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Your answers to 15 simple questions can help me to predict what types of things are likely to turn you on—and what types of things are likely to turn you off. All I need is a little information about your demographic background, your personality, and your sexual history. Below, we’ll explore three of these 15 questions and explain why they’re important for understanding Americans’ sexual desires. People who have an insecure attachment type, are less likely to fantasize about group sex and nonmonogamy, and more likely to fantasize about bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism (BDSM), sexual novelty, and romance....

Over the course of three years, I suffered four lost pregnancies. I spent hours googling “baby after lost pregnancy” just hoping to find a story similar to mine. I spent night after night wondering why is this happening to us, as everyone around me seemed to be getting pregnant. Social media didn’t help. I can’t tell you how many times I saw a pregnancy announcement pop up on my Facebook feed right after I lost my baby....

It involves skipping food for the majority of the day and eating all your meals in a shortened time frame. As an integrative physician, I’ve spent the last decade working with thousands of patients, many of whom were women going through menopause. Here’s a brief look at how menopause changes your body and how intermittent fasting might help with many of the common symptoms. During this time, the ovaries stop producing estrogen and progesterone, which, in turn, stops menstruation....

While buying organic kale is one way to avoid pesticide consumption, some people have floated the idea that it may still contain toxic heavy metals. Recent research hasn’t backed up the claims, but without a proper understanding, the statements may sound scary. To help make sense of it, let’s talk heavy metals: where they come from, what to do about them, and what it all means for our kale consumption. Arsenic is predominantly found in its organic form in rice, other grains, and vegetables....

Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world1, and over 85% of the global supply comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, although there are 42 countries that also make it, according to the World Wildlife Federation. It’s considered a low-cost oil because it often produces a greater yield than other vegetable oils with an overall lower cost of production. While this sounds good in theory, it can create some environmental issues when production gets out of hand (more on that later)....

Protein powders have been around for more years than you or I have been alive, combined. Some claim that whey was discovered over 8,000 years ago by cheesemakers (is there anything they can’t do?). Admittedly, I was not there, so I don’t know anything about that, but in my lifetime, I’ve seen us discover and rediscover every type of protein out there and bounce between them like a steel sphere in a pinball machine....

“I often drink Topo Chico daily, sometimes up to four to five bottles per day but usually one to two,” Attia told mindbodygreen. “As I fast for seven days once a quarter, Topo Chico helps me get through not eating food…having somewhat of a variety compared to just water is amazing.” If drinking nearly half a dozen bottles of Topo Chico a day seems extreme, consider that few brands enjoy as vociferous a devotion as this particular sparkling mineral water, which is bottled in the north Mexican city of Monterrey....