Monday, April 18, 2011

Survey finds 30% would die early to get ideal body

The latest online buzz about cosmetic medicine, starting with news about body image and women’s quest for an ideal body weight.

Ad for the 2009 film version of "Dorian Gray"


DYING FOR BEAUTY

Dorian Gray is alive and well. In modern terms, the Oscar Wilde character had? body image issues: He sold his soul to keep his face and body youthful.


Now a survey of British women finds that 30 percent of them would give up a year of their lives if they could achieve their ideal body weight and shape.


The findings are reminiscent of another survey last year in the U.S., which found that about half of women would prefer to go without sex for the summer rather than gain 10 pounds.


A further finding of the latest survey is more disturbing. It found that nearly 50 percent of women said they have been ridiculed or bullied because of their looks. Nearly 40 percent said they’d have cosmetic surgery if money were no object.


LOOKING FOR IMPLANT TROUBLES


“Researchers say they’ve found flaws in evidence supporting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stance that women with silicone breast implants should get regular follow-up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans,” Medical News Today says.


What’s the flaw? MRIs, which the FDA mandates, are more likely to find breast-implant problems in women who have symptoms of implant problems.


How is that a flaw?


BREAST INJECTIONS

The trendy technique of breast enhancement by means of fat injections doesn’t cause problems for cancer screening, according to a report in last month’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery journal.


French researchers who examined mammograms of 31 women who had the “fat transfers” — breast injections of fat originally taken from their hips or thighs — concluded that the procedure neither produced signs of cancer nor obstructed the interpretation of the mammograms as a cancer-screening technique.


However, “some women had small calcifications or cysts as aftereffects of the fat transfer procedure,” the researchers reported.



Join the conversation: Follow “In Your Face” on Twitter and Facebook for the latest information, discussions and gossip about cosmetic medicine, celebrities and regular people.

More online buzz:

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.


View the original article here

No comments:

Post a Comment