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Post by Dance Away on Sept 28, 2010 19:09:34 GMT -5
Veganism is a bit too extreme for me. I know that if you don't eat the right combination of fruits and vegetables you can have health problems. After all humans are omnivore, and not herbivore. Figuring out which vegetables to eat and when is too much work to me. I'm four days into my vegetarian diet. This morning I bought a half gallon of vanilla flavored soymilk (Silk brand) and I find it far more enjoyable to drink than skim milk. Soymilk has a fat content on par with 2% milk. Soymilk contains isoflavones - a plant chemical that helps lower bad LDL cholesterol (I found that info on the web). I'm using a 'fortified' soymilk that has added B12 vitamin and other nutrients in it. After getting this soymilk into my diet, I'm now not so concerned that I'm not getting enough protein and B12 in my diet. And I have before me a whole new world of soybean based food products and recipes to introduce myself to, so I won't be missing meat (tofu burger) and I'll be eating as much protein as I was before going vegan. Eating fruits and vegetables is not the complicated part of a vegetarian diet. To the contrary, that's the simple part. You eat a variety of fruits and veggies, and in moderation. The problem that can happen in a vegan diet is when one fails to seek out a substitute source for the protein, mineral, and vitamin nutrients one looses in their diet when they stop eating all meat and dairy products. A couple cups of fortified soymilk each day goes a long way toward putting your mind at ease over that concern. The point that humans are omnivore ... you're right, we are that. But today we are not heading out into the wilderness expending large amounts of energy in our bodies ('fat burning' energy) to hunt down animals for our supper. In just the last 100 years, technological advances in our modern society have made a majority of our population very sedentary and obese ... like those people on the spaceship in the movie WALL-E, our population here in America is rapidly on its way to actually becoming that picture ... because we're no longer out in the wilderness expending energy in our bodies to hunt down our supper. So I'm thinking ... if I want to live a long and healthy life ... and if I want to spend many hours of my life sitting on my butt, peering into a video montor ... then it's merely a common sense thing to do ... to choose a diet that's going to serve to optimize the physical health of a human being who's spending many hours of one's life sitting on one's butt, peering into a video montor. If I'm consuming an animal for my supper, then I ought to be out in the wilderness burning calories in my body hunting down that animal for my supper, or burning calories working on my own private farm raising that animal to eat for my supper. PETA ... pfft ... When are the PETA people going to smarten-up and realize that their best argument to present to the public for adopting a vegetarian diet is ... the medical science indicating that a vegetarian diet works to optimize your physical health if you're spending alot of hours of your life sitting on your butt, peering into a video monitor. PETA tries running an ad campaign showing a picture of a man with man-boobs saying that this is what happens to you if you eat meat (2004 in Knoxville, Tennessee & 2009 in Glascow, Scotland) ... this is a fear-mongering ad ... if you eat meat, you'll grow breasts on your chest like this poor pathetic man ... save your manhood ... don't eat meat ... 'Lose the breasts. Go vegetarian,' is message to men from animal rights group Peta | guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/11/moobs-peta-vegetarian-campaign... what I come away with when I see an ad campaign like that ... ... there's obviously sexist behavior going on in the ranks of PETA's leadership.
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 28, 2010 8:11:14 GMT -5
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 27, 2010 20:11:11 GMT -5
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 26, 2010 11:17:30 GMT -5
moon (fly me to the moon)
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 26, 2010 11:09:17 GMT -5
Since posting this thread, I've stuck to a near-vegan diet.
Skim milk on my spoon-size Shredded Wheat'n'Bran cereal is my only infraction from being total vegan.
I've been using natural peanut butter for years, but now I'd like to find a substitute spread that has minimal or no oil content - yup, I'm going to stop eating peanut butter.
And that protein shake that Clinton is having every morning - it's time for me to do some research on 'protein shakes' in the vegan diet.
The last junk food item I ate before posting this thread: half of stack of Ritz crackers
I have varicose veins in my legs (inherited from my father) and I know that when I eat healthy (no junk food, no sugar, no fat) the 'swelling' in those varicose veins dramatically goes down to the point of hardly being noticable on my legs.
Also, lately my eyesight for reading printed matter has been suffering - I've been using a magnifying glass to help me read the morning paper. I'm aware it's normal for a person my age to find oneself in need of getting reading glasses. But I'm also aware that diet and exercise can have a profound effect on what happens to your eyesight. So I'm going to hold off shopping for reading glasses to see if my vegan diet improves my eyesight.
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 26, 2010 9:12:27 GMT -5
For anyone out there who never gave Garbage a second thought because they weren't afraid to take risks and use 60s harmonies, 70s basslines, 80s riffs, 90s percussion and mix it all up randomly depending on the song, and not fit in their own musical snob rule book - YOUR LOSS MATE. "YOUR LOSS MATE" ... god, I love U.K. culture!!! On "BBC America" here in the States, I've been watching a marathon airing this weekend of the BBC's "Top Gear" show ... three guys who make their living as auto critics ... for whom when dealing with any other subject matter outside of autos (and I love the U.K. term 'saloon' for 'sedan' here in the U.S.), they turn into 'The Three Stooges' of hilarious incompetence ... if you're looking for a great comedy show on British TV, take a look at "Top Gear". The BG era: It's most unfortunate (I love the phrase "outrageous fortune" by Shakespeare) that the launch of the BG era coincided with the event of 9-11 (BG was launched in October 2001). I know that the event of 9-11 had an adverse impact on the BG promotion campaign - my mind was focused on the event of 9-11 - I missed the launch of the BG era - it wasn't until 2004 that I bought the BG album and got myself up-to-date in what was happening in the world of Garbania.
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 25, 2010 2:30:10 GMT -5
I saw this video on CNN yesterday. It's very sobering. It's a wake-up call for me at age 47, 30 lbs overweight, and eating processed junk food, meat, and dairy when I know this stuff is slowly killing me. I've been entertaining the thought of going vegan for several years now. CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to the doctors behind the diet that helped Bill Clinton lose two-dozen pounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2yaaypVmaIAnother Wolf Blitzer interview: Bill Clinton On Plant-Based Diet To Reverse Heart Disease - HuffPost TV www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/bill-clinton-cites-dean-ornish-weight-loss_b_734168.htmlBill Clinton Extols the Virtues of a Plant-Based Diet www.huliq.com/10061/bill-clinton-extols-virtues-plant-based-diet
by Paula Duffy
9-22-2010
Bill Clinton, a lover of hamburgers and all things greasy, has become a vegetarian. He has lost weight and is attempting to prevent another heart episode.
The former U.S. President sat down with Wolf Blitzer of CNN to talk about a plant-based diet. Since changing what he eats in a radical manner, Clinton has lost 24 pounds, returning to his high school weight, according to him. It wasn't just about how heavy he was, because he got very thin after he underwent quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery six years ago.
Despite eating healthier and exercising, Clinton endured a heart episode in early 2010. It isn't uncommon, he was told, that bypass patients continue to suffer from weakening of the arteries which restrict blood flow to the heart. Surgeons inserted two stents in the affected artery and told him that he shouldn't be alarmed if it happened again. Knowing Bill Clinton, you'd expect that he wouldn't be satisfied with the news that he couldn't fix himself.
He told Wolf Blitzer that he read up on the situation, talked with his doctors and found a way to keep himself from his having plaque continue to block up his arteries. In his research, the former President found that since 1986, 82% of people who commit to a plant-based regime are able to keep their blood flowing without blockage.
Here is a summary of what he eats now: plants, vegetables, fruit, legumes, beans, fish on a rare occasion protein shakes and that's about it. He refrains from meat of any kind, whether it is beef, chicken or pork and consumes absolutely no dairy.
The eating regime doesn't just keep the stents at bay, it actually begins to heal the cause of the blockages themselves, says Clinton. The calcium deposits around the heart break up, which puts less strain on the weakened arteries and veins.
He began to search for answers after his daughter Chelsea asked him to lose weight prior to her wedding day. Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. of the Cleveland Clinic published a paper on his research, about alleviating the explosion in the United States of cardiac episodes caused by blocked arteries.
With almost 25 years of results on the record, Clinton took the plunge. He hopes to live to see Chelsea's child or children and believes he can avoid the "sins of his past." No more McDonalds for Bill. Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Clinton at McDonalds www.hulu.com/watch/4169/saturday-night-live-clinton-at-mcdonalds
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 24, 2010 23:56:34 GMT -5
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 23, 2010 23:11:16 GMT -5
DAFFY, DAFFY, DAFFY. On the Joy Baher show, someone made an excellent comment that what Kate Perry was wearing was no more revealing (even less revealing?) than what professional figure skaters are wearing today. Here in America, we are so totally daffy in the head - daffy as in lost, daffy as in confused, daffy as in scared sh#tless ... and we don't even know why we are - when it comes to task of our eyes having to look at breasts (gender be damned because men grow breasts too, ... yes, Virginia, this is true). On this matter, we are so totally daffy in the head here in America. Hundreds of millions of us here in America are so totally in need of going to a psychiatric couch on this matter. This is a pandemic mental health problem in America. Every American that sees in their mind something 'sexually inappropriate' going on in that Kate Perry & Elmo sing along ... should have their name entered into a sex offender registry. News - Katy Perry, Russell Brand Tweet About Her Scrapped Sesame Street Skit www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/katy-perry-russell-brand-tweet-about-her-scrapped-sesame-street-skit--1970241Some reader comments on usmagazine.com: "Please, what are we living in some third world country where women have to cover their shoulders. You see no more here than you would at the beach, or a prom. People are sickening. Sesame Street workshop should NOT have caved in to these lunatics." "my three year old likes this video on youtube. he laughs everytime he see elmo. not once did he say, "hey, mom, look it's boob on the screen." Just give me a break! stop projecting adult thoughts onto children's tv." "If anyone watches the clip, she said she put on dress up clothes. I have 3 kids and wouldn't of had a problem with it! It doesn't really look any different than what Tinkerbell wears!" "Good grief!! Children see more than this at the local swimming pool. Lighten up parents." "with our current climate in this country perhaps she should have considered a Burka"
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 23, 2010 13:21:28 GMT -5
My mum does the whole "Garbage is Garbage" a lot, it's just another bad mum joke that she likes to repeat a lot just to shit me. When they chose the name Garbage, of course they must have known that using the name Garbage would end up being used in 'pun' wordplay by critics and haters of Garbage. It takes a lot of nerve to call your band Garbage. Out of curiosity, I googled Crap to see if there exists a band named Crap ... CRAP! on MySpace Music www.myspace.com/crapthemusic
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 22, 2010 12:26:18 GMT -5
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 22, 2010 12:08:23 GMT -5
Now how does that legend go of how this band got its name ... what ... back in the early '90s, Butch was mixing some new sounds in the studio ... and someone in the studio said ... "Sounds like garbage."
I'm not kidding. I vaguely recall that that's the real story of how this band got its name.
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 21, 2010 12:14:13 GMT -5
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 19, 2010 13:11:39 GMT -5
Books Banned by Communities - AARP Bulletin www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/info-08-2010/banned__.htmlBANNED!
by Betsy Towner, AARP Bulletin
September 1, 2010
Over the years, communities around the country have banned many classic works of literature. As part of the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week (Sept. 25-Oct. 2), libraries and bookstores are urging these same communities to stand up against censorship. In that spirit, here’s a list of 50 books that have been banned at one time or another somewhere in the U.S., followed by their year of publication and categorized by the reason they were banned.
Too Political:
1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
2. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1928
3. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, 1929
4. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway, 1940
6. Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1945
7. 1984, George Orwell, 1949
8. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957
9. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
10. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Peter Matthiessen, 1983
Too Much Sex:
1. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1856
2. Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 1891
3. Ulysses, James Joyce, 1922
4. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926
5. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Law-rence, 1928
6. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, 1934
7. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
8. Peyton Place, Grace Metalious, 1956
9. Rabbit, Run, John Updike, 1960
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou, 1969
11. Jaws, Peter Benchley, 1974
12. Forever, Judy Blume, 1975
13. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy, 1986
14. Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987
15. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, 1991
Irreligious:
1. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, 1859
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
3. The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis, 1960
4. Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya, 1972
5. Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007
Socially Offensive:
1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, 1791
2. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884
4. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner, 1930
5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
6. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936
7. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 1937
8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, 1947
9. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
11. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
12. James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl, 1961
13. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
14. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, 1962
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey, 1962
16. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1966
17. Cujo, Stephen King, 1981
18. The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
19. Ordinary People, Judith Guest, 1982
20. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, 1991
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791
Censure: Frequently censored from 1789 to the early 20th century, the essays were often “sanitized” by publishers so that schools would buy copies.
Benjamin Franklin: His memoirs, written after he turned 65, include the essay “Advice to a Young Man on the Choice of a Mistress,” in which Franklin lists the myriad ways that older women make superior lovers.
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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
Censure: Conservative clergy have condemned the novel since 1850 for its adultery theme; the most recent school challenge was in 1999.
Roger Chillingworth: He develops from a kind scholar into an obsessed fiend. Chillingworth arrives in Boston to find his wife the mother of another man’s child. Fixated on punishing Hester’s seducer, he symbolizes Satan’s ability to prevent forgiveness.
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Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, 1972
Censure: Challenged or banned in four states.
Ultima: The old healer Ultima combines herbs, prayer and tough love to practice her mysteriously potent branch of medicine. Is it witchcraft? The townsfolk—and some conservative Christian readers—suspect it is.
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1953
Censure: Ballantine published sanitized editions for schools from 1967 to 1973 and sold only the sanitized edition from 1973 to 1979—without asking or telling the author.
Faber: In a dystopian society that burns books to snuff original thought, Faber belongs to a group of academics who memorize literature to preserve it for future generations.
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
Censure: Burned in California, New York and Illinois; challenged or banned in 10 states.
Granma and Grampa Joad: The Joads are damn proud of their cussin’ brood—that kind of language helped get Steinbeck’s masterpiece blacklisted across the country, including in Kern County, Calif., where much of the novel is set.
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A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, 1991
Censure: Banned at Lynden High School, Washington, 1994.
Larry Cook: Cook announces plans to divide his lands among his three adult daughters. The generous-patriarch image shatters when we learn that this wealthy Iowa farmer, based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, is a pedophile who abused his girls decades earlier.
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Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, 1997–2007
Censure: Burned in New Mexico; challenged in 19 states.
Albus Dumbledore: A modern-day Merlin, the Hogwarts headmaster personifies the allegedly demonic attributes of this series—witchcraft, sorcery and rebellion against authority. Rowling added fuel to the bonfire with her 2007 assertion that Dumbledore is gay.
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 19, 2010 12:20:51 GMT -5
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 18, 2010 7:15:01 GMT -5
Just wanted to say Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers on the board.... as much as I'd like to celebrate, this is my first Fathers day without my Dad. RIP Dad. Lost mine in 1993. He was 75. Back in my late teens to early 20s, I was at my greatest risk for committing suicide, and, it was in my awareness that my suicide would have been an unimaginably cruel tragedy to have subjected my father to ... that kept me from doing it. You see, at my age of 15 (1978), my father revealed to me (because I was asking questions) that when my birthmother passed away (I was a year-and-a-half old when she passed away), my father was so distraught over losing her that he was contemplating suicide. My birthmother died in December 1964 (holiday season - hell of a time for that to happen, eh). At my age of 15, that was real heavy piece info for me to deal with - my father telling me he was contemplating suicide when my birthmother died. My adopted mother - with whom I'm living with and looking after today - is a second cousin to my birthmother. The relationship between my birthmother and adopted mother goes back to their childhood days, back to the 1930s in York Beach, Maine. Somewhere in our house I have a photo, taken in the mid-1930s, of my birthmother and adopted mother pictured together. But I've misplaced that photo somewhere; it's been missing for about 20 years now. I'd be posting that photo here if I had it on hand. In the photo, my adopted mother is about age 5, and my birthmother about age 15. This photo is seared into my memory. It was an outdoor photo in someone's backyard. I would guess it was taken in York Beach. My birthmother is standing directly behind my adopted mother with her hands cupped around the shoulders of my adopted mother to steady her for the camera shot. My birthmother, with a big smile on her face, is towering over and leaning forward over my adopted mother who has a sourpuss expression on her face. My adopted mother's sourpuss expression is that of a 5-year-old who's not at all amused at having to stand still for a moment to have their picture taken. My adopted mother was at the bedside of my dying birthmother. The relationship between my father and my adopted mother began at the bedside of my dying birthmother. So, this woman I'm living with and looking after today - my adopted mother - is a woman for whom I perceive to have saved my father from committing suicide when my birthmother passed away. Thus, my commitment to look after the needs of my adopted mother [and my commitment to refrain from engaging myself in any 'rocking the boat' activities that would compromise her peace of mind] until she has finished living out her life. Yes, my adopted mother has been a saint to our family. She was there for my father to turn to for help when he lost my birthmother (my father had an infant son and a 5-year-old daughter on his hands to tend to when he lost her). ---------- I love sick dark gallows humor ... I hate saints!!!
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 17, 2010 8:23:37 GMT -5
duck
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 15, 2010 11:35:22 GMT -5
club (...i'm sorry...me so naughty)
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 13, 2010 5:20:05 GMT -5
You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all ... Bare-Breasted Liberty Quarter Of 1916 and 1917 www.greatamericancoincompany.com/c24/1916-Standing-Liberty-Quarter-Silver-Proof-Replica-Exact-Size-p11.html"America was at war: World War I was raging in Europe, and at home industrial technology continued to advance at breakneck pace. A style of artistic construction called Art Nouveau, characterized by elegant, flowing lines, and new freedoms of expression, reached its peak of popularity in America, as the musty old conservative ethic of the long Victorian Era finally breathed its last gasps. Surely placing a topless Miss Liberty on our coinage would be okay; we're an enlightened nation, right?"
--Susan Headley "The Bare-Breasted Liberty Quarter" (complete story in link) coins.about.com/od/famousrarecoinprofiles/p/breastedliberty.htm Go girl power ...eh? ... ...well, ...we'd better censor those breasts, ...for fear my customer base will lose interest in buying my "Girls Gone Wild" videos, ...for fear my customer base will lose interest in coming to my bar featuring topless dance entertainment, ...for fear my customer base will lose interest in coming to my donut shop featuring topless waitresses, ...for fear my customer base will lose interest in my plastic surgery services for breast augmentations and breast reductions* ...for fear my customer base will lose interest in buying my bras ... *Yours truly in 1988, at the age of 25, went under a plastic surgeon's knife for a 'medically unnecessary' breast reduction (today I call it a 'mutilation') that was completely paid for by the American taxpayer. ...we'd better censor those breasts, ...for fear the American taxpayer will not pay for my breast reduction to make me into a human being with ... none upon thars. Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small. You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all ... "...for fear my customer base will lose interest in buying my bras ..." History of brassieres: The future en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_brassieres
Brassieres are worn by the great majority of women in Western society. There are now an unprecedented array of styles and models, including those that barely cover the breasts, barely provide support, and the various sports bras which often function as outerwear. The bra was 100 years old in 2007.
Women, health professionals, feminists and fashion writers appear to be increasingly questioning its place and function, and asking whether it will go the way of pantyhose, garter belts and stockings.
It is now commonplace to see models and other celebrities who do not wear bras in public, while many outergarments like sundresses and formal evening wear are designed to be worn without bras. Nevertheless it remains a popular item at least amongst Western women. Estimates of what proportion of women wear bras varies, but it is certainly the majority (The Daily Mirror estimate in 1997 was 75%). Danish fashion historian Rudolf Kristian Albert Broby-Johansen predicted in an article in May 1969 titled "Obituary for the Bra" that bras would soon go out of fashion. Approximately 90% of women in North American wear a bra as of 2006.
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Post by Dance Away on Sept 11, 2010 19:50:37 GMT -5
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