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Written by Paul B. at 07 Mar 2003 11:48:13: Uncommon peculiar argument
As an answer to: Re: Uncommon opinion written by AJ at 06 Mar 2003 19:39:13:
Arising from this statement, there seems to be an inordinate focus on "stretch marks". This must be one of the worst understood matters, and a fertile ground indeed for deceptive product advertising.
To use a pun, "stretch marks" are loosely associated with the stretching of skin. They are genetically predisposed and linked to steroid hormones (including the sex hormones). Indeed, they are a particularly prominent consequence of Cushing's syndrome (excess secretion or administration of cortisone).
Some people get them, and some people never get them. They appear in puberty on girls' breasts, and the buttocks of both sexes. The latter position illustrates only too well that they are not always caused by "rapid" stretching because growth of the buttocks in puberty is barely any more rapid than any other part of the body. It may be more correct to say they correspond to areas of fat deposition, and are probably a metabolic side effect of fat deposition.
In regard to stretch marks, it is totally obscure as to what AJ is attempting to argue!