Birth Control: Your Rights, Right Now

Q: Health-care reform is under fire. What are some significant changes women will see if the new policies stick?
As complicated and imperfect as the process was, it was the biggest increase in health-care coverage for women and their families that they will ever see in their lifetimes. It is historic. Getting rid of insurance bias for preexisting conditions is huge. Being a victim of domestic violence, having a cesarean section, or being pregnant are no longer reasons to deny someone insurance coverage, and in the past they have been.

Q: What will the impact be on a woman's basic health-care needs?
It will be tremendous. One of the most exciting things is that under the women's healthcare amendment put forth by Senator Barbara Mikulski, further preventive care will be available without co-pay; the Department of Health and Human Services is now deciding what this will include. Lots will be covered under this, including mammograms.

Q: Will birth control be covered without co-pay?

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Personal Lubes For Hotter Sex

Call it the Goldilocks rule of great sex: When it comes to lubrication, too much or too little can cause your sack session to flop. But when there's just the right amount, it boosts below-the-belt sensations. "Lubrication is your body's way of telling you that you're turned on," says Mary Jane Minkin, M.D., a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine. "You can't have comfortable or successful sex without it."

Every woman lubricates differently?there's no "normal" amount of wetness?and most women should be able to tell when they're good to go. But if you find yourself bone-dry when you're ready to jump his bones, don't worry: Figuring out the reasons and solutions will ensure that you both enjoy a smooth ride.

High and Dry

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Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/sex-lubes

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Blood, Sex and a C-Section [Mixed Martial Arts Experiment Update & Videos!]

Oh well if I can have a rainbow mowhawk and a fancy nickname like Dan the Outlaw Hardy, I’m sold!   Tapout. It’s not just a clothing and equipment line for Mixed Martial Arts practitioners and their ring girls,it’s also the password into the very serious, highly entertaining and slightly strange sub-culture of MMA. What, you thought MMA was just a sport? So did I until I started this Experiment. True, other Experiments I have done have had significant devoted and vocal fan bases (holla Crossfitters!) but nothing has ever come close to matching MMA. These people need their own [...]

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Gingivitis Symptoms

Gingivitis is the inflammation of gum tissue often caused by poor dental hygiene. It can cause swollen gums, gum tissue to become inflamed red or purple, bleeding gums, and gums which are often sore or tender. While proper oral hygiene is the most common preventative cure for gingivitis, there are two different types of the [...]

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The New Beach-Ready Body Workout Plan

Stoke your metabolism and get hot-body results in just 4 weeks. Fast-paced circuits make it possible: By moving quickly from one strength exercise to the next, and constantly working different muscle groups, you?ll burn calories and build muscle like crazy.
You'll work out 5 days a week?alternating between fast-paced strength circuits and cardio intervals.

On days 1, 3, and 5 you?ll focus on strength: Perform one set of the first exercise and then quickly move on to the next one until you?ve completed one set of all five strength exercises. That?s one circuit. Rest for one minute, and repeat. You?ll complete the circuit three times.

On days 2 and 4 you'll focus on cardio: Complete the 20-minute cardio interval using high-intensity bursts to push your body to the max in the shortest amount of time.

Sign up for the WH Personal Trainer Beach-Ready Body Workout and track your way to a hotter bod!

Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/beach-body

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The Secret to Being Fit For Life: Muscle Memory

Five weeks and five days after giving birth, and a full nine months since running a single step, WH's Lesley Rotchford, 34, laced up her sneaks and banged out five miles. Her muscles groaned a bit from the abrupt reentry, but with 20 years of distance running under their belt, they remembered just what to do.

It's a phenomenon aptly called muscle memory. Simply put, when you teach your body how to do something?ride a bike, surf, strike some yoga poses, run a few miles?it creates a physiological blueprint. So even if you take some time off, you'll get back to where you were faster than it took you to learn the exercise in the first place. "Muscle memory stems from your body's learning not just how to perform a task, but also how to break down muscle tissue and then repair and rebuild it," explains William Kraemer, Ph.D., a professor in the department of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. "That physiological knowledge lets you come back from injury, surgery, and even pregnancy faster, easier, and often better than before," he says.

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Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/fit-for-life

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Recipe: Mixed Peppercorn Beef Tenderloin with Shallot-Port Reduction

A balance of deep flavor and sweetness that makes this dish perfect to go with your mashed potatoes or boiled rice!

BEEF:
1 (2-pound) beef tenderloin, trimmed
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 tablespoons cracked mixed peppercorns
Cooking spray

REDUCTION:
2 cups ruby port or other sweet red wine
1 1/2 cups fat-free, less-sodium beef broth
1/4 cup finely chopped shallots
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 sprigs fresh parsley
1 sprig fresh thyme
1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 teaspoon balsamic vinegar

Source: http://www.fitness.com/recipes/756/mixed_peppercorn_beef_tenderloin_with_shallot_port_reduction.php

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Easy Healthy Recipes

We've put together 40 recipes that use 10 main ingredients. Meals just got a whole lot easier!

These foods are easy to find: just about every grocery store keeps them on hand all year long; they're easy to use--in fact, they're as close to ready-to-eat as you can get without ordering takeout; and they're easy to love because they taste delicious together.

The best part? You can print the entire list to take wherever you go.

Learn more about the list.

Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/nutrition/easy-healthy-recipes

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Middle-Aged Women Make More Suicide Attempts Than Other Demographics

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is reporting a 49 percent increase in the number of emergency room visits due to drug-related suicide attempts made by women 50-years-old or older. Furthermore, women between the ages of 40 and 69 are at a greater risk of suicide than other age groups. In fact, of [...]

Source: http://www.blogsbywomen.org/blog/middle-aged-women-make-more-suicide-attempts-than-other-demographics/

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What Smoking Does to Your Body

The average cigarette is gone in 10 puffs and five minutes, but that's five minutes of havoc as 4,000 chemicals infiltrate your organs.

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As you take the first drag, smoke passes through your mouth, leaving a faint brown film on your pearly whites. Toxic gases such as formaldehyde and ammonia immediately put your immune system on alert, causing allover inflammation.

Once in the windpipe, the cigarette smoke temporarily slows your cilia, the tiny sweepers that work to clear your respiratory system of mucus and invading particles. Meanwhile, airborne nicotine passes instantly into your bloodstream through the millions of capillaries in your lungs.

Your body gets a jolt of energy as that nicotine hits your adrenal glands, triggering an outpouring of adrenaline that raises your blood pressure and heart rate. Your heart is unable to relax fully between beats—and you are now at a higher risk of having a stroke.

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Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/women-smoking

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What Are the Best Ethnic Restaurants in the Stoneham Area?

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Could You Have a Thyroid Disorder?

Kristin Angelov was 26 when the exhaustion hit. Getting up in the morning was a superhuman effort, a struggle compounded by her suddenly dismal mood. "I would be in meetings at work and feel so tired and dizzy, like I was going to pass out," she says. And though the once-energetic writer stuck to a healthy diet, she packed on five pounds in two weeks. What's more, whenever she stepped out into the cold, her fingernails and toes turned a faint shade of blue. She dragged herself to her primary-care doctor, who ran a series of tests. Kristin's big problems, her M.D. told her, stemmed from a small place?the thyroid gland in her neck.

Thyroid 101

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Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/thyroid-disorders

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Simple Daily Habits to Ignite Your Passion

?Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.?- Hardy D. Jackson Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Scott Dinsmore of LiveYourLegend For the past 8 years I?ve run experiments on myself and others to better understand what makes us come alive. [...]

Source: http://zenhabits.net/ignite/

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The Secret to Being Fit For Life: Muscle Memory

Five weeks and five days after giving birth, and a full nine months since running a single step, WH's Lesley Rotchford, 34, laced up her sneaks and banged out five miles. Her muscles groaned a bit from the abrupt reentry, but with 20 years of distance running under their belt, they remembered just what to do.

It's a phenomenon aptly called muscle memory. Simply put, when you teach your body how to do something?ride a bike, surf, strike some yoga poses, run a few miles?it creates a physiological blueprint. So even if you take some time off, you'll get back to where you were faster than it took you to learn the exercise in the first place. "Muscle memory stems from your body's learning not just how to perform a task, but also how to break down muscle tissue and then repair and rebuild it," explains William Kraemer, Ph.D., a professor in the department of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. "That physiological knowledge lets you come back from injury, surgery, and even pregnancy faster, easier, and often better than before," he says.

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Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/fit-for-life

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Survey Finds Women are Less Likely than Men to Focus on Their Financial Health

A recent Genworth survey found that women are less likely than men to engage in financial planning. While 54 percent of men focus on their financial health at least once per week, the same is true with only 42 percent of women. Yet, the same survey found that women are more likely than men to [...]

Source: http://www.blogsbywomen.org/blog/survey-finds-women-are-less-likely-than-men-to-focus-on-their-financial-health/

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Print It: the 76 Best Things to Do For Your Body!

We called more than 70 top authorities on health and wellness, and asked each of them the same question: What are the most important things a woman can do to stay healthy?

After weeks of taking notes and poring over research, we?re passing the information on to you: a list of the 76 smartest tips, from the tried and true to the brand spanking new. Your strategy: Pick five this week. Implement. Next week, five more. The week after that--well, you get the idea.

KNOW THYSELF
Know your body composition. A study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that 25 to 30 percent of young women with a normal BMI (19 to 25) still carry excessive body fat. The easiest way to check your body composition is with bioelectric impedance analysis, available in many gyms and doctors' offices.

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Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/health-tips-0

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How Has Fitness Changed Your Closest Relationships?

This post is long overdue and is a part of a fitness blogging network over at Fitness Blog World. If you have a fitness blog, you should participate! How Has Fitness Changed Your Closest Relationships? The first relationship I have to talk about is the one with my husband. HE’S the one who got me [...]

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Survey Finds Women are Less Likely than Men to Focus on Their Financial Health

A recent Genworth survey found that women are less likely than men to engage in financial planning. While 54 percent of men focus on their financial health at least once per week, the same is true with only 42 percent of women. Yet, the same survey found that women are more likely than men to [...]

Source: http://www.blogsbywomen.org/blog/survey-finds-women-are-less-likely-than-men-to-focus-on-their-financial-health/

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The Little Productivity Tip of a Zen Master

Post written by Leo Babauta. A little while back I ran into a friend, Susan O?Connell (Zen Master and Vice President of the San Francisco Zen Center), and she did something old fashioned. When I said we should have tea sometime, she immediately went to her bag and got out her paper calendar, and suggested [...]

Source: http://zenhabits.net/once/

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The Tao of Travel

‘A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.’ ~Laozi Post written by Leo Babauta. I?m not the world?s most seasoned traveler, but I have made a number of trips lately and have learned a few things that work well. This year I?ve traveled to Guam for a month, to Portland, [...]

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