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...

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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 last...

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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 wo...

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You'll not be surprised probably, to read that I'm not a fan of reality shows like 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 vulnerab...

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Hehehehe despite the ad industrys relentless onslaught on womens self-esteem, I do sometimes have to admire the creative humour. Theres a new system to stop your bottom sagging! It says: Humanitys endless quest for the secret of prolonging youth is now over. All you have to do is follow t...

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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...

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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 c...

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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 negat...

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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 yo...

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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 g...

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I'm always interested in finding another reason to encourage people to move their bodies. We're so hooked into the idea of exercise needing to be about "the burn" and lose or control weight, that when we don't care about weight for whatever reason, exercise often also goes out the window! Driving...

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This post is off-topic for this blog, and I make no apologies! I like Premier Anna Bligh, 1 because she's a woman at the top, leading the way for other women to bring much-needed balance to our political arena; and 2 because she seems to me to be accessible and reasonable. Except on the issue ...

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First, what the article says: The Sunday Mail's headline (31-08-08) says: Fried Brekkie "a cancer risk". Not only is the "traditional aussie fry-up" a "heart attack on a plate", it's now also a cancer risk! The big concern is if you eat three rashers of bacon and two sausages a day, you inc...

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Australian Healthy Food tells us that mothers are starting to distrust packaged food! 89% don't trust the claims on food packages - and who would with milo cereal being pushed as a great healthy food for kids when it's mostly sugar 73% believe food authorities are not doing enough to regulate ...

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I just read this post on justjared.com: Really Long Link Pierce Brosnan's wife, Keely Shaye Smith, was on the beach with her family, having a lil surf. In her bikini. And someone thought they'd make a dollar by snapping a series of photos of her and the kids and hubby. Whatever. Then the pics...

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