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| Go figure: Waist may be key (Deseret Morning News) |
| Men may fancy it and medical science considers it the best indicator of a woman's health and fertility, but the classic hourglass figure isn't necessarily suited for demands in the real world, according to new body type research conducted at the University of Utah. |
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| Africa: Power, Politics And HIV/Aids in the African Blogosphere (AllAfrica.com) |
| About a year ago, CNN and Time declared the identification of male circumcision as a preventive measure against HIV infection as the biggest medical breakthrough of 2007. Having worked on one of the studies that led to this "discovery" several years before, I quickly penned something which was published on Africa News on the 20th December 2007 . |
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| Study Explains How Hormones Interact With Waist-To-Hip Ratios In Women (Medical News Today) |
| Having an imperfect body may come with some substantial benefits for some women, according to a new article in the December issue of Current Anthropology. The hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive and better able to deal with stress also tend to redistribute fat from the hips to the waist, according to Elizabeth Cashdan, an anthropologist at the University of Utah. |
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| Engagements (This Week Grove City) |
| Diana Livermore, the daughter of Richard Livermore and the late Patty Livermore of Menlo Park, Calif., and Matthew Heinz, the son of William and Carol Heinz of Grove City, have announced their engagement and wedding plans. The future bride is a native of Menlo Park and a graduate of Brown University in Providence, R.I., with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. She completed the ... |
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