A Look Back at Health, Lifestyle for the Year

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. As 2017 comes to a close, we look back at the Health & Lifestyle stories that were popular with our listeners. One way we judge the popularity of an article is by how many comments it gets on our website. Listeners also use the comments …

Most advertisers are turned off by sexual content, but mainstream publishers still benefit from porn by using articles about sex to boost search traffic, including women’s lifestyle publishers. Sex-related terms are among the most popular keywords driving search traffic to women-focused sites like Refinery29, …

In an article for U.S. News and World Report, Kendal Perez wrote in 2016, “Retailers try to capitalize on consumers’ desires to spend gift cards and return gifts that missed the mark by offering discounts on remaining holiday inventory, gifts, toys and electronics. Many stores take a Black Friday-like approach …

Since it launched at the beginning of November, 25 articles across lifestyle, design and innovation have been published. As much as BMW’s cars feature prominently in the first batch of stories, cars come second to the subject matter, according to Jörg Poggenpohl, BMW’s head of digital marketing. Articles …

Karen Hofman currently receives research funding from the South African Medical Research Council and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the past she has also received funding from the IDRC (Canada), the WHO and UNFPA. She is a member of the board of directors of The Soul City Institute for …

Tucked in the bustling street of Maginhawa in Diliman, Quezon City is a quaint and humble a restaurant called Van Gogh Is Bipolar. Stepping into this haven is quite a marvel, with interiors filled with seemingly antique pieces and keepsakes from the owner’s travels. But beyond its kitschy charm, Van Gogh …

Rightly or wrongly, Germans are often seen as a pretty frugal bunch. Now Austria, a neighboring nation with plenty of cultural and historical similarities, has uncovered evidence to back that argument, at least when it comes to eating out. Austria saw prices rise nearly 0.8 percent faster in October than in …

Why did his story inspire a cultural eruption, particularly given that most people probably couldn’t identify him before the New York Times and the New Yorker revealed his secret history in articles that became the spore of the anti-harassment movement? There’s no hard and fast explanation. But there are a …

Every month, dozens of magazines and online articles highlight different ways to help women achieve orgasm more easily. It is the focus of entire books. For many people, orgasm is an important part of sexual relationships.” The study also found that women were more likely to orgasm if they received more …

And though it’s too early to quantify exactly how much car congestion relief it will bring, enthusiasm for the program suggests it’s already working to get cars off the road — a common goal for most shore towns. (To give an idea of just how bad parking can be at the shore, NJ.com once published an article …