Surgical lip makeovers, super-efficient workouts, one key to stronger bones, and good news for those who took the Pill early on.
March 17, 2010
Pucker Up!
Want a sexier smile? A team of cosmetic surgeons in Naples, Florida has devised a way of plumping up lips by implanting tissues from a patient’s neck muscles and connective tissue. Two years after the procedure, according to a report in the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, the test subjects’ lips were 1 mm. plumper and 23% redder. The surgery would typically be done at the same time as a facelift.
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Why Fat Makes Some Fat
Chefs and nutrition researchers have long considered the “mouth feel” of fat the key to its popularity. Now a group of Australian researchers think there’s another factor at work: People have the ability to detect the taste of fat simply from its chemical composition when it’s served up with no texture. The lucky ones who are exquisitely sensitive to the taste tend to eat less fat, and end up on the thinner side. The less sensitive folk need more fat to feel satisfied, and tend to land on the more obese side of the scale.
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Birth Control Pill=Longevity
If you took birth control pills during the late 60s, when the formulations were much stronger than they are today, you can stop worrying. In a British study that followed 46,000 women for almost four decades, women who used the pill had a 38% lower chance of dying from bowel cancer and a 12% lower risk of fatally succumbing to any disease.
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Want to Work Out Less and Benefit More?
Exercise sorts have long championed interval training, which intersperses higher-intensity bouts of endurance activities with longer stretches of moderate aerobic workouts. But now Canadian researchers are pinpointing the incredible efficiency of what’s known as short-term high intensity interval training (HIT). In this protocol, the intense intervals are really intense (you work at 95% of your max heart rate) and the rest sections are fairly short. "Doing 10 one-minute sprints on a standard stationary bike with about one minute of rest in between, three times a week, works as well in improving muscle as many hours of conventional long-term biking less strenuously," said McMaster University scientist Martin Gibala.
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