I've always had a hard time doing a push-up correctly...this is helpful!

Quoted: Fitness guru Jack LaLanne knows push-ups. During his 30-plus years on television, he regularly demonstrated the proper push-up technique and wowed us with feats of ...

How awful and completely unacceptable!!! Ahh...I can't believe my country still does this. I hope this government intervention works...But the foundation of the problem isn't being dealt with, and that is: girls are valued less compared to boys. Unless we aim to change negative social stigma about the value of women, that they are more than just a way of lessening burden once married off, we can't just pay people off. This is ridiculous. We need to redirect focus on educating women, and educating the public against things like dowries and required domesticities of women (especially in the rural areas).

Quoted: By the time you finish reading this story, 10 more female fetuses in India will have been aborted. Aborted by a medical profession that profits ...

Quoted: Ignorance about sex is widespread in the land of the Kama Sutra, where explicit sex acts are celebrated in ancient temple architecture.

it's about time India focused on sex EDUCATION as a means to prevent spread of HIV/AIDS. I hope the Indian gov't will stay strong and enforce sex ed in schools.

Quoted: Indian men cannot be trusted and their promiscuous behaviour is fuelling the country's HIV epidemic, an MP has said.

no shit. these men need to be beaten with a bat (or a pitch fork, Melissa). PS, bbc.uk really needs to get another picture for this subject. everytime i've dotted anything about HIV in India, they use this same picture...

Quoted: Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite authorities' efforts to stamp it out.

this is a major problem in many African countries. I remember when I traveled to Kenya, these young girls were telling us of their experiences, and it was painful to hear of such atrocity. I can't believe that people would bring these practices to foreign lands.

Quoted: Asian women who eat a diet rich in meat and puddings may be at higher risk of breast cancer, a study claims.

that's a bit alarming, but the article doesn't address other factors of breast cancer like genetics and hormonal imbalance from birth control pills, etc. Also, what factors of the meat-sweet diet increases risk for breast cancer? i'd understand increased risk for heart disease, but breast cancer? i wish there was more analysis of this study...

Quoted: To Mauritania’s men, fat is sexy, so women resort to force-feeding and steroid use in pursuit of obesity.

Never ask a woman her age and her *weight*...or should you?