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Adele Will Perform At The Grammys After All
After months of vocal rest following surgery to remove a polyp on her vocal chords, Adele is finally ready to perform again. Just in time for the Grammy Awards February 12! The singer broke the news via her official twitter feed earlier today. More »
Dear Everyone: Please Stop Focusing On Octavia Spencer’s Weight
Octavia Spencer won a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress last night, so you’d think her Google news search results would be flooded with accolades for her acting. Imagine my surprise, then, when the overwhelming majority of headlines focused not on her performance in The Help, but her weight. More »
Video: Paula Deen Discusses Her Type 2 Diabetes On The Today Show
Famed butter lover Paula Deen gave her first interview on the subject of her Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis to Al Roker on The Today Show this morning, and much like a deep-fried donut wrapped in bacon, something about it did not sit right with me. More »
Sex on the Wire: Sex Gives You Better Pee Control, Improves Your Sense of Smell, And Curbs Headaches
As if you needed any, here are 34 reasons to have sex that result in various other benefits for women. Justify that mid-day romp knowing that it did double duty: it felt good and slowed the aging process. (AOL Health)
Do you think it matters how many sexual partners you’ve had? (The Frisky)
Get with the times, online daters! New study shows that white online daters rarely date black people. (YourTango) More »
‘On the Go Women’ Helps Fight Osteoporosis
No matter what your age, are you worried that osteoporosis could get in the way of the active things you want — and need — to do in life? More »
Quitting Smoking Makes You Happier – At least, that’s what the scientists are now saying. Obviously they have never had a mental breakdown in front of Joy Behar before. (Daily Mail)
5 Ways To Survive Holiday Limbo
What do you call this nebulous period between Thanksgiving and Christmas break? The December Slump? Vacation on ice? Finals? Whatever name you choose to give it, this in-between time between breaks always sends us into a funk. Post-turkey but pre-presents: these two weeks or so of early darkness, cramming for work/school, and general blah-ness can be a real killer if you don’t know how to deal. Here are our 5 simple steps for making your holiday limbo a little more cheery. More »
Four(Square) Your Health!
This article was originally posted on Lemondrop.com.
Finally, the motivation you’ve been looking for to really start doing that “fruit and vegetables” thing — a new badge on Foursquare.
We know, we know, you’ve been overlooking the health of your colon so you could be Mayor of Claudia’s Chicken Shack, but now you can be rewarded for shopping at your local farmer’s market. More »
Special Report: Your Boobs May Be Defective
We know the recent edition of Seventeen (with Ashley Tisdale and Ally Michalka on the cover! Hey, we were there!) had only the best intentions with this article, but this is one case where an extra glance at the copy before the issue went to print could have saved a lot of teen panic attacks. Are your breasts normal?!? More »
Memoir: I’m Not Your Typical Vegan
What do you think of when you hear the word “vegan”? A straight-edge hardcore kid with neck tattoos? Your hippie aunt who never married and lives in Northampton with five cats? That willowy girl from your high school who ate only lima beans? How badly you want to eat a steak right now?
Personally, it makes me think of getting a snack, because it describes all the food I’ve eaten for the past seven years. That’s right, I’m one of those people. After I get some hummus and pita from the fridge, I will tell you how I, an otherwise hedonistic person, got this way. More »
HPV Is Everywhere, But You Can Protect Yourself Against Infertility
Christine Baze, the founder of The Yellow Umbrella, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating women about HPV prevention, took to Lemondrop today to write about her own experience with the common STD Human papillomavirus and offer advice to women about protecting yourself. This is serious stuff, and so necessary to know. More »
Blisstree’s Top 5 Posts
Crushable’s sibling site Blisstree proves it’s possible to be both “Zen” and “relatable” – we’re not falling off the grid to an Ashram anytime soon, OK? This past week, Blisstree offered a mix of service-y groundedness with excellent posts on Eat Pray Love‘s not-so-original theme, the travails of hoop dancing and the 10 best energy bars (because we cannot solely subsist on Lunas). More »
Ever Heard of the 5-Bite Diet? – Crushable’s Editors may be on a health kick for the next week or so, but some of these extreme diets are making us want to run to the nearest bodega and buy up all the trans-fat we can handle. (via Weird Worm)
Don’t Believe the Hype – According to some fancy scientists, students who obsessively browse the Internet are 2.5 times more likely to be depressed than other kids. Riiiight…but didn’t we create the Internet so we’d have something to do when we were depressed and lonely? Cause does not equal effect! (via Time.com)
3-D Glasses, Not As Clean As They Look — Wasn’t it awesome when you got to wear those glasses to see Avatar in 3-D? Turns out they’re disgustingly grimy and probably breeding bacteria. (via Good Housekeeping)
Bethenny Tells Us ‘How To Be Thin Forever Without Dieting’
Bethenny Frankel has some of the better-looking legs around. Seriously. The cork Louboutins helped, certainly, but those are some beautifully chiseled legs. Naturally, when we caught up with Bethenny today, we asked her how to inch closer to her shape.
Did we mention she had a baby like, two months ago? “During my pregnancy I gained about 35 lbs but I never binged, I never went crazy,” Bethenny told us.
As for keeping the weight off, she advocates health and a balanced… More »
Would You Hire A Personal Trainer To Get Your Vag In Shape?
There are SO many crazee things we can do with our vaginas these days: Vajazzle, Va-ttoo. you name it.
Now this: Vagina Fitness. Blisstree’s Briana Rognlin explores this curious trend, writing, “We rolled our eyes at first, too, but it turns out that ‘pelvic fitness’ training can help you have better, less painful sex and regulate your urinary tract better (read: not pee all the time).” Says Briana:
Don’t have a budget for vaginal fitness? Try this exercise, as described by Lauri… More »
Teen Girls Now Catching Up With Boys In Terms Of Drug, Alcohol Use, Says Not-Very-Concerned Scientists – Well, that’s not entirely true about scientists being dicks. They just blame you: “We’ve become a society that basically says, ‘If things aren’t perfect in your life, take a pill,’ ” Fay says. “This causes our young people to see drugs as an answer.” (via USA Today)
What If You Had To Eat 60 Meals A Day To Stay Alive?
“I eat small portions of crisps, sweets, chocolate, pizza, chicken, cake, doughnuts, ice cream, noodles and pop tarts all day long,” says 20-year old Texan Lizzie Velasquez, who is trying desperately to gain some weight. While this might have some of us writhing around in jealousy, Lizzie’s story is a sad one: She was born with an unknown medical condition that keeps her perilously, scarily underweight, no matter how much food she shoves in her mouth.
Because of… More »
Top 10 Posts From Blisstree
Unlike our sister site Blisstree, we don’t eat organic. Look at what we eat when no one’s watching! In addition, we consume three Diet Cokes daily, so when we read their item on what happens to your body when you drink ONE Coke a day over a long period of time, we got scared. And then we made a mental note to cut back …. yeah, we’ll let you know how that goes.
That post, and 9 other eye-openers, below!
Calories, Carbs,… More »