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POPSFriendships Keep You Healthy High school and college friends, friends from work, friends from raising children together, from neighborhood committees, from shared vacations -- sure, some of these bonds and friendships fall away as part of the natural cycle of growing and changing, but most women find new friendships to replace them. Women who don't find close friendships, who have trouble keeping up connections, need to make an effort to change those patterns. Hundreds of research studies confirm that isolation hurts us and connection heals us through the same physical mechanisms as exercise and healthy diet. Blood vessels are measurably more elastic, the heart's ability to respond to extraordinary demands is higher, cardiac inflammatory protein levels are lower, and blood pressure response to exercise is better in more connected people. Their stress-hormone blood profiles are also measurably healthier than those of isolated people.
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POPSWhat Women Want Is To Be Treated 'Like A Girl"
Would you please tell me what do you think about this?... Since the Danjyo Koyo Kikai Kinto Ho (Equal Employment Opportunity Law) kicked in two decades ago, it's become the norm for women to work as hard and long as men, though not necessarily under the same conditions. Accordingly, money matters between danjyo (men and women) have become a lot more complicated. In cafes and restaurants, ever notice how same-sex groups do this polite little dance in front of the cash register, each insisting on picking up the tab? Well, the same goes for male/female groups, and more often now women will end up paying more, especially if they're single professionals over 30. Men assume they have more income at their disposal (which is true), but have little idea that these women long for the coveted onnanoko atsukai (to be treated like a girl), where a night out means a romantic dinner, a drink at a nice bar afterward, and then okutte morau (be taken home) in a cab all paid for by the man.
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POPSDress To Conceive? Interestingly, all the women in the study group described themselves as being in committed relationships with men. So why go to the trouble of dressing up? Haslton says: "Women with high fertility tend to feel attracted to men other than their primary partners." Could you think that this is true? Do you know what he is telling us?
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POPSStereotypes About Sex And Leadership We picture men in leadership roles. As a woman you already have this hurdle to overcome.” Julie Fasone Holder, a corporate vice president for Dow Chemical, remembers a hallway conversation in the 1980s after she and another woman were promoted. A male executive said to Fasone, “I guess it’s women’s promotion week.” The way he said it, she says, “was I was being promoted because I was a women, not a great leader.”
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POPSWelcome to the Fish Fry, Mom The authors of the British study concluded that they found "no evidence to lend support to the warnings of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption." The government's warning has had the effect of leading many women not to eat seafood at all. And that, it's now clear, looks like a big mistake. In the British study, mothers who ate no seafood were 48 percent more likely than the seafood chowhounds to have children with a low verbal IQ at age 8. Their children were also worse behaved and less sociable than the kids of fish-snarfing moms. There is more information about this...
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POPSMen Are Easier To Clone Than Women "The difference in cloning rates of male and female stem cells seems likely to involve epigenetics," said Prof Fuchs. Epigenetic modifications are those that affect a gene's function without altering its DNA sequence. Because one of a female's two X chromosomes (men only have one) is turned off through epigenetic modifications, female cells have to undergo a more complicated epigenetic reprogramming than male ones and this may account for why males are easier to clone.
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POPSNew Heart Guidelines For Women Stress Aspirin They say that -Women with a very high risk of heart disease should aim to lower their LDL (low density lipoprotein or "bad" cholesterol) to less than 70 mg/dL. Heart disease is the largest single cause of death among women, accounting for 38 percent of all female deaths.
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POPSGood News For Slackers: Naps Can Help The Heart Trichopoulos advice is: If you can, if you have a sofa in your office, if you can relax, do it." Isn't that nice...What I can't understand is...If the researchers said naps are good for people at work...why they are slackers?
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POPSWoman Chosen To Lead Harvard "They didn't want anybody with administrative experience," he said. "They wanted an inspirational leader, a political symbol, a decent person that everybody could feel good about to help them do what the presidents do best."
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POPSA Wink And A Smile Could be that men and women often misunderstand each other's flirtation signals?...What do you think?
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POPSDemystifying "modesty" I have seen most of these on women here in the UAE, I never really thought about there being any difference among them...
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