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The study, published in the July issue of Obesity, set out to determine how romantic relationships affect the tell-no-lies number on the scale. Researchers tracked changes over a handful of years in the weight and relationship status of 6,949 individuals, and their findings don't bode well...
"With women, we saw incremental risk after one year," says Penny Gordon-Larsen, one of the two nutrition epidemiologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who conducted the study. "The longer she lived with a romantic partner, the more likely she was to keep putting on...
The movie's main problem was that many found it an unnecessary addition to the canon, with the primary plot strenuously exerting itself to achieve familiar challenges and triumphs. Only the unrelated, subsidiary scenes with Scrat the squirrel and his foxy new inamorata Scratte showed any comic pizazz. (These scenes...
Ever since Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon broke records for a foreign-language film at the Stateside box office, Asian directors have plundered Chinese history for tales of airborne warriors and another chance at the U.S. market. Chan, better known for romantic dramas like the superb Comrades: Almost...
The fundamental question we must ask ourselves at the beginning of the century is this: What is the purpose of marriage? Is it - given the game-changing realities of birth control, female equality and the fact that motherhood outside of marriage is no longer stigmatized - simply an institution that has...