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Lifestyle
Why I'm Reconsidering My Diet Soda Addiction
Daily consumption of diet soda may increase the risk of stroke, heart attack, and vascular death.
News
Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
The omnipresent Susan G. Komen Foundation has pulled its grants for breast-cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood.
Lifestyle
Fat Doesn't Mean Unhealthy: Obesity, Judgment, and Chicken McNuggets
Seventeen-year-old Stacey Irvine's Chicken McNuggets diet has driven her to the hospital. She's also (gasp!) thin.
Lifestyle
Fetal Position: The Political Fight Over the Health Risks of Abortion and Childbirth
The pairing of the data is conspicuous—in the developed world, few women make reproductive health decisions on the basis of possibility of death.
Lifestyle
How Magic Mushrooms Work
A new pair of studies claim that magic mushrooms don't actually expand the mind—in a sense, they contract it.
Lifestyle
Tease Out: Being Mean Won't Solve Childhood Obesity
But will these shock ads provide parents and kids with a wake-up call, or merely serve up a giant meanie burger with a side of shame?
Lifestyle
What Do You Love: The Alchemist
This week in GOOD's video series, Baylen Karl Slote talks about the little things he loves.
Lifestyle
Pornography, Condoms, and You
"I wouldn't mind using condoms more," 20-year-old performer Lily LaBeau told me. "It's just not what people want to see."
Lifestyle
Get Your Community Healthy and Win a $1,000 GOOD Maker Grant
GOOD Maker is seeking fresh ideas to help people in your community get fit in 2012.
Lifestyle
Sore Subject: The Symptoms of Herpes Aren't Just Physical
Once science has the power to eliminate herpes, we'll have to start talking about it.
Technology
Kenyans Going Mobile to Stay Healthy
Finding reliable information about health care is even harder in Kenya. A new mobile app puts information in the hands of those who need it.
Lifestyle
Ballet Is the New Yoga
It's a different sort of balance.
Lifestyle
Sex, Drugs, and DSK: The Year in Sex
Whether it was reviled GOP candidates or beloved male porn stars, this year in sex was as varied as sex itself.
Education
NASA Challenges Students to Train Like Astronauts
Astronauts need brains and muscles to spacewalk.
Lifestyle
The Great Adderall Shortage of 2011, and the Natural Alternative
It's not endorsed by doctors, but the wheat-free approach is increasingly popular.
News
Obama Has Insured 2.5 Million 20-Somethings. Will That Make Us Vote For Him?
If Obama knows what's good for him, he'll use this health care coup to woo back his most ardent supporters. But will it be enough?
News
People Are Awesome: The Teenage Girl Who's Helping Defeat Cancer
How a teenage girl beat the guys to become a science fair champion, a cancer fighter, and $100,000 richer.
Lifestyle
'Should've Kept My Legs Together': An Oral History of Plan B
GOOD's favorite sexually-active women share their sad, hilarious, and uplifting attempts to secure emergency contraception.
