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STOMPer Plastic Surgeon thinks Singaporean girls' growing obsession with getting bigger breasts are ridiculous, since sexy women are those are healthy and are confident about their own bodies. The STOMPer was referring to a report in The New Paper today (Jan 30), about the increasing number of Singaporean women buying products to improve their cup size, despite their unproven claims and health risks. Some of the products include oestrogen cookies, bust-boosting chewing gum and candies. Said the STOMPer: "I find it sad that our girls have to resort to risking their health to get bigger breasts, when they are in fact one of the most beautiful women in the world, in my opinion. "Personally, I think women who are healthy and confident about themselves and their bodies are sexier than any supermodel. "Plastic surgery and cosmetic are enhancements are OK if there is something really wrong with their bodies -- like for those people who become disfigured after an operation. "But when perfectly good looking women take products that might cause side effects just because they want to look like Hollywood stars, I think that's quite sad." Blogger Hong Quiu Ting, 22, was reported in The New Paper to have tried breast enhancement pills sold for $35 on eBay, but had neck pain, felt giddy and vomited often when she used the product. She also tried the Must Up candies -- with each packet containing 10 pieces of sweets costing $10. The candies promised to increase her bust size by 5cm in 20 days. She said her breasts felt slightly firmer after about three weeks, but she stopped taking the candies when she was offered a free breast-filling treatment by a doctor. The Straits Times also reported that three teens suffered from diarrhoea and gastric pains when they substituted their main meals with made-in-Japan breast enhancement F-cup cookies for two weeks. Experts say that unproven 'short cuts' -- like eating more chicken breast meat, drinking papaya milk shakes or massages -- to breast enhancement do not work. The simplest way to have bigger breasts is to get fat or chubby, says plastic surgeon JJ Chua of Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. Although i like big boobs myself.I too believe being chubby is the natural way to get big boobs. What are your experiences?Views?Do gals with big boobs get harassed?Do they feel uneasy.

Taken from http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090619/tts-...ht-7d7070a.html AFP - Saturday, June 20 TOKYO (AFP) - - Health experts have long warned of the risk of obesity, but a new Japanese study warns that being very skinny is even more dangerous, and that slightly chubby people live longer.ADVERTISEMENT People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin people, whose average life expectancy was shorter by some five years than that of obese people, the study found. "We found skinny people run the highest risk," said Shinichi Kuriyama, an associate professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Medicine who worked on the long-term study of middle-aged and elderly people. "We had expected thin people would show the shortest life expectancy but didn't expect the difference to be this large," he told AFP by telephone. The study was conducted by a health ministry team led by Tohoku University professor Ichiro Tsuji and covered 50,000 people between the ages of 40 and 79 over 12 years in the northern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi. "There had been an argument that thin people's lives are short because many of them are sick or smoke. But the difference was almost unchanged even when we eliminated these factors," Kuriyama said. Main reasons for the shorter lifespans of skinny people were believed to include their heightened vulnerability to diseases such as pneumonia and the fragility of their blood vessels, he said. But Kuriyama warned he was not recommending people eat as much as they want. "It's better that thin people try to gain normal weight, but we doubt it's good for people of normal physique to put on more fat," he said. The study divided people into four weight classes at age 40 according to their body mass index, or BMI, calculated by dividing a person's weight in kilograms by their squared height in metres. The normal range is 18.5 to 25, with thinness defined as under 18.5. A BMI of 25 to 30 was classed as slightly overweight and an index above 30 as obese.