Fast Food: Teens vs. Twenty-somethings


Updated 07/17/07 8:58 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 14 comments

Fast Food:  Teens vs. Twenty-somethings

We all succumb to fast food every once and a while. Some of us with more frequency than others. So tell me if you think the following statement is true or false. Source 20-somethings eat 25% more fast food than they did in their teens True False Read more

How Often Do You Weigh Yourself?


Updated 06/20/07 1:36 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 39 comments

How Often Do You Weigh Yourself?

Some of us have a love / hate relationship with scales. Others simply find a daily weigh-in a helpful tool for staying on track. We all know the numbers on the scale are not the only way to measure your health - there's body mass composition, ratio of muscle to fat, waist diameter, etc. So, I am curious... How Often Do You Weigh Yourself? Daily A few times each week About Read more

8 Myths About Sex Differences


Updated 05/25/12 9:05 AM · Posted by · 2 comments

Myths About Gender Differences

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Agustín Fuentes points out that when it comes to men and women, what "everyone knows" isn’t what science shows. Everyone knows that men and women are really different. We think differently and act differently because we are wired differently. I mean look at our brains and genitals: they are just Read more

Battleship: Needs a Lifesaver


Updated 05/18/12 12:25 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

Battleship Movie Review

I don't remember aliens making an appearance in my own childhood sessions with Battleship, but I suppose when you try to make a toy into a feature-length film, you're afforded a few liberties. Unfortunately, the producers of Battleship may have spent too much time finding creative ways to explode things and not enough time on a plot, ending up with underutilized actors, in a wishy-washy Read more

Sex in Long-Term Relationships: Is It an Obligation or a Value?


Updated 03/24/11 2:40 PM · Posted by · 4 comments

Frequent Sex Reduces Anxiety in Relationships

Happy couples have the most sex, but what comes first? Sex or happiness? A new study says frequent sex protects relationships from the types of anxiety and neuroticism that can erode them. Yet we're all trained to recoil — rightfully — from the idea of having sex when both parties aren't 100 percent into it. Just yesterday I wrote about an Australian study that found women dissatisfied with Read more

For Women in Live-In Relationships — Do You Want More or Less Sex?


Updated 03/23/11 1:18 PM · Posted by · 3 comments

Sexual Dissatisfaction in Long-Term Relationships

Last week I dismissed a Daily Mail article that declared most women would prefer a good night's rest over a good night of sex after only talking to a few, stressed-out moms. But now a large Australian study found women in long-term, live-in relationships were more likely to complain of too much sex than too little. After surveying 3,240 men and 3,304 women who are either married or cohabiting, Read more

10 Words to Avoid in Front of Your Kids


Updated 03/13/12 2:09 PM · Posted by LilSugar · 2 comments

Words to Avoid Around Kids

Out of the mouths of babes . . . As parents, we know that anything that's uttered within earshot of our kids is fair game for repetition. And while eliminating all of those four-letter favorites is a no-brainer, there are plenty of others that can be just as damaging. Here, the 10 words we suggest that you ban from your vocabulary in front of your kids. Hate: You might be talking about rush Read more

A Reader Answers: Can Exercise Help With Migraines?


Updated 03/21/12 9:27 AM · Posted by · 2 comments

Will Exercise Cure Migraines?

FitSugar reader JessicaSmithTV wanted to know: can exercise help with migraines? She asked an expert and posted the answer in our Fit Community. Today's post comes to us from special guest contributor and medical expert Paul Rizzoli, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School: When you’re prone to migraines you’re forced to think through whether or not something you do Read more

"My Ex Gave His First Born a Name I Picked Out"


Updated 01/31/12 2:29 PM · Posted by · 14 comments

Ex Gave Baby Name I Picked Out

This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! My ex and I dated for two years, during which we had two miscarriages. Since I'm a typical woman, I did have a few names in mind that I really liked, which I shared with him, as we had already come close to having a baby. I want to emphasize that I was the one that picked out the baby names, Read more

Hart of Dixie's Wilson Bethel Says There Will Be "At Least One More Good Wade/Zoe Smooch"


Updated 02/15/12 3:32 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Wilson Bethel Interview About Wade on Hart of Dixie

I recently sat down with Hart of Dixie's Wilson Bethel, who plays the perennially shirtless Wade on the CW series opposite Rachel Bilson's Zoe. Bethel talked about the surprising dimensions Wade has gotten to show, the frequency with which he takes his top off, and of course, dished about what every fan wants to know: what's going on with Zoe and Wade. Bethel talked about their current Read more