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A recent British study found that smokers with a lot of wrinkles are far more likely to have emphysema than are smokers with less-lined faces. Researchers looked at 149 current and former smokers who had smoked at least one pack of cigarettes a day for five years.
Independent experts assessed them for so-called crows’-feet, and their breathing capacity was tested. More than 80 percent of the volunteers with facial wrinkling were found to have symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Former Miss China DuJuan is turning heads in New York, signalinh the international fashion world’s growing acceptance of Asian models.  Since appearing with Australian model Gemma Ward on the cover of Vogue China’s premiere issue last September, Du has graced Paris and Italian Vogue too.

In Milan and paris earlier this year, she sizzled on the catwalks at Marc jacob’s Louis Vuitton show, and at the hermes, Yves Saint Laurent, Bottega Venata shows. Editors at Style.com and W Magazine’s website named her as one of autumn’s top 10 new faces. The lastest wave of Asian models includes Korean-Ameriacan Hye Park and Japan’s Anne Watanabe.

Coffee Drinking

A Norwegian study suggests that drinking  coffee in moderation, up to five cups a day, can reduce the chances of contracting cardio-vascular diseases, Parkison’s and Alzheimer’s.  The researchers based their findings on data from 27,000 women in United States. Those who drank between one and three cups of coffee daily reduced the risk of contracting cardio-vascular diseases and “inflammatories”  such as Parkison’s and diabetes by between 20 to 25 percent.

The stay also showed coffee accounts for 60 percent of antioxidants in the classical Norwegian diet.  Antioxidants are substances such as vitamins and beta carotene, which attack free radicals, the molecules the body produces naturally that are at the root of many diseases.