Is it just me or does Demi Moore's hospitalization not really come as that big of a surprise? Hasn't everyone else seen just how emaciated and SICK the actress has been looking for the past few months? The latest info on the former Mrs. Kutcher's scary incident: She had a seizure Monday night and is being treated for anorexia, among other substance abuse issues, according to RadarOnline.com. Awful! But obviously, there's a lot more going on here behind-the-scenes, and I'm not just talking about the divorce ... There's also the mental and emotional toll of the divorce and whatever else is going on in Demi's life. Just look at what her rep said: "Because of the stresses in her life right now, Demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health."

Why is it so hard for us to buy that exhaustion and stress play such a huge role in a breakdown like this?

Pssst, c'mere. You want to know a dirty little secret about gossip? It's actually good for you! Yep, a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, has found that swapping scuttlebutt not only provides benefits to us as a society -- curtailing bad behavior, helping others from unfairly being taken advantage of -- but also as individuals, lowering our stress levels by allowing us to warn others about bad behavior.

In other words, if we see or experience someone doing a bad thing, we feel much better (more in control, less upset) if we can alert others about it. In cases like this, researchers have concluded, gossip is positively therapeutic.

Newsflash: Your mom was right! You know that expression "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger"? (I guess the maxim was actually borrowed from Nietzsche.) Turns out it wasn't just a pretty phrase. Difficult life events -- the death of a loved one, divorce, job loss, illness, assault, or a natural disaster -- actually do help people become more resilient and better able to cope with future difficulties, a new study has found.

In fact, according to researchers, overcoming adversity affects us not only psychologically -- helping us to feel more confident and boosting our coping skills -- but also physiologically, promoting cell growth in the areas of our brains we use to deal with stress and making us better able to confront future difficulties and even to more easily withstand physical pain.

How are you feeling today? A little edgy, anxious … more than a little stressed? Yeah, well, you might want to take a break from your smartphone. A new study has found a link between compulsively checking your smartphone and elevated stress levels. And it's not just work-related checking that's to blame. Personal use of our smartphones – all those social network status updates and news feeds – is also making us jittery.

I don't know about you, but I sure didn't need a study to tell me my smartphone was stressing me out. For every advantage I've gotten through my iPhone (I can check my work email while I'm picking up my kids at school!), there's a stressful counterpart (I can check my work email while I'm picking up my kids at school), making it a true love-hate technological relationship.

What is it that stresses me out most about my smartphone? Here are six things:

Judging from how packed my gym is at all hours of the day these past couple of weeks, it's obvious that New Year's resolutions are still in full effect. And any health food store you walk into is pushing supplements and detoxes galore, hoping people looking to turn over a new leaf in the New Year are also interested in "cleansing" after a year season full of gluttony. Even Gwyneth Paltrow's jumped on the cleansing train with her new "GOOP in a box" kit that'll run ya a hefty $425.

It's these kinds of cleanses that you'll shell out big money for and that come in a box that are triggering a negative backlash from experts (usually those who make a habit of dissing alternative medicine) who say cleansing is a waste of time and money. But they're failing to tell the whole story.

Brooke Burke has a lot going on these days. She's not only a host on Dancing with the Stars, but she also has four kids, a husband (sexy David Charvet), a modeling career, a product line (Baboosh Baby!) for moms, and probably a whole slew of other stuff I can't even think of right now. In short, she's a busy woman, and she barely gets enough shuteye. Not too much different from most moms, really. But the way she handles her sleep deprivation is a bit different.

Burke told Fitness magazine recently shared her secret to getting enough sleep, which in turn leads to a healthy sex life, as well as keeping her sanity. Throw all those guesses out the window, because it's probably not what you think.

The holidays can be a ridiculously stressful time: managing family, party-going, party-hosting, shopping, gift-giving, tipping, cleaning, cooking, decorating, baking … the list of to-dos, to-deal-withs and to decide-abouts goes on and on. Plus, you've got to keep your family's regular day-to-day life on track as well. It's not like the whole world just stops to give you time to prepare!

Relax. Take a deep breath. Here are a few easy ways to de-stress your life this holiday season:

You know, I always figured the question of who has it better, working moms or stay-at-home moms, was one of those unanswerable questions like which came first, the chicken or the egg? or if a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? (I recently contributed to an eBook, Welcome to My World, in which the to-work-or-not-to-work question is debated, but not resolved.) But it turns out that, at least according to a new study, there is, in fact, an answer: Working moms have it better.

At the very least, according to this new study, published in Journal of Family Psychology, working moms are healthier and happier than stay-at-home mothers, who reported much higher rates of depression.