The Checkup Archive: Psychology
Women more stressed by work intrusions
Between our Blackberries, iPhones and laptops, we all know the line between work and home life has gotten pretty blurred. But are those intrusions by work into our supposed downtime bad for us? A new study suggests it is, particularly for women.Paul Glavin of the University of Toronto and colleagues...
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Rob Stein
| March 9, 2011; 12:00 AM ET |
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Family Health, General Health, Psychology, Women's Health
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Why do women hate their bodies so much?
I just read an unsettling article in Glamour that said 97 percent of 300 young women surveyed by the magazine reported having multiple negative thoughts about their own bodies in a given day. The average number was 13; many women said they had as many as 35, 50 or 100 such thoughts per day. So I'm sitting here thinking mean thoughts about my thighs and wondering, why do we do this to ourselves?
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| February 24, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Life's Big Questions, Me Minus 10, Nutrition and Fitness, Psychology, Weight loss, Women's Health
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Weight loss's link to better health questioned
We as a nation have put a lot of stock into the notion that being (or becoming) slender equates to better health and longer lives. But a body evidence calls into question whether that connection -- or, conversely, the connection between overweight and poor health -- is all that strong, and even whether it exists at all.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| January 24, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Cardiovascular Health, Chronic Conditions, Diabetes, Eating disorders, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, Psychology, Weight loss, Women's Health, life expectancy, osteoporosis
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Modern Family: When kids walk in during sex
I cannot believe that the blogosphere is not buzzing itself silly about last night's (hilarious) episode of Modern Family, which raised the all-important question: What should parents do if their kids walk in on them during sex?
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| January 20, 2011; 1:29 PM ET |
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Family Health, Kids' health, Life's Big Questions, Parenting, Psychology, Reproductive Health, Sex, Teens
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Is food addiction real?
Even if there is such a thing as food addiction, it's not likely that all or even most of the people in the U.S. who are obese or overweight suffer from such an affliction. While some people may have genetic or other forms of predisposition to addiction, others of us just plain overindulge, and we can't blame our neurochemistry for our decisions to eat more than we should.
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Jennifer LaRue Huget
| January 18, 2011; 7:00 AM ET |
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Alcohol and Drugs, Drug Abuse, Eating disorders, Neurological disorders, Nutrition and Fitness, Obesity, Psychology, Weight loss
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You're only as young as you feel
Read the Perspectives on Psychological Science article We all know the old saying, "You're only as young as you feel." Well, there may be some truth to that, according to researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ellen Langer, a psychologist at Harvard University who studies how the...
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Rob Stein
| December 29, 2010; 7:15 AM ET |
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Aging, Health News, Psychology
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