A new bummer study from
Mintel shows that more than half of us ladyfolk fear sprouting even small amounts of facial hair. Perhaps that's not news, but another tidbit of the study that is (or at least was for me): indulging in sugar-stuffed carbs like cakes, croissants and all other happy things in the universe can trigger an increase in hair. Like, hair all over, but especially on your face.
See, when you feed yourself loads of these foods with high glycemic indexes, energy releases super fast, causing insulin resistance and insisting your body produces extra amounts of hormones to re-balance the blood sugar levels. "The problem is that a raised insulin level may trigger growth factors which make the ovaries produce too much of the 'male' hormone testosterone, which can lead to excess hair," women's health expert Marilyn Glenville
told The Daily Mail. In short, the burst of testosterone in your bloodstream may reward you with a new (or thickened) mustache. [via
Gothamist]
This cannot sway me from a dream of cake for breakfast every day. What about you?Oh, in case this decreases your appetite for pastries and such, allow me to try and break you with images from the applause-worthy blog
Women Eating Cake. (SO much better than
that salad crap... IMO.)
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Comments (23)
I'll never believe this, even if it's true.
lol this is funny
Maybe we should work on changing the body's response so it would go to something more useful, like making the booty get some extra bounce. Hahaa :)
Well jeebus, that fucking sucks. Screw it, I'm eating cake anyway. I like the old lady that's eating the cake with the server.
I love salad!:(
In a completely related story, waxing sales have increased 75%.
oh who gives a crap. i'm eating cake anyway.
I like you girls.
EW! *swears off cake forever*
Cake is good for the hair-removal industry! Whether or not cake (and other sweets) makes us more fuzzy, I might cut back but I am never giving up cake.
shut the fuck up, science.
LET US EAT CAKE
But seriously, that's why there's hair removal. I'm certainly not giving up cake.
If you'd give up cake because of this, you're insane. Fact. Oh look, I can make up random scientific facts too!
@written_conversations@xanga - THAZ RIGHT.
You know, they say the same thing about chicken. That the hormones that are being fed to the chickens (in some companies) to make them fatter faster are what's causing women excess facial hair. So yeah...
I honestly don't care if cake makes me grow a beard! I'll never give it up!
Besides there's always facial waxing
A study will probably come out in a year or two that says the exact opposite. That's usually how it goes with foods. You've got to examine further. And just enjoy cake, too. Don't punish yourself for superficial things.
SCREW SCIENCE. <3 CAKE.
New life plan: eat tons of cake and join the circus.
no wonder overweight/obese women have mustaches, i've always noticed that.
Life is too damn short to pass up cake for fear of lady hairs. That's what they created battery operated lady hair trimmers for.
Ahaha I think this is amazing - cakes already are bad for aging and weight gain and now this :) healthy healthy
Who gives a shit? I'll just buy wax kits when I buy cake supplies.
so that's why I'm super hairy