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Obesity Impacts Female Education Levels
Heavy in School, Burdened for Life NYTimes
America’s obesity debate around the young tends to focus on health consequences and fat bias, especially towards women. Overweight young women face another set of consequences related to education. After tracking more than 10,000 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957, researchers have concluded that decreased education — and not only social perceptions or bias — dramatically affect the lifetime achievements of females.
The economic harm to overweight women is more than a series of personal troubles; it may contribute to the rising disparities between rich and poor, and it is a drain on the human capital and economic productivity of our nation.
China sees divorces up 17% in 1st quarter Shanghai Daily
Sexual Politics
Dem senators want to warn states against targeting Planned Parenthood CBS News
Thirty Democratic senators sent a letter to the Obama administration on Thursday, urging them to warn Medicaid directors at the state level that it’s against the law to block Medicaid funds or Title X family planning funds from going to clinics that provide abortion services, like Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood Files Suit Over Birth Control NBC Montana
Montana| Planned Parenthood of Montana is suing the state insisting that taxpayers pay for birth control through Montana’s low-income insurance program.
“By saying that based on your gender and based on the reason you are using a drug you may or may not be denied access to birth control,” says Planned Parenthood director of public affairs Stacey Anderson.
“If you look at the cost of a year’s supply of birth control, it is $300 to $400 on average. You look at the cost of an unplanned pregnancy, which CHIP and Healthy Montana Kids does cover, it’s anywhere from $12,000 to $14,000 per birth,” says Anderson.
Montana disagrees, saying the state doesn’t have to provide contraception coverage. Montana does allow residents who fall below the federal poverty line and who qualify for federal medicaid to receive contraception.
ACLU and Planned Parenthood Sue South Dakota Kaiser Health News
South Dakota| Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in federal court charging that a South Dakota abortion law set to take effect July 1st violates both free speech rights and a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.
Rihanna Defends ‘Man Down’: BET Stands by Video ABC News
Singer Rihanna stands behind her controversial music video and its opening scene with her gunning down her allaged rapist and then leaving the scene.
Viagra: The Thrill That Was NYTimes
Last year the total number of prescriptions for so-called ED drugs declined by 5 percent in the United States. Sales had slowed to a lethargic 1 percent annually the previous four years, according to IMS Health, a heath-care data and consulting firm. (Viagra prescriptions were off 7 percent; those for Levitra plummeted 18 percent.)
The drop seems all the more significant given that the population is aging, so there are surely more men who potentially need the drug.
The Revolutionary New Birth Control Method for Men Wired
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John Edward to Face Indictment Today ABC News
Murdoch Paper Accidentally Reports Fourth Murdoch Marriage Adweek
“Perth Now journalist Ashlee Mullany has married her long-term boyfriend and boss News Ltd. owner Rupert Murdoch in a shotgun wedding yesterday,” wrote reporter Nancy McDonald on the PerthNow website.
McDonald was just banging out some “dummy copy” while training to use the paper’s Fatwire content management system. The article accidentally went live. No word if the cub reporter is looking for another job.
Sensual & Superyoung
USDA’s New Healthy Eating Plan
In a 2000 calorie diet, daily recommendations are:
6 oz grains, half whole grains
2 1/2 cups of vegetables
2 cups fruits
3 cups dairy
5 1/2 oz protein
Less than 200 calories in extras
1% of Taypayer Agricultural Subsidies Support Fruits & Vegetable Farmers
Agricultural Policy Should Fuel Health, Not Epidemics! Huff Po
The statistics are even worse when we look at the billions of dollars the USDA spends in agricultural subsidies each year. Data shows that about 63 percent of agricultural subsidies support the meat and dairy industries, while fruits and vegetables receive less than 1 percent! Furthermore, the top beneficiaries of these subsidies are wealthy agribusinesses, while smaller more sustainable farms are pushed out of business.
Fashion, Style & Culture
New Editorials/Commentary
“Why should these women slim down? Many of the women who have a few extra kilos are especially beautiful and also more feminine”.
Tara, Candice & Robyn | Steven Meisel | Vogue Italia June 2011 | ‘Belle vere’
Giverny | Shanghai Museum of Glass | Central St Martins Video Tribute Daily Smarts
Andres Velencoso Segura & Julia Dunstall | Alexander Neumann | Vogue Hombre Mexico S/S 2011
Irina Shayk | Cameron Krone | ‘Cosa Nostra’ | StyleCaster Spring 2011
Zuzana Bijoch | Craig McDean | Interview Magazine June 2011
Michaela Kocianova | Greg Kadel | Vogue Italia June 2011
Hilary Rhoda | Lachlan Bailey | Harper’s Bazaar US June-July 2011 | ‘The New Season’
Angela Lindvall | Matthias Vriens-McGrath | Numero Tokyo July-Aug 2011
Carla Crombie |Karel Losenicky | ‘Aristocracy’ Dolce Vita May 2011
Hailey Clauson | Sebastian Kim | Numero #124 Tribal
Who Knew? Coco Chanel Started French Chic Love of Suntanning
Helmut Newton’s Polaroids | Edited by June Newton
Luana Teifke | Gustavo Marx | ‘Lost in Translation’ | Dossier Journal
Nastya | Dimitris Skoulos | Elle Greece June 2011
Julia Hafstrom & Jed Texas | Ben Weller | ‘Cape Cpe, Massachusetts’ | A Perfect Guide S-S 2011
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Reader Comments (1)
Great post. It's wonderful to see curvy women being championed as the beautiful feminine creatures that they are. I'm from the UK but I purposefully bought the Vogue Italia edition to show my support!