In many mountainous places goiter is apparently common enough to be considered beautiful in girls. North Italian painters like the Venetian Andrea Mantegna had a habit of painting the Virgin with one:pic.twitter.com/uyMd0yxXPr
Show this thread
Goiter is caused by iodine defiency, traditionally most common in mountainous regions like the Alps. "In the village of Rude, near Zagreb, goiter was detected in 85% of children...The girls from this village were not considered pretty if they had »no neck«." The village angel:pic.twitter.com/ch2hshW0tx
-
-
-
-
The fact that so many beautiful women were painted with these things seemed to suggest that the villagers of Rude may may not have been the only ones to consider them sexy: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/thy.2007.0301?journalCode=thy …pic.twitter.com/QZtsv6cWjL
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
"I like big necks and I cannot lie"...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Wonder if we see this with people on sodium restricted diets? Don’t most people get their iodine in table salt?
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.