Attention ladies, cougars die early. If you are considering settling with a 'boy toy'...think again...as it may send you to an early grave.
A study from Max Planck Institute in Germany suggests that older women in their 30s and 40s who date much younger men (cougars) have increased chances of dying earlier by 20 per cent. In fact, the greater the age difference, the lower the wife's life expectancy.
However, men who married younger women lived longer. Isn't that the ultimate double standard?!
Anyways, the researchers said that women with younger men could be regarded as outsiders and receive less social support, thereby resulting in a less joyful and more stressful life, reduced health, and finally, increased mortality. It simply means more stress for women because they are 'violating social norms' and thus suffer from social sanctions.
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Formerly Chastity Bono, Chaz Bono is now legally a man. After changing his name and gender in court, Chaz Bono is now a man, one year after a sex change.
Chastity Bono underwent gender-reassignment in 2009.
So far, his breasts have been removed and he has received hormone treatments to deepen his voice. And to his delight, he now has to shave his face.
At age 18, Bono came out as a lesbian. After his sex change, Bono has been quoted saying that he feels so much more comfortable than he's ever been.
Chastity Bono was daughter to Cher and Sonny Bono. Now Cher has another son in Chaz.
Gender-reassignment (female-to-male) involves surgical procedures to reshape a female's body into a man's body. Sometimes, it involves genital reconstructive procedures (GRT) but not all the time. The choice for GRT remains entirely on the patient.
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Scientists from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) discovered a breakthrough method that will predict whether women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS, the most common form of non-invasive breast cancer) are at risk of developing more invasive tumors in the future. The researchers found that different combinations of biomarkers measured on the initial DCIS tissue were associated with varying levels of risk of invasive cancer or DCIS.
With this new test, women with DCIS are now able to be more selective about their treatment option. While physicians will now be able to predict whether a DCIS patient treated by lumpectomy only will subsequently develop invasive cancer, DCIS, or be at very low risk of developing further tumors.
Fibroids are benign (non-cancerous) growths that appear on the muscular wall of the uterus. They can range in size from microscopic to masses that fill the entire abdominal cavity and in some cases, as large as a five month pregnancy.
1. Uterine fibroids can affect women of all ages, but are most common in women ages 40 to 50.
2. Depending on size, location and number of fibroids, common symptoms include:
Pelvic pain and pressure
Excessive bleeding, including prolonged periods and passage of clots, which can lead to anemia.
Abdominal swelling
Pressure on the bladder, leading to frequent urination
Pressure on the bowel, leading to constipation and bloating
Infertility
3. No one is sure why women develop fibroids which affect 40% of women over 35 years in America and have a high rate of incidence among African Americans. There is a possible link between uterine fibroid tumors and estrogen production.
4. Fibroids are diagnosed with an ultrasound in their gynecologist's office. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is also used to determine how fibroids can be treated and provide information about any underlying disease.
5. Uterine fibroids can be treated with surgery, including hysterectomy, which removes the entire uterus, and myomectomy, which removes the fibroids but leaves the uterus. Both are major surgeries.
When I gave birth almost 8 years ago, I had an emergency c-section. Suffice to say, the procedure was medically necessary.
Elective c-section, on the other hand, is when a mother opts for c-section right away, without even trying to give birth naturally first. It looks like that elective c-section is the in thing with celebrity moms these days.
The media has dubbed the movement "too posh to push," after Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz's Spice Girl mama. The British beauty, like some of the other celeb mamas in question, claimed that her C-section were under doctors' orders.
But you can't help but think that maybe they are all just trying to avoid abdominal (and vaginal?) stretching and the pains of natural child birth.
Click here to find out who went natural vs. elective c-section.
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