Aug/090
Better to be a woman. To say that teenagers are
If you woke up tomorrow morning … woman was asked to 323 students from secondary schools in Sicily, Campania, Basilicata, Trentino, Liguria, Emilia and Tuscany. The initiative came from psychotherapy Gianna Schelotto, in collaboration with a group of teachers who thought, in view of the forthcoming International Women’s Day, to ask young people of middle and high schools to write an essay on the subject. A similar track was administered to female students (of course in this case the theme was “If tomorrow morning you woke up man ..”) and the results were sorpendenti with statements from the boys, all between 14 to 16 years, with admiration and even envy of her peers.
After the search conducted by a team of American psychologists and published in the Journal of Adolescence, which debunks the age-old cliché argument that teenage boys are far from romantic, arrives from Italy, therefore the denial of another stereotype rather widespread: the man, however young, who would never be in the shoes of a woman. The initiative was promoted by Onda (National Observatory for the health of women of Milan) and I Buonavoglia, Circolo Culturale Genovese among the founders of which appears just to Schelotto.
While the girls are dissatisfied and disillusioned with the world of women, nor too tender with the ‘male world (many would say that happy to be men for a day to feel stronger, more courageous, but also less submissive), 62% of boys has a positive attitude on the idea of waking woman suddenly (of course only for one day). Smarter, more authentic, (why, consider the young author of the themes are allowed to be) more determined, so the young boys are seeing their peers. The initiative is not meant to be a real research; rather it is a sort of poll whose results will be presented shortly in Italy.
Aug/090
The man and the perfect woman: directly from Beverly Hills!
The plastic surgery is rampant for some years between the star and a little ‘not, as ordinary mortals.
Rebuild the breast, nose, cheekbones and all that do not like, which is considered a defect, a fashion that has taken hold in the society of appearances, and not likely to end up.
Plastic surgeon does not run the risk of becoming unemployed, at least not until the era of pleasure at all costs will end.
But what are the models most in demand by star? Oh yes, because you can also choose: I like the nose … mouth … same as the idea of celebrities sitting in front of the hairdresser with a catalog of noses and perfect features, not is not so far from reality.
On Star Magazine have created the perfect model, based on data collected by interviewing plastic surgeons in Beverly Hills.
Stereotyping of women and the perfect man, according to the most frequent requests of VIP to the surgeon, would thus consist of various parts of the body of the beautiful star system.
Perfect man has the nose of Leonardo Di Caprio, Matt Damon’s mouth, hair d John Stamos, the blue eyes of Daniel Craig and the cheekbones of Christian Bale.
The perfect woman has lips and cheekbones instead of Angelina Jolie, Katie Holmes’s eyes, and long hair blonde Jessica Simpson.
Looking at the photo, one might say that the face of the perfect man looks a bit ‘too much of Elvis, and the perfect woman has a mouth a bit wide. What do you think?
Aug/090
Diabetes, issue of pollutants?
On the shoulders of pollution weighs a new charge: to promote the onset of type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease that usually begins in old age. To suggest that we investigate in this direction are two biochemical’s University of Cambridge UK, Oliver Jones and Julian Griffin, in a commentary recently published in the journal Lancet.
The researchers reviewed several studies on the subject, particularly those conducted by the team of the Korean Duk-Hee Lee, which show a strong correlation between blood levels of persistent organic pollutants or Pop (especially organochlorine, chemicals in pesticides, insecticides and plastics in the) present in the sick and insulin resistance, one of the factors that trigger diabetes type 2, up to now mainly associated to obesity.
“What needs to be investigated more carefully – emphasizes Jones – is whether what has been observed at the time as a correlation, which is to be diabetic and have high blood levels of Pop, once studied to be established as a causal relationship effect. If so, the implications could be enormous. But we must draw attention to the scientific community, because we have some signals but very limited information. The research on diabetes in general, focus much more about genetics and obesity and in practice have never been considered environmental factors in the development of disease. “
The question, in other words, it should be deepened. Perhaps analyzing tissue or cultured cells to clear up misunderstandings or, conversely, to develop a treatment for people exposed to pollutants. Substances that degrade slowly and therefore remain in the food chain even if unused for years. It will also able to remain in the body fat for very long.