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Dance An Important Factor In Choosing Mate.

...ctiveness. It was also identified that symmetric males scored higher than the females and the female evaluators rated them higher than the male evaluators. It was also noted that symmetrical men danced very well and was noticed more by women. Hence it was concluded that dance which plays an important r...

Canadian health on the decline, due to a drinking problem

...n of director of centre Dr. Tim Stockwell. “Among males aged 14 to 24, 90 per cent of alcohol was consumed above the low-risk level. For young females, the figure was 85 per cent. The culture around drinking, particularly for young people, is to get drunk,” Stockwell said. According to the Canada's low-...

Concern Over High Smoking Rates Among Young

...arming, since it has been observed that 14.08 % of males and 9.90 % of females start in their teens, and some are even younger than that.Smoking is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It has been linked to a number of psychiatric disorders, including mood disorders, schizophrenia and subst...

Artificial Sweetners Not Really Safe?

..., and 4 mg/kg body weight. Groups consisted of 100 males and 100 females at each of the three highest dosages and 150 males and 150 females at all lower dosages and controls. The experiment ended after the death of the last...

Fatherhood Found To Tame Men by Reducing Testosterone Levels

... the offspring. It is perhaps nature way of making males civilized at least on a temporary basis. Testosterone levels are known to vary during different phases of growth, with young men having higher levels. This could also be one explanation for the observed hormonal fluctuation in the male. On the wh...

Hepatitis B A high cause of Asian Female Mortality

...has long been observed that the relative number of males is higher in certain Asian countries than in the West where it is close to unity. A number of authors have suggested that this imbalance reflects the neglect of female children and poor conditions for women. But Oster found that hepatitis B can acc...

Autism nothing more than an extreme form of male brain development

...ee. The findings are consistent with the fact that males generally have greater early growth of certain brain regions, and less hemispheric connectivity than females. There are also specific differences seen in certain areas of the brain. Yet another finding that substantiates that autism is an exaggerat...

Women With High Oestrogen Levels Have Prettier Faces

...oup of volunteers comprising of an equal number of males and females were then asked to rate the attractiveness of each of the faces. Surprisingly, women with the highest hormone levels were rated as being more attractive. It was also found that these faces tended to have classically feminine features, s...

Women More Prone To Risk of Colorectal Cancer from Tobacco

...onset of colorectal cancer was slightly younger in males than females in the non-smoking/non-drinking group...was associated with an earlier age of diagnosis in males and females. An assessment of the differential sensitivity to smoking and alcohol use in men and wom...

Diabetic Type II Women Have Elevated Bone Density Mass

...ournal of Diabetes. For the study, 92 patients (36 males and 56 females) were studied and cardiovascular risk factors were measured: total cholesterol, triglycerides, lipoprotein(a), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), glucose, HbA1c, and microalbuminu...

Malaria To Be Tackled By Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

... the scientists to distinguish and easily separate males from females. Professor Crisanti said...

Complete Robotic Surgery To Revolutionize Surgical Treatment of Prostate Cancer

...lent in Asian men. It is estimated that one in six males will develop the disease during his lifetime. Scientists have been working actively towards developing new treatment options to help combat this threatening disease. Radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation therapy, brachythearpy and cryosurge...

Children Of Smokers Start Smoking Early

...and 21. The group was nearly equally divided among males and females. Forty-six percent were white, 24 perc... daily smoking by age 21, of which 42 percent were males and 32 percent females, according to the study. Whites (43 percent) were more likely to have begun ...

Drinking, Smoking And Unhealthy Food Linked To Mouth Cancer In Young People

...on every five hours and it is no longer just older males who need to be worried about developing mouth cancer - the condition can strike anyone. (Source: BBC News)...

Attitude Of Male Dominance May Affect Life Expectancy In Men

Socioeconomic factors like attitude of males to dominate women may be at the heart of their life expectancy. Systematic male dominance - patriarchy - explains half the discrepancy in life expectancy between the sexes // , suggests research spanning four continents in the Journal of Epidemiolog...

Obesity Linked To Deep Vein Thrombosis

...mparing obese with non-obese patients was 6.10. In males less than 40 years of age, the relative risk for DVT was 3.71. Obesity, being a risk factor for PE, particularly in men and women under age 40, the presence of obesity may alert physicians to a possibility of the diagnosis. The diagnosis of PE is fr...

High Cholesterol Can Be Controlled By Screening And Prevention

...high blood pressure or heart attacks before 55 for males or 65 for females. · While the aforementioned cholesterol levels are average, ask your health care provider about an acceptable cholesterol level for you and how often you need it checked.Although cholesterol-lowering drugs do exist, VA emphasiz...

Teenagers Take More Risk-Taking Behaviors In The Company Of Same Sex Friends

...y was unable to determine why the presence of teen males increased the likelihood of speeding and tailgating, by the researchers of National Institutes of Health (NIH). To conduct the study, the researchers positioned observers at the parking lot exits of 10 high schools in the suburban Washington, D.C. ...

New ! Male Contraception

...e only ones with multiple options. "We think that males really, firstly, should take part in the family planning responsibility, so having children is a couples' responsibility," Dr. Wang says. To give men more say in the matter, she is studying implantable rods that contain progestin and testosterone. To...

Air Pollution Increases Risk For Heart Disease In Women

... that air pollution might affect females more than males because females may have a greater deposition of inhaled particles in their lungs, leading to increased health risk due to inflammatory responses to oxidative stress. They also think that females may be more sensitive to airborne pollution since they...

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