Womens Corner

A drunken woman in Milton Keynes, England recently forced an entire movie theater to be evacuated during ’50 Shades Of Grey’ showing after she reportedly lost control of all of her bodily fluids.

The Cineworld showing had barely got underway when the unnamed women, believed to be under the influence of alcohol, started vomiting and pooping, the Mirror reported.

One disgruntled cinema-goer said that they all expected to see Christian Grey gag Anastasia as part of the plot, but they certainly didn’t expect to be gagging themselves because of the stench.

Highlighting the need to ensure place for women in India’s socio-economic set up, the Economic Survey today said the government has to play a pro-active role to change the “patriarchal mindset” prevalent in the country.

“With women accounting for nearly 48 percent of India’s population (Census 2011), there is need to ensure and safeguard their place in the socio-economic milieu,” said the Survey for 2014-15, tabled in Parliament.

Layers of wrongly chosen makeup can make you end up looking cakey. Get your hands on the right make-up base to look flawless, says an expert.

“Every skin type is different. You have different foundations for fair, light and medium skin tone; again it is categorised into dry, oily and combination skin. Getting your base right is very important,” make-up artist Annalia Zhimomi told IANS.

She says for dry flaky skin, don’t use powder.

Plants can help prevent liver damage in women caused by fat accumulated during menopause, claims a new study.

Researchers at the University of Georgia have shown in studies of post-menopausal animals that a mix of phytochemicals, along with vitamin D, may help protect the liver against inflammation caused by the accumulation of fat.

Study’s lead author Colette Miller said that women going through menopause have an increased tendency to store fat in their liver. They also have increases in visceral fat-the fat around their organs-where inflammation also occurs.

High-doses of vitamin A may adversely affect development of blood cells, thereby causing harm to the foetus in the process, says new research.

Even if vitamin A is required for a normal pregnancy, pregnant women have, therefore, been recommended to limit their consumption of foods that are high in vitamin A.

“Our results show that vitamin A in high doses has a negative effect on blood development. This suggests that there is an additional reason for pregnant women to avoid excessive intake of vitamin A during pregnancy,” said Niels-Bjarne Woods from Lund University in Sweden.

Don’t take your skin for granted, says actress Katrina Kaif, who believes in the use of sunscreen, right intake of water and ensures that her makeup is removed well. The brand ambassador of the skincare range of L’Oreal Paris also says that women must take care of their body and skin according to their age.

“We shouldn’t take our skin for granted, especially since we are often exposed to dirt, heat and pollution daily. We should never underestimate the need for a sunscreen to protect your skin from strong UV rays,” the 31-year-old told IANS in an email interview.

A small yet significant study has revealed that some women turned to watching pornography for the first time after reading the best-seller “Fifty Shades of Grey”.

“Several women [we interviewed] were hopping in for the first time to pornography or sexually explicit material that were written by women for women,” researcher Diana Parry from University of Waterloo in Ontario said in a Salon report.

If you can follow pre-holiday skin care regime religiously, why not post-holiday too? Outdoor activities are fun, but they also leave behind sun tan and take away the glow. Let your tan stay, but don’t compromise on the skin radiance.

Here are a few tips to help repair skin and get your glow back, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Scrub your body
Sunscreen protects skin from harmful sun rays, but can make the skin look dull. A gentle scrub can help in regaining the shine.

Involvement in cyberbullying increases risk of depression in female college students – for both bullies and victims , says a study led by an Indian-origin researcher.

What is worse is that the bullies are also likely to report problem alcohol use, the researchers noted.

“Participants with any involvement in cyberbullying had increased odds of depression and those involved in cyberbullying as bullies had increased odds of both depression and problem alcohol use,” said Rajitha Kota from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine in the US.

West Bengal Governor K.N. Tripathi Thursday expressed satisfaction over the law and order situation in the state and called Kolkata a safe city for women.

Tripathi also said the implementation of the National Food Security Act was a priority of the Mamata Banerjee government.

“As per published data by the National Crimes Records Bureau, Kolkata is a safe city for women, well behind in recorded crimes compared to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad,” Tripathi said in his address to the state assembly.

Female physicians are approximately one and a half times more likely to be divorced than male physicians of a similar age, says a study.

Those female physicians who work longer hours are at increased risk, possibly because of the need for work/life tradeoffs, the researchers pointed out.

“We believe that the higher incidence of divorce among female physicians stems from the greater tradeoffs they are forced to make to achieve work/life balance,” said lead author Dan Ly, medical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Maternal diet affects the nutrient composition of fluid in the womb of women, finds new research.

The finding may aid in the development of nutritional interventions to support the very earliest stages of pregnancy.

The research carried out by scientists at the University of Southampton showed that the concentrations of amino acids in the uterine fluid of non-pregnant women were affected by diet: a less healthy diet was associated with altered concentrations of amino acids compared to those with a healthy diet.

Experiencing financial difficulties at university may increase the risk of developing an eating disorder among female students, a research has found.

Conversely, the study also found that having extreme attitudes to food and eating, such as feeling guilty after eating predicted short-term financial difficulties for female students, suggesting the possibility of a ‘vicious cycle’ occurring.

The summer season calls for a lot of bright colours and accessories, and since winter is fading with each passing day, it’s time to revamp your accessory wardrobe with asymmetrical earrings and tribal necklaces.

Monika Pal Sood, founder of jewellery store Youshine, shares her fashion forecast for summer 2015 in terms of accessories:

Women are likely to seek more options in dating partners and consumer products when they are most fertile, a new study has found.

Just like a fisherman casting a wide net, ovulating women seek to cast a wide net into the dating pool and expand
the number of potential suitors they have to choose from,” said Kristina M Durante, marketing assistant professor at
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and lead investigator of the study.

And, this desire for variety in men at ovulation triggers a variety seeking mindset that carries over into

Women who understand the risk of over-detection and over-diagnosis associated with mammography screening are less likely to have a breast screening test, new research has found.

“Mammography screening can reduce breast cancer deaths but most women are unaware that inconsequential disease can also be detected by screening, leading to over-diagnosis and over-treatment,” said study author Kirsten McCaffery from the University of Sydney.

About half of the parents in the US support later school timings for their teenagers, shows a survey.

The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health was conducted in November/December 2014, following last year’s recommendation from the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) that middle and high schools start at 8:30 a.m. or later.

Among the national sample of parents with teenagers aged 13-17, 40 percent parents expect a later start to allow their teenagers to get more sleep and 22 percent think it would improve their school performance.

A mobile phone app has been created to help young women understand the signs of controlling and abusive behaviour in relationships.

The iMatter app is designed to teach women about intimate partner violence and build resilience, ABC Online reported.

Users can share the content and use the app as a personal journal.

“It’s a bit like a virtual library of images, video clips, quizzes, articles,” Carmel O’Brien, director of clinical services at Doncare, was quoted as saying by ABC.

O’Brien said many girls thought controlling behaviour was actually protective.

A woman from Utah has claimed that she made record for catching most bridal bouquets at weddings and now wants to make things official.

Jamie Jackson from Salt Lake City has submitted an application to Guinness World Records, saying she has broken the 2004 record of Stephanie Monyak of Pennsylvania of catching 11 bouquets, as she had caught 46 since 1996, and has the documentation to prove it, Fox News reported.

It is definitely not easy to please a woman but there are certain things which can make a woman happy.

A new survey has revealed that getting a freebie, winning an argument with customer services and flirting with a stranger are just some of the things that can make a woman’s day, the Daily Express reported.

According to the study, dodging parking tickets and eating cake made the top 20 list of everyday pleasures too.

Freebies were rated by 18 per cent of women followed by cake (eight per cent), victories over customer services (five per cent) and dodging a ticket (one per cent).

More and more are going for live-in relationship than getting married, claims a new study.

According to researchers at the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University, the percentage of women who have cohabitated with someone has almost doubled over the past 25 years.

Dr. Wendy Manning and graduate student Bart Stykes, analyzed and prepared the family profile, and manning said that it was surprising to see the level increase in the last 5 years, as almost 70 percent of women have lived with a cohabiting partner.

A sari is known to be one of the most flattering pieces of clothing and can make you look visibly slender, if worn right and chosen well.

Experts from FashionAndYou, a flash website in the fashion and lifestyle space, share tips on how to step up your style in a sari:

* Choose the right material: The fabric of the sari plays a key role in helping you hide your body’s flaws. Georgette, chiffon and crepe are the ideal materials to opt for. They stick closer to the body and help you look slimmer. Avoid fabrics like silk, kanjivaram, cotton and tissue as these tend to make you look fuller.

A woman, whose vagina was so narrow that she could no longer have sex, has undergone a successful operation to have it reconstructed using a pig intestine.

The patient’s vaginal opening was too narrow to carry out an examination and so doctors decided to try out the operation after learning that pigs intestine could be used on people who had a narrow bladder, the Daily Star reported.

The surgeons, who carried out the Mesh Augmented Vaginal Reconstruction, confirmed they had successfully distended the vaginal entrance using pig’s intestine.

A baby girl in Hong Kong was born “pregnant” with twin fetuses, it has been reported.

The baby’s condition, known as fetus-in-fetu, has been incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births and it’s not clear exactly why it happens, Discovery News reported.

The World Health Organization considered a tiny fetus found within an infant to be a kind of teratoma, or tumor , rather than a normally developing fetus.

A new study has revealed that undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can increase ovarian cancer risk by as much as 40 percent.

The research by Oxford University has been welcomed by cancer charities, who are urging more women to study the risks before deciding if they want the treatment, Sky News reported.