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Read the fine print first, advertisement for Complete Lift by Roc mentions a “lift of up to 2mm” well 29/33 subjects averaged 0.8mm, not 2mm

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

The cosmetic industry is one industry like the vitamin & supplement industry that are not as regulated as the pharmaceutical industry where there is no standardised testing of products.

With the Anti Aging market a Billion dollar industry, the growth of new products is bewildering.
Rok’s website states that RoC® COMPLETE LIFT Night Cream
Clinically proven to increase firmness, improve elasticity, and give skin a visibly lifted look.
Well there testing according to their advertisement


Clinical evaulation 8 weeks: facial Contour> result obtained on 3 subjects, average was 0.7mm on 18 subjects.

Are these results enough to encourage you to buy, secondly how do you measure facial contour, what exactly is facial contour and once a definition has been supplied, is there a universal “Facial Contour” test that other companies can use???

Are you 40, 50 or 60+ & make excuses for lack of exercise, ask Bette Calman who at 83 has the strength & flexibility of someone half her age

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Next time before you make excuses for not looking after your body, think about how an 83 year old continues to teach yoga while having the strength and flexibility of someone half her age.
Our mind can take us anywhere but can equally be a limiting factor in pursuing our health and happiness.

No no excuses for lack of exercise, just ask Bette Calman.

Novelty stuff: “I must be getting older, my ears are geting longer” Do your ears get bigger with age or is gravity taking over?

Friday, March 20th, 2009

So the million dollar question, do our ears get larger with age.
Ever notice grandma’s or grandpa’s ear, do they seem quite long, is it a case of gravity taking over or do they increase in size with age?

In 1990, Drs L Pelz and B Stein from Medical Branch of the University of Rostock in Germany measured the ears of 1,271 children and adolescents. They report in Padiatrie und Grenzgebiete that ear length increases “steadily and annually”, but ear width remains the same.

Dr James Heathcote, a general practitioner from Kent in the UK, along with four colleagues, studied 206 patients with the mean age of 53. Dr Heathcote concluded in the 23 December 1995 British Medical Journal, that “as we get older our ears get bigger (on average by 0.22mm a year)”.

So start measuring today and re check every 10 years:)))