Boobs - What Are They? Interesting Facts About Breasts

Breasts

What you see is breast, everything else is body fat. An average breast weighs 1.1 lbs and contains four to five percent of the bodies total fat. Just like the penis breasts swell up when aroused. The average female nipple is 3/8" inches long when erect. Slightly taller than 5 stacked quarters. The average breast size in America is a 36C fifteen years ago it was a 34B. These sized would be unattractive in the Middle ages and small wide set breasts were considered perfection.

In 2008 there were 307,230 breast enlargements performed in the United States. It was the number one cosmetic above nose jobs at 239,900 and liposuctions at 245,000. 30% of patients were 20-29 35% of patients were 30-39 28% of patients were 40-54. The average surgery is around $3,700 that's just for the initial implant. Women often require additional surgeries to fix ruptures, rippling and wrinkling. Probably why 20,967 removed their implants in 2008. And don't forget 17,902 breast reductions were performed on men.

Sheyla Hershey is said to have the world's largest breast implants. She currently wears a 38KKK bra and the implants are 10,000cc's. 10,000cc's equals 2.6 gallons (10 liters). Initially, surgeons tried many types of implants with disastrous results such as Ivory, glass balls, ground rubber, ox cartilage, polyester, silicon injection, this was a popular surgery in the 1960 that eventually caused severe health complications such as granulomas and disfigurement.

Bra-like garments have existed for women since the 7th century BC, however large-scale production didn't begin until the 1930’s.Today the industry makes $16,000,000,000 a year.

If you don't want a bra at all, women are legally allowed to be topless in: Hawaii, Texas Ohio, Maine and New York.

Breast milk VS cow milk: sweeter tasting, more vitamin E, more iron, more essential fatty acids and less sodium.

5 percent of newborns milk for the first two months after birth this is called witch's milk and occurs in both sexes.

Don't smoke if you want to avoid saggy boobs, the chemicals breakdown your skins elastin, making you a saggy smoker.

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