ÖMO 2014

Show that the inequality $(x^2 + y^2z^2) (y^2 + x^2z^2) (z^2 + x^2y^2) \ge 8xy^2z^3$ is valid for all integers $x, y$ and $z$ .When does equality apply?

Let $U$ be the center of the circumcircle of the acute-angled triangle $ABC$ . Let $M_A, M_B$ and $M_C$ be the circumcenters of triangles $UBC, UAC$ and $UAB$ respecrively. For which triangles $ABC$ is the triangle $M_AM_BM_C$ similar to the starting triangle (with a suitable order of the vertices)?