Health

WINNERS! Red Dress Pin Giveaway

March 20, 2009

(www.sass-pants.com) — The results are in, and we have our 5 winners of the American Heart Month giveaway of the limited-edition crystal Diet Coke Red Dress Pin, designed by Heidi Klum. We had 9 eligible entries! Here’s the random sequence from Random.org. As you can see, our winners are as follows: Congratulations, ladies! Thanks for [...]

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Wrapping Up American Heart Month With a Fun Heart-Health Giveaway

February 26, 2009

(www.sass-pants.com) — As American Heart Month comes to a close, Diet Coke offered me the chance to run a great giveaway targeted toward raising awareness of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women in America. The prize? A limited-edition crystal Diet Coke Red Dress Pin, designed by Heidi Klum, for five (5) lucky readers. [...]

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Interview With Soldier, Firefighter, Nurse, Mother, and Menorrhagia Sufferer Robin McIvor

February 25, 2009

(www.sass-pants.com) — There’s a crappy period, and then there’s menorrhagia. Women with menorrhagia experience extremely heavy blood loss with each period. We’re talking more than double that of an average period (30-40 mL is standard), a flow that will soak through a regular pad or tampon in an hour. Women with menorrhagia often suffer from [...]

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February Is American Heart Month

February 9, 2009

(www.sass-pants.com) — Did you know that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women age 20 and older? Or that it kills more women than the next 7 leading causes of death combined? Heart health is crucial to long life, but in today’s busy world, it’s easy to let simple health practices fall by [...]

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Why Can’t I Sleep?

January 29, 2009

(www.sass-pants.com) — It’s solidly the middle of the night here in Virginia and I am wide awake. Well, scratch that. When I’m vertical, I feel like I’m about to fall over from exhaustion. The moment I lie down, I feel like I could run a marathon. Ever since my car accident, I’ve been having trouble [...]

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High-Fructose Corn Syrup, Obesity, and Autism

January 28, 2009

(www.sass-pants.com) — I love those commercials from the Corn Refiners Association that suggest that health-conscious parents and other adults are morons for wanting to avoid high-fructose corn syrup. But I love even more what The Consumerist had to say about it: “All we managed to glean from the commercials is that not consuming high fructose [...]

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