Though some of the effects aging has on a woman’s body may largely pass unnoticed, it’s the rare woman who doesn’t measure the passage of time by the noticeable changes in her breasts. Because the breasts lose both fat and glandular tissue as they age, they may begin to sag and flatten a bit when a woman reaches her early 30s. The ratio of fat to glandular tissue actually increases as the functionality and size of the milk glands decrease with age.
You can prevent flabby muscles with regular exercise, but in the past there wasn’t anything a woman could do to stave off the appearance of the aging process in her breasts—that is, until the advent of breast implants and reconstructive surgery. In the wake of the ban on silicone breast implants that became law in 1992, I’m curious to see how most women will regard their aging breasts. Even with the wide availability of saline-filled implants, which are supposedly safer, because of the dangers of the silicone implants, I’m finding that many women have been spooked by the thought of putting something into their body that wasn’t there in the first place.
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