Too much sitting is especially risky for women! and...exercise doesn't erase the effect of sitting at the office all day. The American Cancer Society study found that:
-Women who reported more than six hours per day of sitting were 37 percent more likely to die during the time period studied than those who sat fewer than 3 hours a day.

-Men who sat more than 6 hours a day were 18 percent more likely to die than those who sat fewer than 3 hours per day.

Tea that will make a pee problem--
Iced Tea Warning from Medical News Today:
Iced tea contains high concentrations of oxalate, one of the key chemicals that lead to the formation of kidney stones. Though hot tea also contains oxalate, it isn't as easy to consume a quantity large enough amount to encourage the formation of stones.
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Also from MNT:

Sure to boost your mental health: Obama continues to slide downward in the polls with only 45.7% approval and 49.3% disapproval. Americans must have taken their racist pill this week as that is the ONLY Liberal Media Approved explanation for disliking Mr. Obama's divisive presidency...but remember if that goes so must this: blacks must surely be racists for not liking Mr. Bush's divisive presidency. Yak attack.
Ok on to other health issues:
From Ben Gurion University comes good news: lose weight and lose the plaque:

Obese women and sex: the rate of unplanned pregnancies is four times higher among single obese women than normal weight women, despite them being less likely to have been sexually active in the past year. Obese men have fewer sexual partners in a 12 month period, but are more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction and develop sexually transmitted infections than normal weight men.
Source: BMJ
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Breast Cancer bruha ha:

It is true that women who don’t have children are at a higher risk of breast cancer as well as women who delay childbreaing past their 20s. Bizarrely, that unfortunate truth is distorted by anti-choice foes to falsely claim the abortion causes breast cancer.

Should you go Cold Turkey when cutting off the HRT?

Since the publication of the Women's Health Initiative results (JW Womens Health May 2 2006), hormone therapy (HT) has been recommended only for women who have substantial symptoms at menopause — and then only for as long as necessary to alleviate symptoms. But is HT best discontinued abruptly or by tapering?

To address this question....Women were randomized to stop HT abruptly or to take their usual doses every other day for 4 weeks and then stop.

Result: no difference, in terms of hot flash recurrence.

A study that appears in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology finds that short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous tumors that often occur in women during their reproductive years).

Pre-eclampsia linked to thyroid problems
Women who develop pre-eclampsia during pregnancy are more likely than other women to have reduced thyroid function (hypothyroidism) per a new BMJ study. It may also put women at a greater risk of thyroid problems later in life.

Pre-eclampsia is a serious condition where abnormally high blood pressure and other disturbances develop in the second half of pregnancy. Hypothyroidism is caused by insufficient production of hormones by the thyroid gland.