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"   Bra-hating hippies and ladies who let their knockers hang free could be onto something.  A recent French study found that breasts actually gained no benefit from the support of bras. In fact\u2014and here&amp;#039;s the shocker\u2014the findings, collected over 15 years, say boobs would gain more tone and support from free-boobing! Here we are believing that bras were keeping our girls up, but the now-famous study actually claims that wearing a bra meant &amp;quot;supporting tissues will not grow and even they will wither and the breast will gradually degrade.&amp;quot; So bras are basically atrophying our boobs. Minds blown. The study also found that a woman&amp;#039;s nipple would actually lift an average of 7mm towards her shoulder within a year if she stopped wearing a bra and women who ditched their bras reported firmer boobs with fewer stretch marks.  But if you love yourself some lingerie and don&amp;#039;t think you could bear to part with your brassiere, the good docs behind this study don&amp;#039;t necessarily suggest now is the time to start, anyway.  Since the study wasn&amp;#039;t a full representation of the entire population (just 330 gals), no one is suggesting any bra-burning\u2014just yet, that is. The docs admitted women who have been wearing bras since hitting puberty may not gain full benefits from hanging up their over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders on the basis of this study.  But if you look like Rosie Huntington-Whiteley without one, hey, it&amp;#039;s definitely worth a shot.  Want more stories from Carson? Follow her on Twitter. Photo Credit: PacificCoastNews.Com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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