January 2022 – Healthier

The 5 Best Diets for Women Over 50

1. Best all-around: the Mediterranean diet The Mediterranean diet is consistently rated as one of the healthiest eating patterns for almost anyone, including women over 50. Based on the eating patterns of people in Greece and Southern Italy in the 1960s, this diet is characterized by its low saturated fat content. It primarily comprises vegetables, legumes, fruit, nuts, and whole grains, and it features olive oil as the primary source of added fat (1Trusted Source). Although the Mediterranean diet is predominantly plant-based, it also includes moderate amounts of fish and dairy, as well as small quantities of eggs, poultry, and...

Pleasure,Sex & Relationships

How to Build Your Sexual Confidence So You Can Feel The Pleasure

1. Take inventory of your feelings “This requires us to tap into memories, past experiences, [and] feelings when topics around sexuality come up and [learn to process] them,” Hope says. Journaling about your personal experiences with sex (whether it’s about conversations you’ve had or sexual acts you’ve engaged in) can allow you to gain a 360-view of why you may not feel confident while having sex. However, if doing this becomes too uncomfortable for you, that’s OK. Instead of journaling on your own, it might be a good idea to connect with a professional to help you uncover where this lack of confidence...

Pleasure,Sex & Relationships

How to make sex of all kinds pleasurable

Whether you’re having solo, partnered, or multipartnered sex, and whether you’ve had sex zero, 100, or 100 thousand times, these tips will come (wink) through for you. Forget any myths you may have learned “So often the barriers to pleasurable sex aren’t lack of skills, toys, or attractiveness,” Tanner says. “More than likely, it’s that we’re buying into myths about what we’re allowed to want and need during sex.” This is especially true for cisgender women and other folks assigned female at birth. Here, Tanner says, having more pleasurable sex means “getting more comfortable with taking up space, asking for...