© JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty Images The insane pressure we're putting on pregnant women has got to stop Pregnancy can be challenging for many — from rapidly changing bodies to numerous pains and aches in all sorts of places. Add to that the incredible amount of judgment, shame and cri ...

© Dutko Unhappy couple What makes men cheat? Marriage counselor M. Gary Neuman dug through past research on male infidelity and found that most answers came from the wife's point of view. Wouldn't it make more sense to ask the guys? he thought. So for his book, The Tru ...

© Provided by Rodale Inc. Girl Eating An Apple In the past, studies have shown that concentrations of common pesticides in children’s bodies all but disappear when they switch from eating conventionally grown food to a diet that’s exclusively organic. But new research from at th ...

© Mentalfloss 15 Adorable Facts About How Babies Learn For the first few years of a baby’s life, everything in the world is new. Learning is a 24/7 process. They have to figure out how to move their bodies, how to manipulate objects, how to understand and use language, and mor ...

© chapin31/E+/Getty Images Your great aunt Judy was on to something. Here it comes—the cold, icky weather that keeps us trapped indoors, swapping germs like a snot-filled class of kindergarteners. Ascolds and cases of the flu take out otherwise healthy individuals (and at tim ...

© DeanDrobot/iStock/Getty Images Nope, it doesn’t hang in your stomach for seven years. Still terrified every time chewing gum accidentally finds itself traveling down your throat? Don’t be: Mom’s old claim that the not-for-swallowing candy sits in your stomach for se ...

© Image by Thinkstock Man, Wife And Mother When your wife gets ticked at your mother, your own relationship with the two ladies you love most can get a little awkward. They’re both ultimately trying to make you happy. So it’s your job to manage the tug-of-war. And man ...

© Fabrice Lerouge/Onoky/Corbis Admit it: You've done at least one of these things before. Turns out, there's a scientific explanation for why. 1. Getting Caught Talking to Yourself We’ve all been there. You’ve just done something stupid and reprimand yourself out loud or are aski ...

© Getty Images If you have a tween or a teen, the recent news that more people have died from taking selfies than from shark attacks probably came as no surprise. More than 90 percent of teens post photos of themselves online. And though the risk of death is highly unlikely, parents ar ...

© Dennis Skley CC BY-ND 2.0 Paraskevidekatriaphobia: the fear of Friday the 13th. Today, Nov.13, 2015 is the third Friday the 13th of 2015 and the first one in eight months. As any fan of superstitions will know, there is some bad karma surrounding any Friday that lands on the ...