Well, it seems that female fatness is the topic du jour, as we have some further information on the non-genetic hereditary aspects of obesity.
Followers of science will remember some recent breakthroughs that claimed firstly that obesity and overweight weren’t so much chromosomal traits inherited irrespective of the environment, but that the tendency to become fat [...]

Whether it could be regarded as common wisdom or an old wives tale, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a few authoritative-seeming sources claim that one of the dangers of the female contraceptive pill is weight gain.
Turns out that this isn’t true.
A recent press release tells us that the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in [...]

According to some clueless researchers in Oregon and Hawaii, women who are overweight seem to be having more sex than their slender cousins.
Prima facie, and following deep thought in the case of our friends at the University of Hawaii, this seems counterintuitive. After all, shouldn’t one’s sexual fitness, especially in the case of women, be [...]