The world is used by now to seeing only stick-thin models, so much so that even the presence of a small photo in a glossy magazine of a woman who looks just like millions of other ladies around the world is bound to cause massive waves, as we were also telling you. With the anti-fat rhetoric that is getting more viru... |
5 September 2009
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Whether there is such a thing as a universal standard for the perfect female body is not a burning issue, although much debate has been carried on over it. In an attempt to find out what men and women think of it, British publication Fabulous Magazine has come up with the exact measures of the perfect body, while als... |
4 March 2009
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All women striving to achieve a stick-thin figure can now stop torturing themselves with all kinds of diets and workout regimes. A new study has revealed, as reported by Fox news, that women with a pear-shaped figure, the likes of which singers Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce have made famous, are healthier than those wit... |
8 January 2009
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Cellulite is not restricted to overweight people, and most women out there already know this by now. However, what they do not know is that it does not necessarily denote a sedentary way of life and that it can be eliminated in other ways than by just vigorous exercise. One of these ways is a healthier diet, which, o... |
28 December 2008
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In a previous article we talked about sun exposure and the best ways to keep your face protected from the harmful effects of UVA and UVB radiation, while soaking up all the health benefits of a day at the beach. It's time to move on to the next chapter of our little "suncare101" session and talk about some of th... |
4 June 2008
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Physical beauty is something connected to your genes. Researches linked it to body shape, facial proportions and symmetry. Estrogen (female sex hormone) load has been linked to feminine face and body ratios. Women with waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) around 0.7 (0.67-1.18) are most desirable to men, while a 0.8 to 1.0 WHR i... |
30 November 2007
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Attraction is more than looks: it combines smell, hearing (voice) and the visual clues. Some are at the subconscious level, driving us towards a person without being able to explain it clearly. Biology dominates us. Even before being born, it is already determined how attractive we will be. 1.Symmetry. Even at the st... |
7 September 2007
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A new prototype robotic ankle is now being tested on several people and could eventually be used to replace lost limbs for US soldiers who suffered injuries in the Iraq war. The new prosthesis is an artificial extension than could go almost unnoticed due to its strong resemblance to the human ankle and its locomotio... |
24 July 2007
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Humans have noticed for a long time that even when having the same lifestyle and eating the same food, humans do not look alike. Modern medicine found three basic human typologies which curiously coincide with the 5,000 years old system of the Indian Ayurveda medicine, which assigns people in Pitta, Vata and Kapha. B... |
20 July 2007
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A new biomaterial, called hydrogel, can be injected into wounds where it starts repairing damaged tissue and regenerating it, opening the way for revolutionary treatments for injured soldiers. The gel also has surprising antibacterial properties which help speed up the healing process.Hydrogels are made up of a netw... |
19 July 2007
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The Image Search function included in the best search engine on the Internet is now even more powerful as it contains some innovative features able to provide more relevant results. Basically, the search technology can now return photos that are displaying certain parts of the subject's body. As Ionut Alex, Goog... |
28 May 2007
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There is a wide spread concept that women tend to neglect a man's physical appearance and to concentrate only at his abilities. That's why guys like Austin Powers and their "Mojo" would cause quite a stir. But for body builders and sports addicted, a new study comes with bad news. It seems that the opposi... |
14 May 2007
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Current crash-test performed on cars involve using crash test dummies fitted with up to 30 sensors than record impact forces in various points of the body and high-speed cameras. The dummies are full-scale replicas of human beings, weighted and articulated to simulate the behavior of a human body and instrumented t... |
7 May 2007
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Fingerprinting is probably the most widely used method of identifying individuals. The police uses this method to identify suspects by matching the fingerprints taken from a crime scene with those found in their databases, or with those of unrecorded suspects they encounter.Reliability comes from the fact that two ... |
7 May 2007
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