Women no more safe from heart troubles

According to the survey, 55 per cent cardiologists observed 16-20 per cent growth in cardiovascular diseases among women in the last five years, while 41 per cent of the doctors claimed 10-15 per cent growth in such diseases among women in the age group of 20-40 years -- the category which was earlier considered protected from heart ailments.

"Quite contrary to conventional medical ideology that due to oestrogen hormone women, especially menstruating ones, are safe from heart diseases. But lately, there has been a significant rise in number of female cardiovascular patients," said J.P.S. Sawhney, senior cardiologist at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here.

"The trend may be attributed to changing lifestyle which is bringing such drastic hormonal changes that heart protecting effect of oestrogen hormone is getting nullified," Sawhney added.

The survey showed that due to changes in lifestyle not only have the risk factors for the cardiovascular diseases like stress, smoking and drinking increased considerably, but co-morbid conditions like obesity, hypertension and diabetes have also gone up.

But despite the threat, 83 per cent of the doctors believed that Indian women are ignorant about heart diseases, while 76 per cent observed that women die of heart diseases as they get late in going to hospitals.

Sixty-six percent said that cardiovascular disease-related deaths among women are due to late diagnosis.

"Women often overlook symptoms and discomfort pertaining to heart diseases, and rarely consult an expert. Even if they opt for consultation, more often than not, they discontinue the treatment as soon as they get symptomatic relief. The compliance rate is comparatively poor among women," Sawhney said.

The survey also revealed a striking contrast between working and non-working women in terms of awareness and risk factors.

While 81 per cent of the doctors believed that working women are more conscious about their heart health, majority of the doctors still noted that heart diseases are on the rise in working women.

"Considering the fact that working women juggle between home and work responsibilities, they are more likely to get exposed to stress and unhealthy lifestyle and, therefore, may be more prone to cardiovascular diseases as compared to non-working women," said Chandrakant S. Pandav, head of department, Centre for Community Medicine, All India IMS.

"Nevertheless, due to huge burden of household responsibilities and lack of self-care, non-working women cannot be considered to be at lesser risk," he added.

The survey covered covered about 600 cardiologists and general practitioners from both metro and non-metro cities and was based on subjective and objective questions.

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Bad Science: Your Man Looks At Other Women Because Of Evolution

Men and women are so different! Battle of the sexes! Martians and Venusians! It’s science! Evolution! Hunter gatherers! Men are like this, women are like that. 

Evolutionary psychology strikes again! This time, misogynist pseudo scientists are trying to let men off the hook for their wandering eyes. Apparently, when your man is looking at other lady-babes, he’s actually patrolling for potential mothers for his offspring and not just potential sex-holes for his gross penis.

According to research conducted in the U.K., women prefer familiar-looking male faces, but men like faces they’ve never seen before. Women find trustworthiness sexy, but men just want a new womb to impregnate. Don’t blame them though, they can’t help it–Darwin made them do it.

Psychologists/quacks determined this earth-shattering information by showing hetero men and women a bunch of different faces of people of the opposite gender and having them rate those faces based on attractiveness. Women rated faces higher when they’d seen the face before, but dudes rated the lady face’s as less attractive the second time around. Doesn’t that research sound scientific as all get out? No? Well these jerks did a series of studies we don’t need to go into detail about because they all say the same thing.

The “researchers” from the University of Stirling and the University of Glasgow who conducted this study “believe the reason may be that men have evolved to maximise their reproductive success by mating with as many partners as possible.” The results are attributed to the Coolidge Effect which is what they call it when “men are aroused by the novelty of a new sexual partner more than women” this totally scientific phenomenon is named for the 30th POTUS because of this old chestnut:

During a farm visit, when his wife was told there was only one cockerel and many hens because the cockerel would mate several times a day, she reportedly said: ‘Tell that to Mr Coolidge’.

When the president asked if it was with the same hen each time and told no, he allegedly said: ‘Tell that to Mrs Coolidge.’

When presenting the findings, a male and a female researcher chimed in on the evolutionary explanation of the results. The man? Research fellow Anthonly Little of Stirling University’s School of Natural Sciences. The woman? Psychologist Dr Jane McCartney who apparently was never informed that women can’t be doctors because they must be baking babies in their wombs. So onto their explanations…

HE SAID:  

‘There is a tendency for males to pursue a large number of partners as they can dramatically increase their reproductive success by mating with multiple females.’

SHE SAID:  

‘Men are geared to reproduce as much as possible and some take full advantage of that.’

But she followed it up with this actually true tidbit:

‘But from a practical point of view it doesn’t make sense to go round having lots of children with different women.’

Exactly, so why do misogynists and weirdos keep trying to tell us that men like to run around because they just gotta propagate the species? Oh, to excuse bad behavior like objectification of women and slut-shaming.

Their results were published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, which I guess is a dumb journal that publishes fake science. Honestly, I just can’t with this bullshit. Evo-psych monsters are just going to use whatever results they yield to “prove” their wildly untestable observations based on nothing. It’s not science. It’s not psychology. It’s awful. I CAN’T.

 Story via the Daily Mail(naturally)//image via Shutterstock

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Bad Science: Your Man Looks At Other Women Because Of Evolution

Men and women are so different! Battle of the sexes! Martians and Venusians! It’s science! Evolution! Hunter gatherers! Men are like this, women are like that. 

Evolutionary psychology strikes again! This time, misogynist pseudo scientists are trying to let men off the hook for their wandering eyes. Apparently, when your man is looking at other lady-babes, he’s actually patrolling for potential mothers for his offspring and not just potential sex-holes for his gross penis.

According to research conducted in the U.K., women prefer familiar-looking male faces, but men like faces they’ve never seen before. Women find trustworthiness sexy, but men just want a new womb to impregnate. Don’t blame them though, they can’t help it–Darwin made them do it.

Psychologists/quacks determined this earth-shattering information by showing hetero men and women a bunch of different faces of people of the opposite gender and having them rate those faces based on attractiveness. Women rated faces higher when they’d seen the face before, but dudes rated the lady face’s as less attractive the second time around. Doesn’t that research sound scientific as all get out? No? Well these jerks did a series of studies we don’t need to go into detail about because they all say the same thing.

The “researchers” from the University of Stirling and the University of Glasgow who conducted this study “believe the reason may be that men have evolved to maximise their reproductive success by mating with as many partners as possible.” The results are attributed to the Coolidge Effect which is what they call it when “men are aroused by the novelty of a new sexual partner more than women” this totally scientific phenomenon is named for the 30th POTUS because of this old chestnut:

During a farm visit, when his wife was told there was only one cockerel and many hens because the cockerel would mate several times a day, she reportedly said: ‘Tell that to Mr Coolidge’.

When the president asked if it was with the same hen each time and told no, he allegedly said: ‘Tell that to Mrs Coolidge.’

When presenting the findings, a male and a female researcher chimed in on the evolutionary explanation of the results. The man? Research fellow Anthonly Little of Stirling University’s School of Natural Sciences. The woman? Psychologist Dr Jane McCartney who apparently was never informed that women can’t be doctors because they must be baking babies in their wombs. So onto their explanations…

HE SAID:  

‘There is a tendency for males to pursue a large number of partners as they can dramatically increase their reproductive success by mating with multiple females.’

SHE SAID:  

‘Men are geared to reproduce as much as possible and some take full advantage of that.’

But she followed it up with this actually true tidbit:

‘But from a practical point of view it doesn’t make sense to go round having lots of children with different women.’

Exactly, so why do misogynists and weirdos keep trying to tell us that men like to run around because they just gotta propagate the species? Oh, to excuse bad behavior like objectification of women and slut-shaming.

Their results were published in the Archives of Sexual Behaviour, which I guess is a dumb journal that publishes fake science. Honestly, I just can’t with this bullshit. Evo-psych monsters are just going to use whatever results they yield to “prove” their wildly untestable observations based on nothing. It’s not science. It’s not psychology. It’s awful. I CAN’T.

 Story via the Daily Mail(naturally)//image via Shutterstock

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From crying to appreciating our bodies and talking about their mums: Emily Hartridge's top reasons why women love men

Blogger and TV presenter Emily Hartridge, 29, makes weekly vlog'Proves that everything in the world can be explained with 10 reasons'Athlete and Blue Peter hopeful Andy Shepherd is this week's 'boyfriend'

By Deni Kirkova

PUBLISHED: 15:10 GMT, 23 June 2013 | UPDATED: 15:10 GMT, 23 June 2013

Her videos about sex, relationships, love, gender, life see viewers flock to her YouTube channel in their thousands. As well as having enjoying Emily Hartridge's tongue-in-cheek views fans get to relish a new 'pretend boyfriend' each week.

So as this week's offering about why men love women sees ex-athlete and TV presenter Andy Shepherd, 28, take the form of boyfriend, the video has unsurprisingly spurred almost 20,000 views.

'Andy is also a presenter and a really good actor so was a perfect pretend boyfriend. Also he's good looking which always helps,' said Emily.

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This week, why women love men: Emily's hilarious videos get tens of thousands of views

Reason one, penises: Andy looks displeased as 'girlfriend' Emily cuddles up to his crotch instead of him

Emily's first reason that women love men in her video is 'the fact that they have penises'.

To illustrate her point with a sketch, she comes home from work and dismisses Andy's greeting instead opting to cuddle up to his crotch. 'I've missed you,' she says.

Her second reason is, bizarrely, that you can't get angry at men when they borrow your clothes. Viewers are treated to a scene in which Emily walks in on Andy wears a pretty blue dress while watching the television.

Her surreal scenes are intended for some 'much needed light entertainment', as her disclaimer reads. 'You might not agree with everything I say and that's fine,' she says.

Reason three is when a man smells good 'it is so intoxicating'.

'Sometimes if I walk past a guy on the street, who doesn't even have to be that attractive, if he smells good - that is me turned on,' she says.

'I call myself fairly independent, and I'm not the kind of girl to to rely on a man,' she says, but adds that she finds it sweet when a man tries to protect her and her out of harm's way.

You can't get angry when they borrow clothes: A bulky Andy sits open legged with a beer in hand

They want to protect you: Any leaps to Emily's rescue from a spider, even though she is independent

Men are laid back: Unlike highly strung Emily who shouts at Andy when he offers her a cup of tea

Andy is seen shouting at her to get down and leaping to her rescue when she asks him to 'get that spider'.

Emily next points to men' take it or leave it approach to life. 'Women can sometimes be highly strung and overreact,' says Emily.

She also loves it when 'you talk about how much you love your sisters or you mum in front of us - it really works,' she says.

Reason seven is that 'men remind us of our dads,' says Emily. She quickly backtracks, looking around and saying, 'who said that?'

'Emily's first reason that women love men is the fact that they have penises. To illustrate her point with a sketch, she comes home from work and dismisses Andy's greeting instead opting to cuddle up to his crotch'

'There's something endearing about men having the ability to solve any problem just by throwing a ball,' she says. This is illustrated with a sketch of Emily complaining about their being nothing on TV and a ball being thrown at her.

Next we see Emily walking down the street in a modest buttoned-up shirt when Andy approaches her to compliment her on her 'great rack'. She appreciates his comment and states reason nine that women love men being that they are 'enthusiastic about bodies, even if we sometimes are not'.

Finally, her tenth reason is that women love it when men show their emotions.

'If a guy cries in front of you, as a woman you have just won the emotional lottery,' she says, as we see her initiate sex inappropriately as Andy cries over a deceased loved one.

Watch the full length video on Emily's YouTube channel.

She recently did a blind date for OK! Magazine and presents Jacked In for Virgin Media.

Men solve problems by throwing balls at them: Emily finds this quality endearing

Men appreciate our bodies: On a day when Emily isn't feeling great about her 'rack' Andy compliments her

When they show their emotional side: Emily gets overexcited and initiates sex as Andy mourns a loved one

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From crying to appreciating our bodies and talking about their mums: Emily Hartridge's top reasons why women love men

Blogger and TV presenter Emily Hartridge, 29, makes weekly vlog'Proves that everything in the world can be explained with 10 reasons'Athlete and Blue Peter hopeful Andy Shepherd is this week's 'boyfriend'

By Deni Kirkova

PUBLISHED: 15:10 GMT, 23 June 2013 | UPDATED: 15:10 GMT, 23 June 2013

Her videos about sex, relationships, love, gender, life see viewers flock to her YouTube channel in their thousands. As well as having enjoying Emily Hartridge's tongue-in-cheek views fans get to relish a new 'pretend boyfriend' each week.

So as this week's offering about why men love women sees ex-athlete and TV presenter Andy Shepherd, 28, take the form of boyfriend, the video has unsurprisingly spurred almost 20,000 views.

'Andy is also a presenter and a really good actor so was a perfect pretend boyfriend. Also he's good looking which always helps,' said Emily.

Scroll down for video

This week, why women love men: Emily's hilarious videos get tens of thousands of views

Reason one, penises: Andy looks displeased as 'girlfriend' Emily cuddles up to his crotch instead of him

Emily's first reason that women love men in her video is 'the fact that they have penises'.

To illustrate her point with a sketch, she comes home from work and dismisses Andy's greeting instead opting to cuddle up to his crotch. 'I've missed you,' she says.

Her second reason is, bizarrely, that you can't get angry at men when they borrow your clothes. Viewers are treated to a scene in which Emily walks in on Andy wears a pretty blue dress while watching the television.

Her surreal scenes are intended for some 'much needed light entertainment', as her disclaimer reads. 'You might not agree with everything I say and that's fine,' she says.

Reason three is when a man smells good 'it is so intoxicating'.

'Sometimes if I walk past a guy on the street, who doesn't even have to be that attractive, if he smells good - that is me turned on,' she says.

'I call myself fairly independent, and I'm not the kind of girl to to rely on a man,' she says, but adds that she finds it sweet when a man tries to protect her and her out of harm's way.

You can't get angry when they borrow clothes: A bulky Andy sits open legged with a beer in hand

They want to protect you: Any leaps to Emily's rescue from a spider, even though she is independent

Men are laid back: Unlike highly strung Emily who shouts at Andy when he offers her a cup of tea

Andy is seen shouting at her to get down and leaping to her rescue when she asks him to 'get that spider'.

Emily next points to men' take it or leave it approach to life. 'Women can sometimes be highly strung and overreact,' says Emily.

She also loves it when 'you talk about how much you love your sisters or you mum in front of us - it really works,' she says.

Reason seven is that 'men remind us of our dads,' says Emily. She quickly backtracks, looking around and saying, 'who said that?'

'Emily's first reason that women love men is the fact that they have penises. To illustrate her point with a sketch, she comes home from work and dismisses Andy's greeting instead opting to cuddle up to his crotch'

'There's something endearing about men having the ability to solve any problem just by throwing a ball,' she says. This is illustrated with a sketch of Emily complaining about their being nothing on TV and a ball being thrown at her.

Next we see Emily walking down the street in a modest buttoned-up shirt when Andy approaches her to compliment her on her 'great rack'. She appreciates his comment and states reason nine that women love men being that they are 'enthusiastic about bodies, even if we sometimes are not'.

Finally, her tenth reason is that women love it when men show their emotions.

'If a guy cries in front of you, as a woman you have just won the emotional lottery,' she says, as we see her initiate sex inappropriately as Andy cries over a deceased loved one.

Watch the full length video on Emily's YouTube channel.

She recently did a blind date for OK! Magazine and presents Jacked In for Virgin Media.

Men solve problems by throwing balls at them: Emily finds this quality endearing

Men appreciate our bodies: On a day when Emily isn't feeling great about her 'rack' Andy compliments her

When they show their emotional side: Emily gets overexcited and initiates sex as Andy mourns a loved one

View the original article here