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Wes Groleau - 04 Aug 2007 14:44 GMT

http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/5068/11793/weight-friendship/

Brief excerpt:

> I once read about a woman on intensive hormone therapy so she could
> carry a child for her daughter. Because of the hormones, her hair
> started losing its gray, her skin improved, her wrinkles started
> disappearing, and she basically began to look young again.
>
> You'd think she'd be thrilled. Instead she felt lonely, because her
> friends all looked old and she didn't. When the baby was born and
> she stopped taking the hormones and started looking old again
> like her friends, she was happier.

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Måck©® - 04 Aug 2007 21:19 GMT

>http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/5068/11793/weight-friendship/
>
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> > she stopped taking the hormones and started looking old again
> > like her friends, she was happier.

someone needs to work on their self esteem.

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Chris Malcolm - 06 Aug 2007 11:36 GMT

> http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/5068/11793/weight-friendship/

> Brief excerpt:
> > I once read about a woman on intensive hormone therapy so she could
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> > she stopped taking the hormones and started looking old again
> > like her friends, she was happier.

Her hair started losing its grey on hormone treatment? I think we'd
have heard a lot more about that if it worked! This sounds to me like
an urban rumour.

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Wes Groleau - 06 Aug 2007 22:44 GMT

> Her hair started losing its grey on hormone treatment? I think we'd
> have heard a lot more about that if it worked! This sounds to me like
> an urban rumour.

The point is not the admittedly dubious incident quoted.
The point is the hypothesis that people will want to
look like their friends even if that goes against the
overall cultural idea of "good"

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johnniemccoy@ - 06 Aug 2007 23:16 GMT

> The point is the hypothesis that people will want to
> look like their friends even if that goes against the
> overall cultural idea of "good"

Then the secret to looking good is to get good looking friends and conform.

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Loretta Eisenberg - 06 Aug 2007 23:53 GMT

Wes, I dont want to look like my friends, I want to look better, lol

Loretta

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