Simple Pleasures | Smallest Waist Ever | Grey Hair & Stress
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Reflections on Simplicity, Quiet Pleasures & Rhubarb Cordials AOC Sensually Yours
Still, I can’t let go of the rhubarb cordial images, so satisfying to my senses. Just looking at the pictures is a special pleasure, one that unleashes my imagination into smelling the rhubarb simmering on the stove, stirring the pot with a wooden spoon, toasting the final result of the spring harvest in crystal, and even writing a sexy short about the erotic escapades of drinking cordials for two on a verandah in Carversville or Charleston.
Smallest Waist Ever
Stella Tennant on Vogue Italia as Ethel Granger | Body Image Research Update AOC Body & Culture
The truly beautiful, high fashion image is inspired by Ethel Granger (1905-1982) who tightened herself into corsets to please her husband.
Ethel is described as a revolutionary women, who enjoyed indulging her husband’s tastes, including piercings along with her record-smashing 33 centimeters of waist.
Is it coincidence that 60 years later in our women’s rights world, Ethel’s record-setting waist measurement still stands?
Also new research on media images and body image.
Adrenaline-Like Stress Infusion in Mice
Real Research on Stress & Grey Hair | New Online Diet Tool AOC Health & Happiness
Researchers from Duke University Medical Center have published new research on the effect of stress in the form of an adrenaline-like chemical in mice. In a heartbeat, newspapers and websites all over the world wrote headlines saying that the research confirmed the connection between stress and grey hair.
The researchers drew no such conclusion, although the results in mice confirmed the possibility of a connection.
In fact, this study actually looked at the effect of adrenaline on DNA damage. It’s only speculation that this research has implications linking greying to stress. But the same nebulous claim can be made about cancer.
Next: New online weight loss tool; Protecting bone mass while dieting.
