Birth Control - Weight Gain

While the majority of women who participated in a nationwide survey of women aged 18 to 35 believe the answer to these questions is “yes,” the fact is that the answer to both of these questions is “no.” These are some of the myths that affect how millions of American women think about and use [...]

A study featured in the May 2002 issue of the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology found that overweight women stand a higher chance of accidentally getting pregnant while using “the pill.”
Under normal circumstances, if birth control pills are taken as prescribed, only about 1 in 1,000 women become accidentally pregnant.* The recent research reflected in [...]