http://www.bodymad.com/ Solid reasons to help you find a way out of the bodymad culture we live in. en Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:47:00 GMT Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:47:00 GMT info@bodymad.com info@bodymad.com http://www.bodymad.com/images/bodymad4.jpg http://www.bodymad.com/ http://www.bodymad.com/bodyimageandsex/ So there's a new study from Deakin University about Aussie women's sex lives, and half of us have difficulty getting sexual satisfaction. Guess what the biggest influence on this is... http://www.bodymad.com/bodyimageandsex/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/bodyimageandsex/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:47:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/cosmeticsurgerydarkside/ It seems more and more people who've had cosmetic surgery, need surgery to correct problems the surgery causes. And it's not the kind of help I thought it was when... http://www.bodymad.com/cosmeticsurgerydarkside/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/cosmeticsurgerydarkside/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:18:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/what-the/ I can't believe what I'm reading right now, and yet I can't stop reading it, like watching a train wreck I suppose. It's a book by a very well-respected Australian... http://www.bodymad.com/what-the/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/what-the/ Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:47:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/water-myth/ The Courier Mail reports (4-4-08) that researchers from the Uni of Pennsylvania in the US found that drinking 8 glasses of water a day is essential for good health and... http://www.bodymad.com/water-myth/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/water-myth/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:44:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/not-eating-can-make-you-fatter/ The British Psychological Society's annual conference in Ireland heard that people who starve themselves one day and binge the next, will have a harder time losing weight. Eating the same... http://www.bodymad.com/not-eating-can-make-you-fatter/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/not-eating-can-make-you-fatter/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:43:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/thin-and-perfect/ I'll warn you now, this is completely an opinion piece, no science, read on at your peril! As I was writing yesterday's post about the media spruiking the diabetes is... http://www.bodymad.com/thin-and-perfect/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/thin-and-perfect/ Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:17:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/diabetes-is-automatic/ Personally, this is one of the oft-repeated media messages that I most love! Because it's usually repeated with such conviction that it's the absolute truth, I just have to laugh... http://www.bodymad.com/diabetes-is-automatic/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/diabetes-is-automatic/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:59:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/dying-to-be-thin/ It seems to me that we mostly think of the death rates around weight issues to be related to anorexia, or the diseases 'linked' to being overweight. In our cultural... http://www.bodymad.com/dying-to-be-thin/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/dying-to-be-thin/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:44:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/artificial-sweeteners-make-you-fat/ The well-documented and often life-destroying health risks from aspartame aside, US researchers have now found that artificial sweeteners are more likely to make you fat! Imagine that..... The research was... http://www.bodymad.com/artificial-sweeteners-make-you-fat/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/artificial-sweeteners-make-you-fat/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:54:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/fools-gold/ Took in a light movie at the weekend, Fool's Gold with Matt wotisname-with-the-tan and Kate Hudson. Two things really struck me: 1. Kate Hudson's gorgeous isn't she? One of the... http://www.bodymad.com/fools-gold/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/fools-gold/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:49:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/perfect-brad/ The Courier Mail (28 Jan 08) reports results of a survey of 20,000 plastic surgeons around the world, into their patients' preferences. Apparently the perfect woman has lips and eyes... http://www.bodymad.com/perfect-brad/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/perfect-brad/ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:56:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/we-wont-say-were-fat/ And really, why would you when overweight people are treated like pariahs in our culture? The Aussie Govt has just released a study (reported in the Courier Mail 26 Jan... http://www.bodymad.com/we-wont-say-were-fat/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/we-wont-say-were-fat/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:07:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/mum-makes-you-fa/ You knew it all along, right? Not because of her scrummy cooking either. This news comes from Professor Margaret Morris of the Uni of New South Wales in Australia. She... http://www.bodymad.com/mum-makes-you-fa/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/mum-makes-you-fa/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:13:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/rats-breast-cancer/ So, dieting rats to make them reduce body mass increases mammary tissue levels of the chemical 5-Hydroymethul-2'-deoxyuridin e, which is a marker for DNA damage in cells. So what? Apparently... http://www.bodymad.com/rats-breast-cancer/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/rats-breast-cancer/ Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:58:00 GMT http://www.bodymad.com/smoke-and-get-thin/ Seems ridiculous, doesn't it, to say something like that? We all know that smoking causes a whole range of disease, the disturbing photos on cigarette packets (in Australia anyway) are... http://www.bodymad.com/smoke-and-get-thin/#comments http://www.bodymad.com/smoke-and-get-thin/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:39:00 GMT