Why Age Gives West African Women More Autonomy and Power

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Soninke people of Senega dancing at the declaration of Bakel festivities via Tostan

Why Age Gives West African Women More Autonomy and Power

Several studies, covering about 58 countries across the world, found that as women get older they are more able to make decisions independently of men. But scholars have struggled to pin down explanations for this age dividend – why are women given more independence the older they get? We wanted to know what the reasons may be.

Forget Botox. Make Forward Folds Your Daily Dose With A Goddess Pose For Good Measure

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Vogue Australia asks: Is yoga the new facelift?  Instead of Botox or other procedures you probably can't afford, consider that practitioners of yoga are known for having youthful looks, and not only because the practice yoga diminishes stress and body-ravaging inflammation. 

Renowned Aussie yoga teacher, nutritionist and author Lola Berry says, “Yoga poses can play a big role in our beauty regime, when you increase blood flow to the face it can result in naturally lifted and plumped skin.” Specifically, “Forward folds—where you are bending at the hip and letting your torso hang towards the ground—and inversions—downward facing dog, shoulder, head and hand stands—where blood is sent to the head and face,” says Berry, will achieve this kind of natural facelift.

Kate Winslet Stuns In Vogue Italy, Talks Social Media & Anorexia, & Vulgarity Of Talking Hollywood Pay Gap

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Kate Winslet In Moody Solitary Images By Peter Lindbergh For Vogue Italia November 2015

It's a Kate Winslet morning on AOC as the actor stuns in Peter Lindbergh's Vogue Italy photos, talks no photoshop in her L'Oreal Lancome contract, social media and self-esteem in young women, and the vulgarity of talking about pay scales in Hollywood. 

Kate Winslet Says No Photoshop With Lancome, Talking Hollywood Pay Gap Is Vulgar & Social Media Promotes Anorexia In Young Women

Carmen Dell'Orefice Talks The Importance Of Sex In Healthy Aging For New You Magazine

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Carmen Dell’Orefice Talks The Importance Of Sex In Healthy Aging For New You Magazine

Carmen Talks Sex

Asked if she still has a sex life, Carmen asks ’ … why would I give that up?’ before continuing ‘Do I love to breathe? If you have a Rolls Royce and it is up on wheels, you go in with the key and every now and then turn on the motor to make sure the motor is running. So when you want to drive the car, it is all oiled and ready.’

Carmen is all Rolls Royce, adding that although she has been married three times and engaged once, she refuses to give up on love. Expressing total candor about masturbation, the New-York born daughter of Italian and Hungarian parents responds: ‘I know how to pleasure myself’ before adding ‘I can go for a low romantic love, and that’s fine but I am conditioned to the whole meal.’

Body Beat | Mind Control of Food Cravings | Ashley Graham For Navabi | Christie Brinkley's New Skin Care Line

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Body Beat | Mind Control of Food Cravings |  Ashley Graham For Navabi |  Christie Brinkley’s New Skin Care Line

 …  Anecdotally,  I have engaged in these practices for years, coming to grips with my own cravings as the primary vehicle for controlling my weight. When I see photos of a Big Mac or other fat-drenched burger, my mind says ‘poison’ and I actually have a response of disgust, not desire. 

Brain science suggests that we can employ the same tactics in reprogramming our brains to resist size 0 fashion models as the ‘ideal’ vision of female beauty and a body image we women should regard as aspirational. This AOC article deserves updating, because science clearly is on my side in the assumption that we CAN control our response to advertising and commercial messaging, as well as our own private desires for food and drink. It’s tough going in the beginning, but we CAN do it! ~ Anne

Nicole Kidman Is Smart Sensuality Sexy in 'Nature Unleashed' for Jimmy Choo

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Nicole Kidman Is Smart Sensuality Sexy in ‘Nature Unleashed’ for Jimmy Choo

Nicole Kidman On Health & Exercise

How does Nicole Kidman stay looking so great? The star recently told Parade that her working consists of running, spinning and tennis. She tries to do physical activity every day, along with meditation.

On the subject of food, Kidman says “I just really enjoy good food and the relaxation of preparing it and eating it. I’m not a very good cook but I do love when someone else is.”

Let’s not forget love either: “I also believe love is incredibly important to maintaining a positive outlook. Love for your children, for your partner, being able to give it and receive it.”

Monaco's Princess Charlene | Michelle & Jill AARP Interview | Gwyneth Paltrow

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Comfort Food w/Class

Marmalade Brioche with Black Figs Stylist Magazine UK

A wakeup visual delight for the eyes. Recipe at Stylist

The perfect amalgamation of English and French cuisine, this decadent breakfast replaces bread with brioche but it has lashings of traditional orange marmalade, too, to give it an Anglo twist. If you want to turn this morning meal into an afternoon-tea treat, you can try using blackberry jam instead. Either way, serve a slice accompanied by a steaming hot pot of Earl Grey tea.

Monaco’s New Princess

Fit For a Princess: Charlene Wittstock Vogue US

Anne can vouch for the idea that Monaco is — well stodgy.  Prior to her weddind to Prince Albert, Charlene Wittstock lived alone in a small apartment in Monaco, thousands of miles from home and unable to speak French.

“It was sometimes overwhelming,” she recalls of the solitude and jealousies she suffered as Prince Albert’s girlfriend. “I was trying too hard to please too many people and at times was at risk of losing my sense of myself.”

Princess Charlene is now married to Prince Albert and is working to find her own individual persona in Monaco. Vogue writes that she will joke to fellow guests at charity galas that she is the only woman in the room who ate her entire dinner, plus two bread rolls.

10 Years | Brand New Store

Ikram Goldman: Time Well Spent Vogue US

 

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