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Title: Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French Study Reveals
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URL Source: http://www.counselheal.com/articles ... -year-french-study-reveals.htm
Published: Apr 11, 2013
Author: CHRISTINE HSU
Post Date: 2013-04-11 18:34:41 by Buzzard
Keywords: None
Views: 203
Comments: 18
Women have long been told that a good bra can help support the chest, relieve back pain and prevent sagging. However, a new 15-year French study reveals the opposite: bras do little to reduce back pain and, over time, they can actually make breasts sag even more. Researcher Prof. Jean-Denis Rouillon, a sports science expert from the University of Besançon in eastern France claims that "bras are a false necessity," according to The Local. "Medically, physiologically, anatomically - breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity," said Rouillon. "On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra." Rouillon and his team spent years measuring the changes in the breasts of 330 women using a simple slide rule and caliper at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (University Hospital) in Besançon, where he carried out his research. He found that no evidence that bras helped ease back pain. Instead, he found that the chest supports could even add to the problem. According to The Connexion, the findings suggest that breasts would gain more tone and support themselves if no bra was used. Researchers explain that bras limit the growth of supporting breast tissues, leaving the breast to wither and degrade more quickly. The study found that women who took off their bras for good experienced a 7mm lift in their nipples each year they didn't wear a bra. Researchers also found that bra-less women developed firmer breasts and saw their stretch marks fade. Some of the women who took part in Rouillon's study told France Info that not wearing a bra helped ease their back pains. Capucine, a 28-year-old participant in Rouillon's study, swears by the results and hasn't worn a bra for two years. "There are multiple benefits: I breathe more easily, I carry myself better, and I have less back pain," Capucine said, according to France Info. However, Rouillon says the findings do not mean all women should throw away their bras. "It would be dangerous to advise all women to stop wearing their soutien-gorge as the women involved were not a representative sample of the population," Rouillon said, according to The Connexion. While his initial results "validated the hypothesis that the bra is a false 'need'," he says that women who have been wearing bras for a long time would not gain any benefit from stopping now. Poster Comment: God Bless the French
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#1. To: Buzzard (#0)
God Bless National Geographic!
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
Where do I line up to do 15 years of research on this??
You could try volunteering, but that might seem even more pathetic. "I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
These kinds of stories never seem to have accompanying photographs to back up the 'science'.
#2. To: Buzzard (#0)
#3. To: Shoonra (#2)
Where do I line up to do 15 years of research on this??
#4. To: Buzzard (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
Is that...my Helga?
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#6. To: Dakmar (#5)
Dunno, random wimmenz displaying boobage is all I know about it. 
Sarah Palin sends her regards from her college daze.
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: X-15 (#6) (Edited)
No kidding, some real SaraCuda there? Yikes! edit: second thought, ... no, the PTB would stomp a president palin into the dirt whereas a president biden IS the ptb. sleep well my friends
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#8. To: Dakmar (#3)
You can't get more pathetic than a rabid zioStatist trying to display their pinched sense of humor. But you gotta give Shoo-Shoo credit, he does more to further the cause of anti-semitism than the legends of Adolph Hitler and Josef Goebbels could've ever dreamed of. ...but that might seem even more pathetic.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#9. To: Buzzard (#0)
I think women running would still need a bra, otherwise they probably don't need one.
God is always good!
#10. To: X-15 (#4)
Dammit, it really pisses me off that they didn't align that shot with the grout lines in the floor tiles. Hey, symmetry is my life. I notice things like that.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#11. To: X-15 (#4)
Melons, ripe for harvest. Thank you Lord for this bounty.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#12. To: Esso (#10)
How's that for some symmetry? Do you think they would kill me because they thought I was a hippie? I'm frightened! Dammit, it really pisses me off that they didn't align that shot with the grout lines in the floor tiles.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#13. To: Dakmar (#12)
Oh man, Nazi chicks with hockey sticks! That's some serious EssoPorn, brutha. It's a moral imperative, my man. Been nice knowin' ya. Do you think they would kill me because they thought I was a hippie?
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#14. To: Esso (#13)
Art lives in each of us.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#15. To: Dakmar (#14)
Cripes. Santa is certifiable. No mas.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#16. To: Lod (#15)
oderint dum metuant
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#17. To: Buzzard (#0)
Tip! Tip! Hooray! The study found that women who took off their bras for good experienced a 7mm lift in their nipples each year they didn't wear a bra.
#18. To: Lod (#11)
Thank you Lord for this bounty. As an avid gardener I'll second that. Melons, ripe for harvest.
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