Dr Pete's Health Secrets

      Women over the years have been fed the false notion that wearing a bra prevents sagging of the breasts.  Apart from firm support for sports women and preventing milk dripping in lactating women, the bra could be doing more harm than good. Bras are said to combat sagging of breasts, especially those who are on the larger side. Aside from that, many of these bras are marketed to provide greater comfort and even less backaches. “A bra will hold up your breasts to give you the shape and look you want, but it can't prevent further sagging, which is caused by age and gravity,” says Dr. Mills.  It does make breast sagging worse. For more than 15 years, from 1997 to 2014, Jean-Denis Rouillon, a French professor and sports science expert, has been studying women’s breast.  He discovered that those who wear a bra experience more sagging on average than those who don’t! Yes they do. A full 7mm sag was observed after one year of wearing a b...