At least that's what the latest research indicates: Researchers now say light to moderate drinking may keep women from gaining too much weight. Normal-weight women who drank 5 to 30 grams of alcohol daily gained less weight and had a lower risk of becoming overweight or obese than either teetotalers or those who drank too much, according to a report in the March 8 Archives of Internal Medicin...

This site provides free access to a 13 page Eurobarometer flash report (EB 266)which was published in March 2009. It presents the results of a public opinion survey conducted (mainly by telephone) on a sample of more than 35,000 women and 5,500 men, with the aim of discovering the perception that women have of politics in general, their image of the European Union, attitudes towards the European P...

A PUBLIC health expert has warned that some Scottish doctors are handing out prescriptions for weight-loss drugs "willy-nilly" without proper advice.

Department of Health advisers promoting schemes to quit smoking, lose weight or eat better as an important means of improving the population's health

2020health.org has today, on International Women's Day, published our Manifesto for Health. Called 'What Women Want' it features 17 female authors writing about their hopes for health from the next Government. They are all writing in personal capacities, but one...

Something terrible is happening to young women. Despite the dazzling gains made for bourgeois white women by reformist feminism, we’re….well, we’re turning into sluts. Look around you: the streets are littered with half-naked young hussies vomiting their A-levels into spillovers with their skirts hoiked round their waists. At the merest flash of a web-camera, young

Women with a high body mass index are more likely to have sex than those with a normal weight, a study has shown. The study into the relationship between body mass index and sexual behaviour has ruled out the widely held stereotype that overweight and obese women are not as sexually active as more slender women.

We’re used to seeing the media discuss women in terms of their attractiveness, no more so than when those women are in politics. And ordinarily the subjects of this interest are firmly on the politicians. Has Ann Wideombe lost weight since she entered Strictly Come Dancing? Is Caroline Flint too sexy? I could go on

Imperial College London has sent out a press release about their one hundred portraits of women in science, engineering and medicine will be displayed at Imperial College London from March 9th to elebrate International Women's Day and the UK's growing community of female researchers. 100 Women - 100 Visions has been designed and commissioned by Imperial's Student Society for Women i...

The mass sterilization of women in Uzbekistan, as reported this weekend by the Associated Press, is a shrieking reminder that the battle for the global liberation of women is being lost. It was reported by Mansur Mirovalev that Uzbek health officials are "threatened with salary cuts, demotion or dismissal if they do not persuade at least two women a month to be sterilized."