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A new standard of beauty led to today’s weight-loss regimens
- taneq 9y agoIt's interesting to compare official "beauty standards" (which flit around on the winds of fashion) with what gets published in lads' mags (which is quite consistently buxom women with trim waists and long hair).
- slowmovintarget 9y agoOne is about novelty, one is about maximized fertility cues.
- gnarbarian 9y ago"hacker" news
- taneq 9y agoAnything beauty-related (makeup, hair styling, clothing, jewellery etc.) is "hacking" human perception of attractiveness.
- gnarbarian 9y agoAh yes, by showering and wiping my butt I must be hacking people's olfactory perception of me. Now if you excuse me I'm going to hack gravity by manipulating my leg muscles to stand up and go home.
- narag 9y ago"hacker" news I have observed that there is a lot of discussion in HN about diets, maybe because trying a diet is like hacking our own body. It's interesting to know that it has been done for a long time and the circumstances. Sex seems the cause :)
- gnarbarian 9y agoThis place should be more like 2600 and less like Cosmo.
- mirimir 9y ago> Lucky Strike plastered colorful ads in magazines. In one, a pursed-lip flapper looks at the viewer. “To keep a slender figure no one can deny,” the ad trumpets, “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet.” Well, I gained ~70 kg during the year after I finally quit smoking tobacco. And I've never managed to completely lose it. But overall, I'm better off fatter and not smoking. I smell better, if nothing else. And my skin isn't yellow.