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Holy Hormones Journal: Estrogen by any other name – in this case BPA – is still estrogen. This study backs up my theory that menarche is the most fragile time of a woman’s life. Especially since, the authors did not find hormone related obesity in girls older than 12 or in boys in the same Continue Reading …
Information on Sex Ed is vital – along with menstrual hygiene. According to Elisa Stein’s book, Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation, when women gained accessed to feminine hygiene in the U.S. the two greatest movements in women’s history took place: Women fought for and won the right to vote – and the birth of the women’s movement took place. Lack of menstrual hygiene education and products demoralizes women.
A new study shows that simple, low-cost interventions can help teenage girls in Africa stay in school during their monthly periods.
Leslie Carol Botha: Girls getting messages from anywhere that ‘sex is power’ is morally wrong. We need to be teaching our hormonal honeys that they have more value than what lies between their legs. However, it appears that the porn industry is getting to them first. No wonder we are putting girls on synthetic hormone Continue Reading …
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As a midwife and women’s health practitioner for over 30 years, my mission was to help mothers deliver healthy babies. I’m not delivering anymore, but today, bringing healthy babies into this world is still my purpose and my passion.
New government data shines a light on just how many pre-teen and teenage girls may grapple with depression, finding that adolescent girls suffer from depression at a rate nearly three times that of boys their age.
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Join Leslie Carol Botha on Monday, June 11, on Holy Hormones Honey! when she interviews Tracee Sioux, author of Love Distortion – Belle, Battered Codependent & Other Love Stories and The Girl Revolution, a blog designed to help parents raise powerful daughters. The Girl Revolution’s sole mission is to revolutionize the way we think about, treat, and raise girls. The show will be audio streamed on KRFC FM – from 6 to 7 pm MST.
When it comes to feminine hygiene supplies, there are almost as many questions as there are products! Since your daughter will use approximately 10,000 pads, tampons and/or panty liners in her lifetime, it is worth investing some time to learn more about her options.
One day last year when her daughter, Ainsley, was 9, Tracee Sioux pulled her out of her elementary school in Fort Collins, Colo., and drove her an hour south, to Longmont, in hopes of finding a satisfying reason that Ainsley began growing pubic hair at age 6. Ainsley was the tallest child in her third-grade class. She had a thick, enviable blond-streaked ponytail and big feet, like a puppy’s. The curves of her Levi’s matched her mother’s.
INFERTILITY CONCERN WITH GARDASIL HPV VACCINE Off the Radar Does the HPV Vaccine LITERALLY Mean “One Less”? Marketing geniuses are known to play on words and create slogans with quirky double meanings, and if you’ve been tracking the concerns raised about the potential hazards of Gardasil and Cervarix, the potential for these HPV vaccines to Continue Reading …
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