We loves us some junk food late at night, and now there's proof. An app called Massive Health tracked the eating habits of people all over the world to create maps showing what kinds of foods we eat at different times of day: Green dots for healthy food, orange and red for junk food. Guess what? The world is flooded in green dots first thing in the morning, and then later in the day and night, it gets orangier and junkier.

So ... at least we're staring out with a nutritious breakfast? But wow, things sure go downhill from there. By 1:00 a.m. it looks like we're all noshing on French fries and ice cream -- duh, because that's what you eat after a wild night out, right? Salad is not hangover food. Take a look.

I'm not big into the country scene, but ever since I checked out the adorbs pictures of Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton's wedding, I've been a Miranda fan. Seriously, any woman who is down for a bouquet made of vintage brooches on her big day is my sorta gal.

The country superstar is looking fabulous on the cover of Self magazine's June issue. Inside she gets personal and talks about how happy she is to NOT be a size zero.

"I feel my best when I'm a toned, not flabby, size 8," Lambert dishes. "I'm a confident person overall. Though like any other girl, I have insecurities."

A woman who is A-OKAY with being a size 8? So. Refreshing. Yup, it's official: my girl crush is full-blown.

Everyone loves a good time-lapse video, especially one that shows the glorious transformation of a woman's body throughout pregnancy. Those who are diligent enough to document the whole journey have produced some amazing keepsakes and a look at the remarkable process that takes place during those nine months. The March of Dimes has gotten in on the action as well, but for a much more pointed reason -- to let women know that ALL nine months are important for a developing baby.

With so many early inductions and scheduled c-sections, babies are often missing out on important days and weeks of growing time that could cause long-term problems in the future. The primary message: A healthy baby is worth the wait.

The cool thing about being a woman—one of the many cool things about being a woman, I should say—is that our beauty doesn’t come wrapped up in just one kind of package. We’re a powerful assortment of delectable differences: thick and shapely, athletic and muscular, tall and long-legged. Still, the fashion industry has traditionally celebrated rail thinness as the only desirable body shape. And it’s affected generations of teenage girls. (Twiggy, unfortunately, wasn’t a sensation for naught.) Continual epic fail.

Maybe we should all ship our daughters for study abroad in Israel for a semester or two. Not because of the culture or the history or the lox (though those are all certainly reason enough), but because they seem to be light years ahead of us over there in the effort to broaden perceptions of women’s beauty. 

When it comes to smart dietary habits that can guard us against breast cancer, it can be difficult to sift through all the research out there. To eat soy or not to eat soy, to steer clear of dairy, to drink red wine, white wine, or no wine?! Ahhh! Overwhelming, right? But there's one rule that never seems to change and only seems to get even more obvious: We have to eat our veggies.

Cruciferous ones (like cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli) are always touted as fighting off cancerous cells, but a recent study published in the journal Hormones and Cancer gives props to two less likely heroes: Celery and parsley.

Stop Rubbing Your Eyes!So I'm frankly still a little bit traumatized from something that happened to my 6-year-old son earlier this week, and because I don't want the same thing to happen to you/your kid, I'm going to tell you my cautionary tale.

(Even though it's kind of unpleasant. Then again, if you're a mom, you've got a pretty high tolerance for "unpleasant," so I guess we're cool.)

Julian, my son, gets wicked seasonal allergies this time of year; springtime, to him, means a stuffy nose, headaches, and -- worst of all -- itchy eyes.

Which, of course, he can't stop rubbing ... which, of course, makes them even more red and itchy and swollen and, well, it's just not a good time for anybody. I feel like the only words I've spoken to him for the past month are "Stop rubbing your eyes!"

For some reason I've always been skeptical of the 5-second-rule. Maybe it's because I don't mop my floors often enough or maybe I'm a teensy bit of a germophobe sometimes, but gross!

Why would I want to eat something that fell on the very same surface I just walked across in my tattered old Converse? Why not just eat off the bottoms of my sneakers as if they were plates? Hell, why not just eat my shoe?!

Anyway, turns out I was right to doubt the whole still-sanitary-if-under-5-seconds myth: According to a recent study, more bacteria sticks to food faster than most people think. (And not the "good" sort of immune system-strengthening bacteria, either.)

In just 3 seconds (less than 5!), some of the foods test-dropped on a dirty floor showed signs of klebsiella, a bacteria capable of causing a "wide range of diseases such as pneumonia, urinary tract infections, septicaemia, and soft tissue conditions."

Mmm, tasty!

There is, however, a silver lining to this gray culinary cloud ...

I've always been skeptical about chiropractors, you know, mostly because of that persistent "chiropractors are quacks" rumor. So even though I've had some back-breaking aches in my day, I've never gone that particular pain management route. Just because I figured it wouldn't do anything to help.

Forget helping -- as it turns out, going to the chiropractor can actually HURT.

According to a recent study, most of the "randomized clinical trials" done on chiropractic treatments "failed to report any adverse effects."

Meaning, all of the randomized clinical patients who went crawling out of their chiropractor's office feeling worse than when they went in? The researchers just didn't bother mentioning those guys.

Uh, yikes!?!? That's pretty scary. But that's not even the scariest part ...