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Exercise and Healthy Eating Make a Difference Even Later in Life

By Guest PostJune 8, 2012Health, Sportsaging studies, american geriatrics society, blood samples, cardiovascular disease, carotenoids, emily nicklett, exercise, fruits, healthy diet, inflammation, jared wadley, johns hopkins university, life expectancy, mortality risk, physical activity, university of michigan, vegetables, women

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Women in their 70s had a longer life expectancy when they exercised and regularly ate fruits and vegetables, a new University of Michigan study found.

“This is the first study to show that the combination of a healthy diet and greater physical activity predict greater survival and that the combination of both positive factors confers lower mortality risk than either factor alone,” said Emily Nicklett, U-M assistant professor of social work.

Nicklett and researchers at The Johns Hopkins University studied the results from 713 women ages 70 to 79 years who participated in the Women’s Health and Aging Studies. (more…)

My Fair Physicist? Feminine Math, Science Role Models Do Not Motivate Girls

By Guest PostApril 26, 2012General, Sciencedenise sekaquaptewa, diana betz, engineering, excel, feminine qualities, field, jared wadley, mathematic, role model, Science, stem, stereotype, Technology, unfeminine, university of michigan, women

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Women who excel in male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields are often unjustly stereotyped as unfeminine.

However, if women are perceived as having feminine qualities, their success may actually decrease interest in these fields (usually referred to as “STEM”), particularly among young girls, according to a new University of Michigan study. (more…)

Seeing Double: 1 in 30 Babies Born in U.S. is a Twin

By Guest PostApril 4, 2012Healthbarbara luke, birth of twins, children, fertility therapies, fertility treatment, fetal loss, fetuses, joyce martin, medication, ovulation stimulation, reproductive technologies, twin, twin birth, united states, women

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Women having children at older ages and the growing availability of fertility treatments has led to a marked increase in the birth of twins: In 2009, one in every 30 babies born in the United States was a twin compared with one in every 53 in 1980.

The findings, presented by Michigan State University’s Barbara Luke this week at the 14th Congress of the International Society of Twin Studies in Florence, Italy, have important health implications, including greater morbidity and mortality risks and higher health care costs. (more…)

Cultural “Tightness” Can Hold Back Female Leadership – But not Always, Says University of Toronto Study

By Guest PostMarch 10, 2012Culture, Politicscultural norms, cultural tightness, deutsche telekom, geoffrey leonardelli, german company, germanic europe, hungary, ken mcguffin, leader, new zealand, Pakistan, scandinavian country, sex, society, soo min toh, south korea, statistics, turkey, ukraine, university of toronto, women, women leaders, world bank

Normative support for equality can make the difference

Countries that more strictly uphold their cultural norms are less likely to promote women as leaders, unless those norms support equal opportunity for both sexes, shows a new paper from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

“Cultural tightness can prevent the emergence of women leaders because tighter cultures may make a society’s people more resistant to changing the traditionally-held practice that placed men in leadership roles,” said Professor Soo Min Toh, who is cross-appointed to the Rotman School and the University of Toronto Mississauga, and co-wrote the paper with Professor Geoffrey Leonardelli at the Rotman School and U of T’s Department of Psychology. (more…)

The Naked Truth: Exclusive Survey from FITNESS Magazine & Yahoo! Shine Reveals How Men & Women Really Feel about Their Bodies

By Guest PostJanuary 17, 2012Culture, Technologyabout being naked, adults, body confidence, butts, exclusive survey, fat, fitness magazine, losing weight, miniskirt, naked, new year, photo, resolution, sexted, thighs, without clothes, women, yahoo shine

*57% of Women Polled Think They Look Fat Naked;

Thighs ranked as #1 Most Hated Body Part; Cleavage ranked as #1 Body Part To Flaunt Among Women

However, 63% of adults admit to walking around their home naked*

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & NEW YORK — It’s no wonder losing weight continues to dominate New Year’s resolutions—a new survey from FITNESS Magazine and Yahoo! Shine reveals that 57% of women polled think they look fat naked and 81% of adults have a body part they hate. The exclusive survey asked 1,500 women and men to bare it all about how they feel about being naked.

The survey revealed a lack of body confidence with women more likely than men to have issues with many parts of their body, primarily their thighs (21%), while men dislike their butts the most (11%). (more…)

A Scarcity of Women Leads Men to Spend More, Save Less

By Guest PostJanuary 13, 2012Cultureandrew delton, andrew e white, behavior, credit cards, economic decisions, Economics, engagement rings, expenditures, financial behavior, financial consequences, iceberg, impulsive, joshua m ackerman, joshua tybur, local population, men and women, news articles, perception, photo arrays, products, psychology, sex ratio, theresa robertson, twin cities of minneapolis, university of minnesota, us cities, valentine gifts, violence and survival, vladas griskevicius, women

*University of Minnesota Research Finds Sex Ratios Influence Financial Decisions*

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL — The perception that women are scarce leads men to become impulsive, save less, and increase borrowing, according to new research from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

“What we see in other animals is that when females are scarce, males become more competitive. They compete more for access to mates,” says Vladas Griskevicius, an assistant professor of marketing at the Carlson School and lead author of the study. “How do humans compete for access to mates? What you find across cultures is that men often do it through money, through status and through products.” (more…)

Use of Out-of-Network Services May Explain Higher Health Care Costs For Women

By Guest PostJanuary 8, 2012Generalanesthesiologists, balance billing, co payments, daniel jones, economic downturn, health care costs, health insurance, insurance, kelly kyanko, mental health, network, new york university, out of network services, pediatric, scholar at yale, susan busch, women

Women generally have been paying higher health care costs than men for many years, and this trend appears to be continuing or worsening since the major economic downturn began in 2008, according to Susan Busch, associate professor of health policy in the Yale School of Public Health.

Busch believes women’s use of out-of-network services might explain, at least in part, this discrepancy. (more…)

Ovarian Cancer Study Proves Drug Delays Disease Progression

By Guest PostJanuary 3, 2012Healthamerican study, amit oza, avastin, bevacizumab, blood vessels, brain, breast, canada, canadian cancer society, caz zyvatkauskas, colorectal, disease, drug, kidney, lung, oncologist, ovarian cancer, starving the cancer, timothy perren, tumours, university of toronto, women

*U of T, U.K. study focused on Avastin*

Treating ovarian cancer with the drug bevacizumab (“Avastin”) delays the disease and may also improve survival, according to an international clinical trial co-led by Drs. Amit Oza of the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) and Timothy Perren of St James’s Institute of Oncology, Leeds, U.K.

The findings, published on Dec. 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine, report that the drug halted the cancer’s return for two months overall. However, for women with the highest risk disease, the delay was five to six months and in this group, the findings also indicate a strong trend to improved overall survival, which is being analysed until 2013. (more…)

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