If you didn’t have a good reason to exercise before…this might get you off the couch.
Exercise can help to reduce depression. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, moderate or intense exercise is the same as using a secondary anti-depressant drug, which is often used when an initial medication isn’t working.
Over the four-year study, participants 18 to…
By Sabrena Salahudeen
This household symbol of hospitality has many medicinal effects on the body. Although it has a cooling effect on the body, the bromelain enzyme it contains helps to aid digestion of starches and protein. What many people aren’t aware of, is its ability to destroy intestinal parasites and assimilate foreign germs in our respiratory tissues when eaten raw on its own. Raw…
Sex is fun, pleasurable, exciting and healthy! Unfortunately, when we hear about sex, it is often framed in negative terms around issues of abuse, disease and so-called dysfunctions. This negative outlook is fuelled by a range of factors from fear and religious oppression to unnecessary medical and economic motivations. But there is good news on the horizon! Research indicates that sex actually…
So I was at the gym, and saw one of the staff members, Michael wearing two different florescent shoes on each foot. I assumed maybe, it was a new trend by Nike. I reasoned, if the colours were so bold, then going that extra step to have two different colours wasn’t so far out there. I thought nothing more of it and continued my workout.
Then, I overheard one of the other members…
By Lisa Chin Quee
What you are about to read is quite disturbing.
It involves child molestation and incest. Oprah did a special show with 200 men who were sexually molested as children, but that was after many years of covering similar shows on women who suffered the same fate. The leaders in the Catholic Church and other Christian denominations have been accused and convicted of these crimes…
A couple of weeks ago, a close male friend suggested we do a piece on pubic hair. Yes: pubic hair or lack thereof. Because there have been quiet discussions and lively debates between the boys on boys night; women with their hair stylists, BFFs, and over cosmopolitans. Also a week prior to his suggestion a female friend spoke of the vajazel she had tried on her vajayjay; that’s when you glam…
It is 2010! Can you believe it? I can hardly believe that a decade has gone by already. It feels like it was yesterday that we were preparing for the anticipated catastrophes leading into Y2K – people were concerned about the technical glitches. My computer programmer friends were earning big bucks for their skills. Wow, how things have changed. We made it through, not just that year but the…
Well, it was a crazy week for me – deadlines, deadlines deadlines! And although that makes for an extremely stressful week, the most memorable moments were conversations I had with two different women about their relationships – one married and one divorced.
Ok, y’all I’m single, I’m not stressed about the fact that I’m not married or in a serious relationship. Of course, I would…
Each summer I choose a new activity or perhaps not new but something I haven’t done in a long time. One summer it was golf, the next it was rollerblading (I suck) and this year it is cycling. It isn’t that I’m cheating on my golf clubs (my game also sucks) or my rollerblades. But there are some things I get from my bike that I don’t from my golf game: adrenalin, the sweaty satisfaction of…
