Why Men Over Age Short

Research shows that male life expectancy on average five years shorter than women. In addition, men are also at high risk of suffering from cancer, accidents, smoking, drug abuse and obesity. The Adam is also usually less concerned with his health and came to the doctor.

More than 68 percent of men suffer from overweight or obese and 48 percent had a mental disorder condition. Meanwhile, only 5 percent of men who eat enough fruit and vegetables and there are 16 percent of men who visited a doctor last year.

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Pop singer Adele leads U.S., UK pop album charts

English pop singer Adele stormed to the No. 1 spot on the U.S. pop album chart Wednesday with the biggest sales total for any release since November.

Adele, the winner of the best new artist Grammy in 2009, sold a mighty 352,000 copies of her second album “21″ during the week ended February 27, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album also hit No. 1 in Britain.

Prior to the album’s release, Adele stopped by “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (both on February 24), CBS’ “Early Show” (February 25) and “Chelsea Lately” (February 28).

The official video for the album’s first single, “Rolling in the Deep,” has picked up more than 16 million views on YouTube and Vevo. Adele memorably sang another “21″ song, “Someone Like You,” during the Brit Awards on February 16, and in two weeks’ time, its two most-watched clips on YouTube have racked up 3.3 million views. (By contrast another Brits performer, Rihanna, has tallied 1.3 million views for her most-watched clips from the show.)

It’s easily her best sales week and highest-charting album. The last albums to sell as many copies were Kanye West’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (496,000 copies) and Nicki Minaj’s “Pink Friday” (375,000) during the sales week ended November 28, 2010.

Adele’s debut set “19,” which peaked at No. 10, rebounded 34 places to No. 16 on the current chart. It has sold 948,000 copies after 71 weeks.

Adele was basically the only exciting news on the Billboard 200, as the next-highest debut came in at No. 29 from Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows and its “D.R.U.G.S.” album (14,000).

Falling one slot each to Nos. 2, 3 and 4, respectively, were Justin Bieber’s “Never Say Never: The Remixes” (102,000), Mumford & Sons’ “Sigh No More” (71,000) and “Now 37″ (58,000).

Bieber was also at No. 5 with “My World 2.0″ (up three, 42,000), marking the first time an artist has had two sets in the top five since Bieber himself managed it last April.

Bruno Mars’ “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” (37,000) and Eminem’s “Recovery” (33,600) each slipped one rung to Nos. 6 and 7. Rihanna’s “Loud” stepped up two spots to No. 8 (33,300), Minaj’s “Pink Friday” held at No. 9 (32,900), and Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” dropped six to No. 10 (28,000).

Overall album sales totaled 6.5 million units, down 10% compared with the previous week and up 8% compared with the comparable sales week of 2010. Year-to-date album sales stand at 46.5 million, down 9% compared with the same total at this point last year.

Dior suspends Galliano for alleged anti-Semitism (AP)

PARIS – Famed fashion house Christian Dior SA suspended creative director John Galliano on Friday after he was detained and accused of an anti-Semitic insult — a bombshell development just days before the catwalks in Paris heat up for fashion week.

The designer vigorously denied wrongdoing and said the suspension was way out of proportion to the cafe dispute, according to his lawyer.

Dior said in a statement it suspended Galliano pending an investigation into an incident in a Paris restaurant on Thursday night.

Paris prosecutors said a couple in the restaurant accused Galliano of making anti-Semitic insults. A police official said Galliano also exchanged slaps with the couple.

The British designer was questioned and released after the incident at the trendy La Perle bar-restaurant in the heart of the Marais district, near Galliano’s Paris apartment. The prosecutors and police, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, say Galliano’s blood alcohol level was high.

“The House of Dior confirms, with the greatest firmness, its policy of zero tolerance for any anti-Semitic or racist comments,” Sidney Toledano, CEO of Dior Couture, said in the statement.

All this is a blow at a crucial moment for one of fashion’s most storied companies. Dior would not comment on whether it would present its collection as planned at the fall-winter 2011-2012 ready-to-wear shows that start in Paris next week.

Critics suggested that Dior had been looking for a way to part with the extraordinary yet temperamental Galliano for some time, and the restaurant spat provided a reason for a break-up.

Galliano’s flamboyant personality and over-the-top creations have become synonymous with Dior over his 14-year tenure. He revamped and modernized the image of the house and sent out intricate, imaginative collections with themes ranging from ancient Egypt to Masai tribesmen to 18th-century equestrians.

Known for a razor-sharp tongue and a chameleon style, he charms fashion insiders at the end of each runway show with his puffed-out rooster strut, always in an outrageous costume.

Galliano “modernized Dior and made it more youthful than any of his predecessors. At times his clothes have been confounding…. and at times have been so extraordinarily sexy that it made you wonder how the brand continued to dress France’s first ladies and high society,” said Dana Thomas, author of “Deluxe: how Luxury lost its luster,” an expose of the luxury industry.

French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is a close friend of the designer, and nearly always makes public appearances in Dior.

“These days I see Dior more on young Russian girls in Saint Tropez than on chic women in Paris, but perhaps that is the goal,” Thomas told The Associated Press.

Asked whether she thought Galliano would brave the current controversy and be back at Dior, she said, “No.”

Jessica Michault, fashion critic for the International Herald Tribune, noted that “the brand is stronger than one designer.”

“The house is a very strong image, very iconic, and was even before John got there. He created a very romantic image for the house, something that makes people dream. But he’s not the whole history of Dior,” she told the AP.

Galliano was “totally surprised” by the suspension, which he considers “totally disproportionate,” lawyer Stephane Zerbib told the AP. “He is presumed innocent.”

“He never made an anti-Semitic remark in more than 10 years at Dior,” the lawyer said. “He was insulted, and he responded to the insults.”

Critics noted that Galliano has long had a wild reputation.

“Given Mr. Galliano’s history of party antics, this is not a surprise,” Thomas said.

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Jenny Barchfield in Paris contributed to this report.

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Isabelle Caro: Anorexic Model Dies, Her Mother Commits Suicide

Two months after anorexic model Isabelle Caro died, her mother committed suicide. Barbie Nadeau on what led to their deaths and whether the industry is putting others in danger.

For 15 years, Marie Caro watched with a mother’s guilt as her daughter starved herself to death. Marie took her own life on January 19, just two months after her daughter Isabelle succumbed to the effects of anorexia nervosa.

Once a moderately successful model in Paris, Isabelle Caro catapulted to much greater fame in 2007, when Italian shock-ad guru Oliviero Toscani used dramatic nude images of the then-27-year-old to illustrate just what “dying to be thin” really means. The billboard campaign ran during Milan Fashion Week across Italy and France—and was banned a week later after residents who lived near the billboards complained that the images were disturbing.

The ad—for Italian clothing label No-L-Ita—revealed every inch of Caro’s cadaverous body, which looked like a lab skeleton wrapped in prematurely aged skin. Her breasts were tiny pockets of flesh that hung from her ribcage. Her long fingers looked like broken matchsticks. Toscani’s timely campaign made her the darling of the No Anorexia movement—but also a cult idol in the corner of the blogosphere that promotes dangerous dieting.

The notoriety that followed the poster campaign prompted Caro to start a blog and write her autobiography The Litte Girl Who Didn’t Want to Get Fat (both in French). In the book she blamed her mother for her eating disorder, describing Marie as a “depressed” woman who kept Isabelle in diapers until the age of 7, dressed her in clothing far too small and kept her locked inside their Rome apartment because “fresh air makes children grow.” Isabelle started to starve herself as a means of rebellion, wresting a measure of control from her domineering mother. At one point, she wrote, she lived on tiny squares of chocolate and self-rationed corn flakes.

It was the strain of promoting her book that proved too much for Isabellle’s weakened body—she died just a few days after returning from the Japan leg of her book tour. And it was the content of the book that contributed to her mother’s suicide two months later. “She could not deal with Isabelle’s death and the terrible accusations that she caused it,” Marie’s husband Christian Caro told the Swiss magazine 20 Minuten. “We had been working on a chapel for our daughter. Now it is the grave for my wife and Isabelle.”

Isabelle’s mother may have set the stage for her daughter’s eventual demise, but it was a fashion agent in Paris that put the final nail in her very narrow coffin. Just one year before Caro posed for Toscani, she said she was told by a Parisian modeling scout that she would have to lose 10 pounds to find work. Already well-versed in weight control, she quickly lost nearly 20, dropping to 55 pounds (she is 5 foot 4 inches tall). The extreme weight loss sent her to the hospital, where she drifted in and out of a coma for months. That near-death experience frightened her, and she was determined to stop dieting and become a role model against the disease, which is why she took Toscani’s assignment. “I want to show young people how dangerous this illness is,” she said in an interview with Grazia magazine before her death. “You feel as if you master everything, that you are in total control, and then little by little you fall into this hellish spiral—a spiral of death.”

When someone with a certain genetic predisposition is encouraged to lose weight, the effects can be deadly, which is what makes anorexia an occupational hazard for anyone in the modeling world.

Caro is not the first martyr for the ultra-skinny set. In 2006, Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston died of kidney failure at the age of 22. She was 5 foot 8 inches and weighed 88 pounds. A few months later, Uruguayan model Luisel Ramos died of heart failure right on the catwalk in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was 5 foot 9 and weighed 97 pounds. In 2007, 5-foot-6 inch-tall Israeli Elite model Ilanit (Hila) Elmalich died in the hospital after dropping to 49 pounds, her tragic death captured on video. Each of these senseless deaths sparked a wave of hand-wringing in the fashion industry, and sparked some efforts at reforming the practices that enable this disease. In 2007 in France, after Caro’s disturbing photos emerged, legistlation was introduced to make all top models pass health tests and carry an international health card. The bill stalled in parliament. In London, Fashion Week organizers have banned size 00 clothing, though critics say many designers have simply resized their samples. In both Milan and Madrid, models must have a body mass index of 18 to work the fashion shows even though anything under 20 is considered underweight and measurements are often taken months before the actual shows. In other words, none of these changes have really altered the catwalk culture.

In the United States, the Council of Fashion Designers of America acknowledges the problem but has stopped short of imposing BMI standards, insisting they would prefer to “educate” and not “police” the designers. CFDA President Diane von Furstenberg issued a statement ahead of this year’s New York Fashion Week, voicing concern that “models are under increasing pressure to be thinner and thinner, and younger and younger.” Without dictating standards, the CFDA does urge sylists and designers to adhere to guidelines set forth in the CFDA’s own 2007 Health Initiative on eating disorcers, basically promising to put the health of the models first when preparing their shows. But not even fashion’s darlings take the problem that seriously. In 2009, Kate Moss—who surely understands that she is an icon for young girls all over the world—famously quipped “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” And when Donatella Versace’s daughter Allegra was hospitalized with anorexia, the Italian designer missed a valuable opportunity to embrace the connection between her industry and her daughter’s disease.

The internal and external pressure to be thin, telegraphed by these images of super-thin models, is the crux of the issue, according to experts who treat patients with anorexia nervosa—a disease that affects as many young people as juvenile diabetes and has a higher mortality rate—between 12 and 20 percent in developed nations. Only a third of anorexia patients recover fully. But Harry Brandt, director of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore, says there are also clearly genetic factors. When someone with this genetic predisposition is encouraged to lose weight, the effects can be deadly, which is what makes anorexia nervosa an occupational hazard for anyone in the modeling world. “This is an industry that needs to be regulated in the same way that other occupations that carry inherent risks are,” he says. “Should we really be allowing anyone in the workplace to be encouraging their employees to engage in an activity that leads to death or illness?” Brandt plans to petition legislators to look at the industry in the same light as big tobacco companies that once glamorized smoking in the same way fashion glamorizes extreme dieting.

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“Our culture is obsessed with getting thin,” he says. “But we actually need to pursue anorexia in the same way we do other health issues like smoking.”