Is your bra killing you? The husband and wife research team, Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer, reveal in their book, Dressed to Kill, that women who wear tight-fitting bras are more likely to have breast cancer than women who do not wear bras at all. Their theory is that tight bras inhibit the proper functioning of the lymph system. On the contrary, the National Cancer Institute does not list bras among breast cancer risk factors. The issue is still open to debate.
Having shared that food for thought, I’m switching from a serious issue to a lighter side of — the bra.
According to NOBRA (the North American Boobs Rescue Association) women are not wed to their bras. In fact, if we were, many of us would divorce them. From Germaine Greer, bestselling author of The Female Eunuch who wrote that “Bras are a ludicrous invention,” to Whoppi Goldberg who, a few months ago, admitted on The View that she has not worn a bra in 45 years, women are busting loose and letting it all hang out. By the way, you say you never heard of NOBRA? Neither has anyone else. I made that up. But if it were a real organization, I believe it would be on the Forbes List of top 100 companies.