Feb/090
Fatal familial insomnia. An Italian would be the first man died for “insomnia”
It narrated in the book of the researcher TDMax the story of the first patient with Fatal Familiar Insomnia (FFI, insomnia Fatal familial) a rare genetic disease that prevents those who are carriers of sleeping up to take him to death. In the book “The Family That Could not Sleep” the author tells the story of an Italian doctor who died in 1765 which would be the first carrier of the genetic mutation that generates the disease (the so-called patient zero) and reconstructs the path through the generations of this man until the 80s.
It was thanks to a descendant of this first patient, who died just in the ’80s, it was possible to investigate more thoroughly the cause’s fatal familial insomnia. In fact this man has bravely chosen to donate his body to science because they had conducted the necessary investigations. Post-mortem analysis of brain structures has been possible to show that the pathological process of FFI is the rupture caused by a genetic mutation, the protein in the brain, which, accumulating, end up destroying the neurons. As stated Michael Geschwind, University of San Francisco, the damage is localized mainly at the level of the thalamus, a brain structure involved in regulating the sleep-wake rhythm.
The disease, described for the first time in Italy and R. Medori E. Lugaresi Institute of Neurology, University of Bologna, which would be affected forty families around the world, is hereditary and has a sudden onset and late unfortunately almost always around forty years when often they have already had children, who have a 50% chance of developing it. It characterized by a persistent insomnia, nightmares and even hallucinations, which are accompanied by autonomic disturbances and engines. This is actually a true dementia, caused by a pathological process similar to the so-called mad cow disease (BSE) that leads to death within a little over a year.
Feb/090
Sex? They did our first parents!
A recent survey conducted through a questionnaire published by the site www.ambulatorio.com, it emerged that 13% of Italian teenagers making love for the first time in 14 years.
However, the average of first sexual intercourse is around 17 years.
To conduct the survey Italo Farnetani, a pediatrician and a contract professor at the ‘University of Milan-Bicocca.
Analyzing a sample of 2500 responses, Farnetani has compared the sexual behavior of young Italians with those of their parents. The result seems to go against common belief.
Age of first time, from generation to generation, it would in fact be increased rather than decreased.
The first time occurs for the majority of today’s young people between 16 and 18 years, while the parents had done before. 20% of parents surveyed had her first sexual experience at age 14, compared to 13% of children of new generations.
The research showed that the major concern of parents with adolescent children is that of pregnancies unwanted.
Parents want their children to use contraceptives and 53% of mothers and fathers are not against the use of morning-after pill.
In contrast, 85, 7% of specialists are against any provision for girls, being a veritable bombardment of hormones, and because of numerous drawbacks.
How about Abroad? A study on sexual behavior conducted by WHO and involving 59 countries around the world, it was found that the age of first sexual experience is not at all down, but would become more stable.
The average calculated on a global scale of the first sexual intercourse is between 15 and 19 years.
If this is true globally, locally you notice many differences.
For example, in East West and Central Africa and South Asia, where young people tend to marry very early age of first time for women tends to be lower than in Latin American countries. Always in these countries, males tend to have sexual relations later than women. In Italy the age of the first ratio is 17.5 years for boys and 18.5 for girls.
To substantially increase the tendency to have sexual relations before marriage, and growth that seems to be determined by the fact that the age of marriage tends to move ever further.
Feb/090
The new Dolce and Gabbana corset: to have a wasp waist by without plastic surgery
If the desire to have a waist to wasp attacks you but you do not find a way to realize your dream does not resort to cosmetic surgery but runs the boutique luxury that is closer! The new corset Dolce and Gabbana will be your new secret weapon to show off a life style Scarlett O’Hara.
The bustier features a stylish metal design style chastity belt, also accompanied by a key (to stay on the subject!) Then tightens the belt with the laces up the back to reach the wearer a circumference of about 23 inches (60 cm). Comfort obviously not part of the belt!
The reporter from the Daily Mail Kate Faithfull writes: “The belt certainly marks a good point but I do not think life can be comforting for women. I had certainly a diminution of my girth but simply moving the fat between the breast and flanks.
“If I had a few pounds more than I would have been invaded by my fat up to the front …” But what it costs to have a life so slender? The price tag is $ 3000. But women really want to go back to the times of the suffocating corsets so much to crush the vertebrae while they have satisfied the aesthetic unnatural? Let us know what you think … if you wish you can wear a corset or resort to liposuction!