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September 15th 2008 22:44
The 50 year long Baltimore Longitudinal Study on ageing, which is tracking over 2300 people through their lives, has released its latest findings.
Apparently if you're calm and active, you'll live longer.
That confirms other shorter-term studies that show moderate exercise improves the quality of your life.
So in terms of women and body image, we can make some extrapolations:
We know that starvation causes increased stress on the body and the mind. Virtually every organ and cell of the body is negatively affected by prolonged stress, and any calorie-limiting diet will cause that stress.
A dieting person is far from calm. With every cell in the body laser-focussed on finding more food, the dieting person is fighting a growing obsession with food, while trying to get on with their day. That causes stress. Your body loses muscles along with any incidental fat it might lose; that causes stress and over the long term, reduced efficiency for your organs. Your heart is one big muscle, remember. And is IS negatively affected by weight loss.
Eventually doing what your body demands, that is rebound bingeing (remember the Minnesota Study told us the rebound bingeing lasted an average of 5 weeks!), causes a massive guilt trip for dieters, at their "weakness". And that causes stress.
Along with the guilt comes a tremendous sense of failure, and that's compounded as one diet after another fails, as they must. And that causes stress.
And there are other stresses associated with this cruel dieting lie: disappointment, shame, fear, and so on - it's so complex, if you've ever done this cycle (and the vast majority of women have), then you'll know what I mean.
Over years, that's a LOT of stress.
That is shortening your life.
Solution: start learning to love who you are, what you do, and nurture that body you live in; feed it good nutritious food and loving messages. You'll be amazed at what the results are!!
September 14th 2008 22:07
It's now becoming so unacceptable for women to show that their body is normal in that they SWEAT when it's hot, that doctors are offering armpit botox!
Apparently you "only" need 50 units of botox into each armpit, it will only take about 30 minutes, and only set you back about $1200! AND it lasts for up to 12 months!
It works by blocking the communication between the sweat gland and "the nerve" - what nerve? The article doesn't say.
Side effects? The article doesn't say. And Google on Botox side effects: it's hard to find much. Emedtv.com says:
"# Droopy eyelids -- in up to 3 percent of people
# Nausea -- up to 3 percent
# Muscle weakness -- up to 2 percent
# Facial pain -- up to 2 percent
# Indigestion or heartburn -- up to 1 percent
# Tooth problems -- up to 1 percent
# High blood pressure (hypertension) -- up to 1 percent.
Other common side effects (occurring in 2 to 10 percent of people) included:
* Cough
* Flu-like symptoms, such as a fever and chills
* Back pain
* Runny or stuffy nose
* Dizziness
* Soreness at the injection site
* Weakness
* Dry mouth
* Drowsiness
* Bleeding at the injection site
* Infection
* Sore throat
* Anxiety.
Some side effects with Botox, while occurring infrequently, are potentially serious and should be reported to your healthcare provider right away. These include but are not limited to:
* Chest pain or difficulty swallowing
* Speech problems
* Dry eyes (if Botox is used to treat muscle spasms near the eyes) or eye pain
* Double vision
* Signs of an allergic reaction, such as:
o Unexplained rash
o Hives
o Itching
o Unexplained swelling
o Wheezing
o Difficulty breathing or swallowing."
The Melbourne Age has a report from Sept 1 2008 which says that 28 people have died from using botox.
Died.
From a treatment that is widely hugely lauded as safe, with only local side effects.
From smoothing their wrinkles with poison that is 400 times more potent than cyanide. (I can only imagine what a field day Agatha Christie would have had with this  )
Oh that's wrong: the US FDA says no one who died was using the botox for wrinkles. Only for other things, they don't say what. So they didn't ban it, just warned people about it early this year. First I've heard but then I'll never be in the market.
Anyway - here's The Age article.
But.... what happens to the sweat that you don't pass out of your armpit, is what I'd like to know. Where does it go? Do your shoes slip off because you sweat more from your feet? Your makeup slip because you sweat more from your face? Your knickers slide because of the extra sweat running down your torso? You won't just stop sweating because you paralyse your armpits, your body WILL regulate its temperature. You could always use the dress shields that worked for our grandmas. They're highly-absorbent cotton sewn into the armpit of a garment, that intercepts the sweat before it hits the outer layer. Actually that sounds like a great market for a manufacturer, disposable dress shields made from the high-absorbency fibres available today.... hmmmmm
I can't help thinking that the old adage of needing to suffer to be beautiful is being taken way past extreme with these treatments. But hey, at least now we don't have to have those nasty perspiration marks on our clothing!
September 13th 2008 21:44
I just read an amusing post on the top 10 reasons why blogging beats "writing" - amusing
Really Long Link
Point 6 drew my interest - apparently if you use "toilet" or "sex" in the title, you draw a bunch of traffic. Mostly male, I'd suggest
To draw female traffic, I'd guess the top words would be "fat" and "diet" and "weight loss" - at least if my stats are anything to go by. I get about 18 hits to my post on "artificial sweeteners make you fat", for every one hit on any other post.
Contrary to what this post's title says, I think women don't so much love fat news, as they are constantly looking for the magic bullet that almost every potion, pill or program promises them. Why constantly looking? Because there is no magic bullet, but for 60 or more years we've been told over and over that there is, and it's in *this* product.
And we so want it to be true. So we Google for new solutions, and pause here....
Nice to meet you
Since you're here, please read some of the other posts, there is no magic bullet but there really is a solution....
September 12th 2008 21:34
You'll not be surprised probably, to read that I'm not a fan of reality shows like [your country's] Next Top Model, for many reasons. Only one of which is they promote an unrealistically thin version of how to be a woman, and glamourise it to the nth degree, to their mainly teen audience who are incredibly vulnerable to the message.
Anyway
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Hehehehe despite the ad industry’s relentless onslaught on women’s self-esteem, I do sometimes have to admire the creative humour.
There’s a new system to stop your bottom sagging! It says
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I've had a bit of a disastrous month technology-wise.
First I got a nasty Trojan virus either from a friend through MSN or by opening the attachment to an email purporting to be from UPS - I was expecting a parcel so didn't really think about it :/. My big-name-brand virus scanner cleaned up the MSN one. Except that it didn't, as I found out a few weeks later when my computer started to do some really strange things. The upshot of googling and forum reading was that the trojan had opened a backdoor to some others to download and install themselves, and yes, the big-name-brand virus scanenrs weren't picking them up
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Ahhh Cosmo - now and then in your pages there's something worth reading, around all the glamour ads and how to be sexy guff.
This month (October 08 issue) there's the results of an online survey of over 500 men, asking them what they think of women. Why is this important? Because women diet and cut and exercise and stress their bodies into disordered eating and ill health, in the name of being attractive, presumably for guys (though there's other research... another time
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I'm not a big fan of daytime TV, usually too busy. But sometimes I catch Tyra Banks on cable at odd times, and I saw a show she did where she talked to young girls about their bodies. I was sickened at the time, that these young girls, some just 7 years old, would think of themselves in such a negative way They're children for goodness sake, they should be out running and playing and jumping and giggling and having fun, not worrying about if they're fat or not! Man our anorexic culture is more revolting every day!
Anyway, yesterday I was googling for something or other and up came a link to the video (next to the headline above). I watched it, and then read the comments below
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Scientists are starting to speak out more and more about the truth of their research into body fat and what it really means for our health.
A new study co-authored by MaryFran Sowers, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan, says that fitness is more important to the state of your health than is your weight! This information has been around for decades, is often discussed in the books about the fallacy and politics of the obesity epidemic, bust, as Ms Sowers says, the terms "overweight" is often used indiscriminately
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The Telegraph UK reports that British and Swedish scientists have made some interesting discoveries about human fat cells.
It seems that they were able to track radioactive isotopes in the fat cells of people who lived during the years 1955-1963, when much land-based nuclear weapons testing was going on around the planet
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