Cancer is a tricky disease. We know some causes of some cancers and some risk factors for some cancers, but we don’t know enough to cure most of them. What we can do, however, is take what we know and try to reduce the risks we do know of.
It’s not surprising to anyone in the healthcare field to know that unhealthy lifestyle choices, like smoking, drinking too much, not eating well, not exercising enough, and so on, contributes to ill health. Obesity is also something that contributes to disease, and now it’s being found that it could also be contributing …read more

While reading a popular advice column today, I stumbled on a question from a woman who is 35, overweight and never had sex. Her concern was wanting to know if she was so much of a freak that if she lost weight would her virginity be too much a problem for men to deal with.
The response to this woman was:
Umm, like, 100 percent. Not that you have to tell a guy at all, but really, for a guy “virgin” is to sex as “ocean-front property” is to real estate.
That’s left me wondering just how true this statement is …read more