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   Hundreds of brave snow sports enthusiasts took to the slopes in bikinis and swimming trunks for the annual BoogelWoogel alpine festival in Sochi, Russia. Participants spent the week taking part in the festival while braving the 9 C temperatures and wearing almost nothing in the snow. The annual event, which takes place at the Rosa Khutor resort, started on Wednesday and will run until Sunday.  MORE PHOTO ( 30 PHOTO ) Now in its sixth year, BoogelWoogel made international headlines in 2018 when nearly 2,000 skiers broke the Guinness world record for the world’s largest downhill ski in swimsuits.  Some 30,000 were believed to have visited the resort for the four day festival in 2019, and revellers followed an orchestra on skis and snowboards as they descended to musical accompaniment.

  Decomposing stature into its major components is proving to be a useful strategy to assess the antecedents of disease, morbidity and death in adulthood. Human leg length (femur + tibia), sitting height (trunk length + head length) and their proportions, for example, (leg length/stature), or the sitting height ratio (sitting height/stature × 100), among others) are associated with epidemiological risk for overweight (fatness), coronary heart disease, diabetes, liver dysfunction and certain cancers. MORE POTO (28 PHOTO) There is also wide support for the use of relative leg length as an indicator of the quality of the environment for growth during infancy, childhood and the juvenile years of development. Human beings follow a cephalo-caudal gradient of growth, the pattern of growth common to all mammals. A special feature of the human pattern is that between birth and puberty the legs grow relatively faster than other post-cranial body segments.

", Calibri, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In many parts of the world, women are unable to move freely. Freedom of movement is not only a human right―emphasized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 13)―but is also an economic imperative. When countries impose legal restrictions on women’s ability to move freely, do not provide workplace flexibility for parents with children or fail to protect women from sexual harassment in public places, women’s economic empowerment is impaired. Social norms may also limit women’s ability to move freely and get a job or start a business. MORE PHOTO ( 25 PHOTO) On 2 February 2016, the Empower Women team and the World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law team co-hosted a Google Hangout followed by a two week e-discussion focused on the regulatory and social constraints on women’s ability to move freely, and the importance of freedom of movement for women’s economic empowerment. Experts and...

 Exercise is defined as any movement that makes your muscles work and requires your body to burn calories. There are many types of physical activity, including swimming, running, jogging, walking and dancing, to name a few. Being active has been shown to have many health benefits, both physically and mentally. It may even help you live longer. Here are the top 10 ways regular exercise benefits your body and brain. MORE PHOTO (50 PIC) Exercise has been shown to improve your mood and decrease feelings of depression, anxiety and stress . It produces changes in the parts of the brain that regulate stress and anxiety. It can also increase brain sensitivity for the hormones serotonin and norepinephrine, which relieve feelings of depression.Additionally, exercise can increase the production of endorphins, which are known to help produce positive feelings and reduce the perception of pain .