Excerpt from Redwood Age:
#6 Become a better health advocate
Ilena Rosenthal, a women’s health advocate, cautioned boomers not to be swayed by advertising, and to be mindful of subsequent perks some physicians receive to tout products.
“Learning to follow the money behind the massive number of medical messages we receive daily may well lead us to realize that modern medicine has little to do with health and everything to do with business,” Rosenthal said.”
… full article here
So check out this nice 14 year-old boy on YouTube, who calls himself “Harryrmpttr.” I will definitely show my girls this to let them know SOME boys have brains… And he’s cute too! He’s a little young for my girls, or I would even think about setting them up! 
But I can at least send him straight… to our blog here!
I would of course have to educate him on a few things. Like “melons” is probably for those of us over 40 — ahhh youth — and that double D’s can never look natural in silicone… But hey, he has the right idea with his ultimate question: Why DO women want big boobs?
I ask this all the time. But even more interesting to me is that this young man knows about the dangers of silicone implants, doesn’t like the fake look and is really pissed off that parents are buying them for their daughters as presents. Here, here!
I especially love that he questions what those parents are thinking and understands the hidden message when you buy for impressionable young women body-altering implants. You gotta hear him.
So Sybil, Harryrmpttr and I all think alike! Good to know our message is getting out there somehow.
But what I really want to know is… WHO is his mother? She’s doing a great job!
The supplement to December’s Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgery is all about breast implants. The editorial, “What Do Women Need to Know and When Do They Need to Know It?” is significant and important.
It’s significant because the co-authors make such strange bedfellows. Scott Spear, M.D., was the cheerleader for Mentor Corporation at the final FDA hearings where silicone breast implants were approved to return to the market. Susan Wood, PhD, quit her job at FDA because of the agency’s failure to deal with medication (RU486) in an unbiased and totally scientific way. Dr. Spear represents his colleagues in the plastic surgery world and his employers, breast implant manufacturers, very well, and Dr. Wood is a champion of women’s rights. Still, this “odd couple” wrote a measured article giving important information for both physicians and patients.
The article is important because, as Pam Noon-Saraceni says, “It goes into the details that are so often made light of in the consultations with the surgeons prior to a woman’s decision to have breast implants.”
Here are the Beauty and the Breast blog, we strongly urge any woman concerned about women’s health to read it. It is hidden behind a subscription wall, though, so here’s our hopefully adequate summary:
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Well, I must say when I read this headline on metro.co.uk, I had to read on, as you know the old saying, curiosity killed the cat. I never expected this. I read, “Meet the man with Breasts in his Leg“ and thought, well, this is odd so I read on and saw the picture. I was a bit shocked that someone would do this and wondered if he did his research on the effects of implants on the human body. I’d like to follow this man and find out how he is feeling several years down the road. I wonder if he will be taken more seriously by doctors than some of the women have been?
Just some food for thought…..
The Federal Food and Drug Administration has issued a report that outlines terrible inefficiencies at the agency, echoing what other groups have been complaining about for years. Requested by FDA Commissioner Edward von Eschenbach, the report was written by a panel of external advisers that reports to Eschenbach, who concluded that the nation’s health is at risk because the FDA does not have the funding, equipment or scientific capacity to fulfill its mission. It is the first time the agency admits it is failing. You can read about it here in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Let me join the bandwagon of those who’ve been saying, “I told you so.” In the case of those of us in this blog community, we are still hurting from the FDA allowing silicone breast implants back on the market in November 2006, a decision made against its own scientists’ advice.
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The last few days I’ve been made aware of this horrific story … of the brutal rape, imprisionment, and other mistreatment of a woman employed by Halliburton.
I just found a website she made relating her horrors … and read this:
I awoke the next morning in the barracks to find my naked body battered and bruised. I was still groggy from whatever had been put in my drink. I was bleeding from between my legs and my breast implants were severely disfigured. (I found out later that my attackers tore my pectoral muscles due to the brutality of the attack).
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Breast Implant Awareness Blog
The This is going to be Big blog asks, “Difference between steroids and breast implants?”
* Both make a person look fake
* Both provide a physical advantage in the entertainment industry
* Both are tied to serious medical side effects
* Both are influencing younger and younger kids to have unhealthy self-images and seek out enhancement
* Both don’t really fool anyone
The blogger, Charlie, then points out, “But only one is the subject of a witch hunt at the moment. Can we get George Mitchell to investigate Hollywood and the modeling industry to find out who’s cheating?”
Hey, Charlie, you know why there’s no witch hunt about breast implants? Because it’s only women getting hurt - silly, vain women who are not sports heroes or stars, who couldn’t possibly be role models for anyone.
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NewsRX.com tells us about a new study in the Annals of Plastic Surgery. Here’s the synopsis:
A report, ‘The safety of silicone gel-filled breast implants: a review of the epidemiologic evidence,’ is newly published data in Annals of Plastic Surgery. “Few implantable medical devices have been studied for their safety more extensively than silicone gel-filled breast implants. We summarize the epidemiologic evidence on the safety of breast implants, most of which is drawn from large cohort studies with long-term follow-up,” scientists in the United States report.
Hmm, they’re pulling out that old line — “Few implantable medical devices have been studied for their safety more extensively than silicone gel-filled breast implants” — AGAIN? We often hear this as a defense of the manufacturers and plastic surgeons. I can’t tell you how many times I heard it at the FDA hearings. I wonder where the results of these “extensive” studies are? We know the manufacturers did not come up with any data longer than two to three years. So WHERE is this “safety” data? Why wasn’t it presented at the hearings?
The old paid-for-by-the-manufacturers studies have been looked at and reviewed over and over again, but NO NEW studies have been done that are peer-reviewed or credible. There has been press covering the controversy for years, and the FDA’s own studies have shown connective tissue problems and horrible local complication problems in the longer term.
It is so annoying that these companies can keep putting out this information like it’s true. And people read it and BELIEVE it must be so. If they say it enough, you start to believe it!!!
Well, we KNOW this is not true. Scrutiny is not science.
According to TMZ.com, Dancing with The Stars runner-up Mario Lopez recently hosted a “dance competition” called “Boobs Or Bust 2″ at Jet Nightclub in Las Vegas. The prize? Free boobs.
Ridiculous! Really, what has this world come to? I have no words good enough to even comment on how stupid this is!
If I had “won” money for boobs and got sick like I did, do you think someone might actually listen to my story?
