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In Chapter 7 of her book What I Learned From the Fat Years, Anne Strieber continues her discussion of clothes. She writes, “New customers entering women’s departments for the first time should know how we pioneering fat ladies had to struggle. It reminds me of what the suffragettes went through, campaigning for votes for women. I eventually became curious about what it was like to shop in my mother’s era. Women were pretty curvy then?did they have as much trouble shopping as I did?”

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Rogain was supposed to be the solution, but if that were true, why do we still so many bald men? But scientists say they really are on the verge of discovering a definitive cure for baldness, after growing hair on a bald mouse. When researchers corrected the faulty hairless gene in the rodent, his fur began to grow back.

Mice and humans share the same gene for growing and shedding hair. But when it is faulty, hair doesn’t grow back normally and over time people go bald. When this gene is healthy, the hair growing process restarts.
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Newswise – When we travel, our biological clocks are thrown out of synch. Constant light also disrupts our internal clocks, resulting in problems like jet lag and health problems in extended-shift workers. A new study shows that even though we get the impression that our internal clocks are disrupted, as far as are bodies are concerned, they keep on ticking away at a constant pace.
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Newswise – As many of us get ready to take planes during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, during the season of colds and flu, we become concerned about the spread of infectious diseases in-flight. It’s an increasingly familiar experience to be healthy when you board a plane and start to develop disease symptoms a few hours later, when you deplane. The Lancet reports that increasing ventilation within aircraft cabins would reduce this problem?but will the airlines spend the money to do it?
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