LADIES

Below are articles relevant to ladies that have come in either Mint newspaper or other places that might be of interest to you.

MON, MAR 09 2009. 09 27 PM IST

The female of the species...

....is more robust than the male. Desmond Morris presents a zoologist’s perspective in his book The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body: “At the age of thirty, men are 15 times more accident-prone than women,” he says.

In 2002, Pam Reed, a 100-pound mother and stepmother of five, ran the Badwater Ultramarathon—the most demanding race on the planet—covering 217km non-stop from Death Valley to Mt Whitney, California, in temperatures up to 55 degrees Celsius. She beat the course record (for either sex) by more than 5 hours.

WED, JAN 28 2009. 11 09 PM IST

What, how, why... all about F.A.T.

How often have you heard the remark, “A girl can never be too thin”? All of us know someone or the other who is size zero and still wants to lose more weight. (You might wonder from where, especially if everything seems just perfect.)