Personal Health

Why Everything You've Been Told About Dieting Is Wrong

By Kerry Sheridan / AFP

US scientists say they have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight loss that they hope will revolutionize the way people tackle obesity.

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4 States Where Right-Wingers Are Promoting Shocking Measures to Keep Women Barefoot and Pregnant

By Sarah Seltzer, Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Being Progressive Shouldn't Be Hazardous to Your Health: Here's How to Avoid Our Culture of Overwork

By Michael Bader / AlterNet

Why Your Race or Gender May Affect How Much Pain You Feel

By Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

New Report Shows Incredible Overdose-Reversing Medication Saved 10,000 Lives

By Meghan Ralston / AlterNet

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Personal Health

300 Reasons Why the Media's Messing Up the Birth Control Story

Zachary Pleat, Leslie Rosenberg, Kevin Zieber / Media Matters for America

Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control -- And Why We'll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now

Sara Robinson / AlterNet

Creationists to Cancer Patients: Drop Dead

Leslie Brunetta / Concord Monitor

How the Death of Whitney Houston, and Countless Others, Could Have Been Prevented

Meghan Ralston / AlterNet

Republicans Want to Put Your Boss Between You and Your Doctor

ThinkProgress Staff / ThinkProgress

Contrived Catholic Contraception Controversy Boils Down to Workers' Rights

Roger Bybee / In These Times

How Zealous Clergy and Their Media Enablers Are Manufacturing a Controversy Over Birth Control Coverage

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Why is the Obama Administration Suddenly Fixated on Stomping out Medical Pot?

Paul Armentano / AlterNet

Should Sugar Be Regulated Like a Controlled Substance? Why Some Folks Are Saying Yes

Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

5 Amazing Places in the US in Danger of Being Destroyed by Dirty Energy

Erik Loomis / AlterNet

One of Congress's Most Damaging (and Racist) Budget Cuts That Flew Under the Radar

Peter Montague, Maria B. Pellerano / AlterNet

Busting Through the Media Firestorm: 6 Essential Facts About the Komen Controversy

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America's Crops

Anna Lekas Miller / AlterNet

I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen's Race Is For Money, Not Cure

Emily Michele / ButterBeliever.com

5 Important Lessons from the Komen/Planned Parenthood Fiasco (Don't Mess With Women's Health)

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

6 Things You Need To Know About the Komen Foundation/Planned Parenthood Controversy (Updated: Komen Reverses Decision)

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Komen Foundation Exploits Breast Cancer Mission to Make War on Planned Parenthood

Jodi L. Jacobson / RH Reality Check

Was Lou Gehrig's ALS Caused by Drinking Water?

Wendee Holtcamp / Miller-McCune Magazine

Praying to Be Skinny and Straight: Why Evangelicals Are Concerned With Weight-loss and 'Ex-gay' Therapies

Hannah Tepper / Salon

The Scary Danger of Meat (Even For Those Who Don't Eat It)

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Why New Birth Control Benefits are the Right Choice and Why Religious Conservatives Have it Wrong

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone / AlterNet

The Truth Behind Why High Calorie Chef Paula Deen Is Pushing Diabetes Drug

Brad Jacobson / AlterNet

Paula Deen: Populist Cook or Diabetic Scam Artist?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The Fascinating Scientific Reason Why "Money Doesn't Buy Happiness"

David McRaney / You Are Not So Smart

Why a Likely Natural Event Could Cause Nuclear Reactors to Melt Down and Our Grid to Crash

Matthew Stein / AlterNet

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