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On Martin Luther King Day, we remember the hard task of integrating our society–starting with our schools. Now there’s another reason why this is important: it turns out that the good grades that high schoolers earn aren’t just good for making the honor roll–they also make them healthier as adults, too.

Studies have long shown that education is linked to better health, but new research shows that higher academic performance in high school plays a critical role in better health throughout life. The higher a study participant’s high school rank was, the lower the probability that participant experienced worsening health between 1992 and 2003, when the class members neared retirement age.
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Like a drug to men – Men: Women love them, but they don’t surprise them and here’s more news that won’t come as a surprise to any thinking female: Just looking at their curves gives a guy a “high” that scientists equate with drinking alcohol or taking drugs!

This is probably the reason that men are so much more interested in pornography than women are. But it’s curves that count, not overall body fat. In LiveScience.com, Charles Q. Choi quotes researcher Steven Platek as saying,”The media portrays women as wholly too skinny.”
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What will they look like in 2012, and AFTERWARDS? – What will the women of the future look like? If you believe fashion magazines, they’ll all be slim and boyish, but scientists think that tomorrow’s females are likely to be slightly shorter and plumper, have healthier hearts and be able to reproduce for a longer period of time. Researchers predict these changes based on new proof that humans are still evolving.

Recent medical advances mean that many people who once would have died young now live to old age. This has led to the theory that natural selection no longer affects humans (that we have stopped evolving).
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Thanks to Religion – Woman aren’t just discriminated against in the Middle East. Fundamentalists in Europe are a threat to women and so are fundamentalists right here in the US!

If given to girls in childhood, the HPV vaccine can prevent the types of sexually transmitted disease that can eventually lead to the silent killer which is cervical cancer. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends the human papillomavirus vaccination for all 11- and 12-year-old girls, but two years later, results of a recent survey of pediatricians across the US showed that more than half of the physicians in Texas do NOT follow these recommendations.
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