The underweight beauty ideal of today is a complete invention of media machine. Nature never intended women to look like teenage boys with large breasts, but relentless media depiction of this body type powerfully defines it as ultimate in beauty.

Without starvation and plastic surgery, it's impossible for 99% of women to achieve this ideal. So we learn to dislike our naturally gorgeous bodies and try desperately to change them. The toxic body messages we are deluged with every day cause eating disorders and widespread unhappiness.

53% of 13 year-old girls and 80% of adult women spend every day disliking their bodies. It doesn't have to be this way. People naturally have all sorts of different body shapes and sizes. We don't have to let media continue to define just one type of beauty as ideal. We don't have to let them continue to ruin countless lives in their quest for more profits.

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Media Watchdog program is working to change toxic media message. You can help by joining free program and monitoring magazines, television, and radio. Keep track of what you see then send your positive and negative findings to NEDA.

Have you wondered if an active sex life can truly alleviate pain?

Do sexually active people have fewer colds and bouts of flu?

Is it true that married people live longer than single or divorced people?

Can an active sex life help prevent disease and illnesses by strengthening our immune system?

I have these answers and more, read on....

An active sex life is both stimulating and rejuvenating to glandular system. When we make love pituitary gland, thyroid gland, adrenal glands, prostate and testes in men, and ovaries in women are thoroughly exercised.

The net result is that people in love look and feel better about themselves. Activation of sex center in brain has health effects on other brain centers. Every cell in body gets this message and is strengthened by it.

An active sex life strengthens our immune system. Scientists have compared nerve endings of happy, loving and sexually-fulfilled people with unhappy and sexually-unfulfilled people.