For those of us who have struggled with eating disorders, being home for this season -- the combination of food and family -- is an incredibly fraught scenario.

Why do we take as a given that membership in a group should depend on being broken, demeaned and humiliated?

Her son was essentially friendless for the first few months of middle school because he wasn't texting and was therefore, out of the mix.

The average age of breast development in European girls has dropped one year, from 10.8 to 9.8 years.

Remember -- just because someone says they are right, doesn't mean that they are -- and the corollary also follows that just because someone says you are wrong, doesn't mean that you are.

Despite the fact that men and women seem to struggle with weight in fairly equal numbers as adults, women do tend to put weight on in their butts, vs. their stomachs.

Obama's call to service for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day was two weeks ago today. But to my generation, I'm afraid it may as well have been issued by Abe Lincoln. It's already history.