| A vanilla-scented patch for women to boost male libido | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 11:04:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | London, Oct 23: The next time you want your guy to lust after you - just apply a new vanilla-scented patch on the wrist and you will have him drooling over you. The new SFM libido skin patches, developed by Medaro Medical Ltd, have been designed to boost the male sex drive through an aroma, which is claimed to trigger the brain to release certain hormones.Inventor Dr George Dodd said that the smell off the patch, called SFM, stimulates the feel-good hormone, which increases males' sexual desire."We know certain smells can boost sexual arousal. Until now this has been ignored," the Mirror quoted him, as saying.In a recent study carried out by Medaro, 65 per cent of men said that their sexual desire had increased whilst they were using the patch. .... | |
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| | | Inside the female brain | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:57:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Toronto couple Cathy Logan and James Nicholson may be happily married and generally in synch, but they don't have to look very far for their differences. "The biggest thing is his lack of interest or ability to gossip," says Logan. "He won't do it at all. He will spend the whole weekend with his friends, you know, golfing or a boy's weekend, and he'll come back and I'll say 'what's going on with them?' and he'll have nothing, nothing!" If Logan wonders how her husband can cover so little ground with his friends, he can't understand how she can talk to hers for so long, and about so much. "Sad to say, I think we just talk about sports and hockey or something like that," said Nicholson. "I don't think we need to fill up the void the way women do . . .We are more comfortable with not talking, and certainly not personal details." BIOLOGICAL INSTINCT .... | |
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| | | Cancer alert as 'handmade hormones' tested on women | | Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:01:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | WOMEN are being urged to avoid so-called natural hormone replacement therapy because of health fears. Some women using the therapy, also known as bio-identical hormones, have suffered elevated hormone levels that could lead to excessive bleeding, increased risk of breast and uterine cancer and blood clots. Dr John Eden, director of the Sydney Menopause Centre at Randwick's Royal Hospital for Women, said in the past year he had referred two cases of uterine cancer in patients who had been taking natural hormone replacement therapy, to the Therapeutic Goods Administration. Dr Eden said these "handmade hormones" were prepared by chemists - known as compounding chemists - without scrutiny. Although the process is legal, it is beyond the regulatory control of the TGA and state-based pharmacy boards.... | |
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| | | Why we're fatter. | | Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 1:00:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | We all agree—and despair—that obesity is on the rise. America has been getting fatter for the past century, and the problem has worsened over the past 35 years. We also all know the obvious explanations. Who would discount the role of new food-marketing practices, like super-sizing or pushing soda sweetened with corn syrup? Or the decrease—even elimination—of physical activity in school and in adult life? An important new paper, though, cautions us to be skeptical that corn syrup and sitting around are the only factors that matter for understanding the obesity epidemic. The study's lead authors, David Allison and Scott Keith of the University of Alabama, don't reject these explanations. But they suggest that the obvious reasons for obesity are so popular and widely cited that they have pushed out other equally plausible and well-supported contributing factors.... | |
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