Italy has produced some of the most famous beauties that the world and Hollywood has ever seen. Film stars such as Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren represented the sultry and voluptuous woman.

Now Italy joins Spain in regulating the health and weight of fashion models. The Italian Fashion Chamber has teamed with the Italian government to produce a code that would ensure that models are healthy by requiring that models produce medical proof that they do not have an eating disorder. It would also ban models younger than 16. Interestingly, the code asks for fashion houses to add larger sizes to their collections.

In the photos of these famous Italian beauties it is clear that their clothes were designed to accentuate their assets. What you notice about clothes on fashion models today is that these sorts of assets would get in the way. The clothes seem designed to be draped over the stick figure clothes hanger that is the model. Which, I wonder, would men consider to be more attractive?

It would be wonderful if this code could be adopted internationally. It could save the lives of many young girls who develop eating disorders in trying to emulate these models and it would finally allow real women to assert their beauty.

There’s no doubt that eating your favorite food is pleasurable, and that sometimes overindulging is simply extending that pleasure. Recent studies suggest that it isn’t hunger that triggers the satisfaction you feel from eating, but a hormone that triggers those feelings.

Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine have isolated an appetite hormone, ghrelin, that they say activates neurons that give a sense of pleasure and satisfaction.

When ghrelin was infused into the brains of rats, they ate ravenously even if they were already well-fed. Ghrelin is made in the stomach and acts upon receptors in the brain to trigger appetite and eating.

Researchers hope that by finding a drug that interferes with the ghrelin receptors in the brain, they could find a treatment for some eating disorders.

Hormone Held Responsible For Eating Pleasures