How Mom's Hip Size Predicts Her Daughter's Risk
Kent L. Thornburg, PhD, is a medical scientist who is internationally known for his work on the roots of adult-onset diseases. He is the founding director of the Heart Research Center at the Oregon Health and Science University.
When my colleagues and I recently revisited a 70-year-old study of pregnant women in Finland, we discovered something shocking: The size and shape of a mother's pelvis can predict whether her daughter might someday develop breast cancer.
The Diet Killer
Director of the Energy Metabolism Lab at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center and professor of Nutrition and Psychiatry at Tufts University, and author of a new approach to weight loss called The Instinct Diet, which was recently featured in The Daily Beast.
Your relationship may be hot, but it's making you heavy. New research confirms moving in together often leads to weight gain.
The Pre-teen Girl Mystery
Hannah Seligson is a journalist and the author of New Girl on the Job: Advice from the Trenches. Her second book, A Little Bit Married, will be published by De Capo this spring. Her website is www.hannahseligson.com
Girls have been hitting puberty earlier and earlier since the 1950s, but new research shows the trend suddenly speeding up-and a chemical found in everyday items may be the culprit.
Was I Born Anorexic?
Rachel Shukert is the author of Have You No Shame? And Other Regrettable Stories, and is currently at work on her second book, The Grand Tour. She lives in New York City.
A new study suggests that some are genetically predisposed to anorexia. This might explain why my bout with self-starvation started when I was a small child.
Women Who Eat Meat
San Francisco-based writer Laura Fraser is the author of the best-selling travel memoir An Italian Affair, and the upcoming sequel All Over the Map. She is a contributing editor at More, and last year won the International Association of Culinary Professionals Bert Greene Award for Essay Writing.
Women are taking butchery classes and embracing the new compassionate meat-eating ethos. Will a new study showing the health risks of red meat for women send us scurrying back to the salad bar?
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Jacki Zehner is the President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Family Foundation and a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group. She blogs at www.pursepundit.blogspot.com.
The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is the President of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, an institute for religious leadership, founded in 1818 with a history of commitment to progressive social causes from abolition of slavery to women's rights. She blogs at newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.
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