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Christina Hendricks Is Red Hot for Harper’s Bazaar, November 2010

Christina Hendricks is a gorgeous woman, despite the fact that she’s not what showbiz considers a “standard” size, meaning a size 0 or 2. This is just one of the topics she tackles in the November 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Featured in a “bank heist” themed spread in the pages ...

8 October 2010
02:39 GMT

Helen Mirren’s Beauty Secrets: Suck It In, Wear High Heel Shoes

In 2008, Helen Mirren was photographed in a two-piece bathing suit that could put women half her age (she was 63 at the time) to shame. Still, her beauty tricks are similar to those used by any other lady out there. Speaking with Woman and Home magazine (via The Fab Life), the British actress says that she too has is...

28 September 2010
13:31 GMT

Kelly Brook: It’s Difficult to Dress for My Figure and Curves

Kelly Brook, actress, model and television personality, also happens to have one of the hottest bodies in showbiz right now, it is being said. In top shape without being too skinny, Kelly also has curves, without being fat. She is the ideal woman but, for showbiz, she is an abnormality, which is perhaps it was so har...

5 August 2010
16:31 GMT

Michelle Trachtenberg Fights Back: I Am Not Fat!

Earlier this year, word on the blogosphere had it that Michelle Trachtenberg, whom we know from “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” had gained some weight. The extra pounds were easily noticeable by means of a side by side photo comparison, yet she was – and is – far from ...

4 August 2010
14:11 GMT

Vitamin Therapy Recommended After Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgery is no longer a taboo topic, as it is slowly insinuating itself in our everyday life and becoming a part of women’s beauty routines, as we also noted only a few days ago. As such, the need to have a shorter recovery time becomes urgent – and this can be achieved by following a few simple st...

3 August 2010
15:41 GMT

Christina Hendricks Talks Body and Curves, Being a Pinup

She has a body all women should aspire to have, being a curvy, healthy and enviable size 14. Christina Hendricks of “Mad Men” is now on the cover of the latest issue of GQ UK and, as usual, she talks about being and playing a very body-confident woman, and about how the world has reacted to her turning th...

3 August 2010
14:41 GMT

Kelly Brook Is OK with Directors Choosing Her for Her Body

Though she’s made a name for herself as a glamour model posing in most, if not all, British lads’ mags, Kelly Brook has also always made it a point that she wanted to be a role model for women, telling them that curves are best, size 0 is not. As it happens, the star also wants to have a career in movies ...

28 July 2010
05:35 GMT

Janice Dickinson Loves Her Body, Talks Obsession with Looking Good

She likes to call herself “the first supermodel in the world” and many fashion insiders agree that it is so: Janice Dickinson did break the mold and set trends in the industry. Now aged 55 and not a stranger to plastic surgery and Botox, Janice has agreed to take it all off for Closer magazine, in a featu...

27 July 2010
04:46 GMT

Janet Jackson in Essence on Body Image and Confidence

Janet Jackson, who has weighed a very public battle against the extra pounds for the largest part of her adult life, has finally come to a place in her life where she has a very healthy body image, has embraced her curves and is no longer lacking confidence. Of course, it wasn’t always like that, the star says ...

12 July 2010
13:11 GMT

Demi Moore: I Had an Extreme Obsession with My Body

At 47, Demi Moore looks considerably better than most women half her age – or so they say. The actress, whose image has often overshadowed her career in film, reveals for Elle UK magazine that, contrary to all appearances, it’s not until recently that she got to be happy with her body and to accept it as ...

8 April 2010
15:31 GMT

Biniki – The Bra That Shapes and Lifts the Backside

Women looking for more support for the upper part of the body can choose from a variety of offerings, though the most reliable remains the now-traditional pushup brassiere. When having to deal on her own with sagging in the lower part of the body, after losing weight, California psychologist Dr. Karin Hart came up wi...

25 March 2010
14:31 GMT

Kim Kardashian Has Best Body on Earth, Says FHM

Kim Kardashian is famous not only for her job as a reality star and, more recently, television producer, but also for her curvy figure. Making a name for herself first as Paris Hilton’s sidekick and then for her modeling gigs, Kim has just been crowned the female star with the best body on earth by the April is...

11 March 2010
10:44 GMT

The iPad Is Not All That Good Looking

I’ve had this on the tip of my tongue for a week now, but I just couldn’t get myself to write down these words. Until now, that is. Having seen so much disappointment about the iPad, I’m guessing few Apple fanboys will be offended by the allegation that the iPad is not all that great from a design s...

2 February 2010
14:54 GMT

Tiffany Braxton Belvin Crowned Ms. NY for Miss Plus America Pageant

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
06:41 GMT

Survey Unveils the Body of the Perfect Woman

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
14:21 GMT

A Fat Posterior Is Indicator of Good Health

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
06:32 GMT

Get Rid of Cellulite by Eating Right

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
03:58 GMT

Intelligent Sun Protection II: Body

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
05:36 GMT

Physical Beauty Does Not Betray Overall Health

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
13:56 GMT

The 3 Main Physical Factors of the Biological Attraction in Humans

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
16:31 GMT

Human Body Spare Parts: the Robotic Ankle

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
08:57 GMT

The Three Human Typologies

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
15:11 GMT

New Hydrogel Can Repair and Regenerate Human Tissue

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
06:34 GMT

Search Google for Certain Paris Hilton Body Parts

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
06:10 GMT

Women Look at a Man's Face, Not Body, to Assess His Sex Appeal

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
05:11 GMT

Computer Tomography Used in Car Crash Testing Will Improve Passenger Safety

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
16:06 GMT

New Ultrasound Internal Fingerprinting Foolproof Scanners

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
08:00 GMT


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