Women's Health
Breastfeeding Hints & Hurdles
Breastfeeding: It’s Not Always Easy
Breastfeeding benefits you and your baby but it does take a bit of know-how. Don’t feel guilty if your breastfeeding experience isn’t perfect at first. A breastfeeding educator — and these tips — can help you over some of the more common breastfeeding hurdles.
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Why Men Like Porn
Most nights, after his wife, Kate, had gone to bed, Tom surfed the Internet for porn. Kate learned about this during their second session of couples therapy. Despite Tom’s claims that his nocturnal habit had nothing to do with their love life, she worried he preferred porn to having sex with her.
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Moderate drinking ‘boosts bones’
Women who drink moderate amounts of beer may be strengthening their bones, according to Spanish researchers.
Their study of almost 1,700 women, published in the journal Nutrition, found bone density was better in regular drinkers than non-drinkers.
But the team added that plant hormones in the beer rather than the alcohol may be responsible for the effects.
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Many women ‘not on safest pill’
By BBC News
Many women are not taking the safest brand of the pill, say researchers.
Two separate studies in the British Medical Journal found that some oral contraceptives were linked with a higher risk of blood clot than others.
But experts stressed that blood clots are a rare side-effect of the combined pill and the risk overall [...]
