good dads

This Is What Happens When A Dad Advocates For His Daughter

At 21 days old, Joanna Schroeder had severe hip problems requiring hospitalization. Her dad invented and built a device so she could stay home with her family.
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Issues, good dads, health, babies, surgery, the good men project

Jun 18, 2013 at 10:00pm | 0 comments

coconut oil

I’m So Effing Tired of People Telling Me To Use Coconut Oil For EVERYTHING

Is the coconut a wonderful, delicious food delivered to us by god himself? Yes. Can coconut oil cure your genital herpes? Probably not.
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Healthy, coconut oil, coconut everything, health, brownies, xoFood

May 9, 2013 at 6:00pm | 1 comments

circulation

MY IRON DEFICIENCY IS RUINING MY RELATIONSHIP! How To Achieve Better Blood Circulation

My hands and feet, like my heart, are ice cold.
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Healthy, circulation, health, blood, boyfriends

Apr 29, 2013 at 4:30pm | 0 comments

healthy

IGNORE YOUR GAG REFLEX: Two Green Juice Recipes That Are Making My Body Hate Me Slightly Less

Friends, I have drunk the green Kool-Aid. No, not Ecto-Cooler. That's good, too, though.
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New Agey, healthy, vegetables, juice, juicing, cleanses, juice cleanses, kale, green juice, health, recipes, cooking

Apr 26, 2013 at 3:00pm | 1 comments

health

OH, POO: How to Crap When You Can’t (Without Using Laxatives)

This post may or may not include opiates, a butthole, and a butter knife.
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Healthy, health, poo, constipation, surgery, painkillers, rehab

Apr 11, 2013 at 6:41am | 0 comments

 
cooking

I Have Too Many Kitchen Toys. Why I Need Them ALL



I have FIVE different kinds of blenders, and a juicer. I have a tofu press, a slow cooker, and a rice cooker.
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Fun, cooking, kitchen toys, small kitchen appliances, health, shoppables

Apr 10, 2013 at 5:00pm | 0 comments

health

It’s ‘Sexy’ Health Check Week, So Here Are Three Innovative Ways To Check Your Sexy Health

With photos and weird dildos, because I know what you’re like.
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Sex, health, breasts, testicles, awareness, family planning, sex toys

Mar 8, 2013 at 1:00pm | 4 comments

dating

I’ve Been Single For Seven Years And I Can't Figure Out Why

I’m trying to figure out why I’ve been alone this long, because I’m kind of sick of it. (And everyone at xoJane is sick of hearing about it.)
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Relationships, dating, single ladies, okcupid, men, divorce, weight, depression, rape, clubbed thumbs, age, sexuality, health

Mar 8, 2013 at 10:07am | 11 comments

periods

Eight Reasons You Should be Psyched To Get Your Period

I have menstruating on the brain, friends!
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New Agey, periods, menstruation, tampons, diva cup, julieanne smolinski is a lunatic, blood, bodies, health

Jan 11, 2013 at 3:24pm | 13 comments

health

My Bad Health Isn't A Choice

I'm a 29 year old female. I eat mainly vegan and eat lots of organic veggies. I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke, I have never done drugs. I've been diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, PCOS, life threatening allergies and for my last birthday I got a busted thyroid.
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Healthy, health, allergies, disability, disability wheelchair access

Dec 21, 2012 at 3:33pm | 45 comments

health

It Happened To Me – My Vagina Said No To Sex

Vaginismus – or, as I like to call it, “lady zip” – is no joke, but you know what it IS? Really bloody common and really bloody treatable.
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It Happened To Me, health, relationships, sex, vagina, vaginismus

Aug 17, 2012 at 11:00am | 7 comments

exercise

IHTM: I learned to grudgingly accept that exercise is necessary (I still hate it though)

I realised that I'd been left behind - everyone else had hopped on the exercise bandwagon and I was still sat at my desk mindlessly gawping at the Daily Mail online or flumped on the sofa watching Columbo...
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Sports, exercise, frame shoreditch, health, it happened to me, jogging, race for life

Aug 15, 2012 at 3:00pm | 43 comments

good skin

My amazing skin-saving smoothie recipe

Or The Green Beautifier, as I like to call it...
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Healthy, good skin, health, nutrition, raw food, smoothies

Aug 1, 2012 at 2:00pm | 10 comments

diets

How I became a natural food lover

...or how I learnt to kick Ronald McDonald square in the balls
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Healthy, diets, health, health food, natural food, processed food, weight loss

Jul 24, 2012 at 4:24pm | 25 comments

health

It happened to me: my refusal to accept modern medicine landed me in hospital

Confessions of a failed flower child
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It Happened To Me, health, hospitals, natural medicine

Jul 18, 2012 at 11:00am | 31 comments

children

I don’t really know how I feel about IVF

...and I need your advice!
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Issues, children, fertility, health, ivf

Jul 16, 2012 at 1:01pm | 118 comments

health

HELP! I'M BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY A MIGRAINE

I have been in bed for three days with her second severe migraine this month - what are your migraine cures, please?
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Healthy, health, medicine, migraines, Robyn Wilder

Jul 7, 2012 at 11:00am | 55 comments

britney spears

Virgin on the ridiculous

Role models for your hymen!
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Issues, britney spears, clueless, Dawson's Creek, girls, health, katie holmes, relationships, sex

Jul 5, 2012 at 2:51pm | 5 comments

depression

Here comes the cloud; dealing with depression one post at a time

This is the Johnny Cochran of feel-good posts but I'm using it to clear my dour mood not the name of a dude who killed his wife.
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Issues, depression, health

Jun 13, 2012 at 10:05am | 15 comments

childbirth

Should we be doing stuff with placentas (other than throwing them out)?

I may be interested in the health benefits, or it may be that motherhood has left me completely unhinged...
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Healthy, childbirth, health, issues, placentas

Jun 6, 2012 at 6:02pm | 5 comments