Toronto doctor, Xialoan Zhao, has received a lot of press for her new book on traditional Chinese beauty treatments, Inner Beauty: Feeling and Being Your Best. Her basic point is that Western women pay too much attention to correcting the outer body with invasive surgery.  And this worrying about and attention paid to beauty is [...]

I was sitting in my plastic surgeon’s office yesterday (now, don’t start visualizing images of body dysmorphism, I’ll explain why I was there in a bit…) seeing the results of major sun damage via one of those special cameras that can see beneath the skin’s layers.  And let me tell you, the image wasn’t pretty. [...]