Articles like this one are being posted all across the internet atm.  Since breast size is also determined by many factors unrelated to diet and metabolic rate such as genetic and environmental factors many doctors believe that examining bra size is a clinical waste of time.

“Breast size is determined by a number of genetic and environmental factors. Because it is related to age at [first menstruation] and pre-pubertal growth rates that are also important determinates of obesity, breast size is probably a surrogate for the presence of obesity or the predilection to become obese.”  Read More »

MSNBC is reporting that the bouncing of our breasts in multiple directions can prove painful and damaging to our natural support system. A support system never designed to handle the weight of breasts that tip the scales at 10, 15, or 20 pounds each. Breasts are made up of fat, milk ducts and connective tissues, such as collagen, ligaments and blood vessels. Read More »

This is one of the most frequently asked questions that we receive in our email box every week from men and women. Having big breasts does not determine how much milk breasts make but it may influence how often a woman needs to nurse to maintain a certain amount of supply. Women who have larger breasts can hold more milk before their breasts begin to get engorged with too much milk. As breasts become fuller, the tightness or engorgement of the breast tissue signals the milk producing glands to slow milk production. Read More »

Researchers now claim that women with hourglass figures are more likely to become pregnant.  It is a long felt belief that men have only one thing on their minds: a woman’s WHR - waist-hip ratio, calculated by dividing waist circumference by that of the hips.  The Royal Society Journal has documented once again that what men find attractive today was also true hundreds of years ago: a narrow waist and thus an hourglass shape. Read More »

Natasha Courtenay Smith recently published this compelling article about breast size for Dailymail.co.uk.

It will come as no surprise to Hiddenfeet readers that her findings indicate a pattern of increasing breast size that continues into each successive generation. The bad news is that it seems that the most significant and likely explanation for the world’s growing bust size is a result of all round weight gain. The average female waist has risen from 27.5 inches to 34 inches in the last six decades. The larger women become overall, the larger a women’s breasts will become. Read More »

New York Times author Stephen J. Dubner writes about his feelings relating to evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa’s new book called Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters.

Last year Hiddenfeet posted the findings of scientists at University College in London, England. They believe that the size and shape of the breast is evolutionary because of a woman’s need to feed children, not to attract men. So why do men like large breasted women? This is Kanazawa’s explanation: Read More »

This article reports that in 2006, over 300,000 breast augmentations and reconstructions were performed in the United States, making them the most common type of cosmetic surgery and almost tripling the number of operations in 1997.

The problem with this is that there are often several unavoidable medical complications that burden women who undergo this procedure. To the rescue comes Cytori Therapeutics, a California Biotech company. They are using stem cell technology to develop a more natural breast growth procedure. Read More »