Want to keep your cleavage looking youthful, firm and perky? You might start by covering it up. Summertime is swimwear and high skin damage season. We expose once hidden body parts when the weather turns warmer outside. Worse yet, whatever harms our décolletage ups our risk of skin cancer. According to the CDC, rates of skin cancer are […]
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I almost missed The Smithsonian Channel’s documentary on breasts. Truly Strange: The Secret Life of Breasts premiered last Spring, but I didn’t catch the episode until mid-December. Given the shocking premise of film, it is truly strange that it didn’t receive more media attention. The questions raised by The Secret Life of Breasts are ones I’ve thought about for years […]
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Today is National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Out of the 31 days devoted to educating the public about breast cancer, this is the only day focused on the men and women who will die of the disease. If you do nothing else this month, buy any pink products, attend an event, or write a check to […]
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I don’t look forward to Breast Cancer Awareness Month. That may seem like a strange statement coming from a woman whose own mother was diagnosed with the disease. Given my sex and age, I have a personal stake in seeing progress made. I remember what it was like in the late 1960s, when women didn’t […]
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How to keep breasts looking young and perky? Some think the answer is wearing a bra 24/7. Others claim the wrong bra keeps women’s boobs down. But there’s no proof that bras do much more than provide temporary lift when we wear them. Scientists aren’t even sure what keeps women’s breasts “up.” Greater skin elasticity, […]
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