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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's edition of pretty in pink.
Last week we discussed breast cancer awareness and how to examine your breasts.
This week in women's health news there is a study out how breast cancer and going through treatment not only wrecks havoc on women emotionally but it can also affect them physically by lowering their sexual desire.
While commenting on the study findings, lead-researcher and clinical psychologist, professor Myra Hunter at the Maudsley National Health Service Foundation Trust, Britain, explained in a press statement, adjuvant cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and Tamoxifen have the tendency to produce menopausal symptoms in women, especially in those suffering from oestrogen-dependent cancers.
"Vaginal dryness is commonly brought on by reduced oestrogen levels following adjuvant treatments and hot flushes and night sweats can add to the discomfort,” said Professor Hunter.
More women's health news:
British Women are Obsessed with Body Image
A recent UK survey, ‘Sex in the Nation’, has unveiled the hidden insecurity among the British women when it comes to sex. A shocking 75% claim that a pint of alcohol is a must for sex, even with their husbands or boyfriend. However, a paltry 6% prefer regular sex without any stimulant for the sake of obligation.
For the study, 3000 women of the age between 18-50 years were questioned and they claim that alcohol helps in building confidence while undergoing sex. Many health experts believe that women are obsessed with ‘zero size’ image and hence, are reluctant to accept their own body image.
Most of the women expressed lack of confidences as far as their body image in concerned. Contrary to women, around 20% over weight men prefer to avoid sex due to inherent insecurities about their inflated belly.
Sex sells
The Vancouver Whitecaps should be able to sell their sport without resorting to sexualizing or demeaning women.
Okay, we get it. Sex sells, and there's no question who the Vancouver Whitecaps is selling to with its ad and video featuring a sultry "kit model" being spray-painted into a "uniform" with the Bell logo across her breasts.
Al Qaeda central has released it's first magazine for women Offers Sex Advice for the Wives of Mujahideen
(See the photos at this link above!)
from The Daily Mail:
Al-Qaeda has launched a women's magazine that mixes beauty and fashion tips with advice on suicide bombings.
Dubbed 'Jihad Cosmo', the glossy magazine's front cover features the barrel of a sub-machine gun next to a picture a woman in a veil.
There are exclusive interviews with martyrs' wives, who praise their husbands' decisions to die in suicide attacks.
The slick, 31-page Al-Shamikha magazine - meaning The Majestic Woman - has advice for singletons on 'marrying a mujahideen'.
Readers are told it is their duty to raise children to be mujahideen ready for jihad.
Three-Quarters Back Women in Combat Roles
The Military Leadership Diversity Commission has company: Nearly three-quarters of Americans agree that women in the armed services should be allowed to serve in ground units that engage in direct combat.
The commission, established by Congress in 2009 to evaluate military policies, recommended earlier this month that the U.S. military stop excluding women from ground combat units, saying such policies do not in fact keep them out of combat situations, deny them equal opportunities to serve and interfere with their promotion to senior ranks.
C-Network reminds women to undergo cancer screening
In celebration of Women’s Month, C-Network urges women everywhere to take it upon themselves to be empowered in controlling their health. It means taking stock of their health and undergoing screening against cancer.
Simple steps such as staying away from tobacco, maintaining a healthy weight, regular exercise, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, limited alcohol intake, skin protection from harmful UV rays, scheduling regular check-ups and screening are things one can do on a regular basis.
Cancer screening should also start with nurturing your body and acting immediately when something goes wrong.
52 women recount their time in the deep south of the '60s
A restlessness in her soul wouldn't let Gloria House be.
She was a graduate student in 1963 studying French at the University of California at Berkeley.
But how could she study when four little black girls were blown to bits by dynamite that tore through their Birmingham, Ala., church? And when the bodies of three boys - two white, one black - who'd gone south to help black people, were found buried on a Mississippi farm?
Those incidents and other examples of racial injustice called House to go to the Deep South in 1965. She planned to go just for the summer to help teach black people to read and to register to vote. But while she was there, a fellow freedom fighter, a white seminarian, was shot and killed right before her eyes.
News Photos
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at the launch of a Global Partnership on Maternal and Child Health led by USAID, the Government of Norway, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and the World Bank, in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2011. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
First Lady Michelle Obama and Melody Barnes, Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Council Director, third from right, meet with the Council on Community Solutions in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, Feb. 4, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton)
A woman comes out from a mobile cancer detection unit after her mammography examination during a free medical check-up camp in a slum area in the northernIndian city of Chandigarh February 6, 2011.« Read less
REUTERS/Ajay Verma.
Breast cancer survivor and Iditarod veteran Dee Dee Jonrowe runs along her team as she heads for the the starting line of the ceremonial start of theIditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska March 5, 2011. Sixty-two mushers are starting the 1,100-mile (1,770-km) sled dog race to Nome.« Read less
REUTERS.