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Health News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the health facet of life. Health-News Blog: Mens-Health News On Mens Health: Why We're Much Too Accident-Prone: December 13, 2007 by Adam Voiland
I'm no daredevil. I don't fantasize about being a racecar driver; couldn't care less about bungee jumping; and find that new cadre of adventurers jockeying to skydive wearing flying-squirrel-like "wing suits" instead of parachutes borderline crazy. But, put me atop my bike in heavy traffic and I aggressively dodge city buses, weave between lines of cars snarled in gridlock, and refuse to give an inch to the drivers of SUVs and taxis who sometimes seem to think they own the road. And if it's raining, or dark, or snowing...well, let's just say that makes the ride more exciting. Upon reading this, there's a good chance that my girlfriend and my mother will call me a stupid, thoughtless, selfish male. They're right, perhaps. But it turns out I probably can't help myself: Evolutionary psychologists say that men may crave a certain level of risk because of the millions of years during which physical valor—say fending off a wild predator or swimming across a raging river for food, or foiling a rival clan with a sneak attack—has yielded major payoffs in terms of status, power, and ultimately mates. "Women tend to be more cautious partly because they are not competing as intensely for reproductive access to men," says Daniel Kruger, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Michigan. Health News Blog Comment:
Certainly yes! Mens health is more at risk simply because they are more aggressive by nature. But it's not risk-taking that does so, it's only the stress of aggression that this section of humanity gets affected by in their day to day behavior. And then by the time they reach 50, they are so much spent-off that from being an aggressive one they just jump into the inaction of passivity. OK, evolution did this to them, but why have they stopped evolving now anymore now? Why are they not flexible enough to adjust to the changing environment like giraffes did to them or else their fate may meet that of dinosaurs who didn't! Heart attacks kill more men than they kill women. Looks like the times have started favoring female mentality now, which till a hundred years back were favoring men more. Beware men! Beware of your health as well as of your aggressive mentality! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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