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Period. Time of the month. Menses. Whatever you call it, it’s a fact of life and, for many of us, unavoidable. Why does it carry such shame and embarrassment? Why are we encouraged to conceal it? Even now, despite being adults and amid so much talk of female empowerment, discussing periods is still embarrassing for a lot of people . Brands have even come up with whole campaigns to make tampons look like sweets, rather than the blood-soaking mechanism they actually are, in order to spare us and the unassuming male across the train aisle the humiliation when it falls out of our bag. Is this shame linked to the time and way in which we learn about periods ? If so, the time has come to change things. I was eight years old when I got my menarche (first period). I’d grown a lot that summer and started wearing glasses so, with two decades worth of retrospect, it now seems obvious this may have been coming – but no one told me what to expect. Instead, I was shocked by … [Read more...] about We should be talking to our girls about periods earlier

Tiger Woods of the United States warms up on the range during a practice round prior to the start of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club on Tuesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [AFP/YONHAP] Yang Yong-eun chips to the green on the third hole during a practice round for the PGA Championship golf tournament on Tuesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [AP/YONHAP] Korea's Yang Yong-eun, Lee Kyoung-hoon, Kim Si-woo, Kim Bio and Kim Joo-hyung join golf legend Tiger Woods at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this week for the 104th PGA Championship. Im Sung-jae will sit out the PGA major after testing positive for Covid-19 last week. KPGA golfer Kim Bio earned his place after winning the 41st GS Caltex Maekyung Open, and world No. 72 Kim Joo-hyung earned his seat as one of the world's top 100 golfers. Yang, who competes as Y. E. Yang, tees off this week as one of the past winners alongside John Daly and Shaun Micheel. Yang Yong-eun, right reacts beside … [Read more...] about Strong Korean contingent to compete at PGA Championship

D uring the 17 months of the Bush administration just about everything has gone wrong for the US government in preparing the public for military strikes against Iraq . Convincing friendly governments and allies has not fared much better. Acts of terrorism against US facilities overseas and the anthrax menace at home could not be linked to Iraq. Evidence of al-Qaida/lraq collaboration does not exist, neither in the training of operatives nor in support to Ansar-al-Islam, a small fundamentalist group which allegedly harbours al-Qaida elements and is trying to destabilise lraqi Kurdistan. In the aftermath of the carnage of September 11, the political landscape in the Middle East has changed dramatically. Years of US double standards in dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have taken a heavy toll. The Arab, Turkish and Kurdish public in the area is wary of facing more turmoil, suffering and uncertainty. The Beirut summit of the Arab League in March signalled that all … [Read more...] about Go on, call Bush’s bluff

We all go through phases of wanting to lose a few pounds and often stumble upon some questionable, and potentially false, diet tips. The internet is inundated with claims promising incredible results by following specific food, nutrition and exercise routines. One popular theory suggests that eating after 8pm will make you gain weight. But claims about dining late are misleading as the truth is that what you eat is much more important than when you eat. Separating fact from the fiction, Healthline has revealed everything you need to know about late-night eating and weight gain. Want to get the latest health news direct to your inbox? Sign up for the Mirror Health newsletter HERE What you eat is much more important than when you eat ( Image: Getty Images) Does eating time really matter? The idea that eating late causes weight gain stems from animal studies, which suggests that the body consumes calories differently past a certain time of day. … [Read more...] about Weight loss myth buster: Does eating late at night cause you to gain pounds

The tears flow readily as Gemma Carlsson counts out the last of this week’s money. It’s coming to the end of the month, so she’s down to a pile of small change. “It’s not where I want to be,” she whispers. “I hate it. It feels like I’m getting depression just from being here. It’s damp, it’s falling apart. The kids hate it too.” She’s sitting in a room with damp walls, an ancient TV that only plays children’s channels, and the tell-tale smell of rat faeces wafting in from behind the sparse units in the kitchen beyond. Home for Gemma, 38, and her children, aged 20, 15 and 10, is a three-bedroom council house on Middlesbrough’s Grove Hill estate. The family have lived there – always in abject poverty – for the past 12 years. Gemma’s deprivation is what the experts classify as “in-work poverty” in Britain's biggest unemployment blackspot She earns £456 a month and gets £665 in Universal Credit . Yet the cost of living crisis means her £400 a month food bill – which … [Read more...] about Mum’s fight for survival as cost of living crisis leaves family unable to make ends meet

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that former President Donald Trump was “critical” to the Republicans winning in the 2022 midterms. Partial transcript as follows: MCDANIEL: Oh, I’m not surprised that he got involved. Listen, the RNC stays neutral for a reason. We legally have to stay neutral, but it is helpful because we didn’t put our thumb on the scale and we get to bring everybody together after the fact and have a kumbaya moment. But President Trump is always going to get involved in primaries, as is other — as other candidates across the country. That’s just the nature of politics. MACCALLUM: All right. I just want to put this on the screen. Madison Cawthorn, obviously, has gotten a lot of attention in this race. He lost his bid to retain his House seat. The president kind of supported him, the former president, last minute in that race. But here’s what he just said, Madison Cawthorn: The time … [Read more...] about RNC Chair McDaniel: Trump Is ‘Going to Be Critical’ to Help GOP Win in the Midterms