Sex!Itโs time to make Naked Fridays a reality. A lot of people think menopause means less sex, and less enjoyable sex, but the opposite can be true. Hitting menopause can be like hitting the jackpot for sex and intimacy. Here are nine reasons why the end of your periods can be the beginning of a…
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My Breast Reduction Gave Me My Life Back
Read More: My Breast Reduction Gave Me My Life BackAs told to Shannon Shelton Miller When I was about 11 or 12, I started developing breasts like many girls my age. Unlike them, though, mine just kept growing. One could say I was โblessedโ with large breasts pretty early on. My family and I were all surprised by this โ no one in our…
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Thinking About Getting a Tummy Tuck? What to Know Before Going Under the Knife.
Read More: Thinking About Getting a Tummy Tuck? What to Know Before Going Under the Knife.Kim Cressell had a tummy tuck after her third pregnancy at the age of 36. “I am happy I had it because my post-pregnancy belly never went back down to normal,” Cressell said. But there were elements of the surgery Cressell didn’t anticipate. “While the procedure was explained to me by the surgeon, there was…
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Adolescent, Anxiety, Body image, Depression, mental health, Parenting, Parenting teens, Research, Social media, Stress
Facebook Has Known for a Year and a Half That Instagram Is Bad for Teens Despite Claiming Otherwise โ Here Are the Harms Researchers Have Been Documenting for Years
Read More: Facebook Has Known for a Year and a Half That Instagram Is Bad for Teens Despite Claiming Otherwise โ Here Are the Harms Researchers Have Been Documenting for YearsBy Christia Spears Brown, University of Kentucky Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram โ the social media platform most used by adolescents โ is harmful to teen girls’ body image and well-being but swept those findings under the rug to continue conducting business as usual, according to a Sept. 14,…
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Considering Plastic Surgery? Hereโs What You Should Know.
Read More: Considering Plastic Surgery? Hereโs What You Should Know.After having her children, Tammy Delgado wanted a breast lift with implants. “The decision was definitely a confidence booster,” she said. At the time, her surgeon performed umbilical breast implants. “He made an incision in my belly button and created a tunnel to the breast to insert the implant,” Delgado explained. Ultimately, Delgado, now 52,…
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How Sarah Baartmanโs Hips Went From a Symbol of Exploitation to a Source of Empowerment for Black Women
Read More: How Sarah Baartmanโs Hips Went From a Symbol of Exploitation to a Source of Empowerment for Black WomenBy Rokeshia Rennรฉ Ashley, Florida International University In โBLACK EFFECT,” a track from Beyoncรฉ and Jay-Z’s 2018 collaborative album โEVERYTHING IS LOVE,” Beyoncรฉ describes a quintessential Black female form: Stunt with your curls, your lips, Sarah Baartman hips Gotta hop into my jeans like I hop into my whip, yeah The celebration of Sarah Baartman’s…
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Body image, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Eating disorders, Fitness, Healthy Eating, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Self-Care, Weight Loss, Weight management
8 Ways to Manage Body Image Anxiety After Lockdown
Read More: 8 Ways to Manage Body Image Anxiety After LockdownBy Tracy Tylka, The Ohio State University Being able to socialize again may bring enthusiasm and a sense of normalcy โ but it may also increase anxiety over how your body might have changed. I am a psychologist who has studied body image for over 20 years, and I’ve seen how the COVID-19 pandemic could…
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Access, Access to health care, Affordability, Body image, Depression, Gender, Hormone health, Lgbtq, Medication safety, Parenting, Transgender
Trans Kids in the US Were Seeking Treatment Decades Before Todayโs Political Battles Over Access to Health Care
Read More: Trans Kids in the US Were Seeking Treatment Decades Before Todayโs Political Battles Over Access to Health CareBy Jules Gill-Peterson, University of Pittsburgh In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young age, but fights with her parents over her transness had made it difficult for her to live comfortably and…
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Access, Affordability, Body image, Depression, Gender, Hormone health, Medication safety, Parenting, Transgender
How Parents Can Support a Child Who Comes out as Trans โ by Conquering Their Own Fears, Following Their Childโs Lead and Tolerating Ambiguity
Read More: How Parents Can Support a Child Who Comes out as Trans โ by Conquering Their Own Fears, Following Their Childโs Lead and Tolerating AmbiguityBy Em Matsuno, Palo Alto University Young transgender, or trans, people face high rates of anxiety, depression and suicide. These elevated mental health risks largely stem from external factors such as discrimination, victimization and โ most especially โ family rejection rather than from being trans. Em Matsuno, a research fellow at Palo Alto University, is…
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Iโm a Pediatrician Who Cares for Transgender Kids โ Hereโs What You Need to Know About Social Support, Puberty Blockers and Other Medical Options That Improve Lives of Transgender Youth
Read More: Iโm a Pediatrician Who Cares for Transgender Kids โ Hereโs What You Need to Know About Social Support, Puberty Blockers and Other Medical Options That Improve Lives of Transgender YouthMandy Coles, Boston University When Charlie, a 10-year-old boy, came in for his first visit, he didn’t look at me or my colleague. Angry and crying, he insisted to us that he was cisgender โ that he was a boy and had been born male. A few months before Charlie came into our office, he…
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Suffering in Silence: Middle-Aged Women and Eating Disorders
Read More: Suffering in Silence: Middle-Aged Women and Eating DisordersFebruary 22-28, 2021 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. When you think of eating disorders, you probably think of young, white, teenage girls. But women in midlife struggle with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder, too. In fact, 13% of women over 50 experience symptoms of an eating disorder. We…
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Anxiety, Body image, Depression, Eating disorders, mental health, Obesity, Real women real stories, Self-Care
I Had An Eating Disorder for 20 Years Before I Knew Anything Was Wrong
Read More: I Had An Eating Disorder for 20 Years Before I Knew Anything Was WrongAs told to Alex Fulton February 22-28, 2021 is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. My eating disorder started when I was 12. I was sitting in the kitchen eating some chips when my father came in and looked at me. “You’re getting chubby,” he said. Then he turned to my mom. “You need to watch…
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Bra or No Bra? Navigating the Post-Mastectomy World
Read More: Bra or No Bra? Navigating the Post-Mastectomy WorldIf you’re like most women, you’ve probably been wearing a bra since you were a young teenager. But now . . . with your breast or breasts lost to breast cancer, you may be wondering if you need to continue. And what if you had reconstruction? These are all good questions. Just after surgery, your…
