Sarah Brown's thighs are one of her major characteristics. In every photograph the eye is drawn irresistibly to the too short skirt, the painfully high heels that cause the overbalanced forward-leaning walk.
The finding that those big thighs are better than legs-up-to-the-armpits for avoiding heart attacks provides at last a reason for their flaunting. The inappropriateness of dress is not an underlining of consciousness, leading to attempts at achieving some amelioration of the departure from received leg-aesthetic norms - it is an expression of thigh pride. Wearing the heart on the chafing tight rather than the sleeve, so to speak.
In just-published guidelines there is even a suggestion of exercising the legs and lower body to increase thigh size; the authors of the research say that it is "worrying" that half of the men and the women in the study aged between 35 and 65 have a thigh circumference that is lower than the 60cm 'threshold'. Fortunately an editorial in the BMJ remarks that the study raises several questions on the link between thigh size and health risks being a real not spurious finding.
"Is this association biologically plausible? It would seem logical that having bigger thighs would be a reflection of greater adiposity, and that this would increase the risk of heart disease,". Imagine - actually trying to give yourself big fat legs by mistake, and giving yourself a heart attack. Well, it would give anyone a heart attack if your thighs suddenly swelled to above 'threshold' proportions.
A taxpayer funded assault upon inappropriate attitude to large thighs (room for a small piece of legislation there, too) and led by Sarah is clearly part of the relaunch.
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Hurrah, there you are!
Our thighs have massive muscles in them which we in the west do not use properly. We sit in chairs, not on the floor and on raised lavatories rather than squatting as nature intended. As a result we all need hip replacements and have bad backs from using our lower backs to support us and to get us out of chairs instead of taking advantage of the vastus lateralis and all it can do to keep us well. It doesn't surprise me that strong thighs (not fat ones) help with longevity.
So glad you are back.
I looked up vastus lateralis and took fright. After looking at the pictures of the inside leg I'll have to go and have a sit down.
I'm fascinated to be back in internet range. Summer was lovely but the feeding of the 5000 is not just a matter of waving at loaves and fishes, as you know. As well as Toad Rescue every morning and The Washing Up.
Not to mention an entire family of friends who found themselves staying in the hotel from The Shining with no other guests and no staff (the most exciting of problems'r'us events).
Thrilled at the vindication of the Innocent.
It is quite a scary thing without skin on, I agree :-)
Wow, what a summer you have had. Hotels like the one in The Shining must be quite common in Italy during August, no?
It's lovely news, the vindication. Best ever. She celebrated with a whistle stop tour of Florence and Rome with an art historian buddy. She was actually rendered speechless for a day, an effect that hitherto only great literature has had on her :-)
There you are, Ms. Girl. Please don't do that again without warning ;->
Indeed, we are bipeds and not designed to spend our days in some sort of extended 'L' shape.
I have taken to an exercise ball for my desk seat; every move of the body reflected in it, so the hips and pelvis are continually being moved. Also, you DO use your thighs when you rise from it.
Regardless of her thighs, the poor woman is a terrible frump. And what a fate to be married to a sub-human defective, or should that be a defective sub-human? Or bofe?
L's delightful daughter Calfy coined a splendid phrase which one would imagine had she not been shacked to the dreadful Gorgon, should have been applies to Ms. Sarah
"Reeking of spinst"
I think I read "reeking of spinsterhood" or "reeking of batch" somewhere actually. Possibly Wodehouse. I wouldn't like to take credit for it! I think you are harsh on Sarah, Elby; there are bigger frumps to fry.
fried thigh. yuk
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