When little Falcon Heene purportedly disappeared into the sky on October 15, it was splashed across Facebook and on the tips of tongues everywhere.

On November 22, Adam Lambert grinded his crotch into a dancer's face, and the hypersexual act wormed its way to Thanksgiving Day discussions across the country.

When I arrived at the cozy and chaotic Chicago third-floor walk-up of Terri Smith and Brad Roback last winter, it felt like any of the hundreds of other child-inhabited homes that I've been in. Baby bottles were scattered across the kitchen, toys and semi-folded laundry plopped everywhere, the dogs barking...

Here in the blogosphere, we talk a lot about body image and eating disorders. About wildly airbrushed models and glamourized anorexia and bulimia and post-baby bods. But one topic we haven't lent much word space to is binge eating. Despite the fact that BED (Binge...

By now you've surely heard about the Ralph Lauren photoshopping debacle. In a nutshell: Model Filippa Hamilton was digitally whittled and twisted into a comically carnivalesque Laffy Taffy of a human being. Website BoingBoing wrote about it in their Photoshop Disasters section, where writer Xeni Jardin...

Men's Health Editor in Chief David Zincenko recently touted a product called kefir as one of summer's six essential flat belly foods. But unless you hail from Russia or really pay attention when perusing the yogurt aisle at the grocery store, chances are, you've never heard...

A year ago last month, a smartass teenager on the street informed me that I had cankles.

Not that I hold a grudge or anything, three hundred and ninety days later.

So it was with a combination if horror and elation that I recently read that July is...

Like many people, Starbucks is my home office. The walls of my favorite 'Bux are often decorated with brightly colored artwork for sale, with tags that read Arts of Life. I knew Arts of Life was a nonprofit group that helps adults with developmental disabilities to explore the world...

Golden Girls star Bea Arthur recently passed away, and the news, delivered over a champagne-and-sticky bun Sunday brunch, saddened me. Not because I was a card-carrying member of the Golden Girls Fan Club (though I do have a discreet "Blanche Devereaux Rocks" tattoo on my lower back), but because I've...

Last week, I spent about five days walking around with bandaged, slinged-up left arm, courtesy of carpal tunnel surgery. I'm a righty, so I thought I'd be in the clear, but it's amazing how quickly you realize you truly do rely on your non-dominant hand. Like when you go to...

Victoria Beckham may refuse to fess up as to whether her soccer balls are natural or fake, but a recent jaunt through a Milan Airport confirmed one thing: Her nipple covers are...REAL!

This is by no means the first nip slip for V. Becks. Last year while...

I think Tahlia Brookins is the picture of all-encompassing beauty.

When she was just nine months old, Tahlia unknowingly pulled down the cord of an electric teapot, spilling boiling water all over her hands, stomach, and legs. She endured second- and third-degree burns over 26% of her tiny body....

Jewish girls worldwide, it's time to break out the Manishevitz and raise a Kiddush cup: Israel-born supermodel Bar Rafaeli is the cover model for the new 2009 Sports Illustrated.

For a community of women not typically known for or represented in the media as glamazonian, stunningly beautiful...

For the past two weeks, my inbox has been inundated with emails from companies hawking New Year's resolution-themed weight loss pitches.

"Try our Cookie Diet for a slim and tasty new 2009!"

"Visualize yourself with our 30-pounds thinner camera!"

"New Year? NEW, THINNER YOU!"

Delete. Delete. Delete.

My resolutions...

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Modern-day technology has led to a slew of special 21st-century disorders, the likes of which have never before seen. Wii Elbow, Blackberry thumb, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Laptop Neck strike men and women in the prime...

Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, magazines and news reports pop up all over like so many turkey temperature buttons, telling us how to save calories at Thanksgiving dinner. Swap dark meat for white meat! A baked sweet potato for buttery mashed potatoes! A big scoop of DUH for a small...

OMG, this list is, like, sooo amazing! Literally. (Not).

If that sentence made your head want to explode, you're in good company. Researchers at the University of Oxford have compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Irritating Expressions in the English language. You think it's annoying when someone starts...

On Saturday, I had the chance to sit in on a lecture delivered by Oprah's cardiologist, Annabelle Volgman, MD. As Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Rush University Medical Center Heart Center for Women, Volgman knows women's tickers, and as she addressed our group of...

Last month, I wrote about the link between Jewish women and eating disorders just before participating in a series of Jewish Women International's Brain Power for Girl Power Think Tanks in Chicago and Detroit. The conferences took an intergenerational approach to solving the problems girls of all religions...

My cousin, Rob, recently visited my aunt at her New England home. She asked him a seemingly simple favor: Could he help with some yard work? But when it comes to Jewish mothers, there are no simple questions -- anyone who's ever had their mom look them up and down,...

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to interview Jillian Michaels, a woman whose abs are sharp enough to shave my husband's face and who has, in the past, forced Biggest Loser contestants to bench press her. I'll admit, considering the persona put...