Men get turned off by flashy bags and platform heels, it has been revealed.
A.P.C. designer Jean Touitou has said that he’s not a fan of flashy things and added that if he was a woman of 62-year-old, he would be very sad that after all those years of fighting for women, they have taken to prostitute fashion, Huffington Post reported.
Touitou said that high heels are shoes from porn movies and there is a comedy in huge heels and in being exposed.
Organisations screening new recruits based on their profiles on social networking sites like Facebook could potentially turn away the job seekers, a new study has revealed.
William Stoughton of North Carolina State University, lead author of a study published in Springer’s Journal of Business and Psychology, found that this practice could be seen as a breach of privacy and create a negative impression of the company for potential employees.
This spying could even lead to law-suits.
Have you had one of those phases when you felt restless, unable to concentrate on work or couldn’t sleep well at night? Times when you can actually heard your heart racing through your shirt? Well, I have had my share of stressful days and woken up to feel my scalp itchy and dandruff showing up on my clothes.
What is better for a healthy married life: to be right or to be happy?
To decode the effect of being right vs being happy on a couple’s quality of life, researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand involved a married couple living in their own home for their study.
The authors decided that the female participant would prefer to be right and the male participant would prefer to be happy.
Teenage boys at a school in Essex will be given lessons in chatting up the opposite sex.
The male teachers at Chase High School will be taking part in the mentoring session which is aimed at teaching boys at the school a variety of skills, including how to save money, how to shave, how to treat women and how to ask out a girl, the Daily Star reported.
Head teacher Victoria Overy said that the scheme was set up to help and support young boys who lack a male role model in their life, and is directed at improving their self-esteem and helping them to grow up to be decent men.
Why do men succumb to sexual temptations — like cheating on a partner or preying on a female colleague — more than women?
A new study has the answer.
“The study suggests that men are more likely to give in to sexual temptations because they tend to have stronger sexual impulse strength than women do,” says Natasha Tidwell, a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University who authored the study.
Chinese doctors kept a man’s severed hand alive for a month by grafting it to his ankle before restoring it to its normal position, according to media reports today.
The right hand of 25-year-old Xiao Wei was sawn off by a drilling machine during an accident at work in the central Hunan province.
He could not have it reattached to his arm right away because the damage was so severe.
The hand was kept alive by attaching it to Xiao Wei’s left ankle, just above his Achilles tendon, and “borrowing” blood supply from arteries in the leg, media reports said.
Chinese surgeons have successfully conducted a reattachment surgery on a man’s severed right hand after he lost it in an accident at work.
Before the surgery, Xiao Wei ‘s limb had been sewed to his ankle in an attempt to save it from dying while they treated his other injuries, Fox News reported.
Wei said that after his colleagues took him and his hand to a hospital, doctors said they would be unable to save his limb.
But, surgeons at a bigger hospital saved his hand after they came up with a unique solution. (ANI)
A Chinese man had been kept in a cage for more than 40 years by his mother so that he wouldn’t hurt himself.
Peng Weiqing, who had suffered brain damage and epileptic fits since his childhood, was kept in a custom made cage built by his father in the city of Zhengzhou, the Mirror reported.
The 48-year-old man’s mother said that she had to keep him locked in the cage, as they couldn’t afford medical treatment, and she feared he would cut himself with knives and glass debris.
If you believe that finding the right partner will ensure that the two of you will remain in love for the rest of your lives without any effort, then you are highly mistaken. According to YourTango.com, author Russ Harris has debunked some biggest myths that can destroy marriages, in his book ‘ACT with Love’.
Keep calm and make good choices: People with higher emotional intelligence are better decision makers, reports a new study from the University of Pennsylvania.
Emotional intelligence (EI) determines how well you process and understand emotions—it’s a sub-skill that allows you to recognize why events make you feel a certain way. “People have a tendency to use their emotional states as springboard when making a decision,” says lead researcher Jeremy Yip, Ph.D.
The numbers just don’t add up. Four in 10 people with at least one risk factor for type 2 diabetes—including obesity or high blood pressure—think they have no risk at all, finds a new survey by the American Diabetes Association. Even worse: 80 percent say they’re in good or excellent health.
Hiding our weaknesses sometimes comes naturally. “We as human beings try to protect ourselves,” says diabetes educator Virginia Peragallo-Dittko, R.N., who was involved in the research. “We say, ‘I don’t have it that bad. I’m not that overweight.’ ”
Beauty expert Shahnaz Hussain has revealed why men should look after their hair just like women, asserting that hair is an extension of one’s personality.
According to Monsoon Salon, Hussain insisted that the thought that people judge you within the first ten seconds of meeting holds true so there are no second chances to make a good first impression. While aroma therapist Blossom Kochchar said that pollution is the largest concern when it comes to men and their styling, celebrity hairdresser Rod Anker said that face structure is super important for deciding the hairstyle.
Twenty Two Words has become the second most-shared website on Facebook globally.
In an interview with the U.S. men’s magazine, Esquire, 22 Words creator Abraham Piper said he grabs stories and features from around the web and Facebook users click the share button for the maximum times for his chosen stories, News.com.au reports.
According to the report, twelve million people enjoyed its content last month.
This site, which has been running since 2008, describes itself as the “source for the crazy, curious, and comical side of the web.” (ANI)
Older men with low levels of vitamin B-12 are at increased risk for bone fractures, a new study suggests.
Researchers measured the levels of vitamin B-12 in 1,000 Swedish men with an average age of 75. They found that participants with low levels of the vitamin were more likely than those with normal levels to have suffered a fracture.
For the first time, a team of scientists reports successfully growing human hairs from dermal papilla cells taken from the inside of donor hair follicles.
The team, from Columbia University Medical Center in the US and Durham University in the UK, says their technique generates new human hair growth, rather than simply redistributing hair follicles from one part of the scalp to another.
A plastic surgeon from California has been giving his adoptive daughter botox jabs and boob job since she was just 10 years old.
Michael Niccole, has operated upon his daughters, Charm and Brittani, multiple times for breast augmentations and botox injections, Huffington Post reported.
Niccole has claimed that his daughters have lived in the world of cosmetics, so they understand the importance of looking good and maintaining their beauty.
A new study has found that office holiday bashes , which are thrown with the intention of promoting team unity, leave members of racially diverse groups feeling more disconnected than connected from other co-workers.
The study was conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Katherine Phillips, Ohio State University’s Professor Tracy Dumas, and the Wharton School’s Professor Nancy Rothbard.
A recent study has revealed that a father’s diet before conception plays an important role in the health of the offspring.
The study, which is led by McGill researcher Sarah Kimmins, has found that the father’s diet may play an equally important role as the mother’s diet before conceiving the baby.
The researchers have focused on vitamin B9, also called folate, found in a range of green leafy vegetables, cereals, fruit and meats, and have discovered that the father”s folate levels is very important to the development and health of their offspring.
For men with prostate cancer who are trying to decide between surgery or radiation therapy, new research shows that declines in sexual, urinary and bowel function do differ with each treatment in the short-term, but those declines tend to even out in the long run.
The study included more than 1,600 men treated for early-stage prostate cancer. Researchers asked them about their urinary, sexual and bowel health following either surgery to remove the prostate or radiation therapy.
Black men who were raised in single-parent households have higher blood pressure than those who spent at least part of their childhood in a two-parent home, according to a new study.
This is the first study to link childhood family living arrangements with blood pressure in black men in the United States, who tend to have higher rates of high blood pressure than American men of other races. The findings suggest that programs to promote family stability during childhood might have a long-lasting effect on the risk of high blood pressure in these men.
The father’s absence during a the critical growth periods of children may lead to their turning to drugs and crime when they become adults, new findings show.
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Quebec said that the absence of a father during the growing years leads to impaired social and behavioural abilities in adults.
The scientists, who conducted the study on mice raised only by their mother, found that they were more aggressive and had abnormal social interactions.
Men who continue to smoke after being diagnosed with cancer have an increased risk of death compared with those who quit smoking, US researchers said.
The new research, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, Friday showed it is not too late to stop smoking after cancer diagnosis, reported Xinhua.
A man, from Georgia, has been ordered to pay his wife 55,000 dollars for “breach of promise.”
Melissa Cooper had quit her job and had a child with her ex- Christopher Kelley; she even raised another child that he had from a previous relationship, News.com.au reported.
In 2004, Kelley proposed Cooper and gave her a ring valued at approximately 11,000 dollars.
But when Cooper found that Kelley was cheating on her for the second time, he reportedly asked her to move out.
Signs of HIV have returned in two American men who appeared to have briefly eradicated the virus after bone marrow transplants for cancer, US doctors said.
Experts said yesterday the discovery is a disappointment to efforts to find a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus behind AIDS, but offers important new clues in the hunt for the disease’s elusive hiding places.
Only one person is believed to have been cured of HIV.