by Women's Health | Dec 9, 2015 | Health
By Laura Beil Turns out, there’s a lot more to yoga than we thought… 1/ It makes you smarter What seems like a slow start – breathing deeply, in and out – fires up your prefrontal cortex, the brain’s centre for higher thought. You just got smarter: In one...
by Women's Health | Dec 9, 2015 | Food & Nutrition, Health
By K. Aleisha Fetters; Photography by Unsplash The low-carb craze is going strong. Bread is out. Pasta is overrated. And dieters are experimenting with how low their carb intake can go. But grains are anything but all the same. So whether you are cutting out refined...
by Women's Health | Dec 7, 2015 | FitMama, Health
If you’ve ever given birth, you know just how much effort you have to exert physically to pop a baby out (and how much damage it can do to your lady parts). But new research has found that childbirth—and injuries that can come with it—are similar to what intense...
by Women's Health | Dec 2, 2015 | Health
By Amy Rankin; Photography Wei Tang/Freepik Lactose-intolerant? Allergic to dairy? Know the difference? Here’s how to tell… Whether you’re vegan, allergic to dairy or it just doesn’t suit you, you’re in luck as SA shelves are now packed with a variety of...
by Women's Health | Nov 18, 2015 | Sex & Love
Could you be at risk? You know you have to be smart about sex if you want to minimise your odds of contracting herpes or chlamydia. But a new study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology sheds light on another that sexually transmitted disease most...
