Email forwards. If you’re a woman, you probably receive a boatload of email forwards from friends, aunts, and work colleagues. These chain mail messages often overflow with quotes, graphics, and second- or twelfth-hand stories warning you about some danger of daily life.

Well-meaning though they are, email forwards, especially ones about health matters, can sometimes be pure fiction. But even the most obviously erroneous of urban myths may have started from some kernel of truth, right? What about the one many women receive on or around breast cancer awareness months - that freezing or heating water bottles can give you breast cancer? [Read more →]