SCIENCE CONFIRMS BREASTS ARE GETTING BIGGER

Women's breasts, we should be careful to note. Bigger breasts on men ... well, that's the sort of horror that only Indiana Jones can fight. Or not.

Bigger breasts on American women. Fact o' life, according to people who study that sort of thing. Discover magazine offers a few factoids:

Poor eating habits, as well as breast implants and the estrogens in birth-control pills, have led to an increase in the past 15 years of more than one bra size for the average American woman -- from a 34B to a 36C. For many women, this has been a burdensome trend. A pair of D-cup breasts weighs between 15 and 23 pounds -- the equivalent of carrying around two small turkeys. The larger the breasts, the more they move and the greater the discomfort. In one study, 56 percent of women suffered from breast pain when jogging.

Also from the article, this turkey talk: Thirty percent of American women now wear D-cups or larger. Click here to get the breast of the story.